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Very nice. Are Patriot Sleepers being activated?
Interview with Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who leaked over 100,000 Whatsapp texts from Matt Hancock's phone that he gave her to research for the book she was co-writing with him.
https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-isabel-oakeshott-the-journalist-behind-the-matt-hancock-leak-whose-work-landed-an-mp-in-prison-and-made-an-ambassador-resign-12823424
Who is Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke an NDA to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApps?
Who is Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist who broke an NDA to leak Matt Hancock's WhatsApps?
https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-isabel-oakeshott-the-journalist-behind-the-matt-hancock-leak-whose-work-landed-an-mp-in-prison-and-made-an-ambassador-resign-12823424
Isabel Oakeshott has admitted she didn't tell Matt Hancock she was going to leak 100,000 of his WhatsApp messages before sharing them with the Daily Telegraph. The Brexiteer journalist and political commentator has passed on more than 2.3 million words from exchanges the former health secretary and his colleagues had about COVID policy at the height of the pandemic. Her leak broke the non-disclosure agreement she signed that promised she would only use the messages on background to ghost write Mr Hancock's book, Pandemic Diaries. She has vehemently defended her decision, which she claims is "overwhelmingly" in the public interest - as she believes the inquiry into the government response to the pandemic will take far too long to achieve genuine justice.
From King Charles's school to political journalist. Ms Oakeshott was born in Westminster in the mid-1970s before moving to Scotland. She attended fee-paying schools St George's in Edinburgh and Gordonstoun in Moray - where both King Charles and his father the Duke of Edinburgh went. After graduating with a history degree from the University of Bristol she moved back to Scotland to begin her journalism career in local newspapers. In the early 2000s she moved to London to be the Evening Standard's health correspondent. Three years later she took her first steps into political journalism and joined the Sunday Times, where in 2010 she was made political editor and in 2011 she was named Political Journalist of the Year at the Press Awards. A year-long stint as the Daily Mail's political editor-at-large followed before jobs at GB News presenting her show The Briefing with Isabel Oakeshott in 2021 and as TalkTV's international editor from mid-2022. She has three children and was previously married to the American Nigel Rosser. She has since been in a long-term relationship with Richard Tice, the leader of Reform UK, formerly known as the Brexit Party.
But her reported breach of contract has led to criticism from Conservative MPs and journalists - particularly in light of other controversies she has been involved in.
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Matt Hancock's book is the 10th she has worked on. Following the publication of The Lockdown Files in The Telegraph, Mr Hancock accused Ms Oakeshott of a "massive betrayal and breach of trust".
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In 2011 when she was working at The Sunday Times she agreed to write a story about Vicky Pryce - the ex-wife of former Liberal Democrat minister Chris Huhne, who Ms Pryce had separated from following an affair. Ms Pryce told Ms Oakeshott she had taken points on her driving licence for a speeding offence Mr Huhne committed. She discussed with Ms Oakeshott over email how they might report the story to discredit Mr Huhne. But the front-page article that materialised led to the Crown Prosecution Service revisiting the incident, requesting the email exchanges, and ultimately both Ms Pryce and Mr Huhne being sentenced to eight months in prison for perverting the course of justice.
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In 2015 she co-authored a biography of then-prime minister David Cameron with the Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft. He had felt let down by Mr Cameron, having donated millions to the 2015 election campaign only to be denied a top job in his coalition government. The book, Call Me Dave, failed to have major success and was largely remembered for the claim Mr Cameron engaged in a sex act with a dead pig while at Oxford University.
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As an ardent Brexiteer, in 2016 she helped write Arron Banks's book The Bad Boys of Brexit on his account of the EU referendum.
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Three years later in 2019 she wrote a series of articles in the Mail on Sunday that revealed the UK ambassador to the United States Sir Kim Darroch had described Donald Trump's presidency as "inept" and "utterly dysfunctional". He was forced to resign, conceding his position had become untenable.
