Investigative Journalism Protects Society From Corruption, Crimes Against Women, Assaults on Civil Society
3 days ago: Staying Happy in Times of Crackdowns on Civil Society
We have some EPO leaks scheduled for this afternoon, then every day until the end of the week. There are a number of scandals over there; to keep them invisible/quiet is not a possibility. To frame these or leave them "internal matters" is also really bad for the public interest. The public must understand how rotten the system is and why. Moments ago we re-published Daniel Pocock's latest article. To quote what he says on Switzerland (where he is a naturalised citizen): "what is the point of men doing military practice to defend a system that is so rotten?"
Now consider again the EPO and the EU (which Switzerland stayed out of; Switzerland sees itself as better than the EU - same as Norway). Earlier today in this article we added some direct quotes. "As of January, the [EPO] salary adjustment in Germany (+1.2%) will be insufficient to cover the increase in pension and healthcare contributions (+2.2 percentage points) resulting in a pay cut of -1%," the EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) said.
Later we'll show more publications to that effect. It is legally relevant because of the European Patent Convention (EPC, 1973), which today's EPO is happy to routinely violate without any consequences to anybody doing the violations. Corruption and crimes have become very much pervasive at the EPO. How can that be stopped if people cannot even talk about it and the general public cannot hear/read about it? █