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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GG : "the Huxley family was deeply involved with the United Nations. Aldous Huxley’s brother, Julian Huxley, was one of the most influential figures in the early history of the UN, serving as the very first Director-General of UNESCO from 1946 to 1948. ..
While Julian Huxley was busy at the United Nations offices in Geneva shaping post-war internationalism, Aldous Huxley’s relationship with the French language and culture remained highly personal, deeply literary, and central to how he viewed the world."..
GG : "The UK Coalition Government changed the law in September 2011 to restrict private arrest warrants, a move explicitly designed to prevent the arrest of visiting Israeli officials. 🤔
The Tzipi Livni Warrant: In December 2009, a London magistrate issued an arrest warrant for former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni over alleged war crimes during the 2008–2009 Gaza war. Livni cancelled her trip to the UK to avoid arrest .."
Years earlier, Doron Almog narrowly escaped arrest at Heathrow Airport by refusing to step off his plane after learning a British magistrate had issued a private warrant against him. Following these events, the Israeli government heavily pressured the UK to change its laws."..
Some of Cambridge’s most brilliant mathematical minds were tangled up with the Cambridge University Science Fiction (and Fantasy) Society (CUSFS), and they birthed one of the most legendary, bizarre "gaming clubs" in history.
Rowan Pelling :
" Count Binface is the best of British. Unfortunately for Furious Farage, our country will never trust ‘establishment’ politicians who can’t laugh at themselves"🤔 archive.is/RnGvJ
It’s as if Newsnight were scripted by Monty Python. Long-term prankster and electoral underdog Count Binface stands for the exasperated voter, while five-property-owning, career politician Farage looks increasingly like the establishment."
"Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr – Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farage’s “Kingmaker“."
Byline Times can now reveal that with the behind-the-scenes support of Peter Thiel — Trump backer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies — Orr has used Cambridge University as a recruitment ground to bring students into a hard-right, theocratic political project ..