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As a traditional feminist and a female business owner who has long stood up for women’s rights, disability rights, and against racial discrimination in the film and TV industry, I am relieved that Time’s Up is over. I also feel duped and angered by the entire #MeToo movement and this organization.
Time’s Up was a global branding enterprise, falsely selling itself as a supporter of women when in fact, it was using women.
#MeToo was a hashtag that most likely only became viral with the help of bots (Bot Sentinel and Chris Bouzy perhaps?) to push its visibility.
Bouzy, who has been labeled “an expert” by journalists in several major newspapers, including the NY and LA Times, appears to actually create bots to support himself or his clients, thus manipulating social media and public perception. He came out of the New York Department of Education IT department and has a background in a crypto scam as well.
Meghan Markle is apparently one of his clients (he appears in the Netflix documentary series about Prince Harry & Meghan Markle).
She was an “ambassador” for Times Up/#MeToo in the February 2018 edition of Vogue Magazine. Her victimhood ignited in January 2020 when the World Economic Forum decided she was a victim of British media on their site. I checked the British media for 2019 and believe that this WEF narrative was entirely fabricated to make money off victimhood virtue-hoarding altruism.
Coincidentally recent news articles about executives departing Archewell mention that they were creating stories for the zeitgeist — now that #MeToo, Time’s Up & BLM have been exposed, they will be looking for a new bandwagon.
I was invited to an early meeting of Hollywood executives to meet about Time’s Up in the Spring of 2018. I quickly realized that this was an exercise to use us and our networks rather than to help anyone. My and others’ 20+ years of promoting women’s, disability, and minority rights were irrelevant because Time’s Up had arrived. Tina Tchen was running it, and it had a trademarked global brand name. It was political, and we were to be used as minions.
A global brand such as Time’s Up comes with a financial brand value, and this is why, I believe, the MSM has been defending Amber Heard and co. Protecting a lie is protecting a brand label. L’Oreal, for whom Amber Heard is an “ambassador,” is worth $32 billion. It has 17 ambassadors. It’s represented by SKDK who also represented “Time’s Up,” “NWLC,” “UN Women,” “It’s On Us” and “Vital Voices” for whom Amber Heard was a VIP guest at a special event.
The controversies surrounding “On The Record” documentary, are a clear indicator that propaganda for politics and global branding was really at the core of Time’s Up, #MeToo and #BLM. These are commercial ventures. Not philanthropic as the rest of us might have naively believed them to be.
“On The Record” came from the filmmakers of “The Hunting Ground”, one of whom — Amy Herdy — was involved in the documentary “Justice” — about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Doug Liman, the director of “Justice” stated that he financed the documentary himself but IMDB Pro lists CAA Media Financing. CAA is where Time’s Up started with Tina Tchen in January 2018….SKDK promoted Time’s Up. SKDK also represented Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser. Who sponsors the Sundance documentary section where both “The Hunting Ground” and “Justice” premiered? George Soros’ Open Societies Foundation.
Neither Time’s Up nor The Women’s March ever criticizes George Soros and his relationships with women who could be his granddaughters (and who physically hit him in court). Yet they are fast to criticize Johnny Depp for his age difference with Amber Heard. Soros was in his 80’s with a girlfriend in her 20’s, while Johnny Depp was in his 50’s with a wife in her 20’s. Sixty years age difference is fine. Twenty-five is not.
George Soros is the money spigot. Johnny Depp’s global value could be sucked from him in smear campaigns under social justice for George Soros’ political interests.
I was in DC and on Capitol Hill in September 2018, the week before the hearings for Brett Kavanaugh. I saw first hand how DC theatrics work. It’s high school — or middle school — or maybe even kindergarten in some cases. Members of Congress and Senators like having their photos taken with celebrities. Get a celebrity to make an impassioned speech (possibly scripted for them by lobbyists) that yields an opportunity for federal grants for a member of Congress and you’ll be celebrated. That’s not to say that members of Congress don’t care about real issues — they do. But the money game is real for their re-election, for their states and the federal grants are important. Story is everything, even if it’s not true. Major networks keep offices as close as possible to the White House — for a reason. It’s backscratching. NBC and CBS became particular friends to the #MeToo movement. Time’s Up did well out of CBS, but where did the money go?
