Comments on: Green credentials? That's hdura, not environmentalism

By: Adrian Borg

Adrian Borg — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:22:57 +0000

Look whose turn it is to crawl out of the woodwork and give us his enlightened views:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=90700

Is it me, or is Josie uncannily sounding more and more like the Mintoff of old: “Nissikkaw ic-cintorin u hallikom minn dan n*jk!”

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:22:27 +0000

AD beat FAA to what? Sorry for being thick but didn’t quite get it.

[Daphne – AD issued a statement on the Renzo Piano plans within hours. FAA hasn’t yet, and I suspect never will, despite all the campaigning over the last few months.]

Of course, irrespective of whether you agree on a party’s stance or not it is easier being a chattering NGO than sticking your neck out in elections especially here in Malta with the total domination of PLPN.

[Daphne – You’ve got to keep up. The total domination is now PLAD. It’s called the Collation of Change. All AD’s support has deserted it for Labour.]

By: embor

embor — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:55:58 +0000

The following is an interesting comment from the Chairman of the FAA: “We cannot rely on well-meaning but non-professional people anymore.” (This was referred to in a comment under the” L-aqwa li teqred u tmeri: is Astrid lying or does she have short-term memory loss?” post).

So that is what they have been doing all along; taking positions on the basis of “the word of well-meaning but unprofessional people”. This is what they did in the cases of Ghar il-Lembi, Ramla l-Hamra and St. Johns Co-Cathedral. FAA failed to learn from their past mistakes. They got it spectacularly wrong in the case of the Qormi armoury where they identified the wrong building.

FAA have taken this approach to extremes with Astrid consistently taking the we-know-it-all and we-are-the-people attitude.

I am not sure what the context to this FAA statement is but to my mind it is an implicit admission that, more often than not, FAA got it wrong.

Is it hdura, is it the tendency to lie and manipulate to get one’s way or is it just plain stupidity? I think it is a mix of all three.

By: Xaghra

Xaghra — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:15:42 +0000

Go to Super One and watch their version of Hardtalk with Joseph and Stephen Sackur both wearing boots – how crass….

By: kev

kev — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:36:52 +0000

I hope Astrid doesn’t campaign against the CO2 tax for warming up the whole solar system.

Those scientists who were saying the earth is now cooling, were proved wrong with the recent heatwave in Europe.

“Have the climate change deniers abandoned us during the heatwave?” asks Greenhouse-effect-global-warming-climate-change guru George Monbiot http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/2009/jun/29/climate-change-scepticism-heatwave?commentpage=2

But happy times are ahead. The EU is liberalising fruit & vegetables. How sweet & green of them.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/054-57764-201-07-30-909-20090706STO57744-2009-20-07-2009/default_en.htm