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James O'Keefe - Wikipedia

James O'Keefe left the Targum and founded the Rutgers Centurion, a conservative student paper supported by a $500 "Balance in the Media" grant from The Leadership Institute.
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Morton C. Blackwell (born November 16, 1939, La Jara, Colorado) is an American conservative activist. He is the founder and president of the Leadership Institute (established 1979), a 501(c)3 non-profit educational foundation that teaches political technology to conservative

activists.

In youth politics, Blackwell was a College Republican state chairman and a Young Republican state chairman in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He served on the Young Republican National Committee for more than a dozen years. He rose to the position of national vice chairman at

-large of the Young Republican National Federation.

In 1980, while at University of South Dakota, Paul Erickson coordinated a youth campaign for Representative Jim Abdnor. For a year between his time at USD and Yale, Erickson served as the national treasurer of the

College Republicans in Washington, D.C., whose staff at the time included Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, and Jack Abramoff. Abramoff later wrote, "To every college Republican who contacted the national office, Paul Erickson was by far the most impressive person they had ever

encountered in politics."

Abramoff's lobbying and the surrounding scandals and investigation are the subject of two 2010 films: the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, released in May 2010, and the feature film Casino Jack, released on December 17, 2010,

starring Kevin Spacey as Abramoff.

Jack Abramoff (pictured), a lobbyist convicted on charges of fraud and corruption, was the subject of a Participant Media film, Casino Jack and the United States of Money. The role campaign finance and lobbying play in political corruption are

among the socially relevant topics Participant Media addresses in its films.

On October 13, 2015, Participant Media announced David Linde joined Participant as CEO.
On December 16, Participant Media and Steven Spielberg with Reliance Entertainment and Entertainment One created twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Amblin Partners.

Reliance Entertainment Pvt Ltd is an Indian media and entertainment company. It is a division of Reliance Group.

In September 2021, Robert Malone presented information about RelCovax, a second-generation multivalent SARS-CoV-2 vaccine manufactured by Reliance

Life Sciences.
Andrew Huff, a former employee of the EcoHealth Alliance, has published a book entitled The Truth About Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History.  According to press reports, Mr Huff claims that the COVID-19 pandemic was the result of a lab leak from

research conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology in collaboration with EcoHealth Alliance. 
Mr. Huff is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.  The actual “truth about Wuhan” is: 
1) Mr. Huff was employed by the EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016.

However, reports that he worked at or with the Wuhan Institute of Virology during that time are untrue.  He was assigned to a completely different project working on computer-based algorithms to assess emerging disease threats.

Nathan Wolfe is the founder of Metabiota, which

offers both governmental and corporate services for biological threat evaluation and management. Wolfe serves on the editorial board of EcoHealth and Scientific American and is a member of DARPA's Defense Science Research Council.

The Skoll Foundation partnered with Google's twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

philanthropic arm, Google.org to fund Nathan Wolfe's 2008 research into cross-species transmission amongst Cameroonian bushmeat hunters.

The Skoll Foundation is a private foundation based in Palo Alto, California makes grants and investments intended to reduce twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

global poverty. Jeffrey Skoll created the foundation in 1999.

In 1996 Skoll met eBay's founder Pierre Omidyar, who hired him as the company's first president and first full-time employee. While eBay was already profitable at the time Skoll joined, he wrote the business plan that

eBay followed in subsequent years.

Skoll financed and played a key role in the creation of the environmental documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which grew out of a slideshow developed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on the climate crisis. The film won the 2006 Academy

Award for Best Feature Documentary.

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1983 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related or sexual themes via labeling

albums with Parental Advisory stickers. The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with government in the Washington, D.C. area. The women who founded the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later

Vice President Al Gore; Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; Pam Howar, wife of Washington realtor Raymond Howar; and Sally Nevius, wife of former Washington City Council Chairman John Nevius.

American social issues advocate Tipper Gore reportedly co-founded the

Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in 1985 because she witnessed her daughter Karenna, who was 11 years old at the time, listening to "Darling Nikki". As examples of what they meant, PMRC published a list of 15 popular "filthy" songs, with "Darling Nikki" first. The PMRC would

later become known for leading to the use of the well-known Parental Advisory sticker on album covers.

On July 12, 1997, Karina Gore married Andrew Newman Schiff, a primary care physician in Washington, D.C., and great-great grandson of Jacob Schiff, at the Washington National

Cathedral.

Given the two families' Rolodexes, the guest list could easily have mushroomed. But Karenna insisted on family and close friends. Period.

