Joseph Muscat – reinventing himself as the Moses who led us through fire and water to the European Union
He would have us believe that the Labour Party never worked against Malta’s interests, despite its fierce battle to stop Malta joining the European Union and to keep us prisoners of this rock..
timesofmalta.com has just reported:
The Labour Party will support the nomination of Tonio Borg for EU Commissioner because it had never worked against Malta’s interest “and it never will”, Labour leader Joseph Muscat said this afternoon.
Indeed. The Labour Party has done little more over the last four decades than work against Malta’s interests. I’m not going into the rancid Mintoff years again, or what those cost Malta in terms of halted progress packaged and sold to the ignorant (of all social classes) as progress itself.
Let’s stay a little closer to the present and speak of the current incumbent who said these very words: Joseph Muscat.
Muscat spent years fighting a virulent and vicious campaign against EU membership, the sole purpose of which was to keep Malta out of the European Union and deprive Maltese citizens of the very same EU passport that none of us can now imagine ever living without.
If that wasn’t the single greatest example of the Labour Party working against Malta’s interests, in living memory and recorded history, I don’t know what is.
To top that, Labour would have had to collaborate with Hitler and Mussolini in World War II, and ally itself with the Axis of Evil.
Joseph Muscat has reinvented and repackaged Dom Mintoff for those among us who completely lack proper analytical skills or direct experience of his terrible mismanagement of the country and his government’s rampant human rights and civil liberties abuses, and clampdown on the many freedoms we hold dear but which so many did not understand back then.
Now he is working on reinventing and repackaging himself as the man who delivered us, like Moses, into the European Union.
I have lived long enough to find very little that is incredible about human nature. That Muscat is doing this fails to surprise me. That many will take him at his word and forget that he was instrumental in attempts to sabotage EU membership will surprise me even less.
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Indeed, he’ll say he took the position against to get the best deal for Malta next.
A bit like Sharon.
I remember in the Vietnam War a US colonel saying a village had to be destroyed in order to save it.
Daohne , how about changing DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA’S NOTEBOOK to DAPHNE’S HATEBOOK ?
I would laugh, but I fear my sides would split.
Hey Eddy, you appear to be a perfect specimum of inbreeding. Hope when you kick off, they will analyse your ‘brain’. Should only take a few seconds.
Hurting that much, Eddy?
Said the kettle
You’re hurting that much, Eddy?
Michael Parenti (1986) wrote a classic text on the politics of ther mass media, “Inventing Reality.”
Eddy Privitera is one of the worst case examples (not in Parenti’s book, but of the type) of someone who inhabits the strange world of his emotive inventions, and who has one purpose in life, but to inflict his irrationality (part of the Labour disease) on the small world he inhabits, an island nation in the Mediterranean. He is constantly “reinventing” reality.
Outside the space of his head and beyond these shores, rational men would recognize Eddy as only the fool that he his. Unfortunately for Malta, and for everyone who must live here and in the real world, such creatures contribute only to the destruction of personal lives in Malta, as Labour has done in its history and under its current “Master” is destined to provide in its future. But, the potential for damage even extends beyond Malta to the EU.
Keep writing Eddy, so that rational men and women can understand the enemy who would rip rationality to shreds in order to support his belief system (and failed politics) and who must reject any evidence of reason (such as provided by this blog) or else cease to exist.
Eddy, the existential crisis that is your life does have meaning and purpose: to expose the existential crises of the others attempting to foist themselves into the roles of government and to provide the rationale for the reality of their dangerous politics for the rest (the whole) of us (greater than the sum of its parts).
Harry; They won’t have to look for yours. Doesn’t exist !
Edward Clemmer: Why don’t you counter arguments which I make in letters to The Times instead of writing a load of nonsense here ? I will be looking forward to see your replies in The Times where you will be able to demonstrate your superior intelligence. Or are you scared to expose your daft reasoning infront of so many thousands of readers of The Times ?
Good morning, Eddy,
Dialogue is futile with irrationality and bigotry. For, there is no hope for reason or shape to be obtained from a vaporous cloud, even in the form of 100,000 letters or comments that may appear in the Times of Malta. Although, unfortunately, sometimes with clouds when it rains it pours, with deluge and hurricane winds.
In scripture, appropriately, the devil himself is called by God “Futility”. And sometimes and not infrequently in human history and in the present age, the chaos of irrationality strives to rule by force–and for a while the mob often does win.
I have no need for self-adulation or the praise of others (certainly not from you or from others, where derision may be expected). But sometimes in my humble duty to rationality, my contributions are very public (as they always have been)wherever they appear: God is reason and love, and Him they crucified.
