Another free ride on other people’s efforts
I can't believe they're still around: AST and Il-Guy welcome Gaddafi to Malta in the 1970s. Now they're crawling to the NTC in Benghazi.
Neither Joseph Muscat personally nor his Labour Party played any part at all in the aid efforts for Misurata.
Instead, they sat back and were ‘prudent’.
I seem to recall, however, that Muscat and Michelle rocked up to the packing station in their weekend clothes last summer, Michelle fresh out of the pool and still with her hair wet, and gave the volunteers some packs of bottled water.
But to ordinary people living in Misurata, a Maltese person is a Maltese person.
And so when Muscat, Il-Guy, AST, MIchael Farrugia and that turnip Noel Farrugia turned up there this morning, they were “welcomed with enthusiasm” – or so Muscat told his party’s Super One Radio by telephone.
Quite obviously, they have no idea that AST and Il-Guy practically lived in Gaddafi’s knickers for three decades and were rooting for his survival last year.
Bla zejt f’wicchom.
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This is probably one of the few photos in which Alex Sceberras Trigona looks completely at ease rather than stiff and stone-faced. It must have been Gaddafi’s love endorphins playing tricks on him. Can you imagine him so at ease with Angela Merkel?
PS. Who is the man on the left?
[Daphne – Between Gaddafi and AST, there’s Lino Spiteri. Between AST and Karmenu Vella, there’s Philip Muscat (who was minister of education). At the far right of the photograph, it’s Vincent Moran, then minister for health. The woman is Agatha Barbara.]
What woman?
The man on the left is Agata Barbara.
What man?
Can you lot get more disgusting.
God forbids you show any respect for anyone that’s not flying the PN flag.
@ac. Agatha Barbara wasn’t exactly a person who treated others with kid gloves.
AST’s letter sounds like something Charles Ryder would write home, asking for more money.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Power-Joseph/301553663234599
Hallew warajhom lil Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici u hadu maghhom lil AST?
KMB did a “Stand by your man”, AST did a pinnur.
Why didn’t they take Yana Bland with them? I wonder.
Forsi marru jitolbuhom lura l-airspace li hadu lil-perit? Can somebody give the details on that particular episode, please?
I have no doubt whatsoever that the current Libyan political elite will see through the PL’s cheek and crass opportunism.
Certainly their informers have told them that the PL support for Gaddafi only stopped when he was in the culvert.
If you allow me a slight deviation from today’s topic. This is what Malta will be like from 2013, latest.
For Kim Jong Un, Kim il Sung, and Kim Jong Il read Joseph, Mintoff and KMB respectively. And for Korea, read Malta.
“Pyongyang, April 15 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army, together with senior party, state and army officials visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and paid tribute to President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il on Sunday, the Day of the Sun.
Kim Jong Un entered the hall where the statues of the President and Kim Jong Il stand.
Laid before the statues was a floral basket in the joint name of the Central Committee of the WPK, the Central Military Commission of the WPK, the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly and the Cabinet of the DPRK.
Kim Jong Un, together with senior party, state and army officials, paid humblest tribute to the statues.
Then he entered a hall where the President lies in state.
Together with senior party, state and army officials, he made bows to the President in humblest reverence.
Kim Jong Un then entered a hall where the portrait of a smiling Kim Jong Il is hung.
Kim Jong Un, together with senior party, state and army officials, paid humblest tribute to the portrait.
Accompanying him were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae, Ri Yong Ho, Kim Kyong Hui, Kim Jong Gak, Jang Song Thaek, Pak To Chun, Kim Yong Chun, Kim Kuk Thae, Kim Ki Nam, Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop, Ri Yong Mu, Kang Sok Ju, Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Won Hong, Ri Myong Su, Kim Yang Gon, Kim Yong Il, Thae Jong Su, Kim Phyong Hae, Mun Kyong Dok, Ju Kyu Chang, Kwak Bom Gi, Kim Chang Sop, Ri Pyong Sam, Ro Tu Chol, Jo Yon Jun, who are senior party, state and army officials, officials of the Party central guidance body and those of the party, Cabinet and social organizations and commanding officers of the KPA.”
I’m not sure if this is funny, or sad.
But I sort of understand what Joseph meant when he told the Korean Ambassador that “He was convinced that the Korean people would greet the centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung with shining achievements in economic construction under the wise leadership of the dear respected Kim Jong Un, he said. He hoped that everything would continue going well in the DPRK.”
“In a press release issued late yesterday afternoon, the Labour Party said the visit took place at the invitation of the Libyan National Transitional Council.
But a letter seen by The Sunday Times sent by international secretary Alex Sceberras Trigona last February asked the council to organise a meeting for Dr Muscat.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120415/local/Sceberras-Trigona-solicited-PL-visit-to-Libya.415455
A two-handed handshake between Sceberras Trigona and Gaddafi – it wasn’t just a polite formality but a very friendly greeting.
Mela Gaddafi kien Mazun?
Lino Spiteri in The Times today:
“The suggestion is absurd both in political as well as in economic terms. No one in his right mind would wish to project the idea of expanding a political relationship with North Korea.”
Ma jafux jisthu dawn in-nies.