If you haven’t been to the newsagent yet…Taste is out this morning
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September 1, 2013 at 10:33am
I apologise for not mentioning it yesterday or earlier this morning. I was taken up with the scandal of Elton Taliana’s lynching.
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Off topic.
Our poor foreign minister is finding his job a tad too complicated for his age and capacity.
Read the five comments he received over his latest carefully scribed missive on Syria, miskin. Some of you here might agree with him and give him some much-needed encouragement.
http://maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Foreign-minister-says-Assad-s-heinous-crimes-cannot-go-unpunished-20130831
[Daphne – I strongly advise against using the ironic form, Kevin. It’s alien to non-British linguistic culture, and that statement will be read literally.]
There’s hardly any irony, here, Daphne. While our foreign minister is not fit for purpose, you are not in a position to point this out because you yourself don’t bother to analyse foreign news and you rely on the same war propaganda he’s being fed.
[Daphne – You have no idea whether I analyse international news or not, Kevin, because you neither live nor work with me and you have never had a conversation with me. You employ false logic. It does not follow from the fact that I do not analyse international news on this website that I do not analyse international news at all. The gap in the market which this website fills is not for foreign news analysis.]
The gist of my comment is that since “you rely on the same war propaganda he’s being fed” you are both in the same bag.
[Daphne – Why do you imagine that you have any idea what I rely on, and that you, on the other hand, are in some magical privileged position and privy to secret information that non-conspiracy-theorists don’t have?]
There you go, that cop-out phrase again, ‘conspiracy theorist’. It says volumes about the person who utters it.
Just like George Vella, you’re lost in the fog of war.
Kev, a minister is not ‘fed with propaganda’. He should be surrounded by experienced staff, listens to them and be capable of analysing their input and form his own opinion. Moreover rarely does a minister opine on an important matter such as the chemical attack on civilians in a foreign country without first consulting with the prime minister.
Besides, vague statements are amateurish, lack depth and compared to no-nonsense, unambiguous statements by all but China, N Korea and Russia, make the minister’s statement pale, without substance and belittles Malta’s public opinion about the atrocity.
Accepting propaganda which he is being fed with, illustrates his naivety, limited understanding of the gravity of the situation in Syria and gives the impression that his government is avoiding outright condemnation of the Assad regime, almost a carbon copy of the PL’s stand during the Libyan uprising.
“Cop-out” is itself becoming quite a trendy phrase, kev.
Gosh Kev, you really do think that you know it all, don’t you?
Impressive.
Actually, Victor, I don’t just “know it all”, I actually understand how it works and why you people cannot really be blamed for being insufferable fools.
When you understand how it actually works you also come to understand that it could not possibly have been any different. You come to understand why the most intelligent people often fall victim of these layered lies.
You see, in order to analyse the news you need the facts. Now if you are fed lies and only lies, you can be a genius, but if you keep on relying on those lies your analysis will inevitably be wrong.
Truth is stranger than fiction, they say. And how true that is!
Understanding HOW it works is the key to understanding what goes on and who’s doing what. But that requires a lot of digging and a mind that is not set in concrete, as is the unfortunate case with Daphne Caruana Galizia, who wants to mock “conspiracy theories” without actually knowing what they’re all about ‘because they are too incredible to be true’, hence impossible, so why bother to investigate when you can just be prejudgmental about it and remain a fool.
Iva gawdi xi haga sabiha u tajba fil-hajja kev.
Possibli lanqas dik il-hawha ma thollok?
Don’t be too hard on kev, Victor. I used to think exactly like him when I was in my late teens.
Then I slowly noticed that many of the people who cook up conspiracy theories do so just to be “anti-establishment” and, proclaiming that the foolish majority never look for evidence, hardly present