DoctorJosephMuscat has another dream
The public persona of Joseph Muscat in this leadership campaign is a perfect echo of the public persona of Alfred Sant in the run-up to the 1996 election. It is this, and not just the fact that he is the anointed one, that makes him the Labour favourite. The flipside is that it is also precisely this that renders him so repugnant to floaters and to those who support the Nationalist Party. Labour, as we have had numerous other occasions to see, knows little about public affairs and political marketing, and is returning to the political market-place with a clone of its failed product.
But we know that already. The interesting thing is that you can read the Labour yes-men’s line of thought: if Sant scaled the summit in 1996, then Sant’s clone will do the same in 2013. Ho hum. That’s not very clever. Sant’s image worked in 1996 because the conditions were right, he promised to remove value added tax, and he was widely perceived to be a fresh phenomenon in the Labour Party, though he was anything but. Oh, and he was propped up on one side by George Abela, who was widely admired by the people we like to call floaters, but who are really nothing more than individuals who like to hedge their bets. Some people I know have taken to calling themselves floaters, as though it conveys a sense of political independence rather than political immaturity and wishy-washiness. But anyway – all things are not similarly equal today and we have been through the Sant experience for rather too long and disliked it immensely. A Sant clone who pushes all the wrong memory buttons is going to be frowned upon now and not welcomed. That’s why Labour loves Joseph Muscat but almost everyone who didn’t vote Labour this time round or the time before that thinks he’s repellent.
George Abela had something sensible to say about this kind of thinking in a newspaper article a few days ago: “The party’s greatest foe is the unspoken reasoning that, having lost three elections, the next one must surely be owed to us; it’s the convoluted logic that the more we lose then the more we are sure to win. It is the logic of staying put which was followed in 2003 and which has kept us out (of government) to the present day. It is pointless to preach to the converted, yet the converted would do well to consider what it takes to win new converts. When all is said and done, what matters is the party’s ability to attract new support. For this, the keyword is credibility, especially since elections in Malta have become presidential, for better or worse.”
He’s right, of course. But sensible people don’t stand a chance of getting to the top in the Labour Party, which is increasingly beginning to put me in mind of some madly Orwellian novel written by Ben Elton (I’ve just read Blind Faith and loved it). For the past four decades, Labour has been about little other than creating an alternative reality to be inhabited by the chosen few, while the rest of us are obliged to go along with The Project. Now we can expect more of the same.
Super One has carried on where it left off. There are lots of people with doctorates on the Labour benches, but until now, the only one whose doctorate has been made an integral part of his name is DoctorAlfredSant (one word). Everyone else is referred to as John Borg and Borg in the rest of the report, but DoctorAlfredSant has his five-syllable moniker repeated throughout the story. During Super One bulletins in the electoral campaign, I sometimes found myself resisting the urge to do the funky-chicken round the television set, squawking ‘DoctorElfridSantDoctorElfridSantDoctorElfridSant.’
And oh joy – now we have DoctorJosephMuscat (one word, and a whole syllable more than DoctorAlfredSant). The other four are Falzon, Bartolo, Coleiro Preca and Abela, but he is DoctorJosephMuscat, six times in the same news report. And so the cloning goes on. We are even being treated to the same obsessive focus on his ‘managerial style’ and ‘managerial qualifications’ – as though the first task of a prime minister is to be managerial, rather than inspirational.
Is it my imagination, or are we all tired already of Joseph Muscat, when we should be excited by him? Imagine, then, how we’re going to feel about him five years from now, when he has exhausted the little bit of novelty value that he had. OK, so they might send him to media training and turn him into something personable, but I don’t know. If I see once more that ‘I starred in Brokeback Mountain’ photograph which he insists on handing out to the media, my mind will blank him out altogether.
Some days ago, he made public his proposals for a better Malta: I have a dream, yadayadayadayada. Martin Luther King’s famous words are devalued by six notches further. DoctorJosephMuscat (one word, remember) has a dream that he will make Malta ‘the best in Europe.’ Oh for God’s sake, man – grow up. The best in Europe at what? And why do we have to be the best when mere normality is what we all crave and are repeatedly denied? What now, the Denmark of the Mediterranean? The Sweden of the Middle Sea?
These people are so damned exhausting with their high-flown talk and their projects for castles in the air. All we want is to have our roads fixed and our towns cleaned up, jobs and earnings and a quiet life, and they insist on ramming their pseudo-Utopian dreams down our throats like cod-liver oil.
DoctorJosephMuscat’s I-have-a-dream sounded even odder when I read the details because it appeared as though he hasn’t been in Malta much and doesn’t know what’s going on, and that he hasn’t read the Nationalist Party’s electoral programme. He wants job creation and full employment to be made a priority (we’re near full employment already, and there are more jobs than people in several new sectors). He wants public health services to be the best and free of charge (wake up, sir). And he wants everyone to have access to information technology, with access to the internet considered ‘a basic right’ (never one to miss out on a bit of melodrama, this chap – basic right, indeed).
If DoctorJosephMuscat really means what he says then he belongs in the Nationalist Party. If he meant this all along, and didn’t just dream it up now (“I have a dream….”) then we must ask what he was doing in the sod-awful Labour Party when the only way of achieving his ‘dream’ for Malta was through the Nationalist Party.
While he was barracking Eddie Fenech Adami at pre-electoral press conferences like Charlon Gouder with Lawrence Gonzi this time around, while he was writing articles telling us that DoctorAlfredSant (one word, remember) was right and that EU membership would be disastrous for Malta, while he was behaving like the puppy on the His Master’s Voice record label, all the action was going on elsewhere – in the Nationalist Party.
I am beginning to suspect that the main reason Muscat – he wasn’t DoctorJosephMuscat in those days – joined the Labour Party rather than the Nationalist Party is because he perceived correctly that, with such an immense dearth of competition, he would be able to ingratiate himself with The Leadership and worm his way to the top. The only thing we can credit him with at this stage is the fact that he quite obviously had the foresight to see that it was only a matter of time before he became party leader.
As I have had occasion to repeat in the past, the Labour Party is notoriously devoid of quality control systems and we are about to see once more the deep danger that poses.
This article is published in The Malta Independent today.
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Dont you think that this woman Daphne has been so sickly obsessed to critise Dr Alfred Sant? Now she is desprately trying to damage the reputation of Dr Joseph Muscat by writing articles that he is the echo of Dr Sant. HEY Daphne you have nothing better to do in your life. I pitty you how desprate you are.