My observations in this blog are not directed (as you may have misinterpreted) for personal dialogue with you, but they are intended for constructive influence beyond “Futility”, for the benefit of those who are capable of critical thought and analysis and a logical vote.
“that many will take him at his word and forget…” You only need to read the first few comments on the timesofmalta.com to find out.
True to MLP type.
Mintoff’s followers were fed the lie that he achieved Independence for Malta when all must know that it was George Borg Olivier.
Following in Mintoff’s footsteps, Muscat feeds the lie to his credulous followers that the Labour Party did not fight tooth and nail against our joining the European Union even though all of them are old enough to know the truth.
Let us hope that today’s generation is wiser and is not blind because it does not want to see.
Today’s generation never went to the kitchen taps only to find no water or a trickle of brown sludge.
It never had to do the homework under a paraffin lamp or candle because of frequent blackouts.
Never tasted Chinese chocolate, have plenty of toothpaste and do not line up for a can of tuna or corned beef.
Never had to go stealthily to a neighbour’s house in order to keep up with studies because their church school was closed on government orders.
Never had to witness beatings, attacks on private properties and read about political murders.
So, for goodness sakes, how are today’s young people able to appreciate the relative easy life they lead and what they will be giving up if they vote PL or not at all? Not unless we educate them, and quick.
It is obvious that Labour has a problem with its representatives. One cannot have Muscat criticising the European Union and at the same time when he gets elected he projects himself as the champion of the EU.
Another thing about the Arriva saga. They ridiculed Austin Gatt about the bendy buses. The London bendy buses were not sent to Malta but they were bought by Leicester, Brighton and other cities. Secondly the bendy buses can carry 60 persons more than the double decker.
And they are better at the corners than normal buses. Although they have the disadvantage of not being good for narrow and meandering roads even abroad they were attentive to use them along appropriate roads.
Furthermore, the London mayor confessed that his scathing criticism of the bendy buses was based on solely patriotic grounds. The bendy buses are Germany and he wanted the latest British cutting edge technology that was the Routemaster.
Evidently, he is an ultra conservative and nationalistic and he is pushing forward a purely nationalistic agenda of favouring the national champions rather than basing his decisions on convenient choices. Rumours have it that England is preparing for an IN/OUT EU referendum as they are not comfortable with being in the EU. But that is there choice.
I travel with the new Arriva buses and on two occasions I noticed that the drivers were trying to change routes without being asked to do so by their superiors obviously so that the government come under criticism and so they say its his fault.
They are claiming that the system is wrong. These people are not reasoning well. They pretend to be above the law.
I think Labour has a lot to work on to be electable.
!) Muscat has problems with certain old people.
2) He lacks consistency and coherent policy. EVIDENT.
3) He has to shift his political style, attitude and policy towards the centre.
4) He has to keep some of his thugs at bay – they shouldn’t discriminate, intimidate, bully Nationalist supporters or try to gag anyone who disagrees with him.
5) I also believe that they should choose much more competent candidates especially among their young ones.
6) He cannot adopt foul play to reach his goals. Mela mhux hekk nibqghu.
Ir-Ronnuie: Are you following the public-opinion surveys ? Why do they show Dr. Muscat as much more trusted than Lawrence Gonzi ? So if the PL has ” a lot to work on to be electable “, as you wrote, Gonzi has much much more to work on to be re-elected !
He was against Malta joining the EU so much he had a programme on Super One against it – Made in Brussels. He even went to Iceland to make it a point how bad it is to join the EU; so let’s not forget.
Problem is, with the spotlight on the PN, his movement becomes a redundant hypothesis.
He’s stuck, unable to take a position, the grumbling in Labour clubs isn’t loud whispering anymore. As soon as one puts across that maybe Joseph went one too far with Dalli, they’ll agree. ‘Xi trid taghmel, ghadu zghir’.
We’ve had all possible bickering what makes a ‘genuine PN supporter’, an oxymoron if there ever was one, at the expense of the genuine Laburisti who have no qualms about their creed and sense of pertaining to a party which in their book, should reciprocate.
When Joseph removed the symbolic shield from the facade of their HQ to replace it with a balcony, things changed.
Nice picture of Muscat, and perfectly in keeping with the Halloween spirit.
Pumpkinhead.
Uninterested Bystander: And who looks like NINJA TURTLE ?
Chapeau. The guys who photo shopped him on the latest billboard make him look like Tony Zarb from a distance. He must be trilled.
