The UK government's only strategy for some time - and this goes for everything, not just the pandemic - is leaking vague policy plans to trusted journos and letting the speculation outrage simmer to guage public reactions before committing to anything.

It happens so consistently that it simply must be be their core PR policy, and you just know they're very smug about how effective it is (note: it isn't).

This generation of Tories, as we've talked about before, have the concept of social engineering built into their ideology. It's their one guiding principle: you don't ever admit what you want, you just convince people they want it too.

It's all about manipulation and optics. It sort-of-kind-of worked with Brexit, in that it got them a result that brought them to power, but they've run up against the basic inertia of reality since.

As the wrestler Scott Steiner once put it in an interview, "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit."

Let me make this clear @Douglas4Moray. THE COURTS not THE GOVERNMENT and NOT PARLIAMENT are masters of law and THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED TO INTERPRET IT. Parliament makes laws, The courts interpret them. Government and Parliament DO NOT SIT ABOVE THE COURTS. They sit EQUAL TO THEM.

This is to stop Governments and Parliaments from going off on one and becoming a full dictatorship. Only a court can rule something lawful or unlawful. I'm surprised that as a member of parliament you do not understand this very simple concept.

Inherent in the right to vote is the right not to vote. That is your choice if you opt not to vote in a referendum and the Tories boycott it. BUT LET ME BE CRYSTAL CLEAR - IF THE COURTS DETERMINE (and your panic shows how good our case is) THAT IT IS LAWFUL FOR HOLYROOD...

...TO LEGISLATE FOR A SECOND REFERENDUM WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF WESTMINSTER (#PEOPLESAS30) then your "boycott" is NOT a "boycott" - It would not delegitimise the vote. Only the courts get to decide what is lawful or unlawful. Not you or your tory cronnies.

The courts having said a referendum WOULD BE LAWFUL would mean that IT WOULD BE YOU WILFULLY MAKING THE CHOICE NOT TO VOTE IN THAT REFERENDUM - IT WOULD BE THE FREE EXERCISE OF YOUR RIGHT NOT TO VOTE, INHERENT IN THE RIGHT TO VOTE! - YOU'LL HAVE MADE THE CHOICE COGNISANT OF...

Questions for today:
1) What is a military tribunal?
2) What is the punishment for treason?
3) Did Barr step down or step aside? Who IS Jeff Rosen and Richard Donahue?
4)Who is our country's biggest threat? Hint, it is not Russia, or Russia or Russia!

4) Are we at war right now? Is war always defined by physical fighting?
5) Why, now, that election day went by is the MSM reporting on Hunter's laptop, when just weeks ago they were denying it, lying to say it was Russia disinfornation, calling it a 'conspiracy theory'?

(Bonus - what 'phrase' do liberals like to use to dodge factual conversations almost as much as calling 'racist' and parroting MSM?)

6) Did China lie about their COVID numbers? Are they laughing at us *our fear?
Are they bragging about having paid for Americans working for their agenda in ALL levels of our govt, our justice (including judges) and defense systems, Wall Street and even our schools?

Do we have video of any of this?

7) What IS China's (and other's like Gates, Soros, Rothchild's, the Vatican, the Crown, CIA, WHO, etc) agenda/plan for America? For the world? It's no secret, and it most definately is not a conspiracy theory, but rather a factual conspiracy

1/ How do we prevent the next grifter-in-chief and stop Congress from enabling criminals in government?

2/ Trump and McConnell are both pushing pardons. Trump wants pardons for his criminal cronies, enablers, and children. McConnell wants pardons for meat packing plants and corporate criminals.

3/ Although past presidents have had family members working for them - Attorney General Bobby Kennedy is a famous example - none have ever had to pardon their family members for criminal activity in the White House. Until Trump.

4/ Trump’s family of grifters have been extracting money from our government and the American people since day one, starting with the inaugural fund scandal. Just since he lost the election. Trump has raised over $170, million: the grift continues!

5/ Trump has sold out our country and our values. He’s given top-secret information to foreign adversaries, embraced dictators and autocrats around the world, and enthusiastically damaged our relationships with allies. It’s almost as if he’s working for a foreign government.

Cardano and Elrond communites have always been on friendly terms and there is plenty of space for both to coexist.

