https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/andrew-p-bakaj/
Andrew P. Bakaj, the Whistleblower’s Lawyer: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
https://heavy.com/news/frances-haugen/
Frances Haugen, Facebook Whistleblower: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
>The FB "whistleblower" got a spot on 60 minutes, gets FB to agree to MORE censorship, and creates a brand new Twitter account that gets immediately verified all in under 2 days.
>No jewellery.
>A Florida teen makes history as her high school's first trans homecoming queen
>We call on Russia and China to join us in such transparency.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/politics/house-committee-january-6-subpoena-serve-dan-scavino/index.html
House committee investigating January 6 can't find Trump aide to serve subpoena
More than a week after subpoenaing former Donald Trump aide Dan Scavino to cooperate with its investigation into the January 6 riot at the US Capitol, the House select committee investigating the attack has been unable to physically serve the subpoena to him, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort.
The news comes just days before the committee's deadline for Scavino and three other close allies of the former President to comply with subpoenas requesting documents by October 7 and a deposition by October 15.
Scavino, Trump's former White House deputy chief of staff, did not respond to CNN's request for comment. One source familiar with the situation joked that the committee should just tweet the subpoena to the former Trump aide since he's been actively trolling the panel there in recent days.
The other Trump aides who have been subpoenaed include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former adviser Steve Bannon and Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
Patel has acknowledged he's received the committee's subpoena. It appears that the committee has been successful in their attempts to serve subpoenas to the other two Trump allies.
In their letter to Scavino, the committee outlines that because of his close proximity and long history of working with the former President, he can provide useful information regarding conversations Trump had on January 5 about trying to convince members of Congress to not certify the election, the former President's movements on January 6, and the broader communication strategy the White House had in the lead up to the January 6 rally.
The committee is also preparing for the eventuality that some of Trump's allies will refuse to comply with the subpoenas. Among the options the panel is weighing to compel their cooperation is the threat of holding them in criminal contempt.
At the same time, Trump and those in his orbit who are likely considered to be witnesses in the committee's probe have offered little indication they have coalesced around a broader legal strategy – whether that be some combination of the former president invoking executive privilege, resisting the subpoenas in an effort to run out the clock or pleading the 5th.
While Trump threatened more than a month ago to invoke executive privilege to block the committee's earlier request for records, several people close to the former president have told CNN in recent days that they are not aware of a legal strategy taking shape since then.
CNN reached out to a dozen lawyers who have represented or advised Trump in the past, but either they did not respond or weren't willing to be interviewed. One attorney, John Eastman, would only say that if he were representing Trump in this matter, it would be a violation of attorney-client privilege to say so.
Doug Collins, a former congressman, has been representing Trump on these matters before other committees this summer, but has not responded to CNN's repeated requests for comment.
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two GOP members serving on the select panel, told CNN's Jim Sciutto the committee is "going to do everything in our power to get them to testify."
"I mean, there is civil, there is criminal referrals that can happen if they refuse, refusing a subpoena from congress is a crime. We aren't out to try to hang this around anybody's neck. We want answers," he said.
"The problem is when you start seeing people resist, and people obfuscate, you have to look at that and go why are they doing that if they have nothing to hide? We have a lot of people coming and talking to us voluntarily. We'll get to the bottom of it. We want to do it quickly, efficiently and thoroughly," he added.
CNN's Paula Reid contributed to this report
>is she a he?
Carmen Santiago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Sandiego
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUqEB1bJgYz/
can you guess who we collaborated with this year for halloween? 👀 collection reveal coming today @kyliecosmetics
>Frances Haugen - The Intersection of Product Management and Gender
someone count how many times she sayslike
like, no kidding
>out in the Matrix amongst the bluepills
>https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/17/archives/in-the-rothschild-manner-a-simple-dinner-for-150-close-friends.html
PARIS—The invitation to a “diner de totes surrealistes” had to be read in a mirror.
Instead of giving their annual ball at rerrieres, their chateau outside Paris, the Baron and Baroness Guy de Rothschild decided to make it a simple dinner for 150 close friends. The dress was boring black tie, with full‐blown surrealism from the shoulders up.
Some say this sudden craving for intimacy is due to the Rothschilds' present financial difficulties. But is that a reason for hurting the feelings of half of Paris?
The press was strictly not invited. Gate‐crashers were discouraged by the local police force and by rumors that hounds used for hunting on the estate had been loosed in the park.
The hostess, Marie‐Helene de Roth schild, was fittingly dressed as a stag at the kill, with towering antlers and jewel tears on her face. The Baron simply wore a huge fur hat.
A pitch‐black entrance and maitre d'hôtels disguised as cats and holding candles greeted the chosen guests. Many dashed off to Alexandre's emergency salon in the chateau to have their “heads” put on, since even the ceilings of Rolls‐Royces were too low.
Salvador Dali was wheeled in by his masseuse and escorted by his muse, Amanda, dressed up in a jawbone. “I don't need a mask. My face is my mask,” he boasted. However, for the occasion he had rigged up an automatically folding and unfolding umbrella.
Enough men to make up quite a few barbershop quartets appeared in bowler hats in honor of Magritte, the surrealist painter. The more ambitious ones included David de Rothschild, who sported a large green egg; Valerian Rybar, with three extra pairs of eyes, and Bernard Lanvin, disguised as a gas lamp post. Many of the males shed their disguises in time for dinner.
“Men are simply not accustomed to suffer to be beautiful,” said Princess Ghislaine de Polignac. As Revlon's pub lic relations director here, she had designed a “make‐up” head of eyebrow pencils, brushes, mascara and powder puffs.