Virgo
[Moderator – At least you acknowledge that DocterAlfredSant is a curse upon DocterJosephMuscat.]
zammit marmara has a couple more dreams
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080522/opinion/protecting-citizens-rights
Someone sent me a site visit.
I did and joined as a member. It is another local forum site. Someone used the above article to hurle at the writer, our dear Daphne, some very unkind remarks, which I didn’t like at all.
How cruel some people are!UUUFFFF
“Thursday, 22nd May 2008 – 11:13CET
MLP welcomes tomorrow’s MCESD meeting
The Labour Party said today that it hoped that during tomorrow’s meeting of the Malta Council for Economic and Social Development (MCESD) the government would give concrete info on how it would reduce the burned of the cost of living on families.
The MLP said that it appreciated the fact that international rise in prices of cereals, food and oil unavoidably impacts our country, however, these circumstances already existed in February when the PN was preparing its electoral manifesto.
During tomorrow’s meeting, finance minister Tonio Fenech should explain how the governement plans to implement its electoral promises, the MLP said.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080522/local/mlp-welcomes-tomorrows-mcesd-meeting
Oops I think The Times are losing it, “burned the cost” what does that mean?
And can someone please tell me what value this press release has. What message are the MLP trying to put across here?
@ catherine
As if cath daphne is a news reporter/economist/critic :)
However Daphne trying to tarnish the reputation of Joseph Muscat will not get you any closer to convincing delegates to vote for George Abela….as Alfred Mifsud once told you, you are only helping the guy through, with your bla bla bla…So please do KEEP IT UP
[Moderator – Does DocterJosephMuscat even have a reputation to tarnish?]
i never knew there was an edition of Blind Faith with pictures :)
@ Adrian Borg: this is PROBABLY what happened
whoever typed the article meant “brunt” but keyed in “burnt” Somebody who didn’t bother reading the article ran a grammar/spellcheck on MS Word.
The word proc then suggested that it may be better to use “burned” instead of “burnt”. Voila. QED. neat huh?
[Moderator – I think they meant ‘burden’ – as in ‘burden on the family’ – it’s a cliché of Maltese political rhetoric.]
@Catherine Farrugia – yes, of course I have nothing to do with my life. I take breaks between long sessions of bridge, tennis, coffee and facials to keep myself entertained with my sick obsession with Sant and Muscat. Oh, and we share the same star-sign. Isn’t that amazing?
@m – I see that you don’t belong to the school of thought that believes I do it on purpose to ensure that Muscat the liability is elected instead of Abela the asset.
Once again, with your article you have spot on hit the nail on the head. I can imagine DoctorJosephMuscat, like his mentor before him, in another 16-year career as opposition leader. Dream on: you take home all the benefits and privileges of the post, except for the only valid purpose and responsibility for which one is in the post. And in our (mis)fortunes, we must continue to elect benign (but irratatingly imperfect) Nationalist governments.
It seems that the MLP is yet to understand the process and dynamics of real democratic alternatives. Meanwhile, Nationalist governments will continue to make history as they wonder how long their consecutive winning streak will last. My advice to the MLP is that, sometimes, loosing football teams just have to change the coach–of course, replacing the old one with the right choice–not bringing on board someone with many of the same defects, as it seems the MLP will attempt to bring to market the same repackaged product, already stale despite his age. For the moment, there is only one correct MLP choice–and its not DoctorJosephMuscat. Unfortunately for everyone, it seems that MLP denial runs deep.
@ moderator (re: burned vs brunt)
the probability of you being right is higher than that of me being right :)
and please note the studious avoidance of any implication of certainty :D
I dislike these comments which are so hatefull against Joseph Muscat’s persona. He is still not Leader of the Mlp and daphne is still targeting her new enemy. I think Daphne are so obsessed about some persons in the mlp that you should visit a phsycologist because that is the only way up for you to get rid of your madness and hatred agaist the mlp.
[Moderator – I’m letting this comment through because it should be valuable to the burgeoning field of elfology.]
I think we should be one nation united together if we want to do the best for our country. Politics have divided our country for so long it is time we change the way we do politics. that is why I disagree with comments like the one left from Daphne in her coloumn today . i did not mean to offend someone but I hope we will be one nation united together as our prime minister wishes. That is so. good luck malta
Political immaturity because one doesn’t support either party? Get real.
Oh no!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve just weaned myself off calling Sant Doctor Alfred Sant in my column, now I’m going to have to call his successor Doctor Joseph Muscat.
Amazing! Andrew Borg Cardona just confirmed what everyone always beleived. Daphne leads and he follows!!
@Mark Schembri – no, I meant the political immaturity of those who don’t seem able to (1) form a political opinion and (2) own that opinion. The inability of Maltese people to take decisions and to take responsibility for their actions (to ‘own’, in other words, their decisions) is notorious among employers here. You’ll see the same thing happening in politics: an ‘hhmmmmm, yes, but’ attitude. People also place an exaggerated emphasis on the secrecy of the vote – as though to somehow claim your political views might be dangerous or risky. Look at it this way – there are umpteen newspaper columnists working for the non-party newspapers, but you only know how three of us voted in the last election, because we said so: me, Andrew Borg Cardona, and Kenneth Zammit Tabona. All the others wrapped themselves in enigmatic mystery, sitting on the fence or floating around it. Why? The political preference of a columnist writing about an electoral campaign is one of the most important pieces of information that a reader should have, so as to put what’s said into the proper context. When I picked up this matter with a senior person at one of the newspapers (not the one I work for), his response was: why should they say who they vote for? The vote is secret. To which my answer was: if they’re getting paid to dump on politicians, the least they can do is tell us which party, if not which candidates, they are voting for; they don’t do so because they don’t want to commit themselves in public, for fear of having to ‘own’ their decision.
The following are excerpts taken from another blog site, frequented by various persons, including ‘lejburisti’:
“viva lejber: jekk ma nhalux lil tal-pn igibu flus mil-ewropa ikolna qaghad u iktar trouble. hekk il-gvern ikollu ibati u l-hajja tola nfern ujkun hawn hafna tgergir. imbad jaqa l-gvern u ssir elezzjoni u nirbhu.
viva lejber”
“Fliemkien Kollox Possibli – Ehe? Hadha bi kbira Gonzi li l-oppozizzjoni ma tghatx il-pairing? Mela nesa x’ghamlu l-pn fl-1996? Kif ma jisthix, vera wiccu infurrat. Le mhux se nghinuk ghax intom lilna ghakkistuna u gerreqtuna u hekk se nghamlu ahna sur prim ta…….”
