EPO Outrage and Maintaining the Pressure
This year - after well more than 50 years - something big might happen at the EPO [1, 2] and its kangaroo courts (both the internal and external kangaroo courts). Many EPO managers may be ousted, albeit the polite way* of "pretend step-down or insist on resigning" (wherein they offer you the "easy way" or the "hard way" - "jump" versus "push", respectively).
The 'domino bricks' have begun falling already, as the propaganda minister was put on a fake 'sick leave' that will only further enrage the staff (the EPO's management rewards him with 100,000+ euros for breaking the law!). Cover-ups are a recipe for blunder, for growing (or rolling) scandals fuelled by rage.
Pressure has long-term or "material" effect when it can be sustained for long enough and yield measurable costs (e.g. lowered "productivity", which poses a serious risk to the phony narrative of "success" by law-breaking).
There will be another EPO strike in a couple of weeks. The last one had a high participation rate (almost 1,600 workers went on strike). Shortly afterwards the people who can oust Team Campinos ("Alicante Mafia" as insiders call it) were contacted about it.
The EPO apparently tried (or will try) to 'punish' strikers, but this only backfired, as expected. The resentment will grow as it shows further discrimination from the cocaine addicts and their protectors.
A vending machine does not fall over after a first push. You need to shove or rock it back and forth a few times, then it collapses to its side. That's the EPO in 2026. █
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* I've done this long enough to know it. A life-long commitment to good causes (a happy life by the way) by publication shows they always pretend to "resign", even when they get thrown under the bus like Jesper Kongstad a decade back. When articles cause 'resignations' (firings disguised as "moving on") those impacted will go out of their way to hide, to deny, to obfuscate, not to give any credit to those who rightly led to it. Face-saving exercise.