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After Matt Hancock's lockdown-breaking affair with aide Gina Coladangelo forced him to resign, Ms Oakeshott worked with him on his memoir for a year. She has claimed she wasn't paid for her work, saying it was "richly rewarding in other ways".
Hancock took mistress to private dinners with US health sec - then tried to remove suggestion he invited her, leaked messages show
Gina Coladangelo attended dinners with the former health secretary and his US counterpart while he was in a relationship with her and before his wife found out after photos of them embracing were published.
https://news.sky.com/story/hancock-took-mistress-to-private-dinners-with-us-health-sec-then-tried-to-remove-suggestion-he-invited-her-leaked-messages-show-12826471
Matt Hancock took his mistress to private dinners with the US health secretary then altered a ministerial response to remove suggestions he invited her, leaked messages have revealed. The latest revelation from more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages leaked to the Telegraph shows a conversation between Mr Hancock's former political adviser, Allan Nixon, and the former health secretary. Gina Coladangelo, who Mr Hancock was having an affair with, attended two dinners with him at a G7 summit of health ministers held in Oxford about a month after their relationship started. She was appointed a non-executive director of the Department of Health and Social care (DHSC) in September 2020, eight months before the pair started seeing each other in early May 2021. Journalist Isabel Oakeshott said she leaked the messages in the interests of "public interest" after Mr Hancock handed them to her as she helped him write his Pandemic Diaries book. The latest messages, revealed on Sunday, show Ms Coladangelo was invited to the dinners as Mr Hancock's guest with Xavier Becerra, US health secretary, on 3 and 4 June at Mansfield College, Oxford University. After Mr Hancock was forced to resign over the affair in late June 2021 when CCTV footage was published of them kissing in his office, Labour MP Ben Bradshaw asked what role Ms Coladangelo played at the G7 meeting and what expenses she claimed. Allan Nixon, Mr Hancock's former political adviser who had stayed on at DHSC to help Sajid Javid take over, had a WhatsApp conversation with Mr Hancock suggesting how he should answer the question. In the first exchange, Mr Nixon appeared to have scribbled out a printed answer and suggested another in biro. The original suggested reply said: "Gina Coladangelo attended the G7 Health Ministers' Meeting at the request of the previous Secretary of State, for the Department of Health and Social Care."
But Mr Nixon wrote this should be changed to: "Gina Coladangelo played an advisory role to the Secretary of State at the G7 meeting." Mr Hancock then suggested a further version that erased any link to him: "Gina Coladangelo attended the G7 in her role as a non-executive director of DHSC." The final response, published on 28 October 2021, removed any reference to Mr Hancock or the DHSC by name. "Gina Coladangelo attended the G7 health ministers' meeting as a part of the UK delegation," it read. In response to the question about expenses, Mr Hancock had wanted it to say "zero" but Mr Nixon said this was overruled by Sir Chris Wormald, DHSC's permanent secretary. Mr Hancock said it was true she incurred no expenses and warned: "This will be another s*** show if it goes wrong." The final answer read: "All travel and subsistence costs were covered as part of the Department's overall booking. Ms Coladangelo did not claim any additional expenses."
Sky News understands Matt Hancock believes it is normal for parliamentary questions to be amended, with ministers doing so frequently. Sources close to him said it is outrageous to suggest he did anything wrong and the response was reasonable and accurate. Also released on Sunday were WhatsApp messages from head of the civil service Simon Case, who was the cabinet secretary under Mr Johnson. He said to Mr Hancock the public needed to be told to isolate by "trusted local figures, not nationally distrusted figures like the PM" in October 2020, as the government was expanding testing, the Telegraph reported. Earlier this week, the Telegraph released messages showing Mr Hancock and others discussing how to use the Kent COVID variant to scare the public so they would obey the rules in December 2020. Mr Hancock told aides he wanted to "frighten the pants off everyone" to ensure restriction compliance. Another set of messages was revealed this week showing Mr Hancock's former aide called Boris Johnson's senior adviser Dominic Cummings a "fing piece of s". Jamie Njoku-Goodwin made the remark in March 2021 after Mr Cummings described the DHSC as having been reduced to a "smoking ruin" by the pandemic during a parliamentary committee hearing. He also called him a "psychotherapist" before quickly correcting the typo to: "Psychopath."