“Nahdmu halli nkissru l-Malta. Issa l-gvern mux se jkun jista jmur jiprova jgib flus mil-Ewropa tahom. Bla pairing ma jkunux jistu jmorru Brussell. Inkissruwa l’Malta.
La ma tlajnix ahna ma nhallu l hadd imexxi. Il-poplu issa jrid jitallem talli ma tellanix fil-gvern. Viva lejber hi”
“jjjjj – Jekk il partit laburista jaccetta li jaghti il pairing lill gvern ikun qed jitradixxi lill laburisti. Ma jazzarda hadd jipprova jilghaba li jrid jinghogob mal laburisti ghax ahna mahniex ser ninsew kif mexa il partit nazzjonalista fl-oppozizjoni fl-1996-98. Nixtieq nappella lill min hu koncernaqt biex ma nkomplux inhallu lin nazzjonalista jidhqu u joqodu gallarija jaraw il glied ta bejnitna ghal min ser jilhaq mexxej.Jekk ser inkomplu b’din l-attitudni ser nibqu fl-oppozizjoni ghal 20 sena ohra. Fl-opinjoni tieghi il partit laburista ghandu bzonn ta leader it tip ta MIntoff. Hadd ma kien kapaci jiggieled lill gonzipn li rebah l-elezjoni bil korruzjoni, qerq u gideb. Ghadna bzonn li nergu ghal li kien il partit taht Mintoff tal militanza ghax b’hekk biss nistghu neghlbu il qerq, il gideb u l-korruzjoni u mhux bid djalogar jew mil media. Ghall lum ser niqaf hawn.”
If these are the kind of lejburisti who are voting for the next MLP leader, hoping to be the future Malta’s leader, then, let it be! Let them choose DottorJosephMuscat.
Dear God, please have Mercy on us!
The following are some excerpts taken from another blog which is frequented by various persons, including the ‘lejburisti’ species. Notice the deep intensity of philosophical thinking that is currently charactersiing the political spectrum –
“viva lejber – jekk ma nhalux lil tal-pn igibu flus mil-ewropa ikolna qaghad u iktar trouble. hekk il-gvern ikollu ibati u l-hajja tola nfern ujkun hawn hafna tgergir. imbad jaqa l-gvern u ssir elezzjoni u nirbhu.
viva lejber”
“Nahdmu halli nkissru l-Malta. Issa l-gvern mux se jkun jista jmur jiprova jgib flus mil-Ewropa tahom. Bal pairing ma jkunux jistu jmorru Brussell. Inkissruwa l’Malta.
La ma tlajnix ahna ma nhallu l hadd imexxi. Il-poplu issa jrid jitallem talli ma tellanix fil-gvern. Viva lejber hi”
Other challenging philosophical ideologies to follow soon… ;)
Voters Anon meeting, 22nd May 2008
“We have a new member here with us today. It’s very brave of you to come forth and speak out, H.P.”
“Hello. I’m H.P. Baxxter, and I’m a…a PN voter.”
“Hello H.P.”
“It started out with the usual stuff, you know, thinking about EU membership and all that…some of my friends were warning me it would be bad, but I chose not to follow them…instead I slowly started turning into a….into a Europhile..(sob)”
“Go on, H.P., be brave, you’re on the right track. Tell us about your addiction.”
“(sob/sniffle)…then, (sob), the 1998 elections came along. I was still underage then, but I felt this rush, this euphoria, when the Nationalists won and reactivated EU membership. I felt strangely fulfilled.
In 2003 I could vote for the first time in my life. I…I started doing things I never though I’d do. I even attended some Iva Malta fl-Ewropa meetings….and bought myself an EU flag…..I convinced myself I wasn’t really a Nationalist, I was just in favour of EU membership. But there I was, holding aloft the blue flag with twelve golden stars, while Eddie Fenech Adami delivered his speeches… I felt I was doing the right thing.
I voted Yes in the 2003 referendum. My hands were shaking, and I was queuing outside the polling station at 5 o’clock in the morning, just to get my voting fix. One month later, I was left with no choice, I had to vote PN. I was repulsed by the list of incompetent nitwits on my district’s voting ballot, but (sob) I…I had no choice, I had to do it, I had to vote PN if I wanted to get into the EU (breaks down in sobs).”
“It’s all right, H.P., we’ve all been through this, haven’t we?”
“….Then we got into the EU, but I still couldn’t stop…as the years went by, and the 2008 elections loomed closer, I was getting up at night in a muck sweat, with nightmares of an MLP victory and a “freeze on EU membership.” I was worried, and I started thinking I had to vote PN again, to save my country. Yes, sorry, I forgot to say that I voted Arnold Cassola in the MEP elections, and I hope my right hand hand withered before I had done so, but (sob), now it’s too late, and (sob), anyway, so I voted PN again in the 2008 elections, and this time the combined IQ of my district candidates had diminished by about 50%, but I persisted in my addiction, and I voted PN…(sob/sniffle/sob/blow in hanky).
Sorry, sorry, it’s all very (sob)…I promised myself I wouldn’t break down (nervous titter)…Now I’ve come clean. i told you about my problem. Please help me change. Help me vote MLP next time round. Help me.”
“Thank you, H.P., you can sit down now. Would you like a glass of water?”
Jidher car ghal darba u tnejn li dawn in-nies li hakmu ix-xena lokali bil-frustrazzjoni taghhom ghal darb’ohra qed jergu jippruvaw ihamgu nies onesti u li lesti jaghtu servizz. Nappella lil independant li dawn il-hnizrijiet ta’ artikli ma jaghmlux gid lil din il-gazzetta ghax erba’ t’ijiem ohra minn 38 c Euro ser tigi tiswa’ biss 1 cent of a Euro. Daphne tghallem ghal darba kun umana u irrispetta lill-proxmu tieghek . bl-argumenti tieghek qed tkisser il-politika maltija u tifred lill-poplu malti.
@Adrian – if your little ginger friend can’t stand the heat, he should get out of the kitchen. Or just thank his lucky stars he’s an aspiring party leader in Malta, not Britain or the USA.
H P Baxter, why don’t you go and put yousrelf in some mass production tray at your company namesake?
@ adrian
Daqsxejn tipiku li laburist antikwat jikteb bil-Malti f’blog primarjament ingliz, hux? Mind you, I’m all out for proper Maltese speaking, just as I’m all our for proper English speaking – I can’t, however, stand those that consider English speakers to be snobs. I think that many Labourites are of this ilk, or at least that many “generation-after-generation” Labourites are like this. This probably stems from an inferiority complex.
