Look at his body language/facial expressions in this video
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January 16, 2013 at 8:52pm
He listens to the reporter’s question with a wary expression, then gives a brush-off, false answer and immediately turns away, giving his interlocutor his back, continuing to wear an evasive expression.
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Did he just say we’re buying a power station now?
I think he looks rather dashing.
[Is that right? Please can you stop waterboarding me now?]
Ara Baxxter, Sette Giugno.
Out of his depth and very ill at ease there.
Cornered rat.
He looks like one hell of a cocky, slimey, shifty character.
Body language that speaks of degrees of integrity – code of honour, intelligence, insights etc can be read across a room full of people. Business cards become unnecessary. Integrity is read in the eyes. RCC and Carm have loads of it.
I note that people have said the Nationalist Party manifesto isn’t ‘exciting.’ Do I want to read an ‘exciting’ plan for Malta, or one that specifies exactly the values I seek – and achieves that balance? A manifesto is not an electoral programme but a statement of what the party stands for.
At the end of the day, this focus on electricity and power stations is being done to detract from the main issue that Labour never had anything to offer other than repression, inferiority complexes gone way wrong, and if you the ‘if-don’t-agree-with-us: suffer-cuc,-we’ll-put-you-in-your-place-(as-we-see-it)-principle.
How is the Labour Party going to manage its international and EU negotiations if it cannot even decipher – when this is a country that has dealt with British English for 200 years – the inherent codes in even the most simple British English?
I’m not surprised that RCC, who can read these codes and others, was identified as a person to target. It would be interesting to know if this recognition was only here. Malta has had results disproportionate to its size, and RCC should have been profusely thanked, not targeted the way he was.
From experience, just as those with bad table manners are tolerated but not really included, those who are inefficient at translating and acting upon the codes of the group, and not just in language, are ignored. They are not included in the conversations that really matter – at least not amongst those with a common code of honour and integrity.
There appear to be other codes senior members of the Labour Party understand, and which they share with others who are being drawn into the party or doing business with it, but they are not desirable in any way.
What informal gatherings, where insights and vision are discussed and designed, would welcome the total or partial sum of Joseph and his team? Who is he trying to kid? Even among the movers and shakers in Malta he sits awkwardly. You know without being told that he is welcomed into the group only because he will have power of distribution in a few weeks, for five years. He is not ‘one of them’ but an outsider tolerated because of what is in his gift.
What would be the additional expense of the opportunity cost of these intangibles? Far more in just the shorter term (let’s say those five crucial years) than just the power issue.
Such intangibles, as RCC excels at, are what is crucial to how the rudder is manned. Such ingrained values, such as Carm Mifsud Bonnici has, are crucial to the spirit of the people.
Leadership qualities through a storm, together with business acumen, such as Gonzi has proven, are what give a nation nobility of spirit and purpose. The longer run is far more telling of these matters than the immediate or short term.
I wish that everybody would take a step out of this ridiculous power project issue, marketing issue and the rest to assess life as we know it now, life as it was then, and how on earth it could possibly rank better under the multi-deficient Labour team.
Give a foolish man enough rope and he’ll tie the noose around his own neck.
I have, quite literally, made a list of all of the aspects that I appreciate under this government, and which I have appreciated under previous Nationalist governments, and all that I didn’t appreciate at all under Labour governments, all of which, even 30 years ago, included Karmenu Vella, who is now writing Labour’s programme for running the country over the next five years.
I can’t say anything about what Labour is now promising because I cannot see anything in it. To me it is all “tutto fumo niente arrosto” – as usual. Never has Labour/ MLP uttered a principle or produced a scenario that I have felt was worthy, not of my principles alone – no, that would be utterly selfish even if so – but of the future of Malta as a nation.
Sound, decent values are not necessarily linked to religion. The mistake we make is in thinking that they are. The Labour Party thinks that because it has a historic problem with the Catholic Church, then it need have no values at all because values are ‘religious’. Perhaps, instead of talking about values, we should use the proper word: principles. The Labour Party is, at root, deeply unprincipled. The Nationalist Party is not.
I certainly don’t want to be left wondering what each new day will bring in terms of survival risk. The news of the Standard & Poor’s downgrading doesn’t surprise me. How the relay baton gets passed on will really be decisive of what tracks and in which league Malta gets to compete on and in next.
Do we want to strive for more, or less? Are the options for the ‘nude pin-up calendar’ going to render the third-level league team more attractive than the premier league team?
Let’s get serious and focus on the substance of the issue. I would also like to think that even the people currently chanting “Labour” are not as superficial as Joseph and Co. are making them out to be.
What happens when there’s no yarn left for them to spin? Will they realise that their “Emperor” isn’t wearing any clothes?
He does not “look like” he is.
Very obviously lying through his teeth, extremely uncomfortable with the questions AND the answers. All lies, jahasra.
Fully in agreement with your assessment.
In fact, I find Bill Clinton in the video below to be more credible.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBe_guezGGc
So Joseph will resign if his energy plan fails.
He gets an opt-out clause whilst we try to get a bail-out. Sounds to me like we are going to end up sh_t creek without a paddle.
My goodness! His very particular expression when he says ¨ma ghandna l-ebda ftehim ma hadd¨ is the exact same expression an old boss of mine once had in similar situations.
He ended up fired on the grounds of mismanagement, lack of transparency and corruption.
The expression says ¨I´m lying, I think you´re stupid enough to believe me, and I am too full of myself to realise how wrong I am¨.
It shows a very crooked character, ready to do and say anything in order to get his way.
The good news about such a person is that soon enough many people get wise and begin to call his bluff.
Re your last sentence. It takes a hard uphill climb before enough people do that prior to March 9th.
If he was hooked to a lie-detecting machine, the poor instrument would have blown its fuse along with plug and socket.
He cannot even lie properly. His problem is that he is accustomed to ASKING questions not answering them.