Consumers Need an Internet Bill of Rights
Jan 23, 2018
https://about.att.com/story/consumers_need_an_internet_bill_of_rights.html
Government rules for the internet have been debated for nearly as long as the internet has existed, even before a professor coined the term “net neutrality” 15 years ago. The internet has changed our lives and grown beyond what anyone could have imagined. And it’s done so, for the most part, with very few—but often changing—rules. Regulators under four different presidents have taken four different approaches. Courts have overturned regulatory decisions. Regulators have reversed their predecessors. And because the internet is so critical to everyone, it’s understandably confusing and a bit concerning when you hear the rules have recently changed, yet again. It is time for Congress to end the debate once and for all, by writing new laws that govern the internet and protect consumers.
Until they do, I want to make clear what you can expect from AT&T.
AT&T is committed to an open internet. We don’t block websites. We don’t censor online content. And we don’t throttle, discriminate, or degrade network performance based on content. Period. We have publicly committed to these principles for over 10 years. And we will continue to abide by them in providing our customers the open internet experience they have come to expect. But the commitment of one company is not enough. Congressional action is needed to establish an “Internet Bill of Rights” that applies to all internet companies and guarantees neutrality, transparency, openness, non-discrimination and privacy protection for all internet users. Legislation would not only ensure consumers’ rights are protected, but it would provide consistent rules of the road for all internet companies across all websites, content, devices and applications. In the very near future, technological advances like self-driving cars, remote surgery and augmented reality will demand even greater performance from the internet. Without predictable rules for how the internet works, it will be difficult to meet the demands of these new technology advances.
That’s why we intend to work with Congress, other internet companies and consumer groups in the coming months to push for an “Internet Bill of Rights” that permanently protects the open internet for all users and encourages continued investment for the next generation of internet innovation.
Randall Stephenson
AT&T Chairman and CEO
Ballot harvesting (ballot collection) laws by state
https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_harvesting_(ballot_collection)_laws_by_state
Most states have laws permitting someone besides a voter to return the voter's mail ballot. These laws vary by state. Mail ballots take the form of absentee ballots and ballots cast in vote-by-mail states.
As of May 2022:[1][2]
25 states and D.C. permitted someone chosen by the voter to return mail ballots on their behalf in most cases
11 states specified who may return ballots (i.e., household members, caregivers, and/or family members) in most cases
1 state explicitly allowed only the voter to return their ballot
13 states did not specify whether someone may return another's ballot
To learn which states fall into each category, see the map below.
See the state-by-state details section below to learn more about your state's mail ballot laws.
Whether states should place restrictions on who may return mail ballots is the subject of debate. Those who support restricting who may return mail ballots often refer to the practice of campaign and union workers returning ballots as ballot harvesting. Other terms used to reference this practice include ballot collection, community ballot collection, ballot gathering, third-party possession of another's ballot, and ballot return.
AMERICA FIRST Ballot Collection Corporation
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The books that were burned in 1938 Germany were Transvestite/Drag Queen/Queer propaganda.
Didn't see that one coming, did you?
Pornography is not protected speech for a good reason. Other than that and violence/threats, let free speech roll.
After all the human trafficking for sex is exposed this anon believes that the bar for pornography will go much lower. Everything the Cartels are doing to engage the population in a constant state of sexual arousal is going to create a backlash not seen since the Quakers moved in… kek
This anon is comfy, but ready to work hard to make sure anons win.
If you are depending on morality laws to enforce morality you've already lost.
America needs God back. Morality cannot be enforced.
Very profound anon. o7
People are figuring out that God is within and easily accessible at any time. Ascension. No church, pastor, hymn or donation necessary.