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In this video / article, we will discuss in detail how Ján Budaj compromised himself. I will point out several facts and connections that others may not have noticed.
The whole of Slovakia is absolutely shocked and shaken. In the public space, it has been revealed and shown that Ján Budaj is a characterless liar and schemer. At his press conference, where he explained his cooperation with the ŠtB, he got so entangled in crazy lies that no sane person would have believed him. The public was in absolute shock at how it was possible that the supposedly best Minister of the Environment and one of the supposedly most capable politicians turned out to be one of the biggest scoundrels and liars in Slovak politics.
Everyone was in absolute shock, except for us ecology experts, or rather, our expert community in the field of ecology and nature conservation. We have had the same opinion of Budaj since the first months of his ministerial term. The media has enormous power comparable to politicians. The media insidiously manipulates collective consciousness and public opinion. That is why we, nature conservationists, our community, are very grateful that the media has finally changed at least a little and stopped censoring Ján Budaj’s outrageous scandals, at least regarding his cooperation with the ŠtB. During Budaj’s tenure, the media and journalists created a completely different Ján Budaj than he actually was. The media’s Ján Budaj and the real Ján Budaj were two very different people until today, when even journalists said that the lies about Budaj were unsustainable. The insidious manipulation of the media also lies in the fact that, regarding statements about Budaj, they gave space only to a small minority, about one percent of our expert community, scoundrels and traitors like My sme les, Michal Wiezik, and similar fools and left-wing extremists who are only interested in embezzling EU funds for fake nature protection. I consider it absolutely insidious that the media presents one percent of half-wits from our community as if they represented the entire nature conservation. (I mean the fake conservationists who supported Ján Budaj’s policies). It is just as insidious as publishing only the opinions of anti-vaxxer doctors and presenting it as the majority opinion of doctors.
And unfortunately, the media came to its senses too late when it came to Budaj, because he managed to cause such enormous damage that nature and Slovakia will be recovering from for decades.
But I got a little carried away. Now back to the core of the matter. We will discuss in more detail Ján Budaj’s lies about his cooperation with the ŠtB. I will list at least his biggest lies.
The media was the first to publish this information. All credit to the fact that there are also honest journalists. Later, Czech historian Prokop Tomek, who discovered Budaj’s documents, made a very interesting statement about Budaj on TA3, but on TA3 he tried to downplay the significance of Budaj’s cooperation with the ŠtB. It’s hard to say why this happened. There are two possibilities. Either his interview was deliberately edited by TA3 employees, or Prokop Tomek was blackmailed and intimidated by RTVS. Prokop Tomek most likely has a contractual employment relationship with RTVS, and his financial income is also dependent on RTVS. Well, as is publicly known, the director of RTVS, Ľuboš Machaj, is a close friend of Ján Budaj, and they had a joint company. Budaj later transferred his share to his son.
The materials about Ján Budaj were also published on the Facebook page of the Nation’s Memory Institute. On the Facebook page, I published information about Ján Budaj, stating that he had not changed for the better since his collaboration with the ŠtB, and I revealed his corruption scandals. Given that the media deliberately and maliciously manipulated public opinion and censored dozens of his scandals, creating a completely different media image of Budaj than he actually was, the reactions to my comments were very aggressive and hateful. For example, I was labeled a paid troll or a voter for Smer and Republika. Of course, these hateful comments suddenly stopped completely after RTVS published a shocking documentary about Budaj and after Budaj himself compromised himself at a press conference with desperate statements. People woke up.
Later, Peter Zajac commented on the TA3 show, saying that while it is nice that the StB ended its cooperation with Budaj due to the unreliability of his informing, we do not know if this was not the case only in the last months of their cooperation. Zajac admits the possibility that Budaj could have been a reliable informant for a certain period.