George Soros is affiliated with Arabella Advisors as well as Open Societies. Connections can be found to various other organizations — one of which is the Narrative Initiative. How many #MeToo, Time’s Up, and BLM stories were created with its help?
Who created SKDK client Christine Blasey Ford’s letter? Early indications are that it was Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber. It could have been Narrative Initiative’s as well. Blasey Ford was not in the “Justice” documentary. I believe she was used, and abused for politics as others have been before and after her.
It smacks of an orchestrated political stunt. I’m not out to defend Brett Kavanaugh because I don’t think he should have made it to the Supreme Court, but I am critical of the use of media for mob justice which Time’s Up and its affiliates have used to push bills, change laws, extort and lead to life endangerment and suicides.
How many of the people questioning Kavanaugh (male & female) got up to the same kinds of sexual misconduct he did in the early 80s? If the Democrats can be so angry about Brett Kavanaugh, why are they so kind to Ketanji Brown for giving a lenient sentence for sexual abuse? None of it makes sense unless you follow the money. None of this is about equal rights, social justice, or black lives. It’s about money and politics. Brett Kavanaugh shouldn’t be on the supreme court, but I’m not sure that Ketanji Brown should be either.
If we are going to get serious about addressing sexual assault, domestic violence and justice for all then we have to get rid of qualified immunity and police corruption. We have to ban the use of media to frame whoever the latest Salem witch trial target is. We have to stop seeing it as a partisan or one gender, religion or race issue.
It’s not and to pretend otherwise harms us all.
There are families involved, women involved, and children involved. Collateral consequences can be fatal. Federal tax dollars should simply not be going towards mob justice either directly or via federal grants that end up in PR companies or social justice non-profits.
We don’t have to like Brett Kavanaugh. We must respect his family’s right to safety and privacy, and that’s where I draw the line with “Justice” or the other films from these filmmakers who are out to incite hatred. I do not believe that Christine Blasey Ford would wish ill on Kavanaugh’s wife or children, and I do not believe that he would wish ill on her or her family. #MeToo activists care not about the real consequences to real lives in their activism.
Stanford Professor Michele Dauber (outspoken in the #MeToo movement and against Kavanaugh) and Gary Gensler (SEC) were both on the finance committee for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Gary Gensler has met several times with Sam Bankman-Fried in the last few years. Michele Dauber works in the same law department as SBF’s parents: feminist law professor Barbara Fried & tax law professor Joseph Bankman.
We should question everything to do with anybody connected to this crowd, including Time’s UP, MeToo, NWLC, BLM (whose leader, Patrice Cullors, was also represented by SKDK).
The Bankman-Frieds bought into (influenced) ProPublica, Vox, Semafor, and others. It’s highly unlikely that Sam Bankman-Fried and Gabriel Bankman-Fried did this alone — it is far more probable that they were part of a machine tied to Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the DNC. A machine that might even be tied to Jeffrey Epstein, who was preoccupied with cryptocurrency in 2017, per one report, and who donated to MIT’s Media Lab, which had a campus in Cyprus where SBF’s FTX EU opened in 2014. Epstein was a supporter of Time’s Up, and helped found the Clinton Foundation, which gave money to Hillary Clinton’s non-profit “Vital Voices” which started up in 1997 in the middle of the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.
In historical context, the founding of “Time’s Up” looks like a wash-rinse-repeat of “Vital Voices.” A piece of monetized crisis brand management 20 years later & also affiliated with the Clintons.
The Bankman-Fried family’s non-profit, which donated $5 million to ProPublica, was called “Building a Stronger Future.” Michele Dauber’s non-profit (registered to her home address but listed on the Stanford website) was called “Building a Better Legal Profession” — co-founded with Davida Brook (a student at Stanford Law School at the time), who went on to represent Amber Heard alongside Roberta Kaplan of Time’s Up/NWLC.
