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After the current US President came to give a weekday speech in June 2023 at Palo Alto's Baylands, he went by limo to two daylight fundraisers, first in west Atherton (politician Westley's home) and then Saratoga/Los Gatos hills (hosted by Kevin Scott, a Microsoft executive, and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin) while Air Force 1 did a photo run over the Golden Gate Bridge departing from Moffett where Google has an exclusive private plane deal with (cough) NASA to use its runways. Or maybe an innocent reposition flight to SFO? I watched with my eyeballs AF1 fly over Palo Alto northbound less than 30 minutes after the Baylands' speech ended and the Westley event was happening. As the sun set I watched live on Flight Aware as a helicopter which had flown aerial patrol by the Baylands speech and around the 2 pre-announced fundraisers, too, finished circling a place near Gilroy and then did a joy ride up to downtown San Francisco and landed on a skyscraper by where there was a closed door event with many VIPs the next day.

Air Force 1 and Marine helos are for sale to the highest bidders. Lots of helo pads in downtown SF.

Big boys and girls fly. Never stuck in rush hour, not even in limos. SFPD will close streets from hotels to Moscone Center and to any other place the biggest VIPs will go, to empty them for the VIPs for this Potemkin Village show. Gridlock for the plebes. Look close to see the paying "Johns", the sponsors of this fiasco. https://www.apec2023sf.org/

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Wow! So they come into Moffett and helo to SF and then joy ride half a block for photo ops. I guess 300 limos are for their staff that keep their tooshy dry and shoes shined...

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Yup. Most will fly into SFO. Only Highest Poobahs can fly into Moffett. That June circling helo which landed in downtown SF might also have been just an ELINT platform, not a VIP taxi. Trying to figure out where the unannounced fundraisers and other private meetings are is aways interesting because then one can see where the real string pullers are.

Ever wonder why and how after Gorbachov left the dying USSR he popped up with his new "foundation" at San Francisco Presidio's Fort Scott old officer housing? After fundraising tour(s) through California. Matryoshka doll cover stories.

Here's a link to the No Free Speech and No Free Assembly zones October presser to show where only lapdog pre-approved press and other "fans" may snap photos of their Dear Leaders in Potemkin Village 2023. Nov 15-18, SF traffic will be a mess or a ghost town. Place your bets where the big heads of state photo op will be held. Incoming pineapple express storms from Hawaii forecast for Nov 15-18. Thus, low odds for Golden Gate outdoor backdrop! https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/18/apec-summit-security-secret-service-moscone-center/

https://www.starpath.com/transpac/

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