A huge shock occurred after RTVS published a documentary about Ján Budaj’s collaboration with the ŠtB. Of course, the documentary was not objective because of Ľuboš Machaj, but it was biased in favor of Ján Budaj. However, it is still a great miracle that Machaj gave at least partial freedom to his subordinates, and the broadcast also contained enough objective criticism of Ján Budaj. They included an emotional statement from Martin Šimečka, who claims he feels deceived and betrayed by Budaj for concealing such an important matter as collaboration with the ŠtB. RTVS employees presented newly discovered documents to a visibly unprepared Budaj. Budaj no longer had time for a consultation with marketers, as he did at other press conferences. Shocked, trembling, and stressed, Budaj could do nothing but desperately invent a pathetic lie at the last minute, claiming he signed the collaboration agreement to obtain a passport. Later, he had to repeat this crazy lie at the press conference because it was too late to invent a new version. But at the press conference, he got too entangled in his lies, and that backfired on him.
Why is Budaj’s version of obtaining a passport a stupid lie? Only a weak-minded person could fall for Budaj’s insane version that the StB and the entire communist regime were naive fools who would have been willing to give him a passport after he tried to flee abroad. Not to mention that it would have been much easier for him to get a passport at an embassy in one of the Western states.
But to get back to the RTVS document about the StB, I consider the most manipulative part of the show to be the introduction, where the presenter, who is supposed to be unbiased, presents Ján Budaj’s conspiracy theory as a fact, which only he claims and no one else, that the lustration was abused to compromise many people, and Budaj in particular. In this part, the intervention of Ľuboš Machaj, who helped his friend Budaj, is clearly visible. From the very beginning, I was extremely concerned about the election of Ľuboš Machaj as the director of RTVS because of his ties to Budaj, and my fears have been confirmed.
And the best climax was yet to come at Budaj’s press conference. I would call this Budaj’s press conference a self-compromising press conference. The press conference exuded utter despair. He got so entangled in his lies that Budaj himself stopped understanding them. No one who is even slightly sane would have believed the crazy lies Budaj told there. To make excuses that he signed a collaboration with the ŠtB, that he didn’t want to shoot at a ŠtB agent with a firearm in hand at the border, that was a good joke that I laughed at for a very long time. He couldn’t have come up with a less logical piece of madness.
Furthermore, Budaj did not explain how it was possible that, given he had invested so much energy in obtaining a passport, he ultimately did not attempt to emigrate.
Furthermore, Budaj could not say whether his manuscript, which was found in the Czech archive, was really his. If Budaj had a clear conscience and did not lie, he would have said frankly whether it was his manuscript or not.
And what completely finished me off was Budaj’s total despair when he declared that he would sue the Nation’s Memory Institute (ÚPN) in a similar way to Babiš. By the way, study Babiš’s lawsuit with the ÚPN in great detail. Budaj argued in many ways similarly to Babiš. Budaj claims that he wants to be erased from the ÚPN as a secret service agent because, according to him, under the laws of the time, the StB agents registered him illegally within the framework of the then communist laws.
Budaj’s frequent digressions from the topic at the press conference also need no comment and do not seem credible.
And what I enjoyed the most was how Budaj ran away from the journalists at the press conference. A certain journalist complained that she had several questions for Budaj, that 7 minutes for questions was very little. Budaj said, “No problem, we can have an hour of questions.” In the end, Budaj subtly said the word “thank you” and fled the press conference without saying goodbye. Budaj lied, and within seconds he broke his promise. He didn’t keep his promise even for a few seconds.
With this deception, Budaj surprised many journalists and the lay public when he revealed his true face, but our expert community of nature conservation is not surprised at all. He aggressively lied about nature conservation in most press conferences and other media statements. Ján Budaj was always like that during his time as minister.
Another crazy statement by Ján Budaj was on TA3. It is interesting that the “Mečiarist” Budaj expressed himself on the topic of lustration very similarly to how Mečiar expressed himself in the last documentary of the series about the ŠtB on RTVS. It is not for nothing that Budaj and Mečiar have a lot in common and the same moral character.
Furthermore, in the TA3 program, Budaj behaves like a madman, exactly as our expert community knows him from his time as a minister, such as his aggressive attacks on the expert community and all people who have a different opinion. Budaj aggressively attacked Fedor Gál and Peter Zajac, invented a crazy conspiracy, and accused them of conspiring against him, of politically destroying him, and of misusing compromising materials from the ŠtB archives against him. Budaj is a dangerous madman who should never have become a minister. He caused enormous damage, and the only thing he was good at was manipulation and marketing.