Barbara Fried co-founded “Mind The Gap” to “game the system” after she wrote a paper on using feminism in politics. Michele Dauber started the “Enough is Enough Voter Movement” specifically to target male candidates in the midterms. Justin Fairfax, who lost his race in Virginia, appears to be one of her and SKDK’s targets.
Some of the creditors for FTX are CAA-owned sports companies. Effective Altruism, Philanthrocapitalism, and Social Justice “Building….” are just branding labels. There is an integrated and orchestrated operation that violates multiple ethical lines between branches of government to influence, peddle and raise funds for political candidates while allowing the ring leaders to abscond with the funds raised to buy lavish real estate: SBF and his parents bought properties in the Bahamas. Michele Dauber bought a second home in Big Bear, California. Michael Kives of CAA (and also a Stanford alum and Clinton insider) borrowed $300 million from Alameda Research.
For a non-profit that had received something like $24 million in funds and spent most of it on rich salaries, luncheons in Martha’s vineyard, other celebrity events, PR, branding, and fees, there should be a transparent and federal inquiry into what went down with Times Up and the other organizations that are tied to it.
Why did Jeffrey Epstein support Time’s Up, and why did US AG Denise George get fired after filing a suit against JP Morgan for its role in Jeffrey Epstein’s trafficking enterprise? Denise George is a black woman. DEI is irrelevant when Bill Gates and Joe Biden are vacationing in the US Virgin Islands, and JP Morgan is about to be on the world stage again for a pharmaceutical promotion week and the WEF.
Time’s Up couldn’t step up for Tara Reade, Alexia Norton-Jones or many other survivors but it was happy to provide a PR fund for a class action #MeToo suit against Dartmouth College which yielded a $14 million settlement and led to the suicide of a professor who was denied the right to speak for himself — he was described as a “casualty of scorched-earth #MeToo legal strategy”.
I disagree. Professor David Bucci was a targeted victim -the collateral consequence — of an extortion racket in which Time’s Up was complicit, an extortion racket in which NH Congresswoman Ann Kuster was also complicit — she supported the anonymity of the plaintiffs but not that of Bucci who was named 31 times in the suit — he was blamed for knowing of sexual misconduct in his department and denied the right to state that he was not aware of it. Her office called ABC/GMA in July 2019 to block Amy Robach’s interview with Owen Labrie, which would have exposed the extortion racket involving the attorneys who were suing Dartmouth, the same attorneys who sued St Paul’s School and who used publicity to leverage trials and suits in their favor with the help of the NHCADSV’s Amanda Grady Sexton who sat on NH Dem. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election campaign committee. Neither Shaheen, Kuster nor Grady Sexton stepped in to criticize then-Governor Maggie Hassan when her husband covered up the sexual assault of students at Phillips Exeter Academy because they wanted her to become Senator so there was a media blackout — courtesy, I suspect, of the NHCADSV and its media relations.
Congresswoman Kuster made the call to ABC when the Dartmouth suit was in mediation. Dartmouth gives to Kuster. She used to be a lobbyist for Dartmouth. Kuster wore white to the State of the Union in support of Time’s Up. It was all a political marketing facade. She went from being a lobbyist for Rohypnol when the millions she needed came from date-rape drug makers to one for the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.
When people give money to a non-profit with charitable tax-free status for what is advertised as a humanitarian and social justice cause that will help women or black lives, they deserve to know exactly how that money is being put to use. Funding a PR campaign so that attorneys can get rich off a class action suit while the plaintiffs get a tiny fraction and a professor is driven to suicide, is questionable.
The Dartmouth plaintiffs (some of them solicited) got $75K each while the attorneys got $4.9 million and the NHCADSV got $2.865 million which seems to have disappeared into “Every Voice Matters Coalition” — part of “It’s On Us” and therefore Civic Nation whose head is Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Chief of Staff.