Mhuwiex daqshekk mghaffeg ta’. I’ve seen much worse.
Apparti t-titli ta’ balding dwarf jew ma nafx x’tghajjatlu Daphne meta ttiha s-siegha, mhuwiex karretta. Ma tantx nifhem fis-settur but you know what I mean, I guess. Or not?
[Daphne – Unattractive to straight women and gay men, mandango. And gay women think he’s utterly vile. He appears to have most success, curiously, with straight men. And it’s not because of his figure or his waddling walk, that’s for sure.]
Sure, Mandango. Next to Joe Grima we’re all tall and lanky.
DAPHNE,HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SINCE YOU LOOKED AT A MIRROR ?
[Daphne – Roughly five minutes, Mr Privitera.]
Daphne, did you enjoy what you saw ???????
[Daphne – That was Narcissus, Mr Privitera. Or Snow White’s stepmother. You’re getting a little confused.]
Daphne: you haven’t answered my question. Did you enjoy what you saw in the mirror, yes or no ?
[Daphne – I did answer your question, Eddy, but subtlety misses the mark with you. So, to sum up: I’m not in the least bit interested in my appearance and never have been, not even at the age of 20. But forced to think about it by your inane question, then yes, I quite enjoy what I see in the mirror.After all, I could have been born looking like Eddy Privitera, his mistress, or his extended family.]
http://www.francodebono.com/2012/10/21/tonio-borgs-nomination-does-not-enjoy-the-backing-of-a-majority-of-the-maltese-parliament/
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It’s not what Joseph said this morning. Franco’s just lost his platform.
@Daphne
Aha, you slipped up, for once; He ain’t no Moses – He is the messiah… The FALSE messiah!
In the same article, Muscat is also quoted as saying – “He warned, however, that there were difficulties with Dr Borg’s nomination because of declarations he made in the past which had already reached officials in Brussels.
He did not specify what these declarations were but said that his confirmation should not be taken for granted.”
Something smells. Maybe, just maybe he has already received confirmation from his friends in Brussels that they will not be supporting Borg’s nomination
Daphne, I agree with your analysis 100%. Labour has always adopted the politics of opportunism, divide and rule, and not the interests of the nation and its citizens.
Ciccio: Have you any idea who wrote the book ” Is Malta burning “? And who distributed abroad ‘The Malta File ?’ And who went to Germany and told German entrepreneurs not to invest in Malta ? This was in the early 80s !
That was the time when the PN had worked against Malta’s interest !
Was it in Malta’s interest to paint a picture of a fully democratic country with a healthy market economy in which it was safe to invest? No. Because it would have been a lie. So no, whoever warned the Germans off was not working against Malta’s interest.
Mr. Privitera, if those insinuations are true, I suppose the PN was only telling the Germans the truth about events in Malta. Now if that truth was not very nice, you know very well whose fault it was.
H.P. Baxter. So telling German entrepreneurs not to invest in Malta, according to you, ” was not working against Malta’s interest “, was it ? So you admit that what I wrote is correct.Of course, once those who were involved in undermining the Maltese government, were doing this in the interest of the PN Opposition, so you conclude that it wasn’t against Malta’s interest ! WHAT A SHAME !
Privitera, are you senile or just very thick?
It’s the porridge.
Totally spot on with this assessment of our next Slime Minister.
You raise an interesting hypothetical point about Malta being a fascist ally during WWII.
If, in fact, Malta had been independent in 1939, Nerik Mizzi’s PN would almost certainly have thrown its lot in with Mussolini (thank you colonial Britain!).
Even more interestingly, it is our new EU Commissioner- in-Waiting who led a recent campaign to build a monument to our fascist-sympathizing fore-fathers.
Poor Tonio Borg; the only man who, with the benefit of 20/20 hind-sight, would still pick the wrong side in a war.
Let’s hope he keeps his bigoted views to himself when he faces a panel of European parliamentarians. Sadly, I envisage more than a few toe-curling moments when his bizarre world-view is laid bare in front of an astonished European-wide audience.
If Malta had been independent in 1939, there would most probably have been no grounds for Mussolini to declare war on Britain.
And Britain intended to hand over Malta to Italy anyway, or at least, that’s what had been promised.
No. Mussolini had plenty of reasons to declare war on Britain, regardless of who was governing Malta.
First of all, it was at war with his ally Germany. Secondly, it governed territories which he wanted to add to the Italian empire.
Thirdly, it was in his nature to look down upon enlightened democracies like Britain, and it wouldn’t have suited his image to maintain neutral relations.