Among those who did get in: Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and wife

Rhoda, Sens. Barbara Mikulski and Joe Lieberman, Reps. John Lewis and Tom Lantos, Slate editor Michael Kinsley, cosmetics mogul Leonard Lauder and wife Evelyn, and former HEW secretary Joe Califano, for whom the groom worked on substance abuse issues. And, of course, the Downeys.

The newlyweds were introduced last October by Chris Downey, wife of former Rep. Tom Downey, D-N.Y. --The vice president prepared for his role in the wedding by watching the Steve Martin movie 'Father of the Bride.'

Since leaving politics, Downey has worked as a lobbyist and chair of Downey McGrath Group, Inc., a lobbying firm he founded in 1993. The president is Ray McGrath, also a former U.S. Representative from New York. Downey represented Dubai Ports World and lobbied Congress to approve

the controversial ports deal.

Downey has served on the advisory board for Council for a Livable World, a non-partisan advocacy organization dedicated to reducing the danger of nuclear weapons.

The Council for a Livable World was founded in 1962 as the Council for Abolishing War

by Hungarian nuclear physicist Leó Szilárd.

Leó Szilárd helped found the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he became a resident fellow.

With Trude, he lived in a bungalow on the property of the Hotel del Charro.

In 1951 Hotel del Charro sold to a Nevada corporation

widely understood (by insiders) to be controlled by Texas billionaires Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson.

J. Edgar Hoover along with companion Clyde Tolson, was accustomed to staying at the hotel for two weeks every year during racing season, occupying "Bungalow A", one of the

hotel's stand-alone cabins.

Hoover sometimes entertained guests in his bungalow, one of whom was Arthur Samish, a lobbyist who was said to represent organized crime interests in the liquor industry, and another of whom was Howard Hughes.

Senator Joseph McCarthy was another

frequent guest. “McCarthy was virtually on Murchison’s payroll,” manager Allan Witwer related. “He’d get drunk and jump in the pool, sometimes naked. He urinated outside his cabana, flew everywhere in Murchison’s plane.” Eventually, after one drunken brawl too many, McCarthy was

declared persona non grata at the hotel.

During the Second World War he served with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Europe. In 1946 Everette DeGolyer recruited Crichton.

In 1952 Jack Crichton joined a syndicate that included Everette DeGolyer and Clint Murchison to

use connections in the government of General Francisco Franco to acquire rare drilling rights in Spain. The operation was handled by Delta Drilling, which was owned by Joe Zeppa.
In August 1953 Crichton joined the Empire Trust Company.

The Empire Trust was also a major investor

in the defence contractor General Dynamics.

In the 1950s Jack Crichton became involved with several oil men who began negotiating with Fulgencio Batista, the military dictator of Cuba. A key figure in this was George de Mohrenschildt, who at that time worked for a company

called Cuban-Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust Company (CVOVT) that had been established by William Buckley Sr.

Jack Crichton had a close association with George H. W. Bush. In 1959, Crichton and Bush raised funds for the CIA's Operation 40.

The group was presided over by

Richard Nixon. Tracy Barnes became operating officer of what was also called the Cuban Task Force. The first meeting chaired by Barnes took place in his office on 18th January, 1960, and was attended by David Atlee Phillips, E. Howard Hunt, Jack Esterline, and Frank Bender.

Added to this list was several agents who had been involved in undercover operations in Germany: Ted Shackley, Tom Clines and William Harvey.

Shackley, whose nickname was the "Blond Ghost" (because he hated to be photographed) became involved in CIA's Black Operations. This involved a policy that was later to become known as Executive Action (a plan to remove unfriendly foreign leaders from power). This included a

coup d'état that overthrew the Guatemalan government of Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 after he introduced land reforms and nationalized the United Fruit Company.

In 1966 Shackley was placed in charge of the CIA secret war in Laos. He appointed Thomas G. Clines as his deputy. He also

took Carl E. Jenkins, David Morales, Raphael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez and Edwin Wilson with him to Laos. According to Joel Bainerman it was at this point that Shackley and his "Secret Team" became involved in the drug trade.

Shackley also brought others into his drug operation.

This included Richard L. Armitage, a US Navy official based in Saigon's US office of Naval Operations, and Major General Richard Secord.

During this same period of time between 1973 and 1975, Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines caused thousands of tons of US weapons, ammunition,

and explosives to be secretly taken from Vietnam and stored at a secret "cache" hidden inside Thailand." This money, with the help of Raphael Quintero, found its way into the Nugan Hand Bank in Sydney. The bank was founded by Michael Hand, a CIA operative in Laos and Frank Nugan

an Australian businessman.

