Wait.. that's Elaine Chao , the former Transportation Secretary, with Cindy Yang aka Li Yang
Elaine's sister, Angela Chao is married to Jim Breyer,
Harvard Global Advisory Council &
Advisory Board at Stanford & Founding Member of Stanford Institute for Human-Assisted AI
Head of Accel
In 2005, Jim Breyer helped establish a joint venture between Accel Partners and China-based IDG Capital Partners, a pioneering Chinese investment firm behind Baidu and Tencent
He's a #WEF member
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Breyer
Jim Beyer with Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen , wife of Marc Andreessen
Laura is a Stanford alumni
Daughter of Silicon Valley real estate billionaire John Arillaga
In 2005, Breyer, then managing partner at Accel Partners, invested $12.7 million in Facebook
techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/fam…
Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen at Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, 2012
Elaine Chao > United Way and was once Peace Corps Director
In 2018 Salesforce & United Way teamed up for the Philanthropy Cloud app
> Rishi Sunak, another Stanford man
Jim Breyer is mentioned in this 1999 article:
CIA starts 'fun' high-tech fund zdnet.com/article/cia-st…
"Gilman Louie is not your typical spook. He made a fortune designing games and running several well-known game companies, Spectrum Holobyte and Microprose...
..Louie will serve as CEO of the CIA's new venture capital firm, In-Q-It.
Jim Breyer, who invested in Microprose, had high praise for Louie. "Gilman Louie is an outstanding entrepreneur. He has exceptional vision...and he has a deep understanding of technology. "
> In-Q-Tel
So, Gilman Louie, who co-founded and ran the CIA venture capital fund In-Q-Tel, is chairman of the Federation of American Scientists
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federatio…
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is a Senior Fellow there
And here's Dr Eric Feigl-Ding with Dr. Alice Chen , assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
wife of US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy
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And, didn't Frederick Taylor Gates, advisor to John D. Rockefeller, Sr., design the China Medical Board (CMB) in 1914?
But I digress..
Vivek Murthy was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire to immigrants from Karnataka, India, the grandson of the late H C Narayana Murthy, former director of Mysore Sugar Company..
N. R. Narayana Murthy was born in Sidlaghatta (Karnataka) in Mysore.. just saying
"Federation of American Scientists (FAS) was founded in 1946 by scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bombs"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federatio…
In 2004, FAS received their largest grant from the MacArthur Foundation of $2,400,000 in support of everything that they do
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federatio…
In 2017, the MacArthur Foundation awarded a $100 million grant to a proposal submitted by the Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee. The grant was applied to the education of Middle Eastern refugee children
chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…
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"During her tenure as Transportation Secretary in the Trump administration, the Transportation Department's inspector general found numerous instances where Chao used her office to promote her family's shipping business." - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Ch…
Alrighty then...
2021 "While serving as transportation secretary during the Trump administration, Elaine Chao repeatedly used her office staff to help family members who run a shipping business with extensive ties to China.."
archive.ph/YPHiy
Yet in 2014..
When the Chao family shipping company came under scrutiny for a cocaine haul..
thenation.com/article/archiv…
MSM leapt to the defense of the Chao family and Elaine's husband Mitch McConnell..
"Foremost Group is not a “Chinese shipping company.” It’s an American company, based in New York." Washington Post , 2018
washingtonpost.com/news/fact-chec…
That 'fact checking' article needs its own 🧵
This 2018 VOX article is another corker
vox.com/2018/5/7/17326…
That publishing company requires its own🧵too..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_…
The Foremost Group is a privately held shipping company based in New York City, with subsidiaries registered in the Marshall Islands 👀👇
propublica.org/article/family…
"It operates globally, chartering vessels to companies in the dry bulk shipping industry, and its fleet includes some of the world's largest "capesize" bulk carriers,Its clients include Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus."
Oops, don't mention Nicole Junkermann #Epstein moll
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Wait, Foremost Shipping , does business with CARGILL?
> Jonathan Salk , KidSafe #Broward > Client: Cargill
👆We'll take a closer look another time 👇
> Sea Containers
"Foremost has had most of its ships built by China State Shipbuilding, some of them financed by loans from the state-owned Export-Import Bank of China..
Its ships are registered under the flags of Liberia and Hong Kong"
"Elaine Chao was the only cabinet member in the George W. Bush administration to serve for the entirety of his eight years.."
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