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Yes, the “politically-engaged trade associations, independent third-party organizations and other tax-exempt groups” as shown on their transparency page, specifically the PDF Membership Organizations and Third Party OrganizationsIt’s more correct to say that Google has been donating to, sponsoring and otherwise involved with a large number of other entities, among them some who have opinions on a great number of things, including climate change, that are not in line with a more catastrophic take on the situation.As the story quotes Google, “We’ve been extremely clear that Google’s sponsorship doesn’t mean that we endorse that organisation’s entire agenda – we may disagree strongly on some issues. Our position on climate change is similarly clear. Since 2007, we have operated as a carbon neutral company and for the second year in a row, we reached 100% renewable energy for our global operations.”The Guardian does link to the PDF showing these “hundreds of groups the company has listed on its website as beneficiaries of its political giving” and the transparency page while mentioning such as CEI, SPN, Cato, Mercatus, Heritage and some of their activities, as well as some of the activities of some of the people involved with those groups and by extension other groups not on the PDF.To call it funding climate change disinformation is not quite accurate. To act like it’s new or surprising that within hundreds of entities, some of them are more conservative and less enthusiastic about certain subjects, seems a bit melodramatic. To mention a few entities out of hundreds.Which to list them● Ad Council ● Advertising Research Foundation ● American Association of Advertising Agencies ● American Advertising Federation ● American Council On Renewable Energy ● Application Developers Alliance ● Association of National Advertisers ● Associated Industries of Massachusetts ● Bay Area Council ● Boulder Chamber of Commerce ● Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce ● Business Council for International Understanding ● Business Forward ● California Chambers of Commerce ● California Association of Competitive Telecommunications Companies ● Cambridge Chamber of Commerce ● Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce ● Coalition of Service Industries ● Colorado Technology Association ● Central Carolina Economic Development Alliance ● Center for Strategic and International Studies ● Coalition for Better Ads ● Chamber of Commerce Mountain View ● Consumer Technology Association ● Computer & Communications Industry Association ● Compete America ● Consortium for School Networking ● Data & Marketing Association ● Digital Advertising Alliance ● Digital Due Process Coalition ● Digital Media Association ● Direct Marketing Association ● Dynamic Spectrum Alliance ● Fiber Broadband Association, formerly Fiber to the Home Council ● Financial Innovation Now ● Food Marketing Institute ● Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce ● Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce ● Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce ● Greater Kirkland Chamber of Commerce ● Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce ● Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce ● Greater Seattle Business Association ● Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce ● High Tech Inventors Alliance ● Illinois Manufacturers Association ● Internet Infrastructure Coalition ● Information Technology Industry Council ● Interactive Advertising Bureau ● International Advertising Association ● International Chamber of Commerce ● Internet Coalition ● Internet Commerce Coalition ● Irvine Chamber of Commerce ● Joint Venture Silicon Valley ● Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce ● Magazine Publishers Association ● Mobile Marketing Association ● Network Advertising Initiative ● National Foreign Trade Council ● National Cyber Security Alliance ● New York Technology Council ● Partnership for New York City ● Redwood City Chamber of Commerce ● Reform Government Surveillance Coalition ● Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance ● San Bruno Chamber of Commerce ● San Francisco Chamber of Commerce ● San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce ● San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology & Innovation ● San Mateo County Economic Development Association ● Schools, Health and Libraries Broadband Coalition ● Search Engine Marketing Professionals Organization ● Silicon Valley Leadership Group ● Silicon Valley Organization ● Software & Information Industry Association ● State Privacy and Security Coalition ● Sunnyvale Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce ● CompTIA ● TechNet ● Tech:NYC ● Texas Association of Business ● The Internet Association ● The New England Council ● U.S. Chamber of Commerce ● U.S. Council for International Business ● U.S. Global Leadership Coalition ● United States ITU Association ● United for Patent Reform ● Venice Chamber of Commerce ● Washington Technology Industry Alliance ● WiFi Forward ● World Business Organization ● Word of Mouth Marketing Association ● 4th Amendment Advisory Committee ● Access Now ● African American Community Service Agency ● Alliance of North Carolina Black Elected Officials ● Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation ● American Action Forum ● American Antitrust Institute ● American Association of People with Disabilities ● American Conservative Union ● American Constitution Society ● American Council of the Blind ● American Council of Young Political