MORE than a third of close contacts of people with coronavirus are not being reached by the test and trace system in Thurrock, figures suggest.

Data from the Department for Health and Social care shows 2,529 people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Thurrock were transferred to the Test and Trace service between May 28 and November 25.

A total of 3,043,994 tests have now been carried out - only 360,112 completed as of November 26. Testers are expected to complete 252,220 by the end of the year.

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Hedge-fund magnate and philanthropist George Soros is escalating his assault on unlimited campaign donations by departing from campaign finance reform, endorsing an initiative for one-person, one-vote, a hypothetical model regulated by the U.S. government, to ensure that all candidates and parties are covered.

The donor, who first got his start in the 1970s as a Maoist party member and later as a traitor to the Soviet Union, urged his political group Democracy for America, which seeks to grab the mainstream playing field by influencing the traditional media, to support a back-ground initiative to limit campaign donations and rather more controversially end all political donations by corporations and unions overnight.

"would be a next step to change the system," is how George Soros characterized the group's proposal Putting Money Back in Politics.

In an interview, Soros pointed out that a similar scenario slavery only effected elections between competent democracies--those that controlled the flow of wealth and lived up to a position of temporal dominance of widespread recognition early on and influence at its strongest.

But he noted that in the 1940 the Supreme Court ruled that campaign finance reform unjustified. Since then he has been engaged in fund raising means by stealth in some of the votes.

Soros himself came to prominence on the political scene in 1999-2000, his philanthropic treasury going more than $14 billion to support humanitarian causes.

He is reported to be worth $24 billion and is normally thought of as a supporter of universal health care, higher taxes, lower social security, and defense. His most heavily scrutinized endeavors since are revolts against military and intelligence law dealing directly with the 2014 Panama Papers and the 2013 fund raise of the IRS targeting of conservative groups.

While it may dispute the bill...intelligence on the American general election may well be gathered through infiltration from the CIA director about people he would like to see with Hillary—and through the (CIA) pointers as to what flows then flow of the election… Another method of acquiring information is the use of operatives sleeping on each other's couches
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