There is No End to Google's Creepiness!

Get a load of this headline.

"Google subsidiary to run nearby federal airfield"

The name of the company is "Planetary Ventures LLC". The thing that's creepy about it is that they Planetary Ventures LLC has been registered with the state of California for 7 years, but there is absolutely no information on the net about them.

A Google search doesn't return any information except related to the federal air field.

Corporation Wiki doesn't really have much info on this company either.

Planetary Ventures, LLC filed as a Foreign in the State of California on Friday, May 11, 2007 and is approximately seven years old, according to public records filed with California Secretary of State. The filing is currently active as of the last data refresh which occured on Sunday, January 26, 2014. A corporate filing is called a foreign filing when an existing corporate entity files in a state other than the state they originally filed in. This does not necessarily mean that they are from outside the United States.

Key People:

David Radcliffe served as the Member

The registered agent for the company is Corporation Service Company. Also known as a statutory or resident agent, the registered agent is responsible for receiving legal notifications regarding court summons, lawsuits, and other legal actions involving the corporate entity.

Planetary Ventures, LLC also lists another corporation as a key member of the company. Gev Real Estate, Inc. serves as Member.

De Holding Company serves as Member.

Mr. David Radcliffe serves as the Vice President of Real Estate and Workplace Services for Google Inc.

This means that Google created a company and did nothing with it for approximately seven years? I somehow doubt that there was a "competitive bid" for property management.

"NASA's partnership with the private sector will allow the agency to restore this treasure for more efficient use," said Dan Tangherlini, administrator of the General Services Administration.

The decision to entrust Moffett's fate to Google comes just two months after NASA's inspector general issued a report that raised questions about whether the company's three most powerful executives had been given a sweetheart deal while flying their personal jets and helicopters from the airfield.

The audit found out that seven jets and two helicopters owned by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt had received improper discounts on fuel that saved the three billionaires up to $5.3 million on flights dating back to 2009. The Google executives own the aircraft through a company called H211, which has been paying $1.4 million annually since 2007 to lease hangar space at Moffett.

Although H211 and Planetary Ventures are separate entities, a frequent Google critic said the U.S. government is rewarding "unethical and wrongful behavior" by awarding the Moffett management contract to the company. "This is like giving the keys to your car to the guy who has been siphoning gas from your tank," said John Simpson, privacy project director for Consumer Watchdog.

Google beat out one other competitor for the Moffett contract, which went up for bidding last May. Ames Research Center spokeswoman Jessica Culler declined to identify the other bidder.

Google execs have been using the airfield; now they're buying Howard Hughes style. I wonder how many of these front companies Google is behind? Google is buying their way into government at an alarming rate.

This can't end well. Nobody buys their way into a power structure --to not wield that power. - Jeff Michaels

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