Comments on: Labour website Maltastar has pronounced itself on the momentous fall of Tripoli

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:40:28 +0000

It struck me as somewhat strange that the Maltastar report on Libya did not have their trade-mark errors. The reason was quite simple: entire paragraphs had been, erm, “paraphrased” from, among others, the International Reporter website.

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=16413

http://www.internationalreporter.com/News-7512/more-clashes-after-rebels-sweep-tripoli.html

By: Grezz

Grezz — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:04:17 +0000

In reply to Paul Borg. Mela tal-Labour xi qadd ghamlu xi haga sew, jew?

By: Herman

Herman — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:45:47 +0000

The picture was taken some time between 1982 and 1984 when Agatha Barbara was president. So it’s about 27 to 29 years ago.

By: yor/malta

yor/malta — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:46:15 +0000

Mum’s gleefully remembering when she gave is-Salvatur ta’ Malta the one-finger salute as she stood at a bus stop as his motorcade whisked by.

By: Jozef

Jozef — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:36:12 +0000

It’s the final countdown.

As for their ability with numbers, remember when 51 was less than 49?

By: ACD

ACD — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:03:47 +0000

Quite unrelated, but they even get fooled by One’s misleading reporting on fuel prices.

“Malta with highest fuel prices”
http://maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=16406

http://www.energy.eu/ shows Malta’s unleaded prices at 2c below EU average and diesel at 0.2c above average (a far cry from Greece’s €1.671 for unleaded).

By: Silverbug

Silverbug — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:04:51 +0000

The rules of journalism are shredded and the language is execrable. Why the hell don’t they just go for Maltese?

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:02:38 +0000

quotable quote – source unknown

“He who still cheers Gaddafi would have cheered Hitler back in April 1945 because “the USA/the Communists hate him”.

So this is also very much a lesson about the mental processes that make history repeat itself.”

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:26:52 +0000

Journalists today had a choice – get Joseph Muscat’s opinion (he’d need hours to come up with it because of caution and what have you), or get KMB’s – which is deranged, unpolitically correct, undiluted by common sense and equally (if not more) amusing…

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110822/local/kmb-gaddafi-has-no-choice-but-to-fight-till-the-end.381367

By: Vaux

Vaux — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:14:17 +0000

The complex situation in the Middle East will have another added plus- the aftermath of Kaddafi probably with all the media tic coverings of trails, hangings and all that. Then the universal centuries-old cry, at last peace and prosperity. .

I am afraid Libya would soon be an additional tinder box, to those already in existence, Afghanistan, of what was an Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, and perhaps next Syria and Iran. Lest we forget that it was not Khomeini that brought down the Pahlavi dynasties, (from Paris he had only to fuel hater , already strongly embedded in the Iranian masses), it was the Shah himself trying to accelerate the transition from medieval/feudal Iran into the 21st century, he failed and Iran was lost to the west , another tinder box?

I am talking now not of thousands of people, making up these countries but figures reaching billions. My blood freezes at the apocalyptic prospects of that mass unrest.

If one looks carefully into the Libya question, the very opposition (the rebels) are divided by their individual motivated political targets and their very own tribal allegiances. We will have to see how they would be eventually reconciled and by whom.

It is not in Israel interests in having so many frontiers of destabilized countries.

It is not in Malta’s interest having a destabilized Southern Mediterranean basin stretching from Morocco to Turkey, unless of course wanting to become pawns in war games- the Mediterranean has a 5000 years history of that !

I like French President Sarkozy vision (I stand to be corrected about the wording) of a united states of the Mediterranean region. There will never be peace in the world unless there is stability in our region. It’s time we stop talking about our favorite’s heroes and villains in this tragic and dangerously volatile political situation.