A certain opposition MP who is involved in ecology made a very interesting statement about Budaj. I will not name the MP. Many months ago, he said in a video that he had heard a rumour about Budaj, that the reason why he wants huge harmful legislative changes in national parks at all costs, even over dead bodies, against the will and great resistance of the entire professional community, which has stood against him, is that Budaj is very ambitious, wants to make his mark in history and believes that one day his statue will stand in front of the TANAP headquarters as a great “hero”. We can mock opposition MPs for being liars, but in this particular matter, I think he was right. Budaj, in his ambition and unhealthy ego, in his unhealthy self-confidence, did not fully realise that the only ones who support his policy are a small and minority part of the professional community, such as the embezzlers of EU funds whom he allowed to steal, and far-left extremists. These fools will worship Budaj as their hero, but the majority of the professional community has a strongly negative opinion of Budaj.
Furthermore, this rumor is also confirmed by a TV JOJ interview with Gabriel Levický, whom Budaj was supposed to have reported on. Levický confirmed that he could imagine Budaj cooperating with the ŠtB, which is clear evidence that Levický does not consider Budaj a person with moral ethical principles. Furthermore, Levický claims that he knows Budaj as unhealthily ambitious, which independently coincides with the story of the opposition MP.
How did the media that most aggressively defended the policy of the unprincipled Ján Budaj fare?
As I have already mentioned in other videos and on the website, Aktuality.sk had a huge scandal where they accepted a bribe from the embezzlers of EU funds, the BROZ association, which was pulling strings with Budaj. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that Aktuality.sk would stoop to such extreme madness. It is a huge spit in the face of the memory of Ján Kuciak. One cannot imagine anything crazier than an investigative newspaper that writes articles against the theft of EU funds, itself accepting a bribe from stolen EU funds. The fact that Aktuality.sk actually received the money was confirmed to me by a certain employee of Aktuality, whom I thank for the information. It is a similarly crazy scandal as if a Catholic priest who gives fervent sermons against gays was caught himself having homosexual intercourse with a man. Aktuality.sk preaches water and drinks wine. And the comparison I used is extremely apt.
Journalist and known disinformation agent Soňa Mäkká received a pre-litigation notice from anti-corruption activist Jozef Bednár from Denník N because she too aggressively defended the criminal Pavol Majko, head of TANAP, and used too much disinformation. Mäkká has no chance of winning the lawsuit. I don’t know how it ended up. It is crucial how the editor-in-chief will handle this affair and whether he will learn from his mistakes and ensure that corrupt individuals do not bribe his journalists.
Find out more in other articles and videos.
Now I will write something about myself.
I am a spiritually oriented person who more often remains in meditation in altered states of consciousness. I have always seen two steps ahead. When I founded the YouTube channel, I criticized the media for not fighting against Russian propaganda. It took a while for me to be understood by a part of society. Since 2016, my YouTube channel has inspired the first journalists and NGOs, who only came to their senses after about 3 years to start addressing the first disinformation. Both journalists know who they are.
Later, I started to focus on fighting corruption and disinformation in the field of nature protection. I also criticized journalists. And I had visions that journalists would come to their senses just before the end of Budaj’s term, but it would be too late. He managed to do a lot of damage. I had such visions in the past that it would happen, and it did.
A final note.
I am not an official representative of the professional community on the topic of nature conservation and ecology, but I am a person who has close contacts with experts and the professional public, and I have been dealing with the topic of fighting corruption in nature conservation for a long time. If necessary, any journalist can contact me, and I can provide contacts for experts who are proponents of the majority opinion on the topic of nature conservation. It is reprehensible on the part of the majority of the media that they give the majority of space to marginal pseudo-experts, disinformation agents, and corrupt individuals in the topic of nature conservation.