Leaders ● American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ● American Foundation for the Blind ● American Hotel Lodging Association ● American Library Association ● Americans for Tax Reform ● American Security Project ● American University ● Arbor Day Foundation ● Asian Americans Advancing Justice ● Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies ● Asian/Pacific Islander American Chamber of Commerce & Entrepreneurship ● Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Foundation ● Asian Trade Center ● Aspen Institute ● ASU Foundation ● Atlantic Council ● Austin Area Urban League ● Austin Community Foundation ● Austin Public Library Friends Foundation ● Autism Speaks ● Berkley Center for Law & Technology ● Breakthrough Greater Boston ● The Brookings Institution ● Business Leaders for Michigan ● Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation ● California State University Northridge Foundation ● Cambridge Forums ● Capital Factory ● Cato Institute ● Center for a New American Security ● Center for American Progress ● Center for Democracy and Technology ● Center for Employment Training ● Center for Global Policy Solutions ● Center for Strategic and International Studies ● Chicago Parks Foundation ● Citizens Committee for New York City ● Civic Nation ● Clinton Foundation ● Collective Impact ● Committee to Protect Journalists ● Community Change ● Community Initiatives ● Community Services Agency of Mountain View and Los Altos ● Competitive Enterprise Institute ● Computer History Museum ● Conference of Western Attorneys Generals ● Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership ● Congressional Black Caucus Foundation ● Congressional Black Caucus Institute ● Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute ● Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute ● Congressional Institute ● ConnectSafely ● The Constitution Project ● Consumer Action ● Consumer Federation of America ● Copia Institute ● Council of Better Business Bureaus Inc. ● Council of Korean Americans ● Cross-Border Data Forum ● Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center ● Democratic Attorneys General Association ● Democratic Governors Association ● Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee ● Digital 4th Coalition ● Digital Content Next ● Dolores Huerta Foundation ● Downtown Boulder Foundation ● Electronic Frontier Foundation ● Engine Advocacy ● Entrepreneurship for All ● Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas ● Esperanza Education Fund ● Family Online Safety Institute ● Federal Communications Bar Association ● Federalist Society ● Foundation for American Science and Technology ● Freedom House ● Friends and Family of PS11 ● Friends of Mountain View Library ● Future Founders Foundation ● Future of Music Coalition ● Future of Privacy Forum ● GLBT Historical Society ● Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy ● Georgia Tech Foundation ● George Mason University Foundation ● George Mason University Law School Law and Economics Center ● German Marshall Fund of the United States ● Global Entrepreneurship Network ● Global Network Initiative ● Global Voices ● Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce ● Habitat for Humanity ● Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs ● Healthcare Coalition ● Heritage Action ● Heritage Foundation ● Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley ● Hispanic Heritage Foundation ● Howard University - Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice ● Human Rights Campaign ● Identity Theft Resource Center ● Independent Women’s forum ● Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ● Inter-American Dialogue ● Inter-american Press Association ● International Center for Law and Economics ● International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children ● International Council on Disability ● International Republican Institute ● Internet Education Foundation ● iKeepSafe ● IT Caucus TX ● Jobs for the Future ● Johns Hopkins University - School of Advanced International Studies ● Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies ● Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network ● Key Tech Labs ● Kirkland Parks Foundation ● Lawyers Committee For Civil Rights Under Law ● The Latino Coalition ● LBGT Victory Institute ● Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights ● League of United Latin American Citizens ● Lincoln Network ● Llambda Legal ● Los Altos Community Foundation ● Mason Attorneys General Education Program ● Massachusetts Institute of Technology ● Mercatus Center ● Meridian International Center ● Mission Economic Development Agency ● Mission Housing Development Corporation ● Mothers Against Drunk Driving ● Mountain View-Los Altos High School Foundation ● Mountain View Chamber of Commerce ● National Action Network ● National Association of Attorneys General ● National Association of Chief Information Officers ● National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ● National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials ● National Association of the Deaf ● National Association of State Boards of Education ● National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors ● National Center for Missing & Exploited Children ● National Center for Transgender Equality ● National Conference for State Legislators Foundation ● National Consumers League ● National Congress of American Indians ● National Council for Independent Living ● National Cyber Security Alliance ● National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ● National Federation of the