On the dinner tables, instead of flow ers there were surrealistic statues. Each table had its theme, such as “The Golden Sleeping Cat,” depicting sleeping cats and mice eating cheese. The tablecloths were in pink and blue clouds, the plates in mink cradling red plastic lips instead of napkins. The rolls were green.
“Fortunately, the food wasn't surrealistic,” said one guest with relief. The reference was to the foie gras, game and other realistic things. At one point, clutching a handkerchief to her lips, Audrey Hepburn, who was attired in a wicker birdcage, made a hasty exit. “Maybe she's pregnant,” one guest murmured.
And what dieter could resist the cake, a life‐size nude in frangipane flanked by caramel roses?
Afterward, some adjourned to the “nightclub,” but dancing was more risky than risque. What with all the headgear, the dancers kept hooking onto their partners, like mastodons battling in the primeval forest.
It was more fun to size up the competition. Baroness Denise von Thyssen was voted the “most droll.” Her costume was totally understated, a second head placed on top of her first. From a distance, her friends marveled, “Hasn't Denise grown?”
Minka Strauss, who won the door prize, even though no on'e could discover what it consisted of, was wearing a silver snail. Duchess Claudine de Cadaval was disguised as a white brick wall, while Nicole Salinger carried on her head a green and mauve cauliflower.
The only his‐and‐her costumes be longed to Count and Countess Pierre Cheremetieff, who wore twin rhinoceros heads and were very proud indeed.
Baron Alexis de Rédé had tucked four Mona Lisa heads under his large top hat. Helene Rochas bore an old‐fashioned gramophone aloft, a vision created by Yves Saint Laurent, who was there to admire his work.
So was Marc Bohan, the Dior designer, who transformed Cappy Badrutt into a green park and Mrs. Edmond Dory into a cage of birds.
Also in the back‐to‐nature feeling were the actress‐model, Marisa Berenson as a pink tulle pyramid of flowers, Brigitte Bardot as the snow queen, and Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger, fluttering with exotic, if dead, butterflies.
Charlotte Aillaud, wife of the architect, covered her bust and face with bronze armor cast‐to‐order by Claude Lalanne, the sculptor. The lips and chin were re movable on a stem.
Francois‐Marie Bannier, the author, also Galled on Mrs. Lalanne in this time of need, and floated around with hands and winged feet protruding from his curly wig. In one hand he carried a compact containing gold powder and made of a crushed bronze foot.
Meanwhile, Francois‐Xavier Lalanne had painted the face of Claude Lehon in a seascape, complete with sinking steamer. With it, the walking painting wore a white‐haired woman's wig.
Michel Guy, who, in this case, had the good fortune to be bald, was terribly at ease with a dagger planted into his skull. He accessorized it with a silver wobbly halo. “Am I grotesque enough?” he asked anxiously.
Most of the women guests wore “re cent” couture dresses, but Princess, Jean de Caracciolo had on a yellow net that was a relic from 1925. It went delight fully with her green octopus turban. The prince brought his headwear to the party in a carton. It was a huge globe shadowing four white masks, with antennae.
“If you're surrealist, you're supposed to know what it is,” he explained.
Unsurrealistically, Helene David‐Weill, a blonde, came as Cleopatra, with a floor length black wig supporting a plastic of hands, legs, lips, frogs and snails that flashed in red like a traffic signal.
“I can't stop wondering whether this is horse hair or Chinese hair,” said Mrs. David‐Weill, whose disguise was meant to represent “a thinner Elizabeth Taylor.”
Some nasty tongues say that this may well be the last supper at Ferrières. The alternatives, in their opinion, are tearing down the chateau, burning it down or turning it into an orphanage, which sounds surrealistic enough.
Anyway, after all this fun, what could the Rothschilds think up for a simple dinner next year?
>“Crack is Wack”
https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1438986/download
https://nypost.com/2021/10/05/anderson-cooper-on-final-moments-with-late-mom-gloria-vanderbilt/
Anderson Cooper remembers final moments with late mom Gloria Vanderbilt
Anderson Cooper took a sweet walk down memory lane when he reminisced about his final days with his late mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
During the “Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen in Conversation” event in New York City, the CNN journalist got candid about his late mom, who passed away from stomach cancer in 2019 at the age of 95.
The conversation was broadcasted on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy on Tuesday. “We had an amazing last week or two together. We would just lay on her bed and hold hands,” Cooper, 54, revealed to his pal Cohen.
The anchor continued, “When she got the diagnosis … she paused for a long time. She was like, ‘Is it treatable?’ And [the doctor] said, ‘Look, you can go through treatments, but it’s like a miracle moonshot if it has any impact, and you’re going to be in a hospital.'”
“And she was like, ‘No, of course not.’ And then she paused for a long time and she said, ‘Well, it’s like that old song. Show me the way to get out of this world, because that’s where everything is,’ which is an old Peggy Lee song,” Cooper said.
Cooper found a video of Lee performing the song “Is That All There Is” at a nightclub and he gave it to his mother.
>https://twitter.com/josephjflynn1/status/1445538103112781835
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-manitoba-will-offer-a-third-dose-of-covid-19-vaccine-to-more-people-in/
The Manitoba government is allowing more people to get a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The province is suggesting a third dose for all health-care workers who have direct contact with patients in areas including hospitals, care homes, pharmacies and addictions treatment centres.
It is also allowing anyone who has received only the viral-vector vaccines, such as Oxford-AstraZeneca, to get a third dose with an mRNA vaccine such as Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-every-health-care-worker-needs-to-be-vaccinated-without-exception-or/
Every health care worker needs to be vaccinated without exception – or find another job