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		By: JJ		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JJ]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lets all hope that if the Labour Party is ever in goverment she will not make part of it. 

At 23 she did it in Britan and in 2013 she might do it in the European Parliament. 

She is a disgrace to the Maltese and should not be promoted by the Labour Party.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lets all hope that if the Labour Party is ever in goverment she will not make part of it. </p>
<p>At 23 she did it in Britan and in 2013 she might do it in the European Parliament. </p>
<p>She is a disgrace to the Maltese and should not be promoted by the Labour Party.</p>
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		By: Neil Dent		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Neil Dent]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The interview reached its most obscene at the above point. 

Mind you, although she mentioned hunger-sriker Bobby Sands in passing (I got the impression the interviewer was thinking, Bobby who?), she was VERY careful not to mention the IRA by name.

The interviewer&#039;s apparent level of research was appalling I thought. Very weak, namby-pamby questions about not very much at all.

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - I think on the whole he showed a healthy cynicism. I rather fear that somebody older than he is would have shown this ridiculous woman too much reverence, the sort they show her father. Imagine her chuntering on about Bobby Sands during her visits to her &#039;constituents&#039; in Bormla and &lt;em&gt;qieh il-Belt&lt;/em&gt;. She&#039;s addressing an audience of &#039;Sliema voters&#039; of the Bobby Sands generation (and believe me when I say that many of my contemporaries, who grew up as I did with Bobby Sands and the IRA almost permanently in the news, still somehow manage not to know who he was) and yet her chosen constituency is of a very different type of voter. That&#039;s because she aims to get elected solely on the basis of being it-tifla ta&#039; Dumink - the tifla they never saw or even knew he had because she left Malta before I was born.]&lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The interview reached its most obscene at the above point. </p>
<p>Mind you, although she mentioned hunger-sriker Bobby Sands in passing (I got the impression the interviewer was thinking, Bobby who?), she was VERY careful not to mention the IRA by name.</p>
<p>The interviewer&#8217;s apparent level of research was appalling I thought. Very weak, namby-pamby questions about not very much at all.</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; I think on the whole he showed a healthy cynicism. I rather fear that somebody older than he is would have shown this ridiculous woman too much reverence, the sort they show her father. Imagine her chuntering on about Bobby Sands during her visits to her &#8216;constituents&#8217; in Bormla and <em>qieh il-Belt</em>. She&#8217;s addressing an audience of &#8216;Sliema voters&#8217; of the Bobby Sands generation (and believe me when I say that many of my contemporaries, who grew up as I did with Bobby Sands and the IRA almost permanently in the news, still somehow manage not to know who he was) and yet her chosen constituency is of a very different type of voter. That&#8217;s because she aims to get elected solely on the basis of being it-tifla ta&#8217; Dumink &#8211; the tifla they never saw or even knew he had because she left Malta before I was born.]</strong></p>
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		By: Jozef		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jozef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Labour&#039;s current international secretary, responsible for the definition of a foreign policy, also has some explaining to do. 

He could explain what the confidential memo of understanding signed with the Chinese Communist Party, contains. 

One shouldn&#039;t forget the courtesy visit made on similar lines to Gaddafi&#039;s Gemahariya, some time later, either. 

Nor should one forget how it had been reported in the press that China, during the Libyan uprising, was caught supplying Gaddafi with container loads of arms and munitions to quell the Libyan&#039;s capricious taste for liberty. 

When one remembers Joseph&#039;s thinly veiled threats to the EU&#039;s policy regarding Libya&#039;s treatment of refugees, practically reflecting Gaddafi&#039;s, a logic and interest take shape. 

Funny how Yana never mentions Gaddafi, Arafat, Caucescu and the North Korean dynasty either amongst the oppressors. Could be because they all supplied Mintoff with democracy sharpening instruments. 

She could ask her daddy what he was made to do in return.  

She could ask Mrs.Arafat what she was doing here. 

Maybe get some information why the Egyptair, hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, chose to land in Malta. 

She could ask Alex why, as foreign minister in Mintoff&#039;s government, did he threaten italy and Germany with providing refuge and the use of transmitters to the BR and the Baden Meinhof. This in parliament and recorded for posterity, if you please, such panache. 

The transmitters were only a couple of minutes away from her childhood haunt, brilliant. 