Links, sources of information
He should resign, Pčolinský reacted to Budaj’s signature for cooperation with the ŠtB. Matovič sends him to the journalists https://www.ta3.com/clanok/257845/mal-by-odstupit-reagoval-na-budajov-podpis-k-spolupraci-s-stb-pcolinsky-matovic-ho-posiela-pred-novinarov
Was Ján Budaj an StB agent? / Politics after the collapse of the coalition https://www.ta3.com/relacia/27372/bol-jan-budaj-estebak-politika-po-rozpade-koalicie
PHOTO: The Nation’s Memory Institute reacted to Budaj’s cooperation with the State Security
https://www.ta3.com/clanok/257866/foto-na-budajovu-spolupracu-so-statnou-bezpecnostou-reagoval-ustav-pamati-naroda
According to Zajac, Dubček and Mikloško saw Budaj’s file. The StB was cheating, claims Miklovič https://www.ta3.com/clanok/257883/dubcek-a-miklosko-poda-zajaca-videli-budajov-spis-stb-podvadzal-tvrdi-miklovic/2
https://www.ta3.com/clanok/257883/dubcek-a-miklosko-poda-zajaca-videli-budajov-spis-stb-podvadzal-tvrdi-miklovic/
Historian who found Budaj’s file: It does not imply that he was an active collaborator https://www.ta3.com/clanok/257862/historik-ktory-nasiel-budajov-spis-nevyplyva-z-neho-ze-by-bol-aktivnym-spolupracovnikom
The opposition demands Budaj’s resignation from the post of minister: If he reported on someone, he has no place in politics, Koziak responds https://plus.noviny.sk/745903-opozicia-pozaduje-odchod-budaja-z-postu-ministra-ak-na-niekoho-donasal-v-politike-nema-co-robit-reaguje-koziak
Fedor Gál is a sharp critic of Budaj. He considers him a scoundrel. Concealed guilt or double standards of Ján Budaj? Fedor Gál.
https://www.fedorgal.cz/blog/index.php?itemid=1129
https://dennikn.sk/3217350/zamlcana-vina-alebo-dvojaka-moralka-jana-budaja/?ref=inm
Budaj’s file and the question of guilt. Martin M. Šimečka. https://dennikn.sk/3218177/budajov-spis-a-otazka-viny/?ref=inc
Press conference
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=external&v=691197002481826
Denník N. Minúta
https://dennikn.sk/minuta/3221050/
SaS got Matovič out of the government. What’s next? / A lie for the freedom of Ján Budaj https://www.ta3.com/relacia/27384/sas-dostala-matovica-z-vlady-co-dalej-klamstvo-za-slobodu-jana-budaja
StB: TOP SECRET https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/19315#1570
The director of the Archive of the Nation’s Memory Institute, Peter Mikle, questioned the main point of Ján Budaj’s defense, Budaj’s insane lies, that the StB invented that he cooperated with them and that the StB falsified all the documents. Interview :24 Thursday 2.02.2023 17:30 https://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/archiv/19412/384014
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Andrej Kiska and Ján Budaj have a lot in common in how the media treated them.
Andrej Kiska and Ján Budaj have in common that although they are both spineless scoundrels, they are media darlings, and the media covers up all their scandals.Journalist Miro Kern went so far as to downplay Andrej Kiska’s tax fraud to such an extent that he made him a martyr, and if the darling Kiska commits tax fraud, it’s almost ceasing to be a crime. If I were the editor-in-chief, director, or owner of Denník N, I would not allow any journalist to damage the reputation of my newspaper by downplaying the seriousness of criminal offenses, as if tax fraud were slowly ceasing to be a crime. Well, if some media outlets want to compromise themselves in this way, then so be it. It bordered on open approval of a criminal offense.
Also, during the pre-election campaign, a compromising video was released about Andrej Kiska, where Kiska himself admitted that he had bought a plot of land for cheap money, knowing it was stolen, and from an untrustworthy person with a mafia reputation. Yes, the video was part of the pre-election struggle, but it was true. Nevertheless, many media outlets continued to refer to Kiska as an honest and good politician and pretended to have quickly forgotten about this case.
