The progressive Moviment Gdid tal-Labour begins to speak about Libya
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February 23, 2011 at 10:29am
And the first to do so, natch, is one of the brontosauruses who have taken over: Joe Grima, with a spectacularly racist comment.
“Il-poplu Libjan m’ghandux il-kultura li ghandu il-poplu Ewropew…. Dawn huma nies differenti.”
– Joe Grima, PBS news bulletin, yesterday night
Presumably he meant that Libyan people are happy to be blasted to bits or cower in their homes because they’re ruled by a madman.
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We shall be suing you for libel. We are more attractive than Joe Grima.
Qisu fekruna dan, kultant johrog rasu, imma biex jghid ic-cucati.
Minn fekruna qatt ma’ smajt cucati.
Forsi behsiebu jsir ambaxxatur ghal-Libja meta jitilghu il-Labour?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698
0933: More on that resignation in Libya. “I resigned from the Gaddafi Foundation on Sunday to expressdismay against violence,” Reuters quoted Youssef Sawani as saying in a text message to one of its correspondents. Mr Sawani was executive director of the foundation, which had been Saif al-Islam’s – Col Gaddafi’s son – chief means of wielding influence.
0929: Support for Libya’s Col Gaddafi seems to be haemorrhaging further. Reuters news agency says that a senior aide to the Colonel’s son, Saif, resigned today.
Joe Grima – really very thick skinned. He likes to see himself on the screen – but how old he really looks. Good for the next “Tas-Serh Labour Cabinet”.
0942: The Guardian newspaper’s correspondent Martin Chulov has made his way to Benghazi, from Baghdad, where he is usually stationed. He sends this tweet: “Seen anti aircraft shell casings on streets in benghazi #libya. Damage on nearby buildings shows they were widely used.” There were reports several days ago that Libyan security forces had used anti-aircraft artillery against protesters there.
Ah! That’s why the Labour government of the 70s forced a whole generation of Maltese students to study Arabic language and culture. It was Labour’s way of creating a multi-cultural Maltese society. Now I get it.
On a silghtly different note: Malta has a history of decorating the ‘right kind’ of people. Let’s not forget our glorious university conferred an honoris causa to … Nicolae Ceauşescu.
Our passports were green and designed to look Libyan.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110223/local/afm-denies-libyan-warships-arrival-reports
“mariella galea(41 minutes ago)What is Muammar Gaddafi decides to blow our little rock,since in his eyes we are giving refuge to libyan aircrafts ,ships and god knows what else next?!!!!!!”
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iGfZKv_9LCY/SMVNxE5czaI/AAAAAAAAABA/bS4-asERYHE/s320/GADDAFI+FENECH+ADAMI.jpg
1011: More from French President Nicolas Sarkozy on his call for EU sanctions against Libya: “The international community can not remain a spectator to these massive violations of human rights,” a statement from his office says.
1000: AFP has news of another potential hit for Libya’s economy as French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for the the EU to adopt “swift and concrete sanctions” and to suspend economic and financial relations with the country.
1017: CNN carries a report of an interview with former Libyan Interior Minister Abdul Fattah Younis al-Abidi, who resigned on Tuesday. Mr al-Abidi said Col Gaddafi was so stubborn that he will not give up. “He will either commit suicide or he will get killed.”
If he commits suicide or gets killed, it is always “good riddance”.
1021: The UN Human Rights Council says it will hold a special session on 25 February – Friday – to discuss the crisis in Libya. A UN official said the EU had requested the session. The UN human rights high commissioner, Navi Pillay, said on Tuesday that what is happening in Libya “may amount to crimes against humanity”.
This old man is a racist. Please ignore him.
Racists should be exposed, not ignored.
Norman Lowell’s new best friend. I always said MLP is fascist.
I am writing from London where I lived more than two thirds of my life.
I visited Libya and I speak fluent Arabic. I feel more at home in Libya than I do in my native country Malta.
Libyans are very friendly, courteous and hospitable.
The Maltese who are mistreated in Libya are the racist ones who look down on Libyans and adopt a superiority complex.
Generalisations, right?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110223/local/another-two-libyan-embassy-guards-quit-protesters
Wednesday, 23rd February 2011 – 11:17CET
Another two Libyan embassy guards quit: protesters
Another two security guards of the Libyan embassy quit their posts this morning and walked out of the embassy.
Their departure was greeted by applause and cheers by a small group of anti-Gaddafi protesters who had gathered outside the embassy.
Another three security officials left the embassy on Monday.
The latest defectors came out carrying bags and according to the protesters, they are going straight to Libya to be with their families.
Donnu nesa li fi zmien Mintoff (Joe Grima inkluz) kienu jghidulna li l-Maltin u l-Libjani huma ahwa (blood brothers). Issa mid-dehra s-Sur Grima jikkunsidra ruhu bhala Ewropew, u allura differenti.
