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Joseph Muscat’s public relations machine has taken time out from promoting Pampers nappies in The Times and updated his entry on Wikipedia. Here’s what his people – or probably person, Alfred Sant’s former PR woman Lil Din – gave as his CV under the heading ‘Career’.
The first part of his career involved being born and raised a Catholic between 1974 and 1992. Smart career move, Joseph – it always pays to be born if you want to get ahead in this world. As for being raised a Catholic…..we’ve either got yet another chest-thumper here, or he’s even more of an opportunist than I had thought.
I’m not going to buy dinner for the first person to point out the glaring omission in this CV. It’s the four-year gap between 2004 and the present, the gap between editing (that’s a joke) Maltastar.com and becoming leader of the Partit Laburista. Why doesn’t he want to tell the world that he’s a member of the European Parliament? Now, I will buy lunch for the first person to give me the correct answer to that one, because I don’t have it.
Career
- 1974–1992: born and raised a Catholic.
- 1992–1996: journalist with Labour radio station, One Radio.
- 1996–1997: assistant head of news at One TV.
- 1997: EICC Executive
- 1997–1999: market intelligence manager
- 2000–2004: investment adviser
- 2001–2004: editor of Labour online newspaper, maltastar.com
- In the Labour Youth Forum:
- Financial Secretary (1994–1997)
- Acting Chairperson (1997)
- In the Malta Labour Party:
- 1994–2001: member of the National Executive
- 2001–2003: Education Secretary
- 2003: Chairman of the Annual General Conference November
- 1997–1998: Member of the National Commission for Fiscal Morality
- 2008 – : Leader of the Malta Labour Party
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Check the post of Sunday the 15th of June…. http://www.toniabela.blogspot.com
What is EICC one might ask?
In fact, we are talking here of the Euro Info Correspondence Centre, an EU-funded unit which was housed at the Malta External Trade Corporation, or METCO for short.
This entry on JM’s cv raises two issues:
So the anti-EU JM in effect decided to work in labour-led 1997 Malta for a unit which was funded by the EU. Very consistent for an EU critic to have his bread buttered by the very institution he was all out against at that time. It also shows that he really liked the scenario and continued building upon it later on in his career when he was elected an MEP. Do I recall someone saying : Don’t do as I do but do as I say?
The second and more important issue is this: how did JM end up recruited in EICC? Was there a public call for applications, under the process overseen by the ETC for recruitment within the government owned entities, which is what should have been done, given that METCO was a public entity? Of course not: JM was very conveniently put on the red carpet thanks to the power of incumbency of the then powers that be.
Oh my Lord! My sweet Lord! Hallelujah!
Maybe he really does consider himself to be akin to Jesus Christ. Why else would he consider being born to be part of his “career”.
As for his comment in the Weekender interview of Saturday 14.06.08 (that the place on earth he would really like to show to his twins is the EXACT place where they were conceived, “but that’s a secret for now!”), either he’s really a w***er, in the literal sense of the word, or he’s just downright uncouth. Either way, he simply shouldn’t have made that statement, and certainly not at this point in his “career”.
What is it with these Labour leaders?
First we had Alfred Sant thinking about “Sarkoszy having fun with Carla Bruni” just before going under the anaesthetic at Mater Dei last December, and having the ignorance to mention it in his interview with Ariadne Massa in The Sunday Times. (Maybe he was flirting with her, to prove that he does have something in his pants after all!)
Now Joseph Muscat with this? What a w****r!
“Why doesn’t he want to tell the world that he’s a member of the European Parliament?”
Quite simple if you ask me, he doesn’t want non-maltese, which includes most forign government officials, who don’t have a clue as to who he is to look him up and find entertaining reading!
@MPG – I clicked on the link. Nauseating. It looks like Toni Otello has been struck down by the love-bug, too. Only a couple of weeks ago he wrote a piece full of vulgar insults about me for L-Orizzont (I found it because a couple of people left messages on my answering machine telling me to sue him) and now he’s all loved up and Francis-of-Assisi. I wonder how long these people are going to keep up their vomitous act?
