Video lecture: We live in a mediacracy. Behind-the-scenes media and political games that only secret services know about
Behind-the-scenes media and political games that only the secret services know about. Given that I have been in such intensive communication with the media, journalists, and politicians as only a few dozen people, it can be said without exaggeration that I have a similarly good overview as the secret services. We live in a mediacracy. The media has enormous power and performs even more mysterious activities and even more sophisticated behind-the-scenes games than politicians. How to correctly interpret the information we receive from the media? How does the media work with information?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIkgW2aE-ys
In the video, I also talk about what can lead the media to do propaganda. Possible interests of selected related oligarchs and their close political parties. The feeling of influence or power, both on the part of journalists and oligarchs who have influence over them.
On the one hand, the media constantly fueled and recycled the affair of Andrej Danko's traffic light car accident for three whole weeks, on the other hand, I sent the media 100 pages of extremely serious corruption affairs at Budaj's ministry, only about one percent of it was published in a small part of the media. Here we can really see the extremely contrasting double standard of the media. And we would find dozens of such examples.
The media is not about truth but about propaganda, power games, and manipulating public opinion.
Journalists also know very well that they are doing propaganda, they have come to terms with the fact that it is their dirty work, and only a small percentage of them do this propaganda out of conviction.
It remains a mystery that for the first three months of Budaj's rule, the media published a record number of cases, such as the Pavol Kalinský case, the Branislav Kaliský case, and the Vladimír Kollár case. Although the frequency of Budaj's cases and affairs never decreased, the media agreed after three months to change their strategy, deciding that from now on they would censor all of Budaj's cases.
Which government would be the lesser evil? The coalition or the opposition?
Given that Robert Fico is not fulfilling what he promised before the elections, that he is not pursuing a totally anti-Ukrainian policy in the EU, the current government can be considered a lesser evil. A positive aspect is that even the SNS party has not yet negotiated any negative outcomes in the area of cultural wars. The current government has significantly better results than we originally expected.On the contrary, a big negative surprise is the crazy frenzy of opposition politicians, from whom I would not have expected it.
I am a person who has unique information about the behind-the-scenes media and political games, and based on that, I can responsibly declare that every politician will steal only as much as the media allows them to. Current government politicians will certainly not have serious corruption scandals because of the critical media.
On the contrary, I would have huge concerns and fears about the PS party if it were in government. It would probably have the same effect as with Budaj. Hundreds of corruption and other scandals, but the media only published one percent of them. I am also very concerned that many ministers of the PS party would be the same corrupt and equally incompetent as Matúš Vallo. The media is silent, but at the Bratislava city hall, practically nothing else is done but stealing. The connection between the PS party and Matúš Vallo is very strong, he is de facto a member of the PS party and, for example, the PS financed his election campaigns. Many city hall employees, or many companies involved in corruption, are direct members of the PS party.
It could happen, and it would most likely turn out that way, that ministers from the PS party would steal hundreds of millions, but the media would pretend they saw nothing. Many people may find it hard to believe that the media could be such scoundrels, but I have extensive experience with journalists, I know what scoundrels they are, and I know they are capable of absolutely anything.
I see the biggest problem and negative aspect of this government as the fact that, as government politicians, they naturally have more space in the media, and thus more space to promote Russian propaganda narratives about the war in Ukraine, which could strengthen public opinion against Ukraine.
Robert Fico has the opportunity to improve his karma through this governance for what he has done in the past. For example, organizing anti-vaxxer rallies.
The biggest positive of the current government is, for the first time in history, the professional and competent leadership at the Ministry of the Environment. The State Secretary is, for the first time in history, a person not from Bratislava but from the region and the countryside. He meets high professional criteria and his goal is to remove eco-fascist fanaticism and insane corruption from nature protection. For someone hearing this for the first time, it is hard to believe that nature protection has turned into madness in recent years, that the more dead forests in national parks eaten by bark beetles, the better, and so on.
The most important reform that everyone will really feel is the reform of speeding up building permits and environmental impact assessment permits, which will really kick-start the economy. Few people know how it works today. As an independent analyst, I can confirm that the current EIA system is unbelievable psychiatry, that it is hard for a normal person to believe that it could work so absurdly in Slovakia.
Just as a side note, Budaj's state secretary Juraj Smatana is one of the most extreme ecological psychopath activists in Slovakia. A few years ago, for example, he fought against the construction of a highway near Považská Bystrica, and this lobbying was successful for him; they did not grant permission for the highway, his student told me. According to him, the highway was not sufficiently ecological, and it was too great an interference with the natural environment for him. Imagine when such a psychiatric marvel becomes a secretary and has direct influence over the EIA department of the ministry.