Anyhow, Adrian, what I really want to lambast you for is for wrting “bl-argumenti tieghek qed tkisser il-politika maltija u tifred lill-poplu malti”. First off, just to let you know, I am no fan of many of Caruana Galizia’s arguments. However, I can’t understand how you think that the said columnist is, urm, destroying Maltese politics and creating division amongst the Maltese. If anyone or anything is creating this division, it is the Malta Labour Party. The MLP has created this perceived division between Nationalists and Labourites. The MLP has almost single-handedly created a situation of immaturity when it comes to politics in this here island of ours. It has manipulated the lesser-educated folk into thinking that what the MLP says is the divine truth, and that it’s supporters should not think with their own brain.
MLP need to change – they need to aim at gathering modern self-thining supporters and not at keeping their peasant-antiquated supporter pool. If MLP elect Abela as a leader, and if he truly brings the party into 2008, then PN won’t stand a chance come next election. I for one want to see PN lose the next election, as they’ve become to damn comfy in their high chairs. However, if MLP do not change and some dick like Muscat becomes leader, I think that, come next election, I’d rather have Gonzi as PM again – better the devil you know than the devil you don’t (and don’t want to) know.
@ laburisti saga rubbish…
It was the electorate’s choice to have such a government. Giving your 1 to PN and the rest to MLP indicates the voter is not satisfied with the situation at present…
If Parliament dissolves it would only do so because it deserves to not because MLP wake up one day and decide to blow it up…
Good one Adrian
Comments are getting too personal. Too much spite does not help anyone.
This is getting much worse then the violence of the 80s and 90s. As I said earlier I read such comments and worse in another Maltese forum.
We are all entitled to a different opinion but at same time we should not disrespect that of others in such spiteful manner.
Daphne and the rest please note that “Character killing” is much worse then physical violence.
[Moderator – I think you mean character assassination. Anyway, whatever happened to ‘stick and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me’?]
Gerald! How nice to see you back. I mean it.
@ Bormann
Perhaps you would vote for goerge abela, but many Labourite supporters, wouldn’t see much of a difference between abela and gonzi. Just like labourites did not vote for alfred sant you’d have labourites not voting for george if he s elected Leader so we go back to square one…
i think you should just focus on the secretary of PN and if you vote for Gonzi again do so..BUT don’t stay crying over how fed up you are of the same people being comfy in their high chairs..
Jiddispjacini ghal kummenti bla sens ta’ bosta minkom . jien kburi u nibqa’ nitkellem bil-malti ghax dik hija il-lingwa tieghi hawn qed turu kemm intom nies li tuzaw dan il-bloc sabiex ixxerdu il-fierda kun qaf haga daphne u shabek kollha li jiktbu hawn li xi darba tispicca il-furtuna li ghandu l-partit nazzjonalista u wara jkollna nitkellmu differenti. il-poplu sovran il-labour patta sew ta’ l-izbalji li ghamel u l-poplu wera’ bic-car li dan il-gvern qieghed f’xiefer. Jien nirrispetta id-decizzjoni tal-poplu u nixtieq il-gid lil dan il-poplu u nitlob li bl-ghajnuna t’alla nsalu sabiex vera pajjizna jitmexxa b’ghaqal. Dan hu Laburist ta’ vera patrijott li jitkellem minn qalbu ghl gid ta’ pajjizna. Billi ixxerred il-hdura u l-mibeghda kif jaghmlu 4 minn minkom mhux qed timpressjonaw lill-poplu xejn affattu. Jekk tissejhu vera demokratici hallyu l-liberta’ ta’ l-espressjoni tixxerred u mhux tohonquha kif ghamiltu f’dawn l-ahhar snin. Ghaqd jasal dak il-mument fejn il-poplu itina r-ragun.
Thanks for the thought Daphne
@ Jennifer Attard
What violence during the 90’s. Are you living in this world?
@Jennifer Attard
Character assissination because DCG, as she has every right to, is warning that JM does not have what it takes to be a leader and he would be manipulated ( and in fact is being manipulated ) by the same clique which kept AS in his place beyond his expiry date much to the detriment of genuine labourites like me? Let me tell the first names of the clique who are working their hearts out to elect the clone of AS: Pawlu; Felic; Mario; Joe u Ronnie. They pretend to rule the roost without appearing to do so.
What DCG is saying about JM is in fact being said by a large segment of those who voted Labour last March and swear not to do so again if such an inexperienced and presumptious yound lad is elected to face Gonzi.
We will all be Nationalists then!
@ Matthew
Your english is not so good!
@ jenny its true its horrible innit..
Well done Adrian, you’re the only one that speaks sense in this blog :)
Neither is your Maltese, Adrian uuups; nitlob mahfra;
l-anqas il-Malti tieghek Adrian m’hu daqs tant tajjeb.
Gerald, naf li int fan kbir ta’ Mahler. Imma jien fan ta’ Scooter, li int qas biss taf min huma. Dan re. il-kumment tieghek dwar “your company’s namesake.”
Much worse than the violence of the 80s and 90s this lady says. She certainly was not around in the 80s or the 90s. She must be “just visiting” in 2008.
@Adrian (the other one not me)
Carry on with your rhetoric you are a prime example of why the MLP has been in opposition for most of the past 25 years. You remind us of the puerile mentality of a party that is unable and unwilling to learn from its own mistakes, is incapable of accepting criticism or engage in reasoned argument. A party that has a huge chip on its shoulder and a massive seige mentality. Incidentally, if you are so proud of our mother language you’d better learn some grammar and improve your spelling, otherwise all you are doing is showing disrepect to the language.
Jenny :: The violence praticed in the 90s is much worse then that of the 60s, 70, and 80s.Anyhow I might give a list of ‘misdeeds’ by both Parties in another section of this forum. Both parties owe US ALL a public apology!
The shouting and screaming who should be and who should not be elected MLP Leader is a giggle in the wilderness. DCG and the rest have not the slightest idea what is going on.
Thus my question to the lot of you: which is the district where the highest number of MLP delegates are concentrated?
Finally, I wonder why DCG didn’t tell MODERATOR that “the is mightier then the sword”?
[Moderator – What violence in the nineties are you talking about? You sound a lot like Alfred Sant – constructing a hyper-reality of violence and corruption that never happened, and then proceeding to hack down that straw man.]
MODERATOR :: hope you got it: Missed the PEN on purpose!
@ m
Re Lejburisti saga rubbish
I tend to agree with you about the rubbishness of the comments. Actually they were written by your favourite’s party supporters.
It clearly demonstrates the level of intelligence of the backbone of the party li serqulhom l-elezzjoni… Imsieken!