Thank you Jackie for stating The Great Maltese Unspeakable. The PN in 1939 was pro-Fascist and pro-Italian, with some members holding overtly Fascist and anti-British views. Yes, it would definitely have gone to war on Mussolini’s side, however much today’s PN tries to rewrite its history.
Nerik Mizzi, Herbert Ganado, Pantalleresco and the other internees got all they deserved. We were at war, and that’s no time to faff about with rhetoric about patria latina and all that nonsense. Sbejha o patria…. disgusting.
No. f Malta had been independent, in this case means the agreement supposedly subscribed to by Britain and as proposed by Ciano in 1937.
Italy would have regained the right to have a proper navy in the western Meditterranean and Britain would have kept her influence to the East. And that would be Ciano’s diaries.
Mussolini entered the war in a panic, against all advice to keep Hitler away from Imperia, but that is known history.
Did I say fascism hadn’t taken hold in the PN? Albeit refused by Nerik Mizzi, who was traded in by someone who felt threatened he’d lose his influence if any communication with Italy had to take place. Now that’s real taboo, you see, the PN accused of being pro-Italian placed under arrest by black-shirts. 2012 and Nerik Mizzi is THE fascist, sweet. Gensna anyone?
Which is what Victor Scerri was trying to say, indeed let’s get rid of taboos. It’s what feeds Labour, I mean what do expect the PN to do, subdue itself to the victor’s truths?
It’s an ideological, not vernacular, necessity.
Why are you so scared of the restoration of a dimension and crucial instrument, I believe so essential, to this place?
Kull fejn jhares wiccu jishet Muscat. Qalilhom araw Cipru kemm sejrin tajjeb. L-anqas lahaq spicca li ma hargietx l-ahhbar li Cipru falliet u marret il-power station sentejn minghajr power station. IRHULHA.
Harsu lejn l-Islanda araw kemm sejra tajjeb wara li semghu il-parir tieghi biex ma jidhlux fl-ewropa u biex ma jidhlux fil-ewro. Lanqas lahaq spicca li ma hargietx l-ahbar li l-Islanda flliet u ha taplika biex tidhol fl-ewropa. IRHULHA L-Islanda tharsux l-hemm.
Fl-ahhar jghid kullhadd sejjer tajjeb barra Malta. Kif tista ma iccempilx.
Ir-Ronnie: Trid taf min vera jishet ? Min kien l-ahhar prim ministru li ghannaq lil Gaddafi ? GONZI ! U gimgha wara qam l-infern kollu fil-Libja u Gaddafi spicca qatluh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DIK SEHTA !!!!!!!!!!!!
Eddy Privitera, jaqaw inti kont wiehed minn dawk il-Laburisti li lqajt u ghannaqt lill Gaddafi meta kontu stiedintuh fil-kazini tal-MLP u cappcaptlu u fraht bih fil -mass meeting tal-MLP f` Birzebbugia?
Peress li Gaddafi kien `blood brother` ta` Mintoff dak iz-zmien.
Gonzi did what most statesmen did at the time, such as Blair , Berlusconi and Sarkozy.
Gonzi did not go over the top like the Mintoff regime did. Gonzi did not allow Gaddafi to speak at mass meetings and introduce Arabic in schools.
Ha jdum jibbulxitja dan.
It all has to do with memory span otherwise known as the goldfish syndrome .
Yes, but this Moses who promised to lead his people to the land of milk, honey and chocolate (aka Switzerland in the Med) is now taking them back to the Brussels Pharoah.
Muscat ma jghid xejn ghax mhux kapaci w il partit mhux tajjeb biex imexxi lill-Malta.
Labour is not organized well enough to continue siphoning funds from the EU the way the Nationalists have done so successfully.
Should this happen, it will have a negative effect on investment and increase unemployment.
The risk profile of Malta will increase should Labour be voted in office.
May I ask ” intelligent” Daphne, how are all the billions of people who do not have a EU passport, living ? Ask how all those hundreds of thousands of Maltese and Gozitans who live in Australia, USA, Canada, Britain etc….are managing to live without a EU passport ?!
Very entertaining Daphne, thanks for a god laugh !
Do show us a photograph of your hairshirt, Mr Privitera.
So, Eddy, you even know how a god laughs. Illiterate twit.
Breaking news by super-reporter Privitera: Maltese living in Britain denied EU passport.
The mistress letting you have the night off, Eddy?
Troy: I am enjoying myself seeing the lot of you trying to find ways how to avoid thinking of what is in store for GonziPN SOON !