With all due respect to the current opposition, I am very skeptical that these parties would be capable of truly positive and noticeable reforms that everyone would actually feel. On the contrary, the PS party openly boasts that it would rather stifle the economy with excessive "ecology".
The abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office and the amendment to the Criminal Code are relatively small and insignificant changes. There is just a lot of media and political opposition propaganda making a lot of noise about it.
The case of the raped woman: crazy media and political propaganda. Irrational hysteria around the statute of limitations. The hypocrisy of the opposition.
On the one hand, the media and opposition politicians have every right to criticize this government, but on the other hand, the criticism should be factual and should at least make some sense. And that's where the problem lies.What both opposition politicians and some media are doing reminds us more of madness than rational criticism of the government.
Opposition politicians preach water and drink wine. And some of the affiliated media support them in this. There is a lot of evidence that the opposition and their affiliated media are not concerned about women but about political propaganda, so much so that it is embarrassing.
If the PS party were serious about women, they had the opportunity to submit an amendment to parliament. Instead , the female MPs mistook the PS party for the filing office and engaged in silly activism and theatrics in front of the media in front of the government office, which has nothing to do with it. While anyone of the 5 million citizens of the Slovak Republic can submit anything to the filing office of the government office, only MPs can submit an amendment. Why they did not use this high sovereign power remains a mystery. There are only two possibilities. Either they are extremely stupid in the PS party or they don't care about women at all. Or both.
Opposition politicians deserve much more criticism from the media than the current government. While the current government at least does what it says, the current opposition, on the contrary, says one thing and does another. Pharisees.
Hrabko described this issue in great detail on the TASR TV YouTube channel. It's a great pity that Juraj Hrabko is, as far as I know, the only analyst and journalist who had the balls and courage to name this problem.
https://youtu.be/5PU_odWId5Y?si=DtNStB5JpSIZfscZ
https://youtu.be/vgqmU9y2oLM?si=n53ZxdfIRlYDTe6m
Personally, I am very sorry that the opposition does not care about the raped women at all and these women were only used as hostages for disgusting political marketing.
Another problem with political-media propaganda is that if politicians and the media were really concerned about women, their work would have to look completely different. The issue of raped women is not only about statutes of limitations but also dozens of other factors such as the existence of specialized psychological counseling centers, police training for these cases, and so on. Neither the media nor opposition politicians are lobbying for the conditions for raped women to improve in other aspects. They are not at all concerned about women but only about disgusting political propaganda at all costs.
While some media and opposition parties realized that their propaganda was not working in connection with the amendment to the Criminal Code, they changed their strategy and their marketers tried to manipulate the public through emotions, through raped women. While yesterday the main topic was the reduction of penalties for corruption, today this topic has completely disappeared from the media space as if it no longer existed at all, and the only problem in the world for the media and opposition politicians are only raped women. A very strange contradiction. Clear evidence that neither the media nor opposition politicians care about the criminal code or women, but about a political power struggle. They are hypocrites who preach water and drink wine.
Raped women are not the only topic where the opposition has shown its hypocrisy and deceit. The government majority is very fragile. Two government MPs are in hospital, which makes the government majority even more fragile. Nevertheless, when several important laws were voted on, including the abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office and the amendment to the Criminal Code, approximately 30 to 40 percent of opposition MPs did not come to vote. With a full turnout, they could have made things unpleasantly complicated for the government majority. But it did not happen. The opposition preaches water and drinks wine. Voting on laws takes a short time and is not as interesting to the media as obstructions and comedies in parliament. I sincerely feel sorry for those poor people who were deceived and manipulated at rallies organized by opposition parties.
It is nice that MP Holečková for KDH claims that she is sorry for the victims of sexual violence. But I am afraid it will be hypocritical. She forgot to cry over the victims of sexual predators from the ranks of Catholic priests.
Holečková from KDH sheds tears because they adopted the amendment to the Labour Code
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-4xFJAmdQ-w
Let comrade Holečková show that she is serious about protecting women by publicly declaring that she is in favor of the so-called Istanbul Convention. The KDH, in fact, rejects the Istanbul Convention.
MP Holečková of KDH, with her frequent feminist speeches, is a tough competitor to the feminists from the PS party.
