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No longer Ottoman but ' Turkey Is First in Europe for Modern Slavery'.
More excellent writing and eye-opening facts from A. C. Rosenthal [ Link: on Substack].
The Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index [ LINK]; Turkey ranked fifth in the world.
Shocking, as AC Rosenthal highlights: "Not fifth in its region. Not fifth in the developing world. Fifth on earth, behind only North Korea, Eritrea, Mauritania, and Saudi Arabia." And of course that constantly undemocratic, death-spiralling, madhouse-led E.U. seems desperate to see them fully inside the city walls.
...and well worth the reminder. Please read ALL of the linked article ' Testing: How to Create a Pandemic of Fake Disease', [ LINK] by Kit Knightly, published a couple of months back at OffGuardian...
"Or rather [the tests] didn’t work the way everyone said they did. They were just a mechanism for producing a result, and that mechanism worked the same if you were sick or well, living or dying, vaxxed or unvaxxed, left-handed or right. A person, a goat, or a piece of fruit.
Just like rolling a dice."
Good work and good info [as usual] from The Taxpayer's Alliance in the 20th edition of their Town Hall Rich List (a.k.a troughers on the take*)
In a nutshell:
Local authority employees with £100,000 in total remuneration in 2024-25 rose 21.2% from 2023-24 Local authority employees receiving £150,000 rose 14.9% in the same period. Those receiving £200,000 or more rose 39.7 % The highest paid overall received £457,500. "The name and job title of this individual were not provided."
"The individual with the largest compensation for loss of office payment in 2024-25 was the unnamed assistant chief executive at Cambridge council who received £222,559 in compensation and £330,101 in total remuneration"...I bet you ANYTHING this twat walked into an equivalent job in another council within three months, just like that guy in Somerset a few years back.
Full pdf paper with all the data HERE.
All this is fine, after all, no-one could possibly say things have gotten worse... can they? Roads better, services better, more rubbish collection, more...oh.
* there will be some good people working across the councils in the U.K., unfortunately most are grossly overpaid, not very efficient, and at the same time actually believe they're good at their job; with each pay-rise that false impression swells their self-entitlement further.
"[Diogenes] once went to Olympia and on his return was asked if he had seen a great crowd of men. “A great crowd, yes,” he said, “a great crowd of men, no." Think about that in today's political climate. Or even the last 3 decades. Where are the men, the good men, the great men? ....or women (echoes of Monty Python).
The above line is preceded by the following: "One of Diogenes’s habits was to wander round in full daylight carrying a lighted lamp, claiming to be looking for an honest man. Obviously, what he meant was that such individuals are so rare that artificial light is necessary, even during the daytime, to find one. He took this cynicism about men to greater heights."
From Guy de la Bèdoyère's excellent article " Diogenes, We Need You More Than Ever" [ LINK], posted today at The Daily Skeptic. The whole point of course is to decry the absolute moronic corrupt pap that 'lead us', at every level of national and local government, in pretty much every county, state and country in the world. Whose only wish is to remain gorging at the trough.
(Guy's latest book is 'The Confessions of Samuel Pepys. His Private Revelations' [ Amazon LINK], Abacus 2025, and in the US Pegasus 2026).
Taken from eugyppius: a plague chronicle, and not for the first time!
The latest blogpost chimed with me because as a subscriber I was one of those he was addressing: ' Why I don't write about Covid anymore' [ LINK].
I hope eugyppius doesn't mind my blogging his write-up; this latest is only for paid subscribers and I am going beyond his blog postscript "it's OK to share it with a few close friends and family, if you want." (my blog readership is far fewer than that hehe). That said I have several times suggested subscribing to the chronicle because despite being a fantastic catalogue of the pandemic years it is also my go-to place for any German news, especially politics where the German politicians seem determined to outdo the mindless stupidity of their French and British counterparts.
Anyhooo: "Now and again, readers who have been with me for years write to express their disappointment that my blog has moved on from the great Covidian menace and that I’ve shifted my focus to German domestic politics and related matters.... " Covid was one of the most bizarre, terrifying and openly irrational social and political psychoses that many of us have ever seen. It changed my life forever, and it did the same for many of you.
There is much much more: "This is because the political systems that generated that insanity are very much not in the past. They are still with us. All the ingredients that made the unusual Covid purgatory possible are still there...
" ...a priestly expert class that can sanction literally any state intrusion via liturgical invocations of The Science; a bloated and extremely complex bureaucracy that nobody understands and that is internally well-networked enough to be subject to disturbing social contagions; and a powerful, elaborate state with tentacles reaching all the way down into every last personal electronic device."
" That is the real story of Covid"
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