Richard Armitage was dispatched by Shackley, from Vietnam to Tehran. In Iran, Armitage, set up a secret "financial conduit" inside Iran, into which secret Vang Pao drug funds could be deposited from Southeast Asia.

In late 1975 and early 1976,

Theodore Shackley and Thomas Clines retained Edwin Wilson to travel to Tehran, Iran to head up the "Secret Team" covert "anti-terrorist" assassination program in Iran.”

After Richard Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford brought in George H. W. Bush as Director of the CIA. This was

followed by Shackley being appointed as Deputy Director of Operations. He therefore became second-in-command of all CIA covert activity.

Stansfield Turner ordered an investigation and discovered that both Shackley and Thomas G. Clines had close relationships with Wilson.

Shackley was called in to explain what was going on. His explanation was not satisfactory and it was made clear that his career at the CIA had come to an end. Richard Helms, reportedly said: "Ted (Shackley) is what we call in the spook business a quadruple threat - Drugs, Arms,

Money and Murder."

After leaving the CIA in September, 1979, Shackley formed his own company, Research Associates International, which specialized in providing intelligence to business. He also joined with Thomas G. Clines, Raphael Quintero, and Ricardo Chavez (another former

CIA operative) in another company called API Distributors. According to David Corn (Blond Ghost) Edwin Wilson provided Clines with "half a million dollars to get his business empire going". Shackley also freelanced with API but found it difficult taking orders from his former

subordinate, Clines. Shackley also established his own company, Research Associates International, which specialized in providing intelligence to business (in other words he sold them classified information from CIA files).

Shackley was horrified when he discovered that

Francis Buckley had been captured. Buckley was a member of Shackley’s Secret Team that had been involved with Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, Carl E. Jenkins, Raphael Quintero, Felix Rodriguez and Luis Posada, in the CIA “assassination” program.
Buckley had also worked closely with

William Casey (now the director of the CIA) in the secret negotiations with the Iranians in 1980. Buckley had a lot to tell the Iranians. He eventually signed a 400 page statement detailing his activities in the CIA.

Three weeks after Buckley’s disappearance, President

Ronald Reagan signed the National Security Decision Directive 138. This directive was drafted by Oliver North and outlined plans on how to get the American hostages released from Iran and to “neutralize” terrorist threats from countries such as Nicaragua. This new secret

counterterrorist task force was to be headed by Shackley’s old friend, General Richard Secord. This was the beginning of the Iran-Contra deal.

In October, 1985, Congress agreed to vote 27 million dollars in non-lethal aid for the Contras in Nicaragua. However, members of the

Ronald Reagan administration decided to use this money to provide weapons to the Contras and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan.
The following month, Shackley traveled to Hamburg where he met General Manucher Hashemi, the former head of SAVAK’s counterintelligence division at the

Atlantic Hotel. Also at the meeting on 22nd November was Manuchehr Ghorbanifar.

In 1980, the FBI put a wiretap in the Gulf Capital Corp. when Stan Pottinger recommended a man named Cyrus Hashemi be used to carry a message to Khomeini, NBC reported.
Pottinger, who headed the

Justice Department's civil rights division under Ford and Nixon, was Hashemi's lawyer after leaving government service.

Federal officials said the wiretap recorded Pottinger advising Hashemi on arms shipments, NBC said. They say Hashemi was Khomeini's arms broker in New York. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

PROMIS was then given or sold at a profit to Israel and as many as 80 other countries by Dr. Earl W. Brian, a man with close personal and business ties to then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Presidential counsel Edwin Meese.

In the early 1980s, Manucher Ghorbanifar and

Adnan Khashoggi both had facilitated the transaction of PROMIS software to Khalid bin Mahfouz, a prominent Saudi billionaire.
The media mogul and alleged Israeli spy Robert Maxwell was involved in selling the PROMIS software.

In 1975, James Bath met Salem bin Laden when

bin Laden was interested in purchasing a used aircraft. Salem bin Laden was the son of Mohammed bin Laden, founder of the Saudi Binladin Group, one of the largest construction companies in the world. Through this acquaintance, Bath eventually became bin Laden's business

representative in the United States, representing him in a number of business deals, including real estate, aircraft services, and banking. Through bin Laden, Bath also met Khalid bin Mahfouz, the son of Salem Bin Mahfouz, founder of National Commercial Bank.

Bath was also an

acquaintance of former president George W. Bush, whom he met when both men were serving in the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s. After Bush started his first business, Arbusto Energy, Bath invested.

From 1981–1986 the chief financial officer of Arbusto Energy was

Mike Conaway. Conaway served as the U.S. representative for Texas's 11th congressional district from 2005–2021.