I want to address some inaccuracies in @matiwinnetou's recent post.

👇Read the thread👇

1. The governance model on Elrond will be launched during 2021 Q2, and the ethos and spirit is the same as Cardano. To give governance power to the token holders.

2. Three years of development and plenty of external audits such as Trial of bits, hackers invited to break the network during BoN and 1400 validators strees testing for an extended period of time ensures that the network is secure.

3. Many Blockchains are only one company. Elrond Foundation is currently bootstrapping the Network, but will gradually hand over governance to the holders thus enabling decentralization

4. On-Chain upgrades have already been successfully performed both on the mainnet and on the public testnet. Elrond's hardfork detection mechanism has been thoroughly tested in Battle of Nodes under severe adversarial conditions.

I've been thinking: What if the Texas case was a test for SCOTUS to see how deeply it had been corrupted? As Thomas noted with Alito's concurrence, SCOTUS is the court of original jurisdiction for disputes between States.

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Thomas is by far the most originalist Justice on the Court. While I haven't read the opinion closely, if he did not see a problem with standing, there most assuredly was NOT a problem with standing.

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That would mean that Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett failed the test, along with Roberts, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer. SEVEN Justices corrupted at SCOTUS.

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MINING THREAD PART 4: Industrial-scale helium project will be give FINAL approve by Trump Interior Depart(not mining but drilling) as soon as this week in one of most iconic locations in US. An unspoiled area of majestic beauty. Pics by Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance/Bloxham

The plan near here, in part controlled by Interior's Bureau of Land Management: one of the largest helium drilling operations in the US. Would start small, to prove the reserves. But backers of project could ultimately produce "5 to 10% of world annual helium production"

As BLM evaluated this project, it asked a series of questions.

The helium project would be in part on state land, part of in the LABYRINTH CANYON WILDERNESS AREA "one of the most sublime and least traveled areas of federal public lands in the nation. A stunning and remote redrock landscape, it lacks any sign of human development"

So what kind of IMPACT would this project have on this WILDERNESS area? Let's look at the findings by Interior Department, which is slated to approve the project in the coming week. Eight NEGATIVE impacts on this page.

Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Cue the next act in the reality show.https://t.co/WEuwus5TxE goverment and politich up to date.

We could find similar examples for every aspect of covid-19 science—discussions of whether viral mutation is changing SARS-CoV-2 infectiousness or virulence, the extent of personal immunity to SARS-CoV-2.

@chittukuruvi4 @PVNNarayanan And the benchmarks set by the Modi Government in 2014 and the impetus in the continuity besides adding new goals to bring further #EaseIfLiving, and establishing an environment of participation with competition and equal opportunities for all has unnerved the Cong led Opposition.

@PVNNarayanan The pace and size of development and progress what India could not dream of before 2014 under such a prolonged Congress rule of decades and decades, became visible with efforts fructifying in 2014 to 2019 period. Add to it undoing of historical aberrations and blunders septic.

@PVNNarayanan Are not these reasons enough for d discredited & desperate @INCIndia & its appendages to shepherd d herd in organising protests to camouflage its own failures ? What else can one expect from stooges of a Dynasty, than 2create impediments, humps & obstacles through misinformation.

@PVNNarayanan @INCIndia Continuity of Modi Government in 2019 and booting out Congress permanently from the Centre also ensured closing of doors and windows for corruption by Congress & its crutches Communists. And more we see the reason of frustration in d disgruntled lot engaging in immoral protests.

@PVNNarayanan @INCIndia Memories short, no Congressman of self pride and with interests of the party “ideals and ideology” close to his heart talking about change of leadership and holding of elections for election of Party President ! All that has got buried in the dust of #FarmersProtest manicured !

Well, Kukah is a bishop, Perhaps he sees and hears things mere mortals can't see.He said there could have been a coup if Buhari were not the president.

The idea is that Buhari's sins and incompetence necessitate a military coup. Kukah is a bishop, otherwise, I would have said he is serpentine. Regardless of how well or badly Buhari might have functioned, the suggestion of the probability or propriety of a coup is mischievous.