“It’s On Us” has SKDK as its PR company and campaigned to block the Owen Labrie interview from airing — #SurvivorsOverRatings — really? That’s a joke. They had splashed Owen Labrie’s face and name all over NBC, ABC, CNN, Fox, CBS and in every national and international newspaper to get their ratings up but they blocked him from speaking for himself, claiming they shouldn’t have to see his face. I hope these actually understand the difference between an 18-year-old scholarship kid and an Isis terrorist, Congresswoman Ann Kuster — who endorsed the equation – included.
A survivor at Dartmouth who brought a lawsuit against the college for failure to deal with a nightime stranger intruder who threatened to rape her and her roommate told me that nothing has changed since the class action lawsuit. Dartmouth Title IX office did nothing. Her family had to sue to get any attention.
If you are sick of ever-increasing education fees for more useless and over-paid administrators and non-profits who don’t protect you child from anything, then join the club.
We are on our own and we are the majority (no matter our political affiliation, socio-economic status, religious, racial or ability/disability identity) except we don’t have the power of political PR companies using media and social media to raise funds for Government contracts.
Resources for sexual assault survivors at Dartmouth? You have to be a certain type — one that is politically useful. If you are the wrong type, you’ll get ignored.
Students at Dartmouth demanded due process for Maha Hasan Alshawi who accused a professor of sexual assault. The best Dartmouth could do was a preponderence of evidence finding that no misconduct had taken place. “Every Voice Matters” and “NHCADSV” nowhere to be found. Where did those millions go? I suspect into election campaigns. Did Kuster, Hassan, Grady Sexton or Shaheen come out in support of Maha Hasan Alshawi? Of course not — no political money to be made.
Anita Dunn of SKDK (“It’s On Us,” “Time’s Up,” “UN Women,” “Vital Voices”) is married to Bob Bauer who was a partner at Perkins Coie and Obama’s personal attorney. He is also Joe Biden’s attorney for matters relating to the stashes of classified documents that have been found in Biden’s Garage and elsewhere. Perkins Coie houses an office of the FBI, and Perkins Coie has represented Twitter, Google and brokered a deal for FTX US.
Apparently, using the front of Domestic Violence & Sexual Violence non-profits to raise money for elections is a trend, and engaging Stanford Law Professor Michele Dauber — who also happens to be on the board of the Silicon Valley Democratic Committee — part of the strategy. It helps that her husband Ken Dauber is an early Google hire and an engineer who understands how AI and crowd reactions work.
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Times Up, It’s On Us, and BLM are connected by the PR company SKDK. Monifa Bandele, who was tagged to run BLM after Patrice Cullors departed due to misappropriation of funds, was appointed to run Time’s Up after Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan stepped down following the Andrew Cuomo debacle.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion be damned — this is a profiteering insiders’ club of “social justice warriors” and money hoarders who all happen to be Democrats with no real desire to create “equal rights for all” but to spend the loot on second homes and glitzy events.
Anita Dunn of SKDK, who repped both Times Up & Patrice Cullors of BLM, is married to Bob Bauer, who was Obama’s personal attorney, is Joe Biden’s attorney for the current “classified documents” scandal, and was a partner at Perkins Coie which arranged a Delaware LLC for the ownership of a $6 million house for SKDK’s client Patrice Cullors. The house was obtained using BLM funds.
Meanwhile Anita Dunn had a stint as director of communications for the Obama White House, provided PR advice to Harvey Weinstein and was PR strategist for Biden, divesting of Google shares only when the conflicts of interest became public.
Google has contracts with Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, YouTube, NBC, New York Times, among others. Google executives had strategy meetings with the Obama White House, while the FBI had meetings with Twitter and Facebook.
What’s the point of secret meetings for the FBI and big tech and the Government when you can short-circuit it all with pillow talk between Anita Dunn and Bob Bauer?
Google has been sued (again) for anti-trust.
It’s not hard to see how this little network could (and apparently did) weaponize and manipulate the public or turn a political crisis into a profiteering racket with a simple hashtag which they had the ability to turn viral.
#HeForShe (SKDK, UNWomen, The White House, Emma Watson) in 2014 was replaced with #MeToo (Alyssa Milano, Times Up, SKDK, DNC) in 2017. Tarana Burke who was eventually credited for #MeToo didn’t have a Wikipedia page before October 30th 2017 — almost two weeks after Alyssa Milano’s #MeToo tweet went viral. Did Tarana Burke get a Wikipedia page because #MeToo had an all too-white Hollywood appearance or because someone suddenly remembered her?
