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As CEO salaries explode, worker pay continues to stagnate

George Samuelson
Strategic Culture
Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00 UTC
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CEOs got an 11% raise in 2025; workers just 0.5%. The average top exec now makes 490 years of a typical employee's wages.

Top global CEO pay increased 20 times faster than workers' pay in 2025, while at least four CEOs of major corporations each pocketed over $100 million in pay and bonuses last year.

At a time when the global workforce is concerned about keeping up with the challenges imposed by artificial intelligence in the workplace, corporate top executives are hoarding the lion's share of the profits. As they have done for centuries, the rich are not investing in their workforce, opting instead to fatten their wallets.

CEOs of the world's biggest corporations enjoyed an 11 percent real-terms pay increase last year, while the average global employee saw real wages increase by just 0.5 percent, new analysis by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and Oxfam reveals. To put it another way, top global CEO pay increased 20 times faster than global workers' pay in 2025.
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Bizarro Earth

Virtue gone mad: Store manager punished more harshly than the shoplifter he stopped

Theodore Dalrymple
ZeroHedge
Sun, 03 May 2026 20:40 UTC
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© Justin Sullivan via Getty ImagesMerchandise sits behind locked cabinets at a Walgreens store on July 18, 2023 in San Francisco, California, due to rampant shoplifting.
Nietzsche thought that the decline of the Christian religion in Europe would inevitably lead to a social, cultural, and moral crisis. This was because a traditional morality based upon religious belief could not be upheld once the religious belief itself weakened or was abandoned.

This was not an original thought. The poet and essayist Matthew Arnold said much the same thing in a poem, "Dover Beach," written in the 1840s but not published until 1867, before Nietzsche:
The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar...
This, thought Arnold, had the consequence that life would have no transcendent meaning. His answer to this problem was human love, the only solution to moral, social, and intellectual chaos:
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TV

Caitlin Johnstone: Dissecting an 'anti-Semitism' psyop

Caitlin Johnstone
Consortium News
Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00 UTC
Starmer group
© Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 4.0PM Keir Starmer meets emergency response workers, April 30, as he visited Golders Green following stabbings
There is no evidence that pro-Palestine marches that Keir Starmer wants to ban have anything to do with anti-Semitic attacks in London. But watch how a Sky News propagandist marries the two nonetheless.

I recently watched a Sky News segment on the need to ban pro-Palestine marches that nicely illustrates the way the mass media have been working to manipulate the public into believing these demonstrations are causing anti-Semitic attacks.

Reporting on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's recent assertion that the "repeat nature" and "cumulative effect" of pro-Palestine marches may necessitate a ban on some protests following the Golders Green stabbings, reporter Mollie Malone repeatedly told the Sky News audience that the marches are happening in the "context" of anti-Semitic incidents and "against the backdrop" of attacks on Jewish people.

Comment: Starmer does what he is told. If he didn't he wouldn't be 'there'.

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Handcuffs

British police raid Islamic group accused of sex trafficking and slavery

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 01 May 2026 05:45 UTC
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© UnknownCheshire Islamic group under arrest
At least nine members of a Cheshire Islamic group have been arrested in a raid of 500 British police officers as part of an investigation into sexual offenses, slavery and forced marriage.

Officers received reports of human trafficking, rape, and other crimes involving members of a group known as the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, based in Crewe. Seven men and three women were taken into custody, according to a statement from the Cheshire Police, who said the investigation was initiated because of allegations made by a woman who was previously part of the group in 2023.
"Today's operation is the outcome of a detailed and robust investigation into reports of serious sexual offenses, forced marriage and modern slavery involving members of a religious group called Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light in Crewe.

"While those arrested are members of the group, I want to make clear that this is not an investigation into the religion, this is an investigation into the serious allegations which have been reported to us..."
The AROPL's is a religious movement founded in 2015 by Abdullah Hashem Aba Al-Sadiq (Egyptian-American raised Sunni Muslim). It draws heavily from Shia Islamic traditions. The group self-identifies with Islamic roots, uses Islamic terminology (referring to their leader as the Qaim/Mahdi appointed in relation to Prophet Muhammad), and maintains many Islamic practices.
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Western censorship wrecking global press freedom - RT at UNESCO event


RT
Tue, 05 May 2026 13:59 UTC
Speaker at UNESCO
© RTSpeaker at UNESCO
Western efforts to censor RT have nothing to do with alleged "disinformation" but are aimed at suppressing dissenting voices, Chief Producer Dmitry Leontiev has told delegates at a UNESCO summit marking World Press Freedom Day.

