The media promotes the far right and the SMER party. Where is the mistake and how to fix it? How Ján Budaj covers up the corruption of the SMER party. The double standards of the media

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• What this video will be about. The video is a reaction to the growing preferences for parties such as Republika, SMER, and Hlas. The video is specifically intended for journalists, editors-in-chief, and the general public. The video will be full of unpleasant truth – even unpleasant painful truth must be processed and we must learn from mistakes. I ask journalists not to take this video personally and to humbly accept criticism – do not become bitter. Journalists, whether through their stupidity, ignorance, or even under the influence of lobbying groups, do not realize that they are directly or indirectly advertising Republika and Smer.
• Here are some very important links that I ask you to look at: about corruption and other affairs of the Ministry of the Environment (hereinafter referred to as ME). Link 1 , Link 2. Without these links, you will not understand the meaning of the video.
• Most journalists are from the city, from Bratislava, and they don’t understand nature – journalists don’t understand people from the countryside who are connected to nature. This leads to misunderstandings. On the one hand, nature conservation is professionally very complex, and few people are willing to dedicate a lot of time to studying this topic. On the other hand, the editors-in-chief of all media should familiarize themselves with this complex topic, because otherwise, they might inadvertently promote the Republika and SMER parties. If editors-in-chief don’t keep their journalists in check and don’t ensure they don’t spread misinformation about nature conservation, people, out of frustration, will feel that no one has stood up for them (not even influential journalists), and out of frustration and defiance, they will vote for the far-right.
• It should be noted that people from the countryside, who are connected with nature, are a very important voter base that is overlooked by journalists and politicians, and that is a huge mistake.
• It should be noted that for people from the countryside, the topic of nature conservation is the alpha and omega of why people from the city do not have much understanding – according to the opinion of political parties on nature conservation, people from the countryside decide which political party they will vote for – unfortunately, many politicians from the so-called decent political parties make nature conservation policy based on misinformation and a misguided political ideology about nature conservation, which is contrary to both science and common sense.
• If editors-in-chief do not check some of the crazy journalists who spread disinformation on the topic of nature protection, a person from the countryside will form a bad opinion of the entire editorial office and will rather follow the so-called alternative media. It is a mistake to do anti-advertising for your own newspaper.
• How the media failed to inform about the so-called national park reform. The media was caught by the ministry’s good marketing, saying “we are going to do a reform”, “we are going to strengthen nature protection”, except that all experts were against it and experts in the media were given little space. Another mistake was that journalists took the ministry’s statements without balancing the ministry’s misinformation with experts. The truth died.
• Even if we considered the entire professional community to be “lobbyists”, then we could at least trust Budaj’s man, the director of the State Nature Protection (hereinafter referred to as ŠOP) Dušan Karasko, who said frankly that the reform of national parks is only about money, evidence here .
• From a marketing perspective, it sounds nice that more money for nature means stronger nature protection, but the reality is completely different. At the Ministry of Environment, EU funds are being stolen in an almost insane way – this is pointed out by the entire expert community. More money means more stealing, it does not mean that nature protection will be strengthened. Stealing money in nature protection is the most advantageous because it is outside the media’s attention – journalists do not understand the complex issues of nature protection, and there is also the possibility of doing so-called fictitious activities – it is difficult to check whether you are really working hard in nature and honestly monitoring and counting protected species or slacking off. Nature protection is a very difficult activity to control.
• Has corruption at the Ministry of Environment and the Nature Conservation Agency disappeared after the new government took office? Unfortunately, we have to accept an unpleasant truth in this area. On the contrary – corruption has never been as bold and conspicuous as it is under Budaj. The State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment, Michal Kiča, who worked for the environmental association BROZ, managed to pour 11 million euros into two projects for his friends from BROZ just a few months after taking office. If the dedicated volunteer anti-corruption activists had not spoken up and started protesting on social media, this generous payment of subsidies would not have stopped.
• The media’s beautiful double standards regarding their favorite and least favorite politicians. If a state secretary from the SME Rodina party had poured 11 million into his company, imagine the uproar in the media.
• The conflict of interest in the BROZ association is also directly through the person of Minister Ján Budaj. Ján Budaj founded the party “Change from Below”, which ran under the wings of OLANO. The ultimate beneficial owner and long-time vice-chairman of the BROZ association, Jaromír Šíbl, is also a member of the party and a member of parliament for the Change from Below party. This also shows the beautiful double standards of the media: what a noise there would be in the media if a minister from the Sme rodina party poured 11 million EUR into the company of his party’s MP. By the way, civic associations are advantageous for committing fraud – the list of members of the association (and perhaps even the statutes) are not publicly available, so investigative journalists do not have it easy.