“inkissru l’malta” – And I always thought that Malta was “l-ewwel u qabel kollox”…. Eh ijwa bilhaqq, dik slogan ta’ Mintoff it-traditur kienet…. oooppsss sorry :)
@Adrian – Alla busy hafna u m’ghandhux cans joqghod jinhela jiehu hsieb il-problemi tal-Partit Laburista ta’ Malta. U jekk se tinsisti li tikteb bil-Malti, almenu iktbu sewwa.
@Jennifer
“Thus my question to the lot of you: which is the district where the highest number of MLP delegates are concentrated?”
Ok we admit we don’t know (and to be fair don’t really care all that much). What are you on about? What is blatantly obvious to you that makes this number so significant and that we, the great unwashed, are missing? Please enlighten us, we beg you!
@Jennifer Attard
Third district. Mainly Zejtun. Is that good enough for you?
The only difference it can make is that they can pressure
the newly elected to go back to the dark old days.
@ Adrian
Taf li ghoddok ikonvincejtni nivvota Lejber 5 snin ohra?
Hasra ma ktibtilnix qabel l-elezzjoni … Kieku forsi kont nivvota l’dak il-partit kbir, suprem, sincier, intelligenti, modern, efficjenti, b’leaders kbar, etc., etc…
Isma’, inti zgur li qed nitkellmu fuq l-istess partit??
he he he ;)
me :: Zejtun my backside!! lol. I was more then right! No one here has an idea.
One particular district has nearly double delegates then the others.Actually 1/8 of all delegates are concentrated in one district.To give all a clue: each delegate is representing a certain number of party members. So the answer is there.
A very easy riddle to solve.
Moderator :: I was NEVER a follower of Sant. Ok? You know very that there are much more deadly violence then physical one.
Does it have to be physical to kill or assisinate a person?
How easy it is to play deaf and dumb.
Adrian :: How can you ask me to enlighten you and at same time you tell me you do not care?
I’ll tell you though what you and the rest are missing.The district I am refering to is not tal-PEPE nor tal-“Marmalja” nor tal-“IMQARBIN”.It is the district where intelligence is its trademark.
@Jennifer Attard
False. Do your homework.
@Jennifer Attard
If as you say 1/8 of all delegates are concentrated in one district out of thirteen, then it is not only you who’s thinking as you said from his backside but the whole mlp organisation.
I actually know who Scooter are as I have a few of their songs on LP and CD Baxxter or what the hell your name is.
I think that most of us make a fuss about nothing regarding party leaders. Would it make much difference if John Dalli or Louis Galea had been elected leader of the PN in 2004? I don’t think so.
You are missing the point as it is the strategists who win PN elections. People like RCC, Fr Peter, Lawrence Zammit, Joe Saliba, Pierre Portelli et al. Here it has to be said that there is no contest between parties.
But with all that ammunition, the PN still just scraped through.
Any comments on good old Alan Camilleri as Chairman of Malta Enterprise btw?
To be fair to Daphne, her article is the only thing worth reading in The Malta Independent which is worth less than 1 Euro cent especially its dumb editorials which seem to be written by 5 year old schoolboys studying composition.
Il-Kap tas-Soċjalisti Ewropej jasal Malta biex jappoġġja lil Joseph Muscat
Mela sabiex inwiegbek ghaziza Jenny haga li jien u int ghandna differenti immens hija li l-principju li tirredikola l-persuna ghalikom ma jesistix. Int ma tafx x’jigifieri faqar hemm barra jien naf ghaliex parti mix-xoghol tieghi huwa li nzur dawn il-familji. imma int x’jinteressak int komda paxxuta go villa forsi tigi u taqa’ u tqum mill-batut. nhar ta’ hadd dawn li jiktbu hafna kontra l-laburisti bi hdura daqshekk jaqaw tmorru sal-knisja? Tiftahru li Kattolici jew sahansitra tmorru titqarbnu?. Ir-risposta hija wahda Jenny li nhossu ahna ma thossux int. Ghid li dawn li tant ihobbu jiktbu fuq il-gazzetta bhal Daphne u tmur izzur lil dawn in-nies li huma imkissra bil-mizuri anti socjali tal-partit Nazzjonalista. Il-labour ghamel zbalji u patta sew imma fi kliem ghad tigu li nistghu nitilfu elezzjoni wara elezzjoni izda qatt u qatt mhu ser tnahhulna il-principju laburista li nghinu lill-batut u naqbzu ghalih f’kull hin. Nispera li l-malti tieghi ghogbok dear Jenny.
@Jennifer
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/05/18/t4.html
Ok so it’s Gozo with 87 delegates. So what? Are they going to elect Justyne as leader (now there’s an idea!)?
Qed tisma’, Daphne? Qed tkisser dan il-fjur ta’ pajjiz, dan il-gens Malti, gens mimli storja, gensna….infridna fi tnejn, infridna ghal Daphne li titkellem ilsien il-barrani…imnejn sa fejn? (immaginaw lil Renato jkantaha eh).
Issa bis-serjetà guys. Il-bicca l-kbira minnkom jiktbu b’hafna melodrama u pathos u x’naf jien, imbaghad fil-verità tarahom dejjem relaxed, anke jekk jitlef il-partit taghhom, kuntenti bir-Ritienne fuq spallejhom fil-meetings. U l-importanti fil-hajja, u dan tafuh ilkoll, l-essenzjali, il-verità ta’ veru, mhijiex il-politika, jew il-lijder, jew il-partit, imma r-Ritienne.
Allura jien nghidilkom, don’t worry, be happy. Everything is gonna be all right.
Jennifer
We are as interested in your feeble humor (your lols are beginning to grate) as much as we are in your quizzes. You show the maturity of a twelve year old, and the diction of a five. Come to think of it, people with your mindset and level of intelligence give Labour a bad name.
I suggest that you ask your secretary to set you some work, or that you catch the next plane to Brussels. Maybe europarl would do us a favour and lose you in some dingy bar.
In my opinion this site is as disorganised as the writings of who is responsible for it. It is not only complicated but it is difficult to understand the subjects being discussed. It has no head or tail. It jumps from one subject to another without cohesion. It is like a circus where sometimes clowns intervene to distract the audience.
Other blog sites are very simple to follow. Some contributions are short and to the point.
Contributors to this site appear to be experts in one way trafic. Where it to be two way, they would not know which side to drive.
If Joseph Muscat is what you say he is, how come you are wasting so much of your time and energy in his regard? Wouldn’t you rather right an article about the Green Politician of the Year?