Old maid Holečková is 40 years old and still doesn't have a husband. For this reason, she is probably biased and has a complex about men, and she has prejudices against them. She is disappointed with men.
What completely finished me off was that the female MPs for KDH and OLANO united and agreed on feminist topics. My jaw dropped when I saw Holečková and Remišová at the PS party press conference. Remišová is an extremely unpleasant and extremely insecure person.
https://youtu.be/saJGGmn1Tj8?feature=shared&t=327
One problem is shortening the statute of limitations for rape; the other extreme was the bill by former minister Kolíková, which proposed the strictest definition of rape in the world, where even healthy voluntary sexual intercourse could be considered rape under certain circumstances. Non-verbal consent might not be considered consent. I am afraid that the PS party would like to recycle Kolíková's proposal. They have enough extremist feminists in the party.
Rational and reasonable considerations on the topic of rape were also given by MP Roman Michelko and MP Jana Vaľová
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4vOXFfVO2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4c1EE2tRLE
Amendment to the Criminal Code: The President turns to the Constitutional Court. The right step to de-escalate tensions in society and prevent parliamentary obstruction.
It is very positive that the President signed the law and submitted it to the Constitutional Court for assessment. The Constitutional Court judges would have to be complete fools to accept her objections. By vetoing the law, the President would cause further obstructions, comedies in parliament, which would only increase tension and division in society.Michelko's analysis
https://youtu.be/zsGAW-MdiWY?si=7kbA7Bhmk1mlNiFr
Hrabko's analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgqmU9y2oLM
Abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office vs. distracting media attention from essential matters. (Special Prosecutor's Office)
I have no direct evidence of this, but I have come up with a very plausible hypothesis that the role of some media and opposition politicians is to divert public attention from far more important things than the Criminal Code.The really substantial thing may be the abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office (ÚŠP). While the media constantly pushes the narrative that abolishing the ÚŠP would weaken the fight against organized crime, the real reason may be exactly the opposite. It's no secret that the prosecutors of the ÚŠP are very close to the current opposition parties. And I have great concerns that the current opposition politicians are not without guilt and also have a lot of corruption cases. The ÚŠP is tasked with dealing with all the biggest organized crime of politicians. Well, it is precisely the ÚŠP prosecutors who would be very useful in sweeping the cases of current opposition politicians under the rug and ensuring their impunity.
For example, we don't even have to mention Ján Budaj. The case of Matovič's Pavlík vs. Arca Capital. The case of the supplier of antigen tests, Eurolab Lambda as, also has close ties to Matovič. The Special Prosecutor's Office, together with Hamran, agreed to cover up the corruption crimes of Budaj and his people, and I already have direct evidence of this.
The fact that there was a list of people on both the black and white lists is Matovič's and Lipšic's case with Milan Fiľo from Ružomberok Cellulose. Some oligarchs were protected, others were persecuted for their frauds and crimes.
On the one hand, Matovič and the media criticized Dušan Kováčik for preventing the investigation of 60 cases, while on the other hand, Matovič and Lipšic did the same. Just as a side note, Lipšic was Fiľo's lawyer, so there was a clear conflict of interest.
Furthermore, you might say that the PS party has not yet been in government, has not had time to steal, and does not need to secure impunity in the Special Prosecutor's Office. The opposite is true; despite the fact that the PS has not yet been in government, it has already managed to commit a great many offenses. Dubious subsidies for Michal Wiezik's Aevis foundation from Budaj. Matúš Vallo's huge scandals also need to be covered up as much as possible. Leading members of the PS party are directly involved in some of Vallo's scandals. Furthermore, the PS party certainly plans to steal intensively in the future if they manage to get into government, and it is in their interest that no one disturbs them in their stealing, so that they have the certainty of impunity.
In conclusion: behind the noble media and political-opposition narratives, such as the PS party's higher noble goals for fighting corruption and for the purification of society, as they want to preserve the Special Prosecutor's Office, there may be completely different, far more pragmatic and self-serving interests to secure impunity for "our people".
Rudolf Huliak's Facebook page with more than 60,000 followers was deleted.
First, it will be mass reporting. It is typical for political parties to have not only their own trolls and paid debaters, but these same people may also be tasked with mass reporting. I would first guess it's the PS party.My opinion is that this is the wrong decision on the part of Facebook, and we should respect freedom of speech, even though I also disagree with many things this far-right politician says. It would be more rational to delete the FB pages of some alternative media than Huliak's.
