Here’s a bit from Joseph Muscat’s doctoral thesis, in the distinctive style of Mario Vella
Who do you think wrote it, Joseph Muscat himself or Mario Vella?
My considered view is that it was Mario Vella, and obviously so.
In the manner of philosophy, which, in the words of Hegel, like the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk, at the end of a civilisation’s highest moment, this study begins with an investigation of a phenomenon that emerges, globally and historically, at the end of Fordist epoch of capitalism, or, at least, at a time of Fordism in crisis.
Come on, so what if I wrote chunks of Joseph Muscat’s thesis? It’s not like he’s anyone important or likely to get into trouble like Seif Gaddafi at the London School of Economics
The new/old CEO of Malta Enterprise…oh sorry, my mistake, it’s actually the man on whom he tries to model himself, Karl Marx
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If Joseph really wrote that he wouldn’t need a teleprompter.
You can read the full document here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/127035781/Joseph-Muscat-PhD-Thesis
The biographical note (PDF p. 161, section 4.3.1) references Mario Vella, and flatteringly references Anthony Giddens’ introduction to a book in which one of Vella’s essays appears.
Who is Luke?
The passage quoted above reminds me of Richard Dawkins’ excellent article on intellectual impostors, titled Postmodernism Disrobed, which begins:
“Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content.”
Full article: http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/824
A spectre is haunting Malta.
I see what you did there.
The likeness is uncanny.
Cut and curl the hair, shorten the white beard and moustache and you have: Louis Grech.
Then shave the head at the top, and you get him:
http://micallefdaniel.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/mario-cutajar.jpg?w=470&h=140&crop=1
Then, for one more trick, shave the beard, and you get this one:
http://www.maltarightnow.com/content/images/1132009155255Evarist%20Bartolo%20Irrabbjat%20BondiPlus%20090309.jpg
And with some cosmetic changes, you may get this one as a special bonus:
http://maltatoday.com.mt/includes/sites/default/files/news/Picture%2019_2.png
News item in The Times :Prime Minister Joseph Muscat this morning inaugurated the head office of Agribank plc at Skyparks.
I note PMJM is still using the teleprompter. How pathetic.
We are certainly getting bombarded every minute of the day with news about Joseph Muscat. A JM cult is on the horizon – we should all bow down and kneel in front of him next – the new saviour of Malta.
Muscat must feel very safe, then. If Mario Vella wrote this, then he won’t accuse Muscat of plagiarism.
The more the Dear Labour leader reveals his ‘l-aqwa mhuh’, the more Joseph iholli gismi.
On a more serious note, Joseph Muscat had suggested in the past that Malta should be run like Cyprus and now that Labour’s elected I am not too comfortable with their idea of them running the economy. Things may go wrong.
The Business Insider gave a list of lessons learnt from the Cypriot bailout which is wreaking havoc in international markets, as well as the small Cypriots – a country which is similar to Malta in terms of geography and population. The ones which worryingly captured my attention in regards to Malta were the following.
1. No free rides for anyone.
2. Small country blackmail on contagion can be resisted.
3. Narrow populism can face resistance from the countries writing cheques.
(Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cyprus-bailout-6-lessons-that-germany-just-sent-to-the-rest-of-europe-2013-3#ixzz2NtcxdxzN)
Had it been Joseph Muscat he would have said “the owl of Harry Potter”.
All owls fly at dusk, though, not just Minerva’s. Bet Hegel didn’t know that.
Ara xi hlew. Ghamlulu podium.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130318/local/prime-minister-inaugurates-agribank-head-office.461924
Dak sabiex jidher itwal.
Who’s Luke? The thesis is dedicated to him.
Luke might have been his little friend.
Which little friend?
Nobody who is capable of writing a doctoral thesis requires a podium with teleprompter. The inability to give a good, off-the-cuff speech indicates intellectual restrictions.
In the words of Hegel, like the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk. It is only now that many will begin to assess their mistake in voting Labour.
If Joseph can understand what he wrote, he just might understand this.
At the end of the first paragraph on page 2 of the thesis, the author writes:
“Malta continued to be a British military base until 1979, fifteen years after it was granted independence within the Commonwealth and three years after it was proclaimed a Republic.”
We all know that Malta was proclaimed a Republic on 13DEC1974 and the British contract expired on 31MAR1979. i.e. 4 years and 3 months after it became a Republic and not three years after.
Therefore this part of the thesis must have been written by the same idiot who publicly proclaimed that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1565 and not 1492.