Hello everyone
Hello everyone. Don't fall for the phony war between Patrick Odon, the Minister of Communications and Orte. A couple of days ago, it was announced in the budget that RTE would receive 240 million next year. Ana astounding amount when you consider the absolute propaganda that's been pushed forward by RTA, but not really surprising. But this is 20 million euro less than what they expected. Last year there was an announcement by the government that they would award 725.
Million euro nearly 34 of a billion euro to RTE over the next three years. Remember RTE as I said is the propaganda arm of the Irish state pushing the establishment's narrative at every turn. And yet at the same time we've seen the scandals hit RTE over the last number of years in terms of the Royy's expenses and we can go further in terms of the flip-flops and the really flagrant misuse of public wealth by many of their.
Top executives. Remember when the former director general D Forbes was unable to attend any doll committee hearings? Surprising. But I've said at the same time in the last couple of years that RTE should be under the remit of the controller and auditor general. Now this legislation still hasn't been passed. Is this really surprising in Ireland so much for accountability. This is only a word that exists in the dictionaries in Ireland doesn't exist in political or media life. Now, this is a complete and.
Utter phony war, trying to pretend that they're at each other's throats rather than being part of the same corrupt and crony establishment. So much for being a public service broadcaster. And it's funny because much of the opposition also in the last number of days have been rounding up and supporting RTE and saying they should be getting more fun because truth matters, trust in our media matters, and we cannot leave it all to social media. Well, this is.
Interesting, isn't it? This comes at the same time where we see less balance, less facts being pushed forward by RTE. As I said, they're just propagate and well paid to boot for pushing the every establishment position. So much for questioning any of these politicians on their decisions or really holding them to account for any of their decisions. That's what a public service broadcaster should do, but they don't. And that's why so many people have turned to various other forms of media.
Which are now under serious attack because many are
Which are now under serious attack because many are telling the truth to what's going on. So much for inquiring or investigating the causes of mass immigration for instance. Perhaps they won't even question the neoliberal policies of the European Union or the massive creep towards totalitarianism with digital ID or the digital euro. No, it's all for our safety, our values, our protection. This is what it's all about, isn't it? And not to mention the corporate climate agenda pushing towards.
The net zero madness that we see hitting people on top of the culture wars. At the same time, we see more and more people turning away from many so-called public service broadcasters right across Europe because we've seen many of these executives play hard and loose with so much of our public money. Remember when the RT executives hired a VIP bus, very important person's bus to go from a restaurant in Randra all the way to Crow Park, long distance where you couldn't.
Walk, but they needed a luxury coach to drop them up to watch you two in concert at Crow Park. Just one example of the absolute disdain they have for ordinary working people. This is the same time when less and less people are paying license fees as well. But yet many have got jailed for refusing to pay a license fee for RTE. Interesting, isn't it? This is the way it works, isn't it? Many of those in the top brass in RTE haven't.
“But yet many have got jailed for refusing to pay a license fee for RTE”
Been held to account, but yet ordinary people are the ones who are held to account. And this comes at the same time when there's no overarching emphasis on scrutinizing the public finances. I did a video a number of years ago saying that the controller and auditor general should be involved in overseeing the spending of public money in RTE and to date this legislation still hasn't been passed. Is this any real surprise? So afterwards both came out with a meeting in the last 24 hours.
Even actually in the last probably six to 10 hours and both Patrick O'Donovan and Kevin Bachur and RTA came out with similar statements to say there were extremely constructive meetings and are working now towards achieving a resolution after an hour and a half meeting. This is part of the agenda. So um yeah, so don't fall for the phony war. They're just a propaganda arm of the state, pushing the establishment's narrative and essentially so asking the soft questions, asking the easy.
Questions and um not explaining the real issues to
Questions and um not explaining the real issues to people's is what a so-called public service broadcaster you would imagine should be doing. Some of which for independence and being unbiased. Many of these are highly paid out of elite ivory towers who have no interest and no knowledge of what ordinary working people are facing. They're part of the same cabal we have in Lster House. So thanks so much for the support with my videos. Really appreciate them.
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