[Moderator – The green politician of the year is Joseph Muscat.]
@ daphne
I obviously don t belong to that school of thought where you do it on purpose to get the “liabilty” Joseph elected over the “asset”(ye right..)George..
Labour don’t want a leader who might give in to pairing and they certainly don’t want a leader who guarantees the PN will remain for as long as 5 years in government unless they deserve to (which is not the case at this point)…
Keep your assets to yourself :)
Skuzi Adrian, imma xi stupidagni ta’ kumment (inkella x’awto-gratifikazzjoni, li ma tmurx takkuzani li qed nghajjrek stupidu). Il-Labour jghinn lill-batut? Aah, u l-vilel. Bhallikieku nofs id-deputati MLP m jghixux go villa (jew go tnejn jew tlieta). Tipika tax-Xellug insomma. Din l-attitudni ta’ “I hold the moral high ground, ghax jien mal-‘proletarjat'”.
U ohra: Ma nafx minn fejn gibtha din l-idea li kull min huwa kontra l-MLP huwa Kattoliku jew imur il-knisja.
@ Adrian
Jiena ghandi principji centru xellugin iktar mill-MLP innifsu, u xorta ma nivvutax Lejber!
Jekk int verament temmen fix-xellug, allura int taqbel mas-social housing scheme li dahhal il-gvern laburista?? Jew lanqas biss taf li l-home ownership scheme hija sistema leminija imnebbha mill-ideologija konservattiva?
Taf li partit xellugi ma jaghti qatt art b’xejn? Kiri biss. Ara x’gara f’Malta, fejn tqassmu artijiet lil nies li llum huma benestante. Din l-art illum ma tista qatt terga tigi lura f’idejn il-gvern biex jigu mghejjuna haddiema fil-bzonn. Taf li hemm djar li ttiehdu b’xejn li llum hija okkupata minn avukati, nutara, periti, tobba, u sahansitra ghandhom ukoll il-‘pool’. Dik gustizzja socjali? Mur ixtri xi dar li tqassmet b’xejn u ara kemm jitolbu taghha! LM130,000 l-inqas…. Xellugi, my foot!
L-MLP ghamel bil-kontra. Allura tigi tghidli li l-Labour huwa centru xellugi?? Hallina siehbi. Mur aqbad ktieb fuq x’inhi ideologija xellugija, imbghad tkellem.
@ Gerald
Ma nafx ghandikx background ta ‘political sciences’, pero donnok ma ndunajtx li kien hemm differenza skjetta bejn l-ghazla ta’ Gonzi u Dalli. Id-direzzjoni li kull wiehed kien se jiehu kienet wahda b’xaqliba centru xellugija u ta’ l-iehor kienet centru leminija. Ghaldaqstant, huwa ovvju li ghamlet differenza sostanzjali bejn l-ghazla ta’ Dalli u Gonzi. Ma semmejtx lil Louis Galea, ghax dak kien il-mutur ewlieni li mexxa l-PN lejn politika centru xellugija minn wahda leminija. Din taqbel ma’ dik li jemmen u jaddotta b’mod generali il-PM prezenti.
Hadd ma hu ghar-rimi…..
Grazzi ta l-analizi Alexander. Ma nahsibx li Dalli qatt kien se jiehu attitudni daqshekk centru lemini ghax f’ Malta dik ma tantx issib popolarita’. Jidher li issa l-iskop politiku jew l-idejologija ta’ Gonzi ma tantx ghada tiswa ghax dahhal lill Dalli fil kabinett u tah ministeru fejn jista jaghmel hsara kbira socjalment, dak tal politika socjali (jekk dejjem se jimxi b mod centru lemini)
Jien m’ghedtlekx li hemm xi hadd ghar rimi. Toqghodx tohrog bi slogans politici ta xi ghaxar snin ilu.
Joseph Muascat’s candidature aided and abetted by Martin Schultz (surprised byu NET TV at 2am at the Airport): the anointed one forgot all about INDHIL BARRANI! Another “manuvra moqzieza u tal-misthija… ivvelenata” (as some of the contestants described the ‘bombi’ in the last fortnight of this campaign)… this one ‘made in Brussels’!
Regarding Gozo, it is true that the largest number of delegates is concentrated there. And from the info I have they are mostly for Joseph Muscat.
Re: [Moderator – The green politician of the year is Joseph Muscat]
Dear Moderator,
There is only one ‘Green Politician of the Year’. You know very well who he is. Why don’t you scribble an article about him for a change? It’s got to be fun to write about charming blue-eyed boys, you may even get nominated as ‘Green Journalist of the Year’ for a change. ‘Green politician’ may even care to play a few notes on his whistle to charm you back into your wicker basket.
[Moderator – Green as in novice.]
@ Gerald,
It-tellieqa ghal-leader tal-PN kienet se tistabilixxi xi triq se jiehu l-partit. Ormaj, la t-tellieqa rebahha Gonzi kien ifisser li l-PN se jkompli fuq dik imwittija minn Fenech Adami, li hejjieha Louis Galea u Serracino Inglott.
La darba issa l-politika ufficjali tal-PN giet stabbilita, il-minsitru Dalli ma jistax imur kontrieha. Il-politika tal-PN issa giet stabbilita. Jiena miniex innaqas mill-mertu tal-kapacitajiet eccelenti ta’ Dalli, anzi…
Dan ghandu esperjenza enormi li zgur se thalli l-gid f’qasam li tant hemm bzonn, specjalment biex igib il-qasam tas-sahha sostennibli.
Ma nafx kif qed tinsinwa li Dalli jista jaghmel hsara fil-Ministeru tieghu, ghax anzi huwa bniedem idoneju biex jattwa l-politika tal-gvern f’dan il-qasam sensittiv, u li tant ghandu bzonn li jigi stabilizzat u sostennibli f’termini finanzjarji.
Intant il-slogans politici inhalliehom ghall-haddiehor, bhal, per ezempju : “Malta l-ewwel u qabel kollox”…. Ha tifhem ir-ruh! :)
Il-punt huwa wiehed li dan il-pajjiz huwa manipulat mill-klikka tal-hbieb li jitkellmu biss fuq daq li jaqbel ghal widnejhom bhalma taghmel in-nasty witch ta’ hawn gew. Din hija l-verita’ assoluta . Din l-ideologija u tattika hija ghar mill-izbalji li ghamel l-mlp fit-tmeninijiet. X’inhu l-interess ta’ dawn l-artikolisti hbieb tafu fl-ahhar tal-gurnata ixewxu poplu shih kontra persuna jew partiti umbaghad jaqilghu il-bouna grazia mill-partit li jkunu qed jappogjaw. Din hija kollha tattika moqzieza. X’interess ghandha il-brava artikolista li dejjem tattakka partit wiehed umbaghad fuq il-partit l-iehor qatt ma tghid xejn kontra. Trid tkun iblah sabiex ma tindunax li din hija tattika li ilha ghaddeja ghal hafna snin minn dan ic-cirku ta’ nies.