But Kukah is a bishop so I won't say he is a trouble maker. Let's just say he is mistaken. In 2018, Kukah resurrected Atiku and helped cleanse him of political leprosy. It was in desperation to unseat Buhari. Kukah and company lost woefully.

Today, Kukah, the democrat, is talking about a coup. When the bible forbids certain things it says, let it not be heard amongst you. One would think that a coup is a word that shouldn't ever come out of Kukah's mouth.

The coup Kukah is hinting about would have been staged by a section of the country to correct Fulani nepotism or domination, right? Kukah is the leader of the peace committee but here he was throwing firewood into the fire in the name of telling the truth.

1/ HOW DO WE RECLAIM OUR REPUBLIC?!?!?! Recently, there has been much talk about a secession of states… but that idea should set off MASSIVE alarms in your head. It is setting ourselves up for an ultimate ambush. Allow me a few moments to explain why…

2/ While analytics performed by ex-military analysts have shown the red states would HANDS DOWN win in a civil war, they neglected to include the UN variable. The UN and their NWO have their spindly tentacles sunk into many of our border states...

3/ In liberal heaven New York, Gov Andrew Cuomo has been doing everything in his power for years to drive as many conservatives from the state as possible. He has LITERALLY said, “We don’t want you here”. He has kept the rural upstate portions of the state close to destitute...

4/ They do everything they can to keep big businesses out and prefer as many of their inhabitants on welfare, or close to it. Conservatives have been fleeing the state in droves for years now, and the upstate region population is dwindling… and that is all by design...

5/ Similarly, back in the early 90’s, Rosa Koire, now a retired forensic commercial real estate appraiser specializing in eminent domain valuation, began to notice victims of wildfires were being prevented from rebuilding on their land in certain areas...

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A 'soft' separation is in our best interest. The Constitution allows one state to enter into a compact with another. Multiple states may also enter into compacts. We see this with the DMV where 47 states have enteted into a data exchange.

Another example is the Atlantic Salmon Compact that permits New England states to manage fish stocks in the Connecticut River Basin. They do this collectively, among the states.

With a failed federal congress, corrupted SCOTUS and dangerous subverses operating within the executive this may be Constitution loving states best option. And it is well within their power.

We could, among our states, sign on to Agriculture, immigration, tech, commerce, and/or education compacts among many, many others that would allow us to regulate ourselves as a seperate entity without needing the federal govt or the malignant states approval or signatures.

We create and establish new partnerships for varying policy areas which hardens the alliances, thus creating strength. Thus begins the 'soft' seperation. Red states combined provide their voters with what theyve actually voted for. No need for New York pork spending.

As Required by #EO13848 on Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a US Election:

“The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury... shall jointly prepare a recommendation for the President...” /1

Because it's Christmas eve and there's not much else to do whilst sitting in a dark room waiting for small people to go to bed, here's a quick look at today's T&T data.

Covers 10-16th Dec.

Test times much worse, contact tracing continues to

Any graphs this wk are from PHE report. T&T are just providing data update.

Number of people tested up 12% to 1.99m but positive tests up 58% to 174k, incl a v large 67% increase in pillar 2 (community testing, including use of lateral flow tests in those who are asymptomatic).

Big drop in performance for P2 test turnaround times.
- Regional test sites, 36% of results are provided within 24hrs of taking a test, down from 63% the week before.
- For local test sites the drop is from 51% to 22%
- Mobile test sites: from 68% to 48%

- For satellite test centres, 46% of results within 48hrs down from 63% the week before
- For home test kits it's now 38% compared with 64% last week.

And with median time to results increasing, also seeing distances people are having to travel beginning to creep up for regional and local test sites.

1. Montana Governor

Good morning Zimbabwe. Thank you again to all the people messaging me to be part of the anti-corruption movement. My desire is to build teams of people for different focus areas to apply pressure on the system.

1. Judiciary- work to identify and expose compromised justices, state interference of court cases. Persecution of opposition figures and journalists. Fight for s59 of the constitution as a key part of the fight against corruption.

2. ZACC- work closely with ZACC to communicate status of current investigations. Identify weaknesses and strengths.

3. Auditor General- work with the AG to better understand how tax dollars are being spent. Scrutinize government operations.

4. National budget- forensic accountants to review current and previous budgets. Identify things that don't make sense.