Conaway led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (with assistance from Trey Gowdy and Tom Rooney) after the

Intelligence Committee chair, Devin Nunes, recused himself.

In 2017, Kim Dotcom played a role in spreading conspiracy theories about the murder of Seth Rich.

Rudy Giuliani faces questions after compromising scene in new Borat film
Trump’s personal attorney has indiscreet twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

encounter with actor playing Borat’s daughter in hotel room during pandemic.

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (renamed in 1981 from the International Center for Economic Policy Studies) is a conservative American think tank focused on domestic policy and urban

affairs, established in Manhattan in 1978 by Antony Fisher and William J. Casey, a former CIA director.

The broken windows theory was introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling. It was popularized in the 1990s by New York City police

commissioner William Bratton and mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose policing policies were influenced by the theory.

Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has said he obtained the materials from the laptop of Hunter Biden, the Democratic nominee’s son.

Hunter Biden was hired to help

Burisma with corporate governance best practices, while still an attorney with Boies Schiller Flexner, and a consulting firm in which Biden is a partner was also retained by Burisma.

David Boies has also represented various clients in US lawsuits, including Theranos, tobacco

companies, Harvey Weinstein, and Jeffrey Epstein's victims including Virginia Roberts Giuffre.

Stan Pottinger represented more than 20 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse.

Two Florida residents pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to traffic in stolen goods for twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

selling a diary and other personal effects of President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley Biden, the Justice Department said.
The criminal charges are the first to emerge from a federal investigation into how, prior to the 2020 presidential election, the journal reached the

conservative video outlet Project Veritas. The group has said it paid for rights to publish the diary, but never did so because it couldn’t authenticate it.

It all began with a Florida man and his boat. Back in 2020, a Peruvian-born millionaire who resided in a marina development in Jupiter started fighting with neighbors who objected to a Trump flag he flew on the mast of his 40-foot Invincible. The local feud escalated into a

series of nationally publicized pro-Trump boat parades. One of these Trumptillas, as the organizers called them, went from Jupiter to Mar-a-Lago on Labor Day. The night before the event, a Republican donor named Elizabeth Fago threw a campaign fundraiser at her dockside mansion.

Kimberly Guilfoyle and Donald Trump Jr. were at the party, and so were a pair of local entrepreneurs, Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander, who came bearing items for sale.

A woman was hired in 2015, just out of college, to work as an assistant for Guilfoyle and another former

Fox host, Eric Bolling. According to a dozen well-informed sources familiar with her complaints, the assistant alleged that Guilfoyle, her direct supervisor, subjected her frequently to degrading, abusive, and sexually inappropriate behavior; among other things, she said that

she was frequently required to work at Guilfoyle’s New York apartment while the Fox host displayed herself naked, and was shown photographs of the genitalia of men with whom Guilfoyle had had sexual relations. The draft complaint also alleged that Guilfoyle spoke incessantly and

luridly about her sex life, and on one occasion demanded a massage of her bare thighs; other times, she said, Guilfoyle told her to submit to a Fox employee’s demands for sexual favors, encouraged her to sleep with wealthy and powerful men, asked her to critique her naked body,

demanded that she share a room with her on business trips, required her to sleep over at her apartment, and exposed herself to her, making her feel deeply uncomfortable.

From 1998 to 2001, Vanessa Haydon dated Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud. The relationship

ended following the September 11 attacks when Khalid bin Bandar left the U.S. after his Saudi ambassador father, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, was suspected of having indirect ties to the Al Qaeda hijackers.
Vanessa married Donald Trump Jr. on November 12, 2005. The wedding was

held at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry.

Prince Bandar deposited $10 million in a Vatican bank used to meddle in Italian elections by undermining the Italian Communist Party. The Al-Yamamah arms deal

between Britain and Saudi Arabia included diverting hundreds of millions of British pounds stretching over more than a decade to Prince Bandar through a Saudi Arabian government bank account at Riggs Bank, but some of the money was used to fund secret CIA projects off-the-budget.

The Riggs Bankwas investigated for several money laundering scandals, including going to great lengths to allow former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to hide his fortune after his accounts were subjected to asset freezing and for unknowingly allowing the hijackers involved in

the September 11 attacks to transfer money due to lax controls at the bank.

In 1993, Joe Allbritton resigned as chief executive officer of the bank after it suffered during the savings and loan crisis.
On May 13, 2005, after the exposure of several money laundering scandals,

the bank was acquired by PNC Financial Services.

Politico was founded by American banker Robert Allbritton in 2007, it was acquired by Axel Springer SE, a German publisher in 2021.

