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
"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
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/…
"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
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
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 👀👇
"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."
"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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The Trump administration has ordered that Anthropic’s latest systems, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, be cut off from non-Americans, including those based in the US. "..🤔 archive.is/JPQVO
During the Second World War, the Special Operations Executive (SOE)—Winston Churchill's secret "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare"—maintained deep, highly covert connections to London's vast manufacturing and industrial sectors, including Park Royal. ..
Rather than standard military bases, the SOE embedded its clandestine workshops directly into regular commercial zones, leveraging London's industrial heartlands to disguise their operations.
Vessels traveling between the Strait of Otranto and the Kerch Strait are directly linked as part of a continuous shipping route. This critical maritime corridor connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov ..
For shipping logistics, a vessel moving between these two points must navigate a specific chain of interconnected waterways:
1. The Strait of Otranto: The starting/ending point that connects the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea
2. The Mediterranean-Black Sea Transit: Ships must travel through the Aegean Sea and then navigate through the Turkish Straits (the Dardanelles and the Bosporus), which are tightly regulated chokepoints.
GG : " Located right inside the Alpha Centre at 7-11 Minerva Road, this event caterer lists Kosher cuisine as one of its multicultural menu specialities ..
Raj Food Ltd. - Located just down the street at 56B Minerva Road, this large-scale public sector food supplier primarily manufactures Halal meals, but partners with Hermolis (a major UK kosher brand) to distribute Kosher meals to hospitals and schools .". belmontsynagogue.org.uk/uploads/2/9/7/…
The main hubs for dedicated Kosher supermarkets, bakeries, and manufacturers in North and West London sit slightly further north in areas like Golders Green, Hendon , and Stamford Hill .. "..
" A Byline Times review of X and Telegram posts by the Brotherhood of Academists, a Russian ultranationalist youth movement which operates under the leadership of the US-sanctioned Tsargrad Society [Konstantin Malofeev]" 🤔
GG : "No direct operational link exists between the Brotherhood of Academists and Brunswick Capital (the 1990s investment bank). However, they are connected through the broader history of post-Soviet finance and the career trajectory of Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeev."🤔
"The sight of Princess Beatrice dancing on tables at a birthday party in Rome last week, and then appearing with Princess Eugenie at the wedding of Peter Phillips, suggests that it’s business as usual for the York daughters...
This is despite last week’s National Audit Office report, which revealed that Queen Elizabeth II & now the King have long been covering a subsidised rent for Beatrice’s 4-bedroomed apartment at St James’s Palace and Eugenie’s three-bedroom Ivy Cottage.. archive.is/l34C3
The pair have their own successful and lucrative careers. Beatrice handles client relations for Afiniti, a multinational data and software firm specialising in AI-driven customer experience solutions,