Blind ● National Governors Association ● National Hispanic Media Coalition ● National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts ● National Network for Youth ● National Network to End Domestic Violence ● National Organization of Black Elected Officials ● National Parent Teacher Association ● National Partnership for Women and Families ● National Review Institute ● National Speakers Conference ● National Taxpayers Union ● National Urban League ● Net Safety Collaborative ● Net Choice ● Netroots Nation ● New America Foundation ● New Deal ● New Leaders Council ● New Venture Fund ● Niskanen Center ● Non-profit Housing Association of Northern California ● North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations ● North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition ● Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ● Partnership for a New American Economy ● PATH ● PEN America ● Polaris Project ● Privacy Law Salon ● Progressive Change Campaign Committee ● Progressive Policy Institute ● Public Knowledge ● Re:Create Coalition ● Religion Newswriters Foundation ● Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press ● Republican Attorneys General Association ● Republican Governors Association ● Republican Legislative Campaign Committee ● Reporters Without Borders ● Ripon Society ● Roger Baldwin Foundation ● R Street Institute ● San Bruno Community Foundation ● San Francisco Chamber of Commerce ● San Francisco Citizens Initiative ● San Francisco Parks Alliance ● San Francisco Public Health Foundation ● San Jose Museum of Art ● Shoal Creek Conservancy ● Silicon Valley At Home ● Silicon Valley Community Foundation ● Silicon Valley Housing Trust ● Silicon Valley Leadership Group ● Silicon Flatirons - University of Colorado ● Small Business Majority ● State Government Affairs Council ● State Legislative Leadership Foundation ● Sunnyvale Education Foundation ● Sustainable Silicon Valley ● Technology Access Foundation ● TechFreedom ● Technology Policy Institute ● Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing ● Third Way ● Trustworthy Accountability Group ● UCLA Foundation ● UnidosUS ● United for Patent Reform ● United Nations Foundation ● United Church of Christ Inc. ● United We Dream Network ● The Urban Institute ● U.S. Black Chamber Inc. ● U.S. Conference of Mayors ● U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce ● U.S. Telecom Training Institute ● USO of Metropolitan Washington - Baltimore ● Vital Voices ● Voto Latino ● Walkers Legacy ● Washington International Trade Association ● Washington Legal Foundation ● Washington Resource Council ● Women's High Tech Coalition ● World Affairs Council ● World Privacy Forum ● World Wide Web Foundation ● YMCA of Silicon Valley ● Young Transatlantic Leaders Initiative .What to do about it? One set of options might be to get rid of any Android phones or tablets, stop using such as analytics and ad-sense and stop doing any business with companies that use them, stop using gmail and calendar and search, etc. Another option is nothing. Then there’s everything in between the two.

Not anywhere I worked. Correctional Officers need to drive state vehicles on duty, or private vehicles to special duty off grounds.You have to be licensed to drive vehicles on public roads to take prisoners to another prison, to court, to outside medical care, or on grounds patrolling state property outside the razor wire.Here are the State Minimum qualifications:MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Education: Equivalent to completion of the twelfth grade. Demonstrated by: (1) possession of a high school diploma issued by a U.S. institution; (2) passing the California High School Proficiency test; (3) passing the General Education Development (GED) test meeting California high school graduation standards; or (4) possession of a college degree (Associate of Arts or higher) from an accredited college or university. IMPORTANT: Accreditation shall be from an accrediting association recognized by the Secretary of the United States Department of Education. NOTE: Any accreditation or approval shall be from a state or local government educational agency using local or state government approved accreditation, licensing, registration, or other approval standards, a regional accrediting association holding full membership in the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA), an organization holding full membership in the Commission on International and Trans-Regional Accreditation (CITA), an organization holding full membership in the Council for American Private Education (CAPE), or an accrediting association recognized by the National Federation of Nonpublic School State Accrediting Associations (NFNSSAA). Citizenship Requirements: Existing law provides that, in order to be appointed to a peace officer position, a person must either be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident alien who is eligible for and has applied for citizenship at the time of application. Denial of an application for citizenship shall result in disqualification from or termination of employment. Drug Testing Requirements: Applicants for positions in this class are required to pass a drug screening test. (The drug screening test will be waived for employees who are currently in a designated “Sensitive” class for which drug testing is required under State Personnel Board Rule 213.) Additional Requirements:  At least 20 years of age at time of application and 21 years of age at the time of appointment.  History of law-abiding behavior.  