Allbritton was previously the final CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Bank,

from 2001 to 2005, when PNC Bank acquired the bank.

PNC Financial Services traces its history to the Pittsburgh Trust and Savings Company which was founded in Pittsburgh on April 10, 1845.

Under the influence of the free market-oriented "Chicago Boys", Pinochet's military

government implemented economic liberalization following neoliberalism, including currency stabilization, removed tariff protections for local industry, banned trade unions, and privatized social security and hundreds of state-owned enterprises.

The Chicago Boys were a group

of Chilean economists prominent around the 1970s and 1980s, the majority of whom were educated at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and Arnold Harberger, or at its affiliate in the economics department at the

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

In 1980 the economist Arnold Harberger of the Harvard University was selected as head of the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). The announcement met with protests from students and staff since Harberger had previously

advised the Augusto Pinochet military regime in Chile. He withdrew and Dwight Perkins, an economist and specialist in China, took the job. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the economist Jeffrey Sachs became head of the institute.

Jeff Sachs was the chair of The Lancet's COVID-19 Commission.

The Lancet has been owned by Elsevier since 1991.

When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands for the duration of five years from May 1940, he had just founded a second international office, the Elsevier Publishing

Company Inc. in New York.

Aside from economical and security matters, Queen Wilhelmina used most of the 1930s to find a suitable husband for Juliana. This was a difficult task since she was very religious and insisted that her daughter's husband would be a Protestant of royal

birth. Many prospects from the United Kingdom and Sweden either declined or were turned down by Juliana. Finally, mother and daughter found a suitable match in German Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Wilhelmina had her lawyers draft a very detailed prenuptial agreement that

specified exactly what her future son-in-law could and could not do.

Bernhard helped found the World Wildlife Fund (WWF, later renamed World Wide Fund for Nature), becoming its first president in 1961. In 1970, along with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and other associates,

he established the WWF's financial endowment "The 1001: A Nature Trust". In 1954, he was a co-founder of the international Bilderberg Group, which has met annually since then to discuss corporate globalisation and other issues concerning Europe and North America. He was forced to

step down from both groups after being involved in the Lockheed Bribery Scandal in 1976.

The 1001 Club was established in 1970 by the then head of the WWF, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, with help from Anton Rupert, a South African entrepreneur.

The Peace Park Foundation,

founded in 1997 by Dr Anton Rupert, President Nelson Mandela and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, is an organization that aims to re-establish, renew and conserve large ecosystems in Africa, transcending man-made boundaries by creating regionally integrated and sustainably

managed networks of Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs).

The concept of peace parks is a global one, tracing back to the 1930s when Canada and the United States of America created the ambitious Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

The union of the parks was achieved

through the efforts of Rotary International members from Alberta and Montana, on June 18, 1932, at Glacier Park Lodge.

Louis W. Hill, President of the Great Northern Railway and son of James J. Hill developed the Glacier Park lodges as part of his plan to upgrade Great Northern

passenger services and compete more effectively with the rival Northern Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, whose proximity to Yellowstone National Park provided a major attraction for tourists along those routes.

With 1901 and the start of the new century, James Hill now had

control of both the Great Northern Railway, and the Northern Pacific (which he had obtained with the help of his friend J. P. Morgan, when that railroad went bankrupt in the depression of the mid-1890s). Hill also wanted control of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad

because of its Midwestern lines and access to Chicago. The Union Pacific Railroad was the biggest competitor of Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads. Although Great Northern and Northern Pacific were backed by J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill, the Union Pacific was backed

not only by its president, Edward H. Harriman, but by the extremely powerful William Rockefeller and Jacob Schiff.

Many speculators, who had sold Northern Pacific "short" in the anticipation of a drop in the railroad's price, faced ruin. The threat of a real economic panic

loomed. Neither side could win a distinct advantage, and the parties soon realized that a truce would have to be called. The winners of that truce were Hill and Morgan, who immediately formed the Northern Securities Company with the aim of tying together their three major rail

lines. As the Hill-Morgan alliance formed the Northern Securities Company, Theodore Roosevelt became president and turned his energies against the great trusts that were monopolizing trade.

In 1955, the Northern Pacific and Great Northern renewed talks of merging. The

Supreme Court approved the merger, and as a result, the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway merged on March 2, 1970, to form the Burlington Northern Railroad.

Burlington Northern acquired the

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway on December 31, 1996, to form the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (later renamed BNSF Railway), which was owned by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. That corporation was purchased by Berkshire Hathaway in 2009 which is

controlled by investor Warren Buffett. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…