According to available information, Facebook deleted Huliak's account because he spread the misinformation that the Etna volcano releases more CO2 into the atmosphere than human activity. Although this is misinformation, it is not misinformation that would lead to incitement of hatred, and there is no social or moral damage that this misinformation could cause.
Unfortunately, the Facebook system is too vulnerable to mass reporting. Once someone starts mass reporting any page, you have no chance to defend yourself, no matter what the page is, and it doesn't even have to be a far-right politician's page. For example, my FB profile was deleted this way due to mass reporting, and I don't even know the reason. I paid the price for anti-corruption activism, and corrupt groups have enough money to pay trolls to report.
I also reject the hoaxes of alternative media, who claim that the deletion of Huliak's page is related to his visit to Canada and the USA. These are absurd lies and conspiracies.
Until recently, hate was an attribute mainly of alternative media fans in discussions, but lately I have noticed a significant change, that a lot of hate also appears from the opposite camp, for example on Huliak's FB profile from the fans of the PS party. This is due to the fact that even politicians of the PS party forget about decent communication and themselves incite hatred towards their ideological opponents.
Slovak Facebook will be dominated by demagog.sk
Slovak Facebook and Instagram are facing a huge change. The goal is to completely eliminate disinformation and lies. Source: https://tvnoviny.sk/domace/clanok/881989-slovensky-facebook-a-instagram-caka-obrovska-zmena-cielom-je-aby-uplne-zmizli-dezinformacie-i-klamstvaRelated links: Link1 , link2 , link3 .
Furthermore, I absolutely disagree with the cooperation between Facebook and the Demagog.sk portal. I was terrified by the content shared on the Demagog.sk portal. The entire site doesn't even try to pretend to be objective; it's just one-sided criticism of current government politicians, with no criticism of opposition politicians. To be honest, the demagog.sk portal is more like the press department of the PS party. They don't even try to pretend to be apolitical or non-partisan. And I could find a lot of demagoguery and hoaxes from politicians from the PS party, but those are missing from this portal.
I would be pleased if the demagog.sk portal dealt exclusively with the censorship of apolitical content, Russian propaganda, and hateful content. Unfortunately, if you look at their website, it looks more like the press department of the PS party.
A similar failure to demagog.sk is also on the manipulatori.cz portal, where I have also noticed several times that true information has been labeled as a hoax .
A similar blunder was made by the Hoaxes and Scams – Police of the Slovak Republic page, when the page itself, which is against hoaxes, shared true information about bears as a hoax. The page administrator, David Púchovský, apparently carelessly adopted the hoax from Michal Wiezik.
Opposition parties are asking the European Commission to block EU funds
Such a step can be considered total delusion and madness, because the opposition is sawing off the branch it is sitting on. If, God forbid, such malicious and subversive activity were to succeed, then not only coalition but also opposition regional politicians would pay the price, such as the Trnava Self-Governing Region, whose chairman is Jozef Viskupič, the Prešov Self-Governing Region, whose chairman is Milan Majerský, and the Žilina Self-Governing Region, whose chairwoman is Erika Jurinová.Not to mention that if the EU blocked the EU funds and the PS party subsequently came to power, it could take the EU another two years for the European Commission officials to get moving again and release the EU funds.
I am afraid that the misguided and deceived participants of the opposition party rallies are not aware of these facts.
The media polarizes and divides society. This can cause similar moods in interpersonal relationships as during COVID.
The media and opposition parties are polarizing society.My opinion is that I am neither on the side of the opposition nor the coalition. Although the current propaganda of both mainstream and alternative media leads people to join one side or the other. Whoever joins one side becomes a victim of the matrix and has not passed these tests.
What I regret is that the media, together with the opposition parties, are creating a division in society, whether through parliamentary obstructions based on lies and hate. Although opposition political parties have a legitimate right to organize rallies and demonstrations, in practice, the demonstrations are based only on the greatest possible hate, demagoguery, and often disinformation, in order to achieve the greatest possible polarization of society.
Society is so divided into supporters of the coalition and the opposition that it is starting to remind us of similar moods as during COVID, when people were divided into camps for and against vaccination, arguing to the death. The media is also radically adding fuel to the fire.
These moods are beginning to spread from politics and the media to the whole of society.
Not only politicians but also alternative and mainstream media contribute to the enormous polarization, labeling opinion or political opponents as absolute pure evil and their own opinion camp as uncritical and flawless. This propaganda of black-and-white worldviews from both opinion camps is very dangerous. Society is unnecessarily artificially divided. The truth is that no political party and no politician is black and white. Every political party has its positives and negatives, every politician has their positive and negative qualities.