It’s a great stroke of luck that Kiska voluntarily withdrew from politics for health reasons. Otherwise , if he had become a minister, he would certainly have stolen as much or more than the average Smer minister, and I can imagine that the media would have covered it up and censored it similarly to Budaj, and most likely the media would have behaved the same way . Kiska could have afforded to steal five times more than the average Smer minister, and the media would still have supported all his corruption.
I also prefer not to comment on Kiska’s unethical business practices, which have resulted in many foreclosures.
Someone might say that Andrej Kiska is a good person after all, because he is a great philanthropist with a big heart. This is misinformation and it is not true. Kiska does not donate any money to charity, but he only founded the Good Angel platform, through which other people can support disabled children. Founding a website through which people can financially support disabled children is not such a great act of charity that would even partially compensate for Kiska’s bad karma.
Comparison of Andrej Kiska and Boris Kollár. Both “mafiosi”
I’ve already strayed from the topic, but it’s an interesting one. There’s a rumor that Boris Kollár had some business relations with mobsters. But how is Andrej Kiska any better, who bought a plot of land from a person with a mobster reputation, knowing it was stolen? Also, it’s not known that Boris Kollár’s business dealings were unethical, which cannot be said about Kiska.I don’t want to defend Boris Kollár in any way, but the media’s approach to Kiska and Kollár was diametrically different, for example, the lynching of Kollár for his visits to the hospital and the like.
About media corruption schemes
It’s interesting why the mainstream media is afraid to say out loud that alternative media are paid by the Russian embassy. They are afraid to say it because they do the same thing themselves. Maybe they don’t have funding sources from such dark sources as the Russian embassy, but the media won’t admit that they also serve a group of certain oligarchs. In the case of media belonging to Penta, it is the most transparent because we know about which topics these media will probably not be objective, but in the case of other media, it may be about far more hidden oligarchs and business groups that pull the strings with the media in a far more sophisticated way.The fact that the affair even got through to Ján Budaj is a minor miracle, which had to be approved by the very same oligarchs who had previously ordered all of Budaj’s affairs to be censored. And it’s very interesting how the media criticized Budaj not for corruption but for cooperation with the ŠtB. That’s probably no coincidence. If they criticized Budaj for corruption, the entire corruption scheme in nature protection would be jeopardized. Although the thieves cooperated very well with Budaj, these thieves are also realists, and they know that Budaj no longer has a political future due to health reasons and old age. Corrupt individuals are not so bothered if the media criticizes Budaj for the ŠtB, because it does not threaten them personally.
Also, a very high-quality article was published by the deputy editor-in-chief of the SME daily on the topic of bear numbers, where the journalist expressed strong criticism of the fact that, according to Budaj’s ministry, the number of bears is decreasing. The journalist mentioned everything there, but forgot to mention the most important thing: that the money for counting bears was stolen and that it is a super corrupt business. Given the quality of the article, the journalist must have studied the issue for several tens of hours, so he must have come across information that money was being stolen, but he mysteriously avoided mentioning it in the article. It seems to me as if the corrupt groups that pull the strings with the media are still somehow barely tolerating Budaj being criticized, but they are not allowed to mention the word corruption in the environmental ministry.
SITA Agency, Webnoviny
Some editors-in-chief may make excuses that they are just musicians, they cannot prevent disinformation about nature protection because they do not have journalists who would honestly and transparently deal with this topic. Even such an excuse cannot be valid, because the SITA Agency or Webnoviny are the only honest media outlets where editors have freedom in the field of nature protection, and it is the only medium that makes sense for the regions and, in addition to Budaj’s disinformation agents and corrupt individuals, also gives space to independent and free experts, who are the majority in the professional community.The SITA agency is designed for its articles to be taken over by other media, so for a low fee, any media can copy the article. Unfortunately, the sad thing is that the SITA agency itself does not have high viewership, it does not have a great influence on public opinion, and other media take over their articles sporadically, unlike TASR.
Even though Budaj is leaving the ministry, this information is still relevant in the long term, and I publicly call on the editors-in-chief to act according to the advice given, if their oligarchs allow them to do so at least a little. It is not a given that Budaj’s successor will be an honest and anti-corruption minister, and the problems may be similar.