Professor Michele Dauber called the end of #MeToo in Spring 2020 when Tara Reade came forward to accuse Joe Biden of digital penetration. SKDK helped downplay the accusations and smear Tara Reade. The New York Times admitted to editing articles to paint Joe Biden in a more beneficial light. You can be a rapist as long as you are a friend of the DNC. And if you default on the money or you are a threat, they’ll turn the Gov Affairs PR machine with its ambassadors against you. Thus, Jennifer Siebel Newsom was Harvey Weinstein’s friend one day, executive producing his movie the next, getting Rose McGowan to back off him the next and then suddenly deciding that she would be Jane Doe number 4 claiming that nobody could say no to Harvey Weinstein. I disagree again. Plenty of women have said no to Harvey Weinstein. These women didn’t sleep with George Clooney before or marry Gavin Newsom after he’d had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife.
Michele Dauber had called the Emily Doe Victim Impact Statement from June 2016 “the #MeToo Manifesto”. Records indicate she wrote it herself and that she and her husband were manipulating social media in 2016 to stir public outrage to get support for the recall of Judge Aaron Persky.
I don’t believe that #MeToo was a naturally viral movement stemming from Alyssa Milano’s October 17th, 2017 tweet. My research into the timing of events has led me to a different conclusion about #MeToo and #Time’s Up — they were about election campaigns under the guise of social justice.
Barbara Fried and Gabriel Fried are apparently not cooperating with prosecutors in their investigations of FTX. Is this because Barbara Fried is safeguarding exposure of the entire #MeToo for politics scam too? She wrote “Feminism is for Everyone” — Perspectives for a Feminist Class Politics in October 2017. SBF opened Alameda Research in November 2017. Michele Dauber stated that sexual violence was going to be on the ballot for the 2018 midterms.
I walked in the Women’s March in January 2018. I didn’t think it was partisan, and I didn’t think much about why Planned Parenthood were sponsoring the event. How wrong I was: the PR company for Planned Parenthood is Precision Strategies which also represents the ACLU for whom Amber Heard, a #MeToo spokesperson who said she was “amplifying Michele Dauber’s voice, was an “ambassador.” The company was founded by Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s 2012 Deputy Campaign Manager.
2018 was all about getting women elected for the mid-terms. The Women’s March, Times Up & #MeToo were herding support for female candidates and for the renewal of the Violence Against Women, Act to keep the cash flowing to non-profits from the Department of Justice Office of Violence Against Women.
Precision Strategies represented Amber Heard until partway through the Johnny Depp v Amber Heard Virginia Trial when they turned their attention to the Dobbs Supreme Court leak, overturning Roe v Wade.
Stephanie Cutter had helped with politics and messaging for Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: Sonia Sotomayor. Josh Gerstein of Politico co-wrote the Dobbs leak story in an exclusive for Politico.
Like Cutter, he too had worked closely with the Obama administration in the very early days:
In this 2016 Politico article about the Supreme Court — co-authored by Josh Gerstein — Stephanie Cutter’s name appears with those of Valerie Jarrett, Tina Tchen and Anita Dunn. It’s a small club, and the same names come up over and over. They are paid millions in this fake gravy train profiteering off #MeToo, Time’s Up, BLM, and social justice.
#MeToo, #Times Up, #BLM and the Dobbs SCOTUS leak appear to be more about strategies for election campaign fundraising, not social justice:
Let’s go back a few years to understand the context and to follow the money — how it ran out and how it got replaced under social justice:
In 2015, there were reports that the Weinstein Company was being hit with lawsuits.
Then in 2017, there were reports that the Democratic Party was hard up for cash. Harvey Weinstein was an important fundraiser for the DNC and a close friend of both the Obamas and the Clintons.