@Squeeker: Joseph Muscat was the pet protege of Mario Vella (tal-MDC). He was another one who thought the light shone out of the seat of Muscat’s pants. There you have your answer: hbieb tal-hbieb.
The following quote says it all:
Dr Abela in his blog three days after being elected MLP Deputy Leader for Party Affairs –
“Nista nassigurakom li jiena u l-mara nghaddu zmien mal-kompjuter aktar milli nghaddu zmien ma’ xulxin fis-sodda”
What bad taste!
He’s left out 4 years because he can’t figure out how to reconcile his deep love for his current employer and the ambivalent feelings of his up-coming employer for his current employer.
I claim lunch.
ABC & DCG new found algebrical equation.
Given: ELVES = MLP
but MLP = MALTESE
also PN = MALTESE
hence MLP = PN
therefore PN = ELVES
as MLP + PN = MALTESE
therefore MALTESE = ELVES
ABC = MALTESE
DCG = MALTESE
ABC=DCG= ELVES Q.e.d
Simple algebra without negatuive signs
Very nice name calling started by you know how and boomeranged!
P.S. Vomiting, vomitous, for Daphne these come out quite easily from her mouth. Others first feel sick. She no, she does it every time she starts writing, she does not care whether it will splatter on her entourage. Who cares? She does it intentionally and likes it.
Like Joseph, I know where my first child was concieved. Exactly. But I will probably tell my boy on my deathbed, if at all. Why JM chose to want to publicly share that he wants to tell his twins where they were concieved is in bad taste. who wants to know anyway? and is that all he has to offer as leader and ( God Forbid) potential PM? Well, the maltese have a brain that they will use, I hope. I shudder to think of how many intimate facts we are going to hear in the next few years. Unless someone comes up with some salacious story about some kind of kinky sex…….
It is noticed that this site is starting to get blasphemous quoting with irreverence sacred names. It started first by Mrs. Daphne Caruana Galizia that stimulated a certain Amanda Mallia not to care doing it. You must have more respect, even if you are non believers. Sacred names should never be included in sites like this and included in the published blogs.
Moderator, the character of this site is evident enough as it is; don’t let it mix the sacred with the profane particularly with obnoxious statements.
I am proud to state that with all my defects, in my life I never dared mention a sacred name in vain.This not boasting but to say that one is free to write what he wants but should keep within ceretain borders.
Nice photo Daphne- thanks for having the guts to pull everyone’s leg!! we need more of these type of journalists – intelligent enough to make sense when needed, and sarcastic enough to pull one’s legs if a person goes over the top. Another thing about calling certain persons with animal names – guess they shouldnt have been so stupid to post certain photos and quotes!! If you are in the public eye you have to expect all kind of remarks and take them all with a pinch of salt i guess
Seeing this cv makes me thinking……how can one hope to govern a country when in reality he has no work experience!!!! The only works experience he has is within the party structure, and thats not definetely a healthy working environment. I bet we have another Doktor tal-Ekonomija with just theories and no practice……….
@Amanda – Sant was just playing mind games.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4068780.ece
The birthday and the fact that he was born is an important piece of information. After all Christians celebrate Jesus birthday, Chinese used to celebrate Mao’s birthday, In North Korea they still celebrate Kim’s birthday (Mario Vella must be familair with that one), while in Malta we might have a new additional public holiday looming on the horizon.
“@MPG – I clicked on the link. Nauseating. It looks like Toni Otello has been struck down by the love-bug, too. Only a couple of weeks ago he wrote a piece full of vulgar insults about me for L-Orizzont (I found it because a couple of people left messages on my answering machine telling me to sue him) and now he’s all loved up and Francis-of-Assisi. I wonder how long these people are going to keep up their vomitous act?”
heh ha tejd al toni ablea?? int hajtek tikkonsisti f tghajjir kontra l laburisti imbad xhin jajjrek xi hadd itellaw il qorti???
Daphne: The Chairman of METCO was not Dr. Mario Vella in 1997… It would be interesting to know who it was and what happened to him…
It’s been corrected … can I have my lunch anyway?