Legally eligible to own, possess and have custody/control of any firearm or other weapon authorized by the CDCR.  Driver License- Possession of a valid Class C driver license issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles is required. Applicants who do not possess a license will be admitted to the examination, but must secure the license prior to appointment. FELONY DISQUALIFICATION: Per Government Code Section 1029, any person convicted of a felony is disqualified from being employed as a peace officer if: (1) You have been convicted of a felony in California or any other state; (2) you have been convicted of any offense in any other state which would have been a felony if committed in California; (3) you have been charged with a felony and adjudged by a superior court to be mentally incompetent; (4) you have been adjudged addicted or in danger of becoming addicted to narcotics, convicted, and committed to a State institution. If you have been convicted of a felony, you may be allowed to participate in this examination if your conviction(s): (1) Has/have been sealed under Penal Code Section 851.7, 851.8, 1203.45, or Health and Safety Code Section 11361.5; (2) has/have been expunged or is/are expunge able pursuant to Health and Safety Code Section 11361.5 regarding marijuana offenses; (3) CO (WY50-9662) OPEN STATEWIDE EXAMINATION BULLETIN RELEASE DATE: 8/27/2019 CORRECTIONAL OFFICER WY50-9662 Final Filing Date: Continuous Page 2 was/were stipulated or designated to be a lesser included offense of marijuana possession under Health and Safety Code Section 11557 or 11366.https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/por/wp-content/uploads/sites/162/2019/09/CO-Bulletin_8.27.19.pdf

A World Tour of the States not recognized by the UNThe United Nations has 193 members among the 197 states it recognizes. While the Vatican and the Palestinian State are ‘only’ observers, the Cook Islands and Niue are non-member States since they are in free association with New Zealand. Other entities aspire to be recognized as member States as well. Who are they? What are the implications of such recognition?Credits Mélanie LorrainAccording to the UN: “the acknowledgement of new State or a new government is an act that only the other States and governments can do. The UN, being neither a State nor a government, is not entitled to acknowledge a State or government”. In order to become a member of the organization, the candidate state must submit an application to the Secretary General, as well as a letter in which it accepts all terms of the Charter. The next step is taken by the Security Council, which examines the request before it is subject to a vote by the 193 members. South Sudan is the latest State to have joined the organization in July 2011, after seceding from the Republic of Sudan, therefore ending decades of civil conflict. Many other countries aspire to become UN member States but are still not considered as such. Who are they?KOSOVOThe Kosovo region came under the administration of the UN with the 1244 resolution of the Security Council; the latter’s goal being to maintain peace in the region after the war against Serbia. Kosovo, a Serbian territory having a mainly Albanese population, declared its independence in 2008. To date, its autonomy is recognized by 110 UN member States and by Taiwan. Numerous challenges hide behind this independence and even within the European Union. The acknowledgement of Kosovo creates a challenge for certain countries that are afraid to legitimize those issues as they have important separatist movements on their own territories. It is the case for Spain with its Basque and Catalan regions.Credits HerjiDecember 2008: EULEX Kosovo, the civil mission of the EU aiming at increasing Kosovo’s autonomy, proposed a partition of the region between Serbs and Albanese to end the conflict, with the consent of Moscow, Belgrade, the EU and the US. Kosovo is still not a UN member State because two of its permanent members, China and Russia, used their veto right and declared the independence of this region illegal. Kosovo seems to wish to connect with Albania though and not to become a sovereign state. After the independence of Montenegro, Kosovo would be a second substantial territorial loss for Serbia. That is what makes negotiations so complicated.SOUTH OSSETIA & ABKHAZIAThese are secessionist regions of Georgia. In the 1980s, a wind of independence blew in the “Republics of the Soviet Unions”, namely Georgia, Ukraine, Moldavia and Azerbaijan. To smother it, the soviet government encouraged separatists of certain regions to rebel against their governments. This support has played inhabitants against one another. This latter also aimed at placing the soviet forces as arbitrators. South Ossetia and Abkhazia are heirs of this policy. South Ossetia, autonomous oblast under the Soviet Union, saw its autonomy being revoked by Georgia when the USSR fell, considering Ossetians as a minority and their autonomy illegitimate. An armed conflict broke out in 1991 between the Georgian army and Ossetian militias; the latter being supported by North Ossetia and Russia. This conflict ended in 1992 thanks to a peace treaty signed between Georgia and Russia, as well as by the signature of the declaration of independence of south Ossetia the same year.In 1992, new hostilities arose in Abkhazia. Under the same conditions as those in South Ossetia, Abkhazia rebelled against Georgia and declared its independence, backed by Russia. The conflict ended in 1993 under the aegis of Russia.In August 2008, Georgia attacked South Ossetia trying to regain control of the