Posted on 10/10/2020 5:57:32 AM PDT by tired&retired
World View Enterprises, Inc., doing business as World View, is a private American near-space exploration and technology company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, founded with the goal of increasing access to and the utilization of the stratosphere for scientific, commercial, and economic purposes.
World View was founded and incorporated in 2012 by a team of aerospace and life support veterans, including Biosphere 2 crew-members Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, Dr. Alan Stern (the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto), and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly. The company designs, manufactures and operates stratospheric balloon flight technology for a variety of customers and applications.
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Senate Candidate Kelly’s Spying Company Bankrolled By Chinese Government
News of investments by Tencent, a wealthy Internet conglomerate closely associated with the Communist Chinese government, was revealed in May by RealClearPolitics, a conservative new site.
The amount of funding by Tencent Holding Limited, whose CEO is the richest man in China, has not been released to the public.
Arizona Daily Independent has learned that Kelly, a former NASA astronaut, was working for World View at the time that the company’s CEO went to Beijing to obtain funding for the company.
Kelly was named “director of flight crew operations” in December 2013, according to a July 2014 Wired magazine article. That article said that the company planned to “bring tourists on a balloon ride to the middle of the stratosphere by 2016.”
World View’s founding CEO, Jane Poynter, was a “personal friend” of Kelly’s at the time of his hiring, the Wired story said.
The Xinhua News Agency, the news service of the People’s Republic of China, published a story in November 2014, in which it was revealed that Tencent was funding World View.
“Jane Poynter, co-founder and chief executive officer of Tucson, Arizona-based World View Enterprises Inc., said in Beijing on Nov. 7 that her company has received another round of investment, including from Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd.,” the XNA story said.
It was later revealed that this round of investment was for $7.1 million.
In the Chinese news agency’s story, Poynter is quoted as saying that David Wallerstein, chairman of Tencent USA, “has already met with one of World View’s pilots and exchanged ideas on technology.”
In April 2016, World View announced it raised $15 million, in a second round of investments, which included Tencent and three venture capital firms, said an article by techcrunch.com.
It is not clear how much of the total of $22.1 million was invested by Tencent.
Kelly’s U.S. Senate campaign has received $5,000 from Wallerstein, who is “responsible for (Tencent’s) operations outside mainland China and overseeing business initiatives with multinational partners,” said the RealClearPolitics article.
World View has also received millions of dollars of assistance from Pima County, including a building constructed for the company in 2016.
Kelly left the firm in February 2019, when he began his campaign for the seat now held by Sen. Martha McSally. He holds a stock investment in the firm of about $200,000, according to his Senate campaign financial disclosure statement.
Poynter and her co-founder and husband, Taber MacCallum, left their former company, Paragon Space Development Corp., at about the same time Poynter was obtaining funding from Tencent in Beijing.
Poynter and MacCallum left their posts at Paragon “to pursue a space tourism business that will lift paying guests into the stratosphere with an enormous helium-filled balloon,” said an Arizona Star story with a Nov. 9, 2014 dateline.
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Tencent reports to communist government
Tencent, which is known as a surveillance arm of the Chinese government, operates WeChat social media app, with more than one billion users. WeChat, which is used by many people in the United States, monitors foreign users, in order to censor and control Chinese citizens, said a recent Wall Street Journal story.
Tencent Holding’s CEO, Ma Huateng – also known as Pony Ma — is the wealthiest man in China, with a fortune of $62.2 billion.
FBI Director Christopher Wray delivered a scathing rebuke to the Chinese government on June 24, in which he called it the biggest threat to the United States, while revealing there were 2,000 active espionage investigations involving that regime.
“There’s no country that presents a broader and more comprehensive threat to America’s innovation, to our economic security and to our democratic ideas,” Wray said during an interview on Fox News.
Wray said China’s economic espionage campaign relied on businessmen, advanced scientists and senior-level academics to steal confidential information and innovation to take back to China.
The former head of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, Charles Lieber, was indicted June 9 on two counts of making false statements, said a Department of Justice news release. Lieber allegedly lied about his involvement as a “strategic scientist” for China, which brought him $50,000 per month, living expenses of about $150,000, and more than $1.5 million to establish a laboratory in Wuhan, China. He had never disclosed the investments the Chinese government had made in him.
bttt
Trumps October surprise will be
CHINA TIES TO DEMOCRAT PARTY AND BIDEN/HARRIS
I wondered why Trump sat on the information regarding the real reason for closing the China Houston Embassy.