Andrew, you’re on. For a moment there, I imagined he might have slipped back into that womb for four years, only to be reborn as party leader.
Sybil, I didn’t say that Mario Vella was chairman of METCO when Joseph Muscat was employed there. I referred to Mario Vella as he used to be known – Mario Vella tal-MDC, because that is where he was for many years under Labour.
Michael Debono, unused to being mocked are you? A true spiritual child of those who burned down the Allied Newspapers building….and I suppose you’re going to tell me now that Labour had nothing to do with it.
Markus – my point exactly. One of my sons (not the famous one) made a remark over lunch which struck me. It was that left-wing politicians are prone to believe that life is pretty much what it is in books, and that it can be regulated and forced to conform to a pattern. The longer they spend away from power the more entrenched this belief becomes – until, when they are finally in a position to implement their ‘dream’, they find that they can’t. They realise with a shock that life and the running of a country do not move along on railtracks, and they can’t cope. It doesn’t help that many of our so-called left-wing politicians have spent more time in academia than they have in private business or the corporate world. They really have no idea how things work. Hence, Alfred Sant and his CET, Joseph Muscat and his fictitious 15-year ‘plan’ and Toni Abela and his Labour supermarket for Labour shoppers.
@lol – you missed the point. I wasn’t remarking on the fact that Toni Abela insulted me in vulgar language. He has been doing that for many years. I was remarking on the fact that after years of doing this, and most recently a few weeks ago, he has now written a Francis-of-Assisi piece in line with the current dictum of Love. It’s embarrassing…for him.
@DCG
Re:Toni Abela’s letter.
Aren’t you insulted by that blog piece? I’d be – its utterly hypocritical and just plain pathetic, especially at the point in which he added that Scrooge comparison – right after asking if you want to be his friend.
That little piece by our Toni broke my heart into a million tiny pieces. JM has taught us all to love one another, and that piece addresed at our Daphne was written in the same new spirit of love, tolerance and universal understanding that The Anointed One has brought us. Daphne, please consider it in this vein….Toni has seen the light. Verily, his heart has been touched by the Power Of Love.He is Sad. Have a bit of heart. Forgive him his trespass. So what if he attacked you in that marvel of maltese literatue, L-orizzont? That was Two WeekS Ago and the era of Brotherly Motherly Love had not yet dawned on this fair isle. Forgive, Daphne, Forgive and Forget, Meet him, Kiss and Make up. For this is the spirit of the New Generation, and we have much to thank the Delegati for. Kif xbajt nikteb il-hmerijiet……..ahjar inkompli nahdem!
Don’t get me wrong, but I am in favour of DCG meeting TA…provided that I am seated at the next table!
SB – I second that. I will gladly share that table with you
I really don’t need to meet Toni Abela. That was a fatuous suggestion on his part. I see him every time I go to Valletta, have known him for years, and try to avoid him not because of his politics but because I can’t stand blustering men.
ABC / DCG – “It’s been corrected … can I have my lunch anyway?”
A fan of Joseph Muscat (or maybe the poddle himself) is obvsiously lurking on the blog. Why else would that bit of his “career” have been included in his Wikipedia entry 4 years later, coincidentally as soon as the “gap” was highlighted on this blog?
Michael Debono – Was this the offending piece I wrote? –
“Maybe he really does consider himself to be akin to Jesus Christ. Why else would he consider being born to be part of his “career”.”
If so, then you’ve got a problem with your English. In case you hadn’t noticed, I was making fun of Joseph Muscat. Comparing Christ to Muscat would have been more of a joke, yes, but I made no such comparison.
So there’s another common factor amongst Labourites – you’ve got absolutely no sense of humour.
And here’s another gem, this time from Toni Otello Abela(who, incidentally, reminds me more of Speedy Gonzalez with that carefully-shaven moustache on his blogspot photo): “Nista nassigurakom li jiena u l-mara nghaddu zmien mal-kompjuter aktar milli nghaddu zmien ma’ xulxin fis-sodda.” (Extracted from http://toniabela.blogspot.com/2008/06/tilgablix-mal-mouse.html )
And by the way, Toni Abela – that should be “maws”, not “mouse”, if you want to use the now official Maltese word (seeing that you’ve used “kompjuter”)!