Weinstein had been a close ally of Hollywood Talent Agency CAA, where Obama, Biden, Valerie Jarrett (Obama’s Chief of Staff), Tina Tchen (Michele Obama’s Chief of Staff), Arne Duncan (Education Secretary) signed up after the Obama administration.
Michele Obama invited Harvey Weinstein to the White House to give advice to young women who wanted to work in the entertainment industry in 2013.
Malia Obama interned for Harvey Weinstein in 2017, even going to the Sundance film festival with him just a month before Ronan Farrow’s NBC expose was shut down.
An outsized effort from the Obama administration had been devoted to influencing students on college campuses with campaigns using social media to target “rape culture.” Non-profits such as “Its On Us,” “Know Your IX,” “End Rape on Campus,” “SurvJustice,” “PAVE,” “RISE” and others thrived with full support of the White House which launched the “Not Alone” task force in 2014 headed by Valerie Jarrett.
It’s odd that with so much alleged commitment to ending campus sexual assault and to women’s rights issues that anyone in the Obama/Biden administration would sign up with CAA, an agency that didn’t have a single female or diverse board member and one which had hosted a sex themed party at Sundance in 2013 just as the campus survivor movement was ramping up to fever pitch.
The Obamas had become close to Harvey Weinstein whose reputation as an aggressive and uncouth thug was so well known that when Malia Obama went to intern for him in 2017, Vanity Fair published an article to smooth over the rough edges. Was SKDK the PR company to orchestrate this? What kind of discovery did the Secret Service impart to the Obamas before their daughter went to work for Weinstein? If most of Hollywood knew of Harvey Weinstein’s reputation, why was the President sending his eldest daughter to work for him especially after the President had announced the “Its On Us” pledge to end sexual assault?
Given recent revelations involving the FBI and Russia, the FBI, DOJ and Larry Nassar’s cover up or the SEC and Sam Bankman-Fried/FTX, it’s becoming increasingly clear that our government has some appalling lapses when it comes to due diligence. Due diligence that any ordinary citizen could carry out without needing top security clearance. The records are mostly public — if only members of the mainstream media, FBI and Government would bother to look for them.
The failures are not by accident. They are deliberate because there are financial and political perks that rely on ethical alarm bells being ignored.
Even if Harvey Weinstein’s sexual perversions were not well known, his reputation as a bully who could be physically violent was. Why did stunningly beautiful women hang on his arm? One can only conclude that the relationships were transactional as perhaps Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s was if she were truly honest about it.
This does not excuse Harvey Weinstein for horrifically abusive behavior but he was able to continue because the Hollywood-DC-Wall Street machine (which included many women and first ladies) allowed him to continue. The men — Ken Arletta and Ronan Farrow- who tried to expose him, got shut down.
Harvey Weinstein was prominently featured in coverage of the Oscars broadcast by ABC, a division of Disney with PR representation from SKDK headed by Hillary Rosen & Anita Dunn — PR specialists for the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, and Weinstein himself. Disney had a long history of supporting Harvey Weinstein, dating to the early ’90s. Looking back at all those actors who claimed that “Harvey is God” or who wore gowns from Marchesa at the Oscars, it looks as though they were participating in one big marketing campaign for Harvey and therefore the DNC.
A division of The Weinstein Company released the White House-backed propaganda documentary “The Hunting Ground” (about campus sexual assault), which won an Oscar for Best Song, performed at the 2016 Academy Awards by Lady Gaga — “Till It Happens To You.” Jennifer Siebel Newsom (aka Jane Doe 4 in Harvey Weinstein’s LA criminal trial) was an executive producer, and so was Maria Cuomo Cole, sister of Andrew Cuomo and married to Kenneth Cole, who was tied up in the AmFar scandal with Weinstein.
In 2016, CAA acquired 50% of a Hong Kong-based Global Brand Management Company. In 2022 it acquired the remaining shares. Some quick research indicates that the brand company might have been bankrupt, owing Harvey Weinstein’s AmFar partner, Kenneth Cole, $6 million and hence (perhaps?) the reason for the secrecy over the purchase price in the LA Times.