Hbeib jien nammetti u bhala laburist genwin inhoss iva li l-mlp jixraqlu leader ta’ vera ghaliex l-mlp hu partit tajjeb. Sfortunatament gara li gara ghax leader b’sahtu le ma kienx hemm u nammettija. izda artikolist serju u li jaf x’inhu jghid ma joqghodx jikkritika lil partit wiehed izda dak li hu abjad abjad u li hu iswed iswed. L-unika artikolist serju li hawn go pajjizna u S. Balzan. Dan ghaliex hu biss jikxef l-izbalji taz-zewg partit.
Jien gej minn familja fejn ommi laburista u missieri Nazzjonalist dejjem hallewni naghmel l-ghazla tieghi fil-liberta’. Jien ghazilt Labour din l-elezzjoni u ivvutajt ghall-ewwel darba ma kienx hemm ghalfejn noqghod nixtri l-independant sabiex nisma’ l-frustrazzjoni ta’ bniedma partikolari li tqazzez taqra artiklu minn taghha.
Barra minhekk nawgura minn qalbi li flimkien nazzjonalisti u laburisti jahdmu flimkien ghal gid ta’ dan il-pajjzi sabiex verament inkomplu nsahhu pajjizna u mhux inmorru lura ghal zmien il-hagar kif bil-kitba ta’ Daphne inhossna li hemm sejrin.
@ Adrian
Bil-kliem sabih tieghek fuq kull min ma jaqbilx mieghek veru ressaqt lill laburisti u nazzjonalisti flimkien!
Ara forsi tghidx lin-Nazzjonijiet Uniti forsi jibghatu ghalik bhala ambaxxatur f’xi pajjizi f’xifer ta’ gwerra. Ghandek il-habta kif tressaqhom lejn xulxin b’mod intelligenti u diplomatiku hafna.
Prosit gbin…
PS – Isma ghal li jista’ jkun mhux qed tuza t-tattika ta’ Profs Edward DeBono hux? Lateral thinking?? Ghax veru innovattiv fis-sitema.. Prosit ghal-darb’ohra he he he
U bilhaqq ghax kont ghoddni nsejt… hasra li l-maggoranza taz-zaghazagh bhalek (ghalinqas hekk qed nassumi), kellhom opinjoni differenti minn tieghek…. You’re the odd one out…
@adrian
You are using a stone-age line of thought. Ideologies have been dead for more that a decade. China the only remaining bulwark of the left has moved far off left which looks more like right. That is I you do not include North Korea as some leftist utopia.
You seem to be very young, I understand that you were not even born when DCG had her first column. I can tell you that I have read DCG from her first article in The Times and I can be honest with you, and also with her, that the only article that I had some reservations about was the one she lost her column in The Times, and it was still unfair on her. Not that I completely agree with whatever she writes mind you. But that is a marvellous mind you are talking about, and nothing you can say or write will change or diminish its churning analising power.
dik hija d-demokrazija u bil-klien nawzejanti ta’ wiehed bhalek li fejn jaqbillek biss titkellem zgur mhux ser tinkonvincuni sabiex elezzjoni ohra nivvota lilkom.
Il-pricipju tal-politika mhux li tattakka bniedem anke meta jkun f’qiegh ta’ sodda bil-cancer kif hadtu pjacir taghmlu meta dr Sant kiena marid.
Sfortunatament int wiehed minn dawn il-persuni li meta tippruvaw tliesnu kelma hlief mibeghda u ghodju m’ghandkomx.
taf l’ ghala jaghmlu hekk l-artikolisti taghkom ghax jafu li l-honey monn taghhom once irid jispicca. Ejja nkunu maturi u jien qed nappella lil laburisti u nazzjonalisti Il-prim Ministru Gonzi qal kelma tajba u jien naqbel mieghu perfettament f’din il-haga ejja nkunu nazzjon wiehed . Hekk hemm bzonn u vera ghandu ragun izda jekk irid verament li din tigi applikata iridu jieqfu dawn il-hnizrijiet ta’ bosta fuq il-gazzetti.
Nerga’ nghidlek mhu qatt ser nemmen li dawn in-nies jikkritikaw genwinament ghaliex il-kietba taghhom hija ispirata minn affarijiet malinni kontra l-individwu u dan mhux sew. Li ma taqbilx ma’ l-argument tal-politic hu fatt izda li tipprova tirredikola bll-kitba tieghek hemm hekk le qed naqbzu l-limit.
jien jekk genwinament din l-artikolista trid tipprova timpressjonani ghandha tkun denja u tikkritika b’mod kostruttiv u mhux kif isir fiz-zimbawe din hija kollha vjolenza verbali li fl-2008 mhux accettata.
@ Jennifer Attard
Violence Praticed in the 90’s? you really must have a vivid imagination, or must be living on another planet. Could you be refering to the time when Alfred Sant was Prime Minister from 1996-1998?
@ Adrian
Just get off you high horse, and back up your statements with proof. Are you trying to say that Labour has a social conscience? Let us not forget the years between 1971-1986.
Why is it that people like you have to bring up religion. I don’t think that all Nationalists are catholic.
No wonder the mlp are in a pit. Throw away the pick and find yourself a rope..
@Adrian
Go and write your drivel on h15.com were you have shown excellence in ignorance.
well said H.P. The most important things in life are ir-Rittienne and il-Jesmond … the rest is unimportant!
well said adrian
@ Abela Abel
As if defne is going to write about the green politician of the year…she probably now knows voting for him wasn’t the smartest thing because opposition wants him out…and the PN is facing a huge challenge in trying to get him out… come to think about it not only the opposition wants him out…i heard even some priests have been writing about it :)
we ll just wait and see
@ Gerald
Thank god most of of gozo’s delegates are for joseph muscat :)
[Moderator – ‘Don’t vote for someone because the opposition don’t like him’ – what kind of reasoning is that?]
@ Adrian.