@Amanda Mallia
To be fair, the “gap” in JM’s CV has been created quite recently. I am sure it was NOT there when he was just an MEP!
Re: kompjuter…I know you won’t agree on this but I find it 100% acceptable!
I suggest that DCG, ABC, TA & JM meet for supper. Let’s be part of the BIDU GDID people!
We should really start loving each other.
MLP … Malta LOVE Party.
Inhobbkom. Ejja nhobbu lil xulxin!
Peace.
I wouldn’t care to be mocked “dear” Daphne, and to be called names, that is what to expect when coming face to face with non ” elves” bloggers of this site. Burning the Times by unruly individuals is not something nice to remember, but not even the murder of an innocent girl by some graduand.
To insert references to sacred names in this site is irreverent.
Why not compare people to any historical person, or is history such a difficult subject to remember?
Finally does one need to have been to the University to understand a comparison, Amanda? It is the comparison that ought to have been avoided.
Comparisons with animals in this site are now being replaced by comparisons with sacred names. What a drift!
A few days ago I used a false humoristic name “Lucy Fair” and nobody noticed until I drew my self the attention of a contributor. I had expected to be the subject of who knows how many comments. I invited such comments since they would have been directed to the name Lucy Fair that by itself deserved any insult.
Michael Debono: and your point is…?
Ms Corinne Vella
Just guess!Don’t you have some grey matter?
Michael Debono: Why should I bother guessing? I’ve plenty of grey matter, but none to waste on nonsense.
Ugly witch,
do u pretend 2 b catholic? I truly believe that St Paul reserved d poison 2 b put in your mouth!
[Daphne – Charming. Who told you that I’m ugly, darling? Those squat little men at Maltastar who hover somewhere around my navel? Nobody in my family is ugly, but rather the opposite. At the risk of rubbing your nose in it – I can’t resist – we have the genes for good looks AND brains, and some of us have the genes for creativity as well. Aren’t we lucky? Oh, and lots of us are tall, too. Isn’t life unfair? And no, I don’t ‘pretend 2 b’ Catholic (literal translation of ‘tippretendi’, I imagine, like those thick-heads who write the Maltastar stories). In fact, had you ever read the many things I have written about the subject, you would know my precise views on the subject of religion. But then, I imagine you can’t read anything that isn’t written in SMS-ese. Do I detect an undertow of southern Mediterranean misogyny here? Ugly witch? Velenu f-ilsien in-nisa? Y dont u go bek 2 skul?]
Call me ignorant, but what is this “Elves” reference?
[Daphne – Bit of a long story. Around a year ago, I noticed that many of the letters appearing in the correspondence columns of The Times, The Sunday Times, The Malta Independent and The Malta Independent on Sunday had the same theme – ‘I am Nationalist but given the wrong-doings of this government, I am going to vote Labour’ – and practically the same wording. I noticed, too, that some of them appeared to be attributed to false names. I wrote an article called ‘The elves in Sant’s grotto’, about how the leader of the opposition had a grotto of elves – what else, it was around Christmas time or just afterwards – beavering away producing letters to the editor rather than toys. Overnight, the word took on new meaning as ‘an otherwise invisible party person writing letters to the editor or posting partisan comments on line’ and entered the language. It became entrenched when one of those elves, a university student, round-robin emailed some other elves with a ‘she thinks she’s uncovered us’ kind of message and mistakenly included my editor in his address-line, possibly because one of the elves had a similar name. And so, of course, I got to see the email and to write about it.]
Daphne:
Thanks for the explanation. It’s called “sock puppets” online in general. Great story though and congratulations on coining a term :)
“ It became entrenched when one of those elves, a university student, round-robin emailed some other elves with a ‘she thinks she’s uncovered us’ kind of message and mistakenly included my editor in his address-line”
I don’t suppose you could post that e-mail for laughs?
[Daphne – It’s long gone.]
David, I’ve found a link:
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=59399