• Ján Budaj is, on the surface, a very popular politician in terms of marketing. But even journalists must admit the unpleasant and painful truth about him: Ján Budaj is a scoundrel, and the media, if they were doing their job properly, should not leave a single thread dry on him.
• Why doesn’t Robert Fico campaign on this corruption of Ján Budaj? Good question! Right! Fico would be going against himself – after all, his Smer members built the corrupt schemes on which Ján Budaj is building. Jaromír Šíbl profits from Smer’s corrupt schemes – Šíbl is an infiltrated Smer member and a Trojan Smer horse in the OĽANO party.
• The media made a huge mistake by letting the far-right and Smer MP Richard Takáč steal the anti-corruption topics in nature protection. Kotleba’s followers and Smer members thus came across as bigger anti-corruption activists than the media and investigative journalists themselves, which is sad. Unfortunately, drawing attention to corruption in nature protection is the only topic in which the far-right is unfortunately right.
• Big warning!! The Ministry of Environment has a much bigger problem than corruption. Budaj has surrounded himself with absolutely marginal extremists and madmen in nature protection with really crazy views on nature protection. Extreme corruption and the control of the ministry by madmen is the most dangerous cocktail / combination in politics as we can imagine.
• Corruption scheme at the Ministry of Environment: an example with the capercaillie: first we scare the European Commission that the capercaillie is dying out and then our “environmental” civic association gets a half-million euro subsidy for an extremely dubious project.
• On the one hand, journalists criticize the “our people” system, but on the other hand, journalists themselves preach water and drink wine – they also have their own “our people” whom they cover up in all corruption scandals.
• The media’s cover-up of Budaj’s scandals is actually harming this government – if the media pushed for his dismissal and the ministry was cleaned up, the current government’s preferences would increase and those of the opposition parties would decrease.
• The Ministry of the Environment has been taken over by the dangerous psychopath Juraj Smatana https://www.mojevideo.sk/video/35236/ministerstvo_zp_ovladol_nebezpecny_psychopat_juraj_smatana.html
• If all ministries worked like the Ministry of the Environment, even banana republics would overtake us. The Ministry of the Environment operates in such a crazy way that it would be better if it were abolished.
• For God’s sake, what is the point of “reforming” national parks when the highest-ranking officials in the nature conservation section are incredibly stupid old ladies who can’t distinguish a fir from a spruce? I can show you evidence of how these old ladies communicate with the public. Can such an old lady even understand that some corrupt lobbying group is not making her sign a corrupt contract? Corrupt lobbying groups find it very convenient to have such stupid officials who don’t understand anything.
• Why has the entire professional community and people with ecological and forestry education so sharply and unanimously opposed the so-called reform of national parks? It’s not just about corruption. What does more money for national parks mean? More money for dubious, crazy pseudo-environmental associations. Give a lot of money to fools? That won’t end well. Give money to a fool and he will cause damage. Logically, experts are concerned.
• The big recipient of corrupt EU funds Michal Wiezik. … Proof that environmental activist Michal Wiezik is a psychopath https://www.mojevideo.sk/video/34e76/dokaz_ze_ekologicky_aktivista_michal_wiezik_je_psychopat.html … Michal Wiezik: planting trees is harmful to nature https://www.mojevideo.sk/video/35fa7/michal_wiezik_vysadzanie_stromcekov_je_pre_prirodu_skodlive.html

• How to explain in simple terms how it works at the Ministry of Environment so that even a person from Bratislava can understand it? Ján Budaj surrounded himself with 1% of marginal experts, whom the community of serious experts considers to be madmen. It’s similar to if Milan Mazurek became the Minister of Health and surrounded himself with the biggest madmen among experts – doctors who are the most ardent anti-vaxxers.
• A side note: Some journalists of Denník N behave like a fifth column / Trojan horse of the Smer party – the Roman Mikulec affair and the affair of the MPs’ vote on Robert Fico’s detention.
• Can this government be called anti-corruption? The Robert Fico detention affair is just a drop in the ocean compared to the Ministry of Environment affair. The scoundrel journalists are nicely diverting attention from the essence of the matter.
• A prime example of corruption at the Ministry of Agriculture: when the company Lomtec steals money from the Ministry of Agriculture, the police investigate it; if this company steals money from the Ministry of Environment, the current leadership of the Ministry of Environment covers it up and nothing is investigated. A prime example of how Budaj covers up Smer’s corrupt officials https://www.lesmedium.sk/aktualne/kauza-lomtec-com-a-strach-vlastnikov-lesov …………. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/824864/vacsinu-firmy-lomtec-obvinenej-z-korupcie-vlastni-sefka-statnej-nemocnice-ministerstvo-zdravotnictva-neodpoveda/
• The theft of EU funds as a criminal offense? It is quite possible that it would be very difficult to prove. Another level of the problem is that it is possible to steal legally in many EU fund projects because the system is set up that way. However, the media usually criticize politicians for embezzlement and conflicts of interest where there is no suspicion of a criminal offense – the Ministry of Environment is an exception – the Ministry of Environment is protected from criticism by the media.