Media propaganda is becoming more and more primitive.
Media propaganda is becoming more and more primitive, so much so that they don't even try to hide it anymore. More and more people are starting to notice that Aktuality, SME, and Denník N are doing really hard propaganda. People disgusted by the propaganda of these newspapers can go to alternative media, which is also not a victory. These newspapers should also realize and have self-reflection that overly aggressive propaganda can turn against them. But I don't see this self-reflection.Propaganda surrounding the amendment to the Criminal Code and the abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office
These are relatively small changes, but the media is making a huge hysteria out of it. I am a person who is personally against propaganda and I have not fallen for the game of politicians or the media, who are making a hysteria out of this topic. Personally, I am neither for nor against both amendments. Both amendments have their positives and negatives. I look at it neutrally.Perhaps the most common hoax by journalists on this topic is that all experts are clearly against both amendments. The hoax was spread by Braňo Závodský, Kovačič-Hanzelová, and many others.
It is true that some journalists do everything they can to find even that minority of experts who confirm their narratives, try to highlight them and interview them, which may give the impression that the expert community is divided fifty-fifty, and even this is twisted by over-motivated journalists to mean that it is the majority.
The part of experts who have a strong political background, such as Lucia Žitňanská, Ján Mazák, a lawyer who was Kolíková's former secretary, are strongly against the amendments.
Furthermore, the media often twists and misinterprets the words of former Minister Karas, claiming that he is clearly against it, even though he has always expressed himself more or less neutrally and very differently from the narratives of some media and the opposition.
The Council of Prosecutors, a non-political professional body, was against the amendments in a close vote of five to four, and there are indications and suspicions that the Chairman of the Council of Prosecutors has certain ties to Lipšic.
From the apolitical public, practically the entire professional community and the Judicial Council expressed their support for both amendments; videos of interviews with several apolitical members of the Judicial Council can also be found individually.
Almost the entire Faculty of Law is also in favor of the amendments. Dean Burda claims to have very good support from his colleagues. Dean Burda cannot be considered biased either, because he originally supported Lipšic, but changed his mind after his failures.
Furthermore, the Bar Association expressed very critical views on the work of the Čurilla team.
The apolitical and highly relevant lawyer Martin Ribár also spoke in favor of the amendments. Many interviews and videos with him can be found. Ribár was even supported by Denník N back in 2019 in the "fight" against the Čurillovci, but later in 2020, Denník N reversed its stance and the criticized Čurillovci became the supported ones.
The apolitical investigator and current lawyer Peter Vačok also expressed criticism of the Čurillovci.
Politicians and the media are extremely untrustworthy. I have had bad experiences with both. The only thing we can rely on is the professional community, and it is not as divided and horrified as the politicians.
In conclusion . The amendments have flaws, they are not perfect, but there is certainly no reason for the panic that the media and opposition politicians are leaving us with. The amendments are a neutral matter, they are neither positive nor negative.
Tomáš Hellebrandt: MP for Progressive Slovakia vs. the AIDS case
I consider the Progressive Slovakia party to be fools who can't even count two plus two. PS claims they knew about Hellebrandt's diagnosis a long time ago. They should have known a long time ago that such information could become public and be used in a political fight. Hellebrandt should have been in the last places on the party's candidate list so that he would not become a member of parliament. Going into high politics with such a profile was a mistake.I'm afraid that the PS party, with the kind of stupidity they've shown, is not ready to govern.
Given that, although I am not a doctor, I have a general overview of medicine, I concluded that the infectious disease described by Hellebrandt corresponds to AIDS.
Later, this information was spread, albeit very subtly, by a mainstream newspaper, StartItUp , and Robert Fico and alternative media spoke about it openly.
Some media and supporters of the PS party said that Hellebrandt is a virtuous man for resigning over the mistake, and that the PS party brings a new political culture. The opposite is true, Hellebrandt's resignation is not suffering but salvation. If he had remained in parliament, it would have been unsustainable because political opponents would have mocked him for AIDS.
Another problem is the double standards of the media. While the media covered Andrej Danko's accident for three weeks, they completely ignored the Hellebrandt affair.
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HRABKO: The fight for the future of the Special Prosecutor's Office is over, R. Fico won it https://youtu.be/Z1hRHLjtVn4?si=o_Kqp1aJELL2r7Pz