territory. Fighting spread all the way to Abkhazia, before Georgia got violently pushed back and partially occupied by Russia, while the eyes of the world were on the Beijing Olympic Games. The conflict lasted one month before a ceasefire was concluded. Today, the independence of Ossetia and Abkhazia are recognized by Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, as well as Nauru. Tuvalu and Vanuatu islands recognized their independence for a while before retracting their position. The goal of South Ossetia and Abkhazia seems to be to become autonomous republics relating to Russia in the long term. An attachment to Russia has not officially been considered by the latter in order not to fuel the situation with Georgia. However, the Kremlin affirmed to “be ready to ensure the safety of both states”. Russian passports have actually been unofficially supplied to residents of the region.NAGORNO-KARABAKHSituated between Azerbaijan and Armenia, with 80% of the population being Armenians, this region declared its independence from Azerbaijan in 1991, having Soviet support since the 1980s. A war followed, causing thousands of casualties and hundreds of thousands of refugees on both sides of the borders, until a ceasefire was signed in 1994. As for Kosovo, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the strategy for Nagorno-Karabakh is to become independent from Azerbaijan to then relate to Armenia. A geographical shuffle would force Azerbaijan to let go of a substantial part of its territory. The issue of recognizing Nagorno-Karabakh as a member of the UN has never been raised and only three entities recognize its independence: Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria.TRANSNISTRIA OR THE PRIDNESTROVIAN MOLDAVIAN REPUBLICSituated between Ukraine and Moldavia, Transnistria (RMN), like south Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh, got into conflict with its motherland Moldavia following the soviet support to separatists. When the Moldavian government decided to adopt Romanian as the official language of the country in 1990 (a third of the country is Romanian-speaking, 1/3 is russian-sepaking), Russian and Ukranian minorities in the region feared a possible annexing of Moldavia to Romania. In 1992, an agreement was reached between Russia and Moldavia, declaring RMN as a autonomous Moldavian region provided that it remained bilingual (Romanian and Russian) and that Moldavia rejected the idea of being attached to Romania. The independence of Transnistria is today only recognized by South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh. The debate concerning its possible annexation by Russia was re-fueled by the appropriation of Crimea by Russia.NEW RUSSIA OR THE UNION OF PEOPLE'S REPUBLICSAlso in the sphere of influence of Russia, New Russia was born in 2014 from the union of old Soviet oblasts after the Ukrainian crisis; the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic. This southern part of Ukraine detached itself from the country after the annexing of Crimea by Russia. However, both the UN and Russia recognize this territory. The Ukrainian crisis still being current, the status of the region is uncertain, such as the future of Ukraine.THE TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUSThe reasons for the secession of the northern part of Cyprus date back to the Russo-Turkish war (1877-1979). The island was “rented” to the UK by Turkey in exchange for support during the war. While the island was under British authority, the Greek Cypriots demanded to be bound to Greece several times. The UK refused every time arguing that the island was still officially part of the Ottoman Empire. After years of political instability and the declared independence of Cyprus in 1960, the northern part of the country decided to declare its own independence in 1983. This latter is only recognized by Turkey and blocks the entry of Cyprus in the Schengen area, despite is membership to the European Union in 2004.THE SAHRAWI ARAB DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICWestern Sahara is occupied by Spain but Morocco is claiming its sovereignty on the territory. In 1975, Moroccans organized the Green March, a pacifist event in order to annex the region. Following the walk, Spain signed the Madrid agreements and decided to share the territory between Morocco and Mauritania. In 1979, Mauritania signed a peace agreement with The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and gave up the part of the region attributed to them. Morocco annexed the latter later in the 1980s and built the “Moroccan wall”. Morocco now controls 80% of the SADR’s territory despite the UN perceiving the situation as an unfinished colonization process and the African union as an African state.TAIWAN OR THE REPUBLIC OF CHINAAfter Japan’s defeat in WWII, the Republic of China seized the island and Kuomintang’s government settled there in 1949 after their defeat against Chinese communists. The Republic of China was a permanent member of the UN until 1971 when the People's Republic of China claimed its authority over the island. Taiwan is now recognized by 22 states of the 193 members of the UN. For the international organization, Taiwan is a province of the People's Republic of China, whereas the Republic considers the island as its own like the rest of the Chinese territory. For the sake of greater relations with the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China officially continues to exercise its authority on the territory without true vehemence.Source A World Tour of the States not recognized by the UN