I&#039;m not at all surprised at the desperate attempts to rewrite history. I just hope some have the good taste to realise what it is they&#039;re doing.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Labour&#8217;s current international secretary, responsible for the definition of a foreign policy, also has some explaining to do. </p>
<p>He could explain what the confidential memo of understanding signed with the Chinese Communist Party, contains. </p>
<p>One shouldn&#8217;t forget the courtesy visit made on similar lines to Gaddafi&#8217;s Gemahariya, some time later, either. </p>
<p>Nor should one forget how it had been reported in the press that China, during the Libyan uprising, was caught supplying Gaddafi with container loads of arms and munitions to quell the Libyan&#8217;s capricious taste for liberty. </p>
<p>When one remembers Joseph&#8217;s thinly veiled threats to the EU&#8217;s policy regarding Libya&#8217;s treatment of refugees, practically reflecting Gaddafi&#8217;s, a logic and interest take shape. </p>
<p>Funny how Yana never mentions Gaddafi, Arafat, Caucescu and the North Korean dynasty either amongst the oppressors. Could be because they all supplied Mintoff with democracy sharpening instruments. </p>
<p>She could ask her daddy what he was made to do in return.  </p>
<p>She could ask Mrs.Arafat what she was doing here. </p>
<p>Maybe get some information why the Egyptair, hijacked by Palestinian terrorists, chose to land in Malta. </p>
<p>She could ask Alex why, as foreign minister in Mintoff&#8217;s government, did he threaten italy and Germany with providing refuge and the use of transmitters to the BR and the Baden Meinhof. This in parliament and recorded for posterity, if you please, such panache. </p>
<p>The transmitters were only a couple of minutes away from her childhood haunt, brilliant. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not at all surprised at the desperate attempts to rewrite history. I just hope some have the good taste to realise what it is they&#8217;re doing.</p>
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		By: Darren		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Darren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This article reminds me of the film ‘Some mother’s son’ which focuses on Bobby Sands, the IRA murderer who  was imprisoned for killing a British soldier; and whilst in prison led a hunger strike because they (IRA prisoners) were being treated as criminals and not as prisoners of war. 

The film deals with the anguish Bobby Sand’s mother went through.  Yet, nothing was mentioned of the British soldier’s mother. One of a number of films that glorifies the IRA and portrays the British as evil conquerors.

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - In fact, Mrs Bland specifically mentioned only Bobby Sands in her interview. I read it and thought, how typical of a loonie leftie to think only of Bobby Sands&#039;s mother - this when Bobby Sands died because he wanted to, on hunger strike - and spare not a thought for the mothers of those soldiers who died in booby-trapped vehicles or blown up on bandstands in parks.] &lt;/strong&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article reminds me of the film ‘Some mother’s son’ which focuses on Bobby Sands, the IRA murderer who  was imprisoned for killing a British soldier; and whilst in prison led a hunger strike because they (IRA prisoners) were being treated as criminals and not as prisoners of war. </p>
<p>The film deals with the anguish Bobby Sand’s mother went through.  Yet, nothing was mentioned of the British soldier’s mother. One of a number of films that glorifies the IRA and portrays the British as evil conquerors.</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; In fact, Mrs Bland specifically mentioned only Bobby Sands in her interview. I read it and thought, how typical of a loonie leftie to think only of Bobby Sands&#8217;s mother &#8211; this when Bobby Sands died because he wanted to, on hunger strike &#8211; and spare not a thought for the mothers of those soldiers who died in booby-trapped vehicles or blown up on bandstands in parks.] </strong></p>
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		By: ciccio		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[ciccio]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some more details here.  It seems the manure dumping was a bit more sophisticated than we heard before.  Dung bombs were used.  Was that some form of IRA/Gaddafi-sponsored technology?  Maybe Ms. Bland can give more details in the next Labour Conference where Joseph made her a special delegejt.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&#038;dat=19780707&#038;id=GRleAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=hF8NAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=6060,908225]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some more details here.  It seems the manure dumping was a bit more sophisticated than we heard before.  Dung bombs were used.  Was that some form of IRA/Gaddafi-sponsored technology?  Maybe Ms. Bland can give more details in the next Labour Conference where Joseph made her a special delegejt.</p>
<p><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&#038;dat=19780707&#038;id=GRleAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=hF8NAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=6060,908225" rel="nofollow ugc">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&#038;dat=19780707&#038;id=GRleAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=hF8NAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=6060,908225</a></p>
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		By: Horse Manure		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Horse Manure]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why not publish her email address? I&#039;m sure there are many who would help her with the facts.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why not publish her email address? I&#8217;m sure there are many who would help her with the facts.</p>
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