What’s in store then? Same as what was in store for MLP after its defeat in 2008: more fat juicy contracts, same privileges, same perks, more power, more sleaze and more money for its officials. Do you for one moment think that any politician’s fortunes will be reversed by an electoral defeat? They’ll just sit in parliament on the opposite side, and creaming it off.
Perhaps you mean what’s in store for the rest of us. Now that’s too terrible for words. Withdrawal from the EU, that’s what’s in store.
You belong to a rotten party which cannot ever make the grade because it thrives in misery and squalor.
By shear comparison, the Nationalists are miles ahead because they have generated wealth and brought prosperity to these islands.
Your past Is tainted with violence, political murders and a list of deprivations and persecutions. What a model of shame and humiliation.
Eddy, they don’t need an EU passport because they live in the USA, Canada or Australia, rich and gigantic countries that do not need the EU. Those that live in the UK have an EU passport.
Malta’s exit from the EU is also seen as being in Malta’s interest, that much has been expressed directly and indirectly by persons at various levels within th PL structure.
Joseph Muscat is surrounded by the MLP old guard that worked against Malta’s accession to the EU and who would be happy to see Malta out again so that they may revert to the bad ‘good old days’ of corruption and rampant abuse. U ma ninsewx li Joseph baqa mdendel mad-dublett tan-nanna Mintoffjana Laburista harxa.
At this point people are going to believe anything that man says.
I think the PN and the people of Malta have let him manipulate everyone too much. The hysteria has worked, and no one wants to listen any more because it’s too much of a hassle.
Hopefully his bubble will burst before elections.
Edward; Gonzi’s bubble has been burst by HIS OWN MPs !
Edd – Jghidu li, min jidhak l-ahhar jidhak l-ahjar.
Agreed, there has been a constant hysteria which, it has to be said, has also been stoked by newspapers, it could be said that we’re under the collective delusion that Labour can’t be so silly as to screw up again. Voting them in should see to that, yeah right.
Watched Mhux Billi Tghid on One yesterday, never thought an accountant could floor an energy consultant regarding technical matters related to a power plant, and yet ,Tonio Fenech proved me wrong.
For heaven’s sake, who is this Konrad Mizzi? He was everywhere except sticking to the argument and has to be one of the slimiest individuals I’ve ever seen. The impression I got was that here’s another one with an unmanageable ego who’s imposed his agenda onto Labour.
He got everything wrong, bank guarantees, testing protocols, the basic fact that BWSC won’t ever risk its reputation and thinks an ‘independent engineer’ (an insult to the profession) will accept to sign off a power plant at his, that’s Konrad’s, whims.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shafMepzCFo
His right hand was at it again yesterday, its long bony fingers have this hypnotic effect.
Spot on for the similarity with Moses.
Moses took forty years to lead his people from A to B.
Trust a man to push himself forward for such an enterprise without asking for directions FIRST.
This “joke” was sent to me by a pro-MLP friend of mine. I love the last part when it says VOTE WISELY.
Of course I will.
“Heaven or Hell!
While walking down the street one day a Corrupt Senator (that may be redundant) was hit by a bus and died.
His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
“Welcome to heaven,” said St. Peter. “Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we ‘re not sure what to do with you.”
“No problem, just let me in,” said the Senator.
“Well, I ‘d like to, but I have orders from the higher ups. What we ‘ll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity.”
“Really?, I ‘ve made up my mind. I want to be in heaven,” says the Senator.
“I’m sorry, but we have our rules.”
And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course.
In the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.
Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.
They played a friendly game of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and the finest champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who is having a good time dancing and telling jokes.
They are all having such a good time that before the Senator realizes it, it is time to go.
Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens in heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him, “Now it ‘s time to visit heaven.”
So, 24 hours passed with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns.
“Well, then, you ‘ve spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity.”
The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: “Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell.”
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell…
Now the doors of the elevator open and he ‘s in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.
He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls to the ground.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulders.
“I don ‘t understand,” stammers the Senator. “Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there ‘s just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?”
The devil smiles at him and said,
“Yesterday we were campaigning,
Today, you voted..”
Vote wisely”
My interpretation is that while the Maltese Labour MEPs will vote in favour of Tonio Borg, the MLP will do its utmost to derail his nomination by prodding the Socialist group to vote against.
Joseph Muscat is such a prima donna.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Joseph-Muscat4-214×300.jpg
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Madama Butterfly’s back.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121024/local/no-development-should-be-allowed-at-old-villas-and-their-gardens-faa.442472
We’re with you on this one Astrid, so many gardens in the way.