Kamala's hubby's law firm DLA Piper, employs officials who hold prominent CCP positions:
<><> on CCP’s Senior Advisory Board, the China International Economic, Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC),
<><> the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),
<><> and other of its organizations.
DLA PIPER also represents CCP-owned companies, including
<><> two airlines
<><> technology companies w/ US security issues ....ByteDance, and Tencent.
<><> advises the Chinese embassy in Canberra, Australia.
<><> and is involved in multi-billion-dollar businesses.
<><> Hunter Biden is linked to the CCP, via Bohai Harvest (Hunter owns 10% of the capital stock).
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I fear that the average voter doesn’t seem to understand or care about the China problem. The Soviet Union could have saved a few trillion dollars and just paid off our politicians in order to take us over.
It's the DNCCP!
She is a communist.
ALL Govs???
Noem?
DeSantis?
I can believe Abbott.
Exactly.
DNCCP....Good one!
Is China behind the donations to ActBlue?
Exclusive: Data shows that half of 2019 donations to ActBlue came from untraceable ‘unemployed’ donors
A Take Back Action Fund analysis of $400M in donations to liberal causes raises red flags of possible foreign involvement
A preliminary computer analysis by the Take Back Action Fund, obtained exclusively by Fox News, has found that nearly half of all 2019 donations to ActBlue were made by people claiming to be unemployed.
Action Fund President John Pudner questioned the veracity of those donations and called it a loophole that must be closed for the sake of election integrity.
“After downloading hundreds of millions of [dollars in] donations to the Take Back Action Fund servers, we were shocked to see that almost half of the donations to ActBlue in 2019 claimed to be unemployed individuals,” he said. “The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes.”
The trend is continuing this year: An Action Fund examination of 2020 data from January through August showed an uptick in “unemployed” donations through ActBlue, to 50.1% this year.
ActBlue defends the integrity of its donations and said many come from retirees and people who aren’t counted as employed, such as homemakers.
According to the findings of the Action Fund – a nonprofit that aims to “educate the public on conservative solutions for political reform” – 48.4% of ActBlue donations last year, prior to the massive loss of jobs that came with the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic, came from those who did not list an employer or who claimed to be unemployed.
Pudner said the large number is a red flag that some donations may be illicit contributions from foreign interests attempting to impact U.S. elections.
Normally that means follow the money to unearth the corruption but I think we should also follow the money in the other direction to show how that corruption takes money out of the pockets of Americans by killing their jobs. I agree with your thesis we have got to connect China with the lives of everyday voters.
Somehow this is what history will say the election of 2020 really decided: whether in the decades to come the United States would survive the enveloping threat of China.
Ping...
...and to #25
Thanks, tired&retired, for this thread.
<><> You are eager to have the media and all branches of a Biden government on the same side, speaking with a unified voice.
<><> You are certain news reporting needs deep state journalists and leftist politicians as their helpers.
<><> You support limiting scarce jobs with screening software that junks resumes b/c they don't contain the "right words" or exhibit the "correct politics."
<><> You admire an orderly society where everyone knows their place.....like China.
Or banked in Communist China
If Trump does not win all goes down the rabbit hole.
RUSSIA TARGETING BLACK LIVES MATTER, LEFT-LEANING VOTERS ONLINE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES
Precisely determining if the donations were authentic and genuinely from those who were unemployed requires further time and resources, he said.
“Auditing these suspect donations to determine if millions lied by indicating they were unemployed when in fact they were not, or if their names were just being used by a foreign programmer or someone else to move money without their knowledge, will take time,” Pudner said. “We’ve planned a series of forensic procedures to identify whether or not these donors of record exist or not, if they made the contributions themselves, and whether they were legally able, and whether or not they are potential ‘straw’ donors, making the contributions after being given the money and direction by someone else.”
China bribes....but they also threaten if you refuse.
Both WinRed and ActBlue note on their donation pages that law requires donors to list their employer and occupation. "The problem," Pudner said, "is on the back end where ActBlue does not allow banks to verify the identity of the cardholder, meaning someone could buy endless gift cards and list any name they wanted and leave the employer line blank or type in words like 'not employed,' 'unemployed.'" "With half of ActBlue donors indicating they do not have an employer, we recommend they start letting their payment processors verify donations to stop any foreign or other illicit donations by simply listing themselves as an unemployed American," Pudner added.
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