Can I have your email please.

Thanks

Vince

[Daphne – dcgalizia@gmail.com]

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130919/local/new-ambassador-meets-obama.486801

She now needs to sit down and tell him all about Labour’s “stamping of the feet” policy on black African immigrants.

Did I say “Made in Beijing”? Make that “Made in China.”

I find this event to be very similar to the handover of Hong Kong to China by the British once their lease agreement there was over. The only difference being that Britain had given independence to Malta in 1964, only so that 50 years later, Joseph Muscat can hand Malta over to the Chinese. We are now effectively a Chinese territory.

It is evident that Alfred Sant’s “Il-partnership – l-ahjar ghazla” is still high on Labour’s agenda. Only that Muscat’s version says “Strategic partnership with China – l-ahjar ghazla.”
It is also clear that Labour still has a problem with Malta’s membership of the EU, and they have started the process to isolate Malta from the EU and associate it with China. Which means distancing Malta from western democracy and human rights and associating it instead with a communist single-party government (“zmien il-partiti spicca”) reminiscent of Mao Tse Tung, who, we are continuously reminded by Joseph Muscat, 40 years ago got paid a visit by Dom Mintoff (and Karmenu Vella and Alex Sceberras Trigona). Mao Tse Tung is credited with the deaths of about 80 million Chinese.
The irony of it all is that while it took one referendum and at least one election (2003) to get Malta into the EU, it has taken the current Labour government only one trip to Dalian to make Malta the new province of China in the Mediterranean. If Joseph Muscat wishes to reduce Malta to a province of China, like a “Taiwan tal-Mediterran,” (remember “Svizzera fil-Mediterran”?) shouldn’t he at least hold a referendum?

It is also ironic that this deal is signed by the same party that was fomenting ultra-nationalist sentiment against the “barrani”a month ago when a few boat people arrived in need of help. This xenophobic movement was claiming that Malta was going to be taken over by the “barrani.” At that time, the PM led the anti-barrani force by resorted to stamping his feet and preparing coffee for the Europeans to wake up and smell it.

Ever since he signed the MOU with the Chinese government, Joseph Muscat has been repeating the mantra that Enemalta has found a strategic partner. But there are a series of problems with that claim:

1. We were never told by Joseph Muscat and his “movement” that Enemalta was looking for a strategic partner.
2. There was no public announcement and process for interested parties to come forward and offer themselves as potential strategic partners of Enemalta. In such circumstances, an international expression of interest for a strategic partnership would have been the proper route.
3. Joseph Muscat never announced any benchmarks for the desirable characteristics of the preferred strategic partners, and what obligations and conditions he would impose on them. Therefore, we do not have any basis to conclude that the involvement of a government-controlled Chinese company is the best strategic partner for Enemalta. In fact, we have no public information to even conclude that this is a strategic partnership.

Since the Chinese company is controlled by the Chinese government, it is the Chinese government that is entering Malta’s energy market and taking control over Malta’s monopolistic operator in the electricity market, and therefore the lifeblood of Malta’s commerce, industry and households, no matter how much Muscat attempts to deviate attention from this fact.

Which means that the government of China will in future control and dominate the electricity and energy market in Malta. Which is why I cannot understand why the short-sighted associations that represent the business community in Malta have endorsed this agreement and congratulated the government. Are they aware that the future of their business will now not be determined in Valletta anymore, but in Beijing or Shanghai?

Joseph Muscat has in fact betrayed one economic argument he used to make. In the new year’s speech of 2011, as reported by Malta Today, Joseph Muscat said that “it seemed that there has been little liberalisation and competition in our privatisation drive.”

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Much-privatisation-but-little-liberalisation-Joseph-Muscat-s-New-Year-address

The deal with China does not liberalise the energy market. While not necessarily privatising Enemalta, that deal consolidates the monopoly while passing it at the same time into the control of a foreign government.

In fact, I do not conceptually agree with the Opposition that Joseph Muscat has actually privatised Enemalta, and therefore I am not very concerned that he has violated the electoral manifesto of the Labour party (the “roadmap”) in this instance. Joseph Muscat has really and truly transferred the control of Enemalta from the Maltese government to the communist government of China. This is the fact that I think should concern us most.

Given the circumstances, Joseph Muscat should publish not only the MOU he signed last week in Dalian, but also the MOU he had signed with the Chinese Communist Party during his visit to China in April 2010. I remember that news about that MOU was first revealed on this website. We are entitled to know all the details signed in that document, and if it contains any more concessions to the Chinese related to our sovereignty, democracy and fundamental rights.

And Muscat should explain the role of Alex Sceberras Trigona in this deal. AST was among the selected few to appear on the balcony at the Mile End on 10 March 2013 (an observation I had made many months ago) celebrating victory, after he had been locked up with many others somewhere out of sight for the whole duration of Labour’s electoral campaign.

Meanwhile, the tune in China last week was not “Ma zaghmlu zejn, mal-Peziz Minzoff, ma zaghmlu zejn, ma zaghmlu zejn, ma zaghmlu zejn…” It was, instead, predictably “Malza zaghna lkoll… zaghna lkoll… zaghna lkoll…”

And perhaps Joseph Muscat can now become the Emperor of China’s province in the Mediterranean, giving birth to the Muscat dynasty, while future political propaganda on Super One will be provided under the name of “Made in Beijing” rather than “Made in Brussels.”

In this article, back when PN where in govt. a lot of noise was made about how police have no right to just stop people in roadblocks and as you can read in this article Manuel Mallia was lambasting these roadblocks and gave his comments.

Now that he is the police minister he found a loop hole and roadblocks have become a fixture especially in the south.

If the information revealed by Edward Zammit Lewis is correct, then the governments of Malta and China have valued one third of the Enemalta at about Euro 200 million – this being the highest sum mentioned that the communist single-party government of China will pay for a 35% stake in the share capital of Enemalta.

This means that 100% of Enemalta has been valued at about Euro 600 million.

But it is reasonable to believe that the Chinese government will not be paying for the existing debt of Enemalta, which according to the Labour government amounts to Euro 800 million.

This means that the Labour government has valued the total business of Enemalta at a negative figure of Euro 200 million (Euro 600 million less Euro 800 million).

If the information given by Edward Zammit Lewis is correct, serious questions need to be asked about the resulting worth of Enemalta according to Joseph Muscat’s government.

You have no idea what career diplomats are going through. This sort of thing is so demoralising. One works and strives and does one’s best, and then a tacky, sleazy Super One show host is made high commissioner in London, a Super One show host in his 70s is made ambassador to Belgium, an 80-year-old is sent to represent Malta in Saudi, a reject from the skip is sent back to Paris, a cheap and conniving turncoat (intent on chasing men) is made ambassador to Washington and her equally cheap and conniving cousin (also intent on chasing men) is made ambassador to Madrid.

You have to be in it to know. Seriously, Daphne, don’t waste time writing about these shitty people. It’s not even worth getting heated up. I am not reading Maltese news anymore, and I feel better for it.

The ministry of foreign affairs is going to be full of career diplomats who have worked hard over the years and given their all, now stuck in a room in Valletta doing nothing or serving the pricks in charge .. a psychological nightmare.