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
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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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"Among the casualties in yesterday's HHS firings: the chief of the department of bioethics at NIH’s Clinical Center, Christine Grady, who happens to be Anthony Fauci's wife."
July 22, 2016 By Maggie Cochrane
"Two weeks ago, Jack Dausman (Nyumbani USA Board Member) and myself had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Stephen Nicholas, Associate Dean of Admissions, at Columbia Medical Center’s College of Physicians & Surgeons.".. archive.is/vNCB2
"9 Oct 2023 — Chairman Martin Rapaport calls on [diamond and jewelry] trade to boycott Iran and other Hamas supporters, following unprovoked attack on Jewish state."
"The Rapaport Group is with Israel. We support the right of Israel to defend itself and pray for the thousands of innocent people attacked by Hamas and for the innocent Palestinians who will suffer because of Hamas’s savage attacks." rapaport.com/news/rapaport-…
"Rapaport has been both a pioneer and a controversial figure, advocating for price transparency, ethical sourcing, and the commoditization of diamonds. His work extends beyond market analysis to include contributions to addressing conflict diamonds," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Ra…
Wiki : "The De Beers Group is a South African–British corporation that specializes in the diamond industry, including mining, exploitation, retail, inscription, grading, trading and industrial diamond manufacturing"
"The company is active in open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial and coastal mining. It operates in 35 countries with mining taking place in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Canada."
"On December 6, 1989,he murdered 14 women and wounded another 10 women and 4 men in what is known as the École Polytechnique massacre. It took place at the École Polytechnique de Montréal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_L%C3…
Marc Lépine was born Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi on October 26, 1964, in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Algerian immigrant Rachid Liass Gharbi and Canadian nurse Monique Lépine (director of nursing at a Montreal hospital)..
"the Foreign Office told Lownie they cannot provide him with information relating to the prince’s visits to Egypt, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, partly on the grounds of cost."
"The prince’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2011 was also rejected due to the fact it would cost the department too much to collect the information for the author."🤔
"Lownie told Declassified: “Over the last four years, I have made over a hundred FOI requests…without eliciting any information on Prince Andrew’s decade as a taxpayer-funded Special Trade Representative.
“Every possible exemption has been deployed to avoid releasing papers"