Ser nikteb bil-Malti, ghax forsi tifhem ahjar. Ghoddok qabbistli demgha,kemm bil-mod kif tirraguna, u kif ukoll kemm thoss u taqbez ghall-fqir u l-batut. Donnok qed tghid li kull min jikteb hawnhekk ma jafx x’inhu faqar. Ghandek zball ohxon, u ahjar qabel toqghod titghajjar thalli lil zokortok tinxiflek sewwa, ghax milli jidher m’ilhiex li waqghetlek (ftit wara li waqghetlek mort tivvota lil Lejber ta’ qalbek).
Jekk trid nghidlek jien x’inhu faqar habib. Taf x’jigifieri li tkun tifel zghir li titrabba bla missier, f’dar zghira nieqsa minn kollox, bil-vit tal-ilma wara l-bieb ta’ barra, u bla eletriku? Dan, u hafna hafna aktar, ghaddejt minnu jien fil-bidu tas-snin 60.
Meta kbirt ftit u bdejt nahdem kien hemm is-salvatur ta’ Malta (jekk ghadek ma tafx, dan kien Duminku Mintoff)li tant kien jghid li jhobb lill-haddiema u lil dawk tal-klassi ‘baxxa’, bhall-familja mnejn hrigt jien. Malajr urieni x’kien isarraf, ghax ried ikecci 1,000 ruh mill-banek fl-1977 talli kienu f’union. Fosthom jien, hiereg mill-faqar.
Hasra li int indunajt tard wisq li kellek kap tal-partit li ma kienx tajjeb. Imma dak iz-zmien min jaf kemm kantajtlu viva l-lejber, viva l-lejber, hej hej hej…., mhux hekk? Donnu tn******k bik mhux hazin siehbi! Bija le, ghax it-taghlima li tani Dom meta kelli 18 fethitli ghajnejja darba ghal dejjem.
Kliemek ifakkarni f’versi ta’ George Orwell: “Four legs good, two legs bad…” (sorry kelli nikteb bl-Ingliz, jekk trid naqlibhomlok ghall-Malti). Donnu s’hemm jasal mohh xi nies.
@Adrian,
Haw siehbi! L-ewwel santu haga, kulhadd ghandu dritt ghall-opinjoni tieghu, u qed niehu gost li nies bhalek, bhal M u bhal Jennifer qed jiktbu f’dan il-blog. Niehu gost ukoll ninnota li minn kliemek, int donnok wiehed mill-izghar kittieba f’dan il-post – prosit!
Pero, siehbi, jien nahseb li skola mort (u forsi ghadek tmur) u nahseb li ghallmuk biex meta taghti opinjoni, isostniha, kemm bil-fatti kif ukoll bil-mod li tikteb.
Haga li laqtitni fil-kitba tieghek hi l-appelli kontinwi kontra certu kliem kattiv li jinkiteb hawn u wkoll favur l-ghaqda.
Imma xbin, kun konsistenti – bla ebda tlaqliq nghidlek li kontra x-xejra ta’ dak li tikteb, fil-kontribuzzjonijiet tieghek jispikkaw kliem ta’ mibgheda: nawzejanti, nasty witch, tattika moqzieza, etc etc.
People kept in the dark on increase in power surcharge
No plan on reining in on spiralling cost of living: Government shoves the buck on social partners
Finance Minister Tonio Fenech has on Friday confirmed that the rise in power surcharge is “inevitable” after June, yet he failed to give details and figures on the new tariffs to be imposed on Maltese families.
Social partners have on Thursday called on government to table details of how it intends to change the surcharge tariffs so that these can be discussed. Yet Minister Fenech had no concrete plans to offer to the Malta Council, Economic and Social Development (MCESD).
In comments soon after the meeting, social partners criticised the government for keeping them in the dark on the new increased surcharge tax. General Workers’ Union secretary general Tony Zarb, Union Haddiema Maghqudin secretary general Gejtu Vella and GRTU President Vince Farrugia all said that government kept them in the dark on the change in the price of surcharge.
Mr Zarb said that the GWU expects that the government discusses the new tariffs with social partners before taking a decision.
The MCESD meeting convened by government to discuss the worrying inflation rates in Malta proved how the Gonzi administration gave up on reining in on spiraling cost of living and slow competitiveness rates.
Instead of using the meeting to discuss an action plan on how to lessen the impact of inflation and the international economy, the Finance Minister shoved the buck on social partners asking them “submit proposals” on how to deal with such problems.
The meeting, as other similar MCESD meetings about the subject of cost of living, was dominated by rhetoric as government gave a presentation of the situation. There were no concrete suggestions by government on how to try to lessen these problems.
Tonio Fenech also said that the forward adjustment given as a wage increase to counter the rising cost of living in the 2008 budget has helped the Maltese households from feeling the pinch of inflation.
[Moderator – Peter B. is the latest incarnation of Jennifer Attard/Peter Muscat/Omar Bezzina. Their posts have been coming from the same computer since day one.]
The following are the top stories in the Maltese press today.
The Times says an investigation has shown that a group of 13 migrants was subjected to undue physical treatment. It also carries a report from Belgrade, where Malta failed to qualify for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest.
In-Nazzjon says the MLP has fallen silent on the leakage of personal information about its delegates to a newspaper. It reports the oil price jumped by $4 in a day to surpass $135 per barrel, causing greater international concern.
l-orizzont leads with the disappointment at the Eurovision Song Contest. It also quotes GWU general secretary Tony Zarb saying the workers cannot shoulder any more price increases. It also carries comments by Central Bank Governor Michael Bonello saying it was scandalous that Malta did not have measures to discourage the use of fuels.
The Malta Independent leads with a project for the artificial reproduction of tuna and the inquiry into alleged beating of migrants at Safi detention centre.
@Peter B/Jennifer Attard/Peter Muscat/etc….
Check out this link:
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/clpd/lls/download/avoiding%20plagiarism.pdf
http://www.ppr.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?p=189940
http://www.forum.mileniumnet.pl/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=571
http://forum.nowiny24.pl/powiekszenie-kredytu-hipotecznego-t13568/
http://ebiznesmeni.pl/forum/kredyt-hipoteczny-dla-studentow-t260.html
http://svinvestment.blogspot.com/2009/10/jaka-czesc-kredytu-studenckiego-jest.html
http://forum.dziennik.pl/index.php?/user/16807-kredyty-i-finanse/page__tab__aboutme
http://gewa.gsfc.nasa.gov/clubs/garden/MessageBoard.html#bn-forum-1-1-2051524061/5533/880582/
http://www.forumkierowcow.pl/showthread.php?p=442690
http://www.polnews.co.uk/forum/kredyt-mieszkaniowy-vt10538.htm
http://www.kredytbankowy.e-blogi.pl/
http://finanseosobiste.xanga.com/