No wonder there’s a feeling fellowing between Malta’s Labour Party and China’s Communists
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November 7, 2014 at 2:19am
Just look at this. Chinese Communist Party officials bought up thousands of kilos of illegal poached ivory (that’s pounds in weight in the article; a pound is 450g) when on an official visit to Tanzania.
They put it all in diplomatic bags and took it back home to China on the Chinese president’s jet.
No wonder Joseph Muscat and his Labour Party love these people.
There is a worldwide ban on the sale and trafficking of ivory because it is obtained by killing elephants illegally for their tusks.
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http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/05/chinese-presidents-delegation-tied-to-illegal-ivory-purchases-during-africa-visit/?smid=tw-share&_r=1
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29929423
As Baxxter would put it, the switchers cannot see the elephant in the room.
Well, what can I add, the last one to leave the room, please switch off the lights.
BBC reports that it’s very difficult for Chinese government authorities to plead innocence as these tusks were not hidden away in suitcases – an elephant’s tusk does not fit in any kind of normal travelling bag.
I’m not surprised that the Labour Party is having talks directly with the Communist Party. It is very typical of communist polities; the party is more important than the state apparatus itself. Leading Communist figures were almost never Heads of State but Secretary Generals (or the equivalent) of the party.
The tactic of speaking to affiliated political parties was very much in vogue during the Cold War – particularly to subvert the apparatus of state and avoid public scrutiny (a Ministerial delegation is always subject to parliamentary scrutiny whilst a party delegation isn’t).
China’s contribution to those Dalli African charities?
This man comes cheaper than Sai: http://www.ibtimes.com/chinas-president-xi-jinping-makes-just-1600-month-1180885
Xi Jinping’s made a big show of fighting corruption. It’s nothing more than a ruse for getting rid of inconvenient officials.
Xi Jinping signed that infamous agreement with Muscat in 2010.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-06/local-news/The-next-step-is-a-law-to-decriminalise-drugs-Prime-Minister-Muscat-tells-youths-6736125145
‘…while people who are caught with a joint will not suffer their whole life, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this evening….’
Nothing new there, people caught with a joint do NOT suffer their whole life. Perhaps the PM might care to distinguish between de facto tolerance and legimitising drug use.
That is when he doesn’t need another distraction, Xarabank, Times Talk and Maltatoday fully booked until Christmas.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141107/local/three-hotels-planned-on-odz-land-in-south.542982
Just look at the comments.
Done. Has The Times moderator banned Astrid Vella from the comments board?
The black market offer for ivory instantly registered a spike.
Excellent. They are carrying out a drill in the eventuality that Ebola comes to Malta.
Now I expect the civil protection, the police and the health authorities to carry out a drill for the moment when Joseph Muscat and Konrat Mizzi will hit the wall running. Perhaps it can be organised in Republic Street, Valletta, at about noon on a weekday or a Saturday morning.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141107/local/national-ebola-drill-underway-victim-being-transported-to-hospital.543046
‘Fossil DNA confirms interbreeding’. http://tinyurl.com/ph994fb
At first glance I thought is was an article about the PL parliamentary group.