Leontiev made the remarks on Tuesday at a UNESCO conference titled 'Shaping a Future at Peace' in Lusaka, Zambia that brought together journalists, policymakers, and digital rights advocates.
"We were banned by all Western countries a few years ago. More than that, those Western governments coerced social media companies to ban us as well."
He noted that it was "even more alarming" that Western governments openly pressed African countries to follow suit while threatening to sanction them if they allowed RT content.
"The sanctions on RT were imposed under the guise of fighting disinformation and never included accusations that the network was saying anything false'. There are no false facts we are saying. We are stating information that the Western governments do not like, and they have enough power to sanction us."
Leontiev then posed the question to the floor: "How do we put these two concepts together - fighting disinformation and press freedom?"
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Welfare enrollment drops sharply after new federal work requirements come into force


American Greatness
Mon, 04 May 2026 19:42 UTC
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© AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh
Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has declined significantly since new federal work requirements took effect in mid-2025, with millions fewer Americans receiving benefits, according to newly reported federal data.

The number of people enrolled in SNAP has fallen by roughly 3.5 million since July 2025, dropping from an average of 42.1 million participants in the prior fiscal year to about 38.5 million as of January 2026, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal.

The decline follows the implementation of expanded eligibility rules included in the "One Big Beautiful Bill," signed into law by Donald Trump on July 4, 2025. The legislation broadened existing work requirements for able-bodied adults, mandating that individuals between the ages of 18 and 64 without young dependents participate in at least 80 hours per month of work, volunteering, or government-run programs.
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'My daughter had become the white doll of the blacks' - Teen French girls turned into prostitutes by grooming gangs


remix news
Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:27 UTC
Prostitutie_Paris
Underage girls working in prostitution is a growing crisis in France, and the victims are not always from poor broken families. In a new book, "Lost Hearts," it reveals a new crisis of teen prostitution from the small city of Angoulême in the Charente region, revealing the case of local children swept up in the horrifying world of sexual exploitation.

One 15-year-old girl, Léa, was forced into 10 to 12 sexual encounters per day while being kept under the heavy influence of cocaine.

Her mother paints a chilling picture, stating, "My daughter had become 'the white doll of the blacks of the Champ de Mars. She became their thing: they made her do anything and paid with drugs."

According to media outlet Charente Libre, the girl lived in a state of terror, "often with a weapon held to her head."

Comment: See also:

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Family

DOJ launches investigations into 36 Illinois school districts for secretly pushing transgender ideology and gender transitions on kids

Cassandra MacDonald
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 04 May 2026 13:00 UTC
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The Department of Justice has launched sweeping civil rights investigations into 36 Illinois public school districts accused of pushing transgender ideology on students from pre-K through 12th grade.

The federal probe, announced by the DOJ's Civil Rights Division on Thursday, is also looking into whether these districts are allowing biological males into girls' bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports teams, which would be a direct violation of Title IX and basic child safety.

The DOJ said it will be investigating whether the schools are promoting sexual orientation and gender ideology to students, and if they notified parents to allow them to opt out.

"The investigations will examine whether these Illinois School Districts, which are recipients of hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funding, are adhering to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Supreme Court's extensive precedents on parental rights as recently reiterated in Mirabelli v. Bonta and Mahmoud v. Taylor," the DOJ explained in a press release.

Comment: Authoritarian Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is an Epstein class political animal whose long list of egregious lies and destructive policies proceeds him:

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Arrow Up

Farm bill clears House as Congress sides with MAHA

Virginia Grace McKinnon
Daily Signal
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00 UTC
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna
© Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesRep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., speaks to reporters as she leaves the U.S. Capitol • Feb. 3, 2026
Congress secured major wins for the Make America Healthy Again movement, including striking pesticide liability shields and passing the 2026 Farm Bill.

States' and families' rights are protected, and pesticide companies can continue to be held liable for poisoning Americans. The Farm Bill passed the House on Thursday by a vote of 224-200.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., forced Congress to go on the record with a vote stripping the liability shield for pesticide companies accused of harming Americans. Her amendment passed with huge bipartisan support, receiving a vote of 280-142.

Celebrating the win, Luna said:
"I do not support giving blanket immunity to corporations at the expense of American families. Pesticides are linked to a 30% increase in childhood cancer, and over 170 studies corroborate the evidence. This amendment ensures we stand on the side of the American people and the health of our nation, not corporate interests."
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UK schools indoctrinate kids telling them 'there's plenty of room' for small boat migrants

Steve Watson
Modernity
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:53 UTC
migrants britain kids books indoctrination
© Modernity
Over 1,100 institutions have signed up to charity scheme promoting 'everybody's welcome' messaging

British kids as young as five are now being read picture books that paint small boat crossings in glowing terms and urge them to open the door to unlimited migration.

While record numbers of illegal arrivals strain housing, schools and public services, left-wing charities are using taxpayer-backed programmes to turn classrooms into recruitment centres for open borders ideology.

More than 1,100 schools and nurseries across the UK have signed up to the Schools of Sanctuary programme, run by the City of Sanctuary network. The scheme requires schools to complete a "rigorous" award process to prove they are "working collaboratively to strengthen community approaches to welcoming refugee children and families." Once awarded, they pay a minimum donation of £75 to £300.
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