• Being a journalist means having power. Journalists can influence the social situation. However, some journalists are corrupted by this power and do their job irresponsibly: they think they can do anything. Freedom of speech should not be abused for double standards. Journalists should not abuse the fact that they are not controlled by anyone (unlike politicians).
• It would be good if journalists checked each other. The establishment of a non-governmental organization to control the media, an organization that will monitor and alert journalists to disinformation.
• Marek Vagovič’s departure from Aktuality. The strange editor-in-chief Bárdy and the misappropriation of the newspaper’s anti-corruption direction. Bárdy did not fire the journalist who defended corruption in nature protection.
• Just as the newspaper Sme would never interview an extremist like Kotleba or Mazurek, they should not interview extremists like Michal Wiezik and the like. Madmen do not belong in the media.
• The strange behavior of some media towards Andrej Kiska in the tax fraud affair. The media are overly showing that he is their darling. If Kiska became a minister, he would certainly not steal less than the Smer party members, and the media would cover up his stealing just as they did for Budaj. We need to accept the unpleasant truth about Kiska too. Kiska knew that he was buying land from a person with a mafia background. … Kiska’s mafia background vs. Boris Kollár’s mafia background – the media’s double standards.
• The Kollár case regarding the accident vs. COVID hygiene measures in the hospital and visits – the media exaggerated. If it were Kiska, the media would be silent.
• PS party vs. Wiezik and Hojsík.
• Explanation of the media’s double standards in the national parks affair. Imagine if Bodor got into parliament as an MP for the Smer party. He would claim that SBSs would cease to exist if the law on SBSs was not reformed, why the main reform would be to strengthen subsidies for SBSs. Parallel Bodor – Šíbl. Parallel BROZ association – Bonul.
• Philosophical interlude: On the karma of this government – in the reform of national parks, they arrogantly went against nature, against experts, and against the public interest. Karma returned it to them in the case of Fico’s detention.
• Opposition parties, in principle, always listen more to the public than coalition parties. Power corrupts politicians. If Matovič were in opposition and Fico wanted exactly the same national park reform as Budaj’s, he would be the first to hold angry press conferences against Fico – in opposition, Matovič would certainly listen to experts.
• Solution proposals for editors-in-chief: a painful compromise: balance information and disinformation in the article fifty-fifty. In addition to the disinformation journalist, hire a serious journalist for the editorial office. Forbid the disinformation journalist from writing about nature conservation. Give notice.
• My negative experiences with the Stop Corruption Foundation. They refused to deal with corruption at the Ministry of Environment – in an email, they replied that they would not deal with the huge corruption at the Ministry of Environment – they did not give a reason. The scandals of this NGO in general. The Stop Corruption Foundation became famous for drawing anti-corruption information from unreliable sources such as the alcoholic Patrik Magdoško. They deal with small scandals, but ignore major corruption.
• It is suspected that superiors are asking employees of the Ministry of the Environment and the State Nature Protection to obtain compromising materials on anti-corruption activists.
• Mentioning specific corruption schemes that will be possible after the “reform” of national parks – embezzlement of EU funds – zoning, expansion of non-intervention. Dubious monitoring and falsified scientific research, such as good non-intervention.
• All fake environmental associations have never collected garbage in nature, never disposed of illegal landfills in nature, and never planted a tree.
• Pavol Majko is the long-time director of TANAP, who became famous for corruption and gives permits to all developers for unlimited construction. Ján Budaj stands by this Smer-nominated corrupt official and defends his corruption. He refuses to dismiss him. The media supports this corruption. When even the oligarch businessman Igor Rattaj is outraged by Pavol Majko’s corruption and neither the media nor Budaj care, that says a lot!!!! The reason Budaj doesn’t want to dismiss him is that it’s very difficult to find someone to replace Pavol Majko – it’s very difficult to find a person completely without moral principles who would willingly do such dirty work as he does https://www.mojevideo.sk/video/36221/podnikatel_igor_rattaj_v_ochrane_prirody_je_velka_korupcia.html

Notes that I didn’t mention in the video:
Why the media so fiercely covers up corruption and cases at the Ministry of the Environment is one of the biggest mysteries. From a psychological perspective, one of the reasons is that it is difficult for journalists to admit the unpleasant truth that the situation at the Ministry of the Environment is so catastrophic.