In the summer of 2017 The Weinstein Company reportedly was burdened with many unpaid debts. Rumor had it that hopes were being pinned on “Tulip Fever” to become an Oscar hopeful but when it premiered at the Toronto, Telluride and Venice Film Festivals in late August/early September 2017, the reviews were bad. Two weeks later, with Malia Obama having left her internship and a freshman at Harvard, Harvey went to interview with Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey in the offices of the New York Times.
One of his attorneys, Roberta Kaplan (who would go on to join Time’s Up with Tina Tchen) went with him. Gloria Allred’s daughter, Lisa Bloom, was another attorney who sold herself to Harvey for her ability to understand and discredit his victims. The third attorney who worked with him was David Boies who admitted to arranging for Black Cube (Mossad) to go after Weinstein’s accusers. Jennifer Siebel Newsom worked with David Boies to try to get Rose McGowan to back off her accusations against Harvey Weinstein for a fee.
Jodi Kantor knew Valerie Jarrett from interviewing her for her biography of the Obamas. Someone was behind the New York Times Jodi Kantor/Meghan Twohey exposé of Harvey Weinstein. Could it be TPG who’d invested in CAA and were concerned that CAA’s clients were not getting paid by the Weinstein Company? Or could it be Valerie Jarrett, whose associate Maria Contreras-Sweet (and another Obama insider) put in a bid to buy the company in November 2017 before criminal charges were filed?
Maria Contreras-Sweet’s bid was endorsed by Gloria Allred, who was closely connected to Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan. These three were well-versed in creating propaganda to raise money for the Democratic Party.
It took the Obamas and Clintons almost a week to make a statement after the NYT article about Weinstein came out on October 5th, 2017.
They were caught in an embarrassing situation — CAA had been accused of being enablers of Weinstein, and the insiders of the Obama administration, which had gone to great pains to pretend it cared about sexual assault, were all signed up there.
Time for crisis management for the Obama entourage and CAA. They had everything they needed: Global Brand Management Group in Hong Kong, SKDK & Anita Dunn, Precision Strategies, and Stephanie Cutter, and if they came up with a hashtag they could make go viral, they could get public support. And thus, Alyssa Milano, married to a CAA agent, would come up with #MeToo (possibly plagiarized from Donald Barnat’s alleged comment under the NY Times article on October 10th, 2017, which has never been acknowledged):
Tina Tchen and Roberta Kaplan would start Times Up with a cash injection of $13 million from CAA, a registered trademark (courtesy of Global Brand Management, I suspect) would get global recognition if they used the 2018 awards season to make a dramatic splash at the Golden Globes and Oscars. Finish it up with some celebrities with couture gowns to push the brand, and voila — they transformed a political, image, and financial crisis into a massive global profiteering venture with brand tie-ins around the world.
The Google contracts with Facebook, Twitter et al. helped:
Only Rose McGowan was brave enough to call it as it was. For that, her career in Hollywood was essentially over.
“You are a fraud. This is about holding the media accountable. You go after Trump & Kavanaugh saying Believe Victims, you are a lie,” McGowan wrote at the time. “You have always been a lie. The corrupt DNC is in on the smear job of Tara Reade, so are you. SHAME.”
McGowan noted that she feels Milano is “gaslighting the public” by picking whom she’ll believe about sexual assault.
“I don’t like sacred cows. I don’t like people that are held up to be better than other people and I don’t like people that don’t really do the right thing and behind the scenes are aiding and abetting alleged criminals. I just don’t and I won’t stand for it,” she told the host.
Time’s Up didn’t help Tara Reade. SKDK helped smear her. The two organizations helped Andrew Cuomo against his accusers too — one or more of whom may have been fake anyway.
BLM raised a lot of money and spurred action on the streets, but as harmful as Times Up was to women, so was BLM to people of color. Both organizations were essentially fronts for raising money for the Democratic Party, paying through the roof for “activists” under the guise of social justice.
Who was it that said that “#MeToo is a revolution that can’t be stopped”? Roberta Kaplan, co-founder of Time’s Up — Harvey Weinstein’s and Amber Heard’s former attorney.
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