Iddeciedi darba ghal dejjem Joe fejn trid tkun biex forsi fl-ahhar nifhmuk.
Joe Grima – very stupid comment. It’s not il-poplu Libyan’s fault that they haven’t got ‘il-kultura li ghandu il-poplu Ewropew’. They were never given the chance to have it in the first place because of who they are protesting against.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110223/local/gwu-concerned-with-developments-in-libya
Il-problema hija li Joe Grima probabilment ghamel dak il-kumment f’sens depreggativ u mhux f’sens deskrittiv.
Dan ghaliex ironikament dak li qal hu totalment veru – l-Gharab ghandhom kultura differenti. Per ezempju m’ghandhomx idea ta distinzjoni knisja u stat u affarijiet bhal dawn li jezistu fl-Occident. Imma wisq nibza li Joe Grima tant hu injorant li qas jifhem li per ezempju fl-Islam il-kuncett ta’ knisja ma jezistix. L-Islamici jirragunaw religjon u stat.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/…/gwu-concerned-with-developments-in-libya
1134: More on those reports that mercenaries are being used in Libya against protesters. Libya analyst George Joffe, from the Centre for International Studies at Cambridge University, says the origins of the force go back to the 1980s, when Col Gaddafi argued that Libya should be open to anyone who was Muslim. “What are now described as foreign mercenaries are, in fact, people brought into Libya as part of the regime’s ideological awareness of its wider Muslim dimension and they’re now being used against the Libyan people themselves,” Mr Joffe told the BBC.
Is it only me, or is there a racist undertone to this sort of remark?
It is not an undertone. It is blatantly racist.
No, it’s not only you. It’s a VERY racist remark.
It’s the result of the brainwashing he received from the PN when, on NET TV (at gunpoint), he was forced to mount a crusade against Alfred Sant and the MLP.
He’s never been the same since.
According to Joe Grima, social services were possible in Malta only because of Mintoff’s friendship with Gaddafi, which allowed us to buy cheap oil which we then sold on at a profit. So then why were we made to pay 65% income tax?
1205: More condemnation of Libyan security forces for using violence against protesters. This time from EU President Herman Van Rompuy, who said the deaths of protesters was “horrible” and would “not remain without consequences”.
Report exposes Italy and Malta as top EU arms exporters to Libya
Brussels – Libya has received hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of arms from the European Union, with Italy and Malta emerging as the bloc’s top exporters, according to a report doing the rounds in Brussels on Wednesday.
The report, which was first published by the EU in January but had gone largely unnoticed, came to the fore as Moamer Gaddafi’s regime was attracting worldwide condemnation for quashing anti-government protests by killing hundreds of civilians.
According to the EU’s latest annual report on arms exports, which refers to 2009, the bloc’s member states granted 343 million euros’ (470 million dollars’) worth of export licences to Libya.
The document noted that actual arms exports to Libya amounted to 174 million euros, but warned that figures were incomplete.
Malta emerged as the second-largest exporter, having authorized the sale of an 80-million-euro consignment of small arms.
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[Daphne – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110223/local/malta-exported-79m-in-small-arms-to-libya ]http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/news/article_1621386.php/Report-exposes-Italy-and-Malta-as-top-EU-arms-exporters-to-Libya
Kev- where in Malta is that arms factory? Can you organise a group tour?
Never heard of a middle-man?
BREAKING: Many rape victims in Tripoli last night.
Posted on February 23, 2011 by admin
A source from Tripoli has confirmed to us that Al Zawiya Street hospital seen many rape victim admittances last night. Such deplorable and sickening actions were committed after Gaddafi’s speech in which he called for door-to-door cleansing of the city from those who are against his regime.
kev, it’s your time to revolt. Get out of the bathroom and stand up to Sharon. Issa daqshekk.
I travelled to Libya many times during the time of the Lockerbie-related sanctions.
The hardest-hit people were the least privileged and the foreign workers. The regime used the sanctions as a cover-up for its incompetencies and inefficiencies. This article by Simon Jenkins captures the gist of what sanctions are really all about.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article4322592.ece
Kev,
mhux qed thallat l-armi mal-polvri tan-nar li jimpurta s-sur Muscat?
Joe Grima should explain his words or else he must apologise for his remark.
See the article at the bottom of this page.
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Prime+minister+criticized+for+Western+culture+remarks.-a079665343
See also this link.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/storm-over-berlusconi–inferior-muslims-remarks-670971.html
Joe Grima jitkellem kif jaqbillu, mhux kif suppost. Issa qed jara li siehbu Gaddafi ser ihalina u allura mhux qed jara xi futur fejn jista jdahhal xi haga fil but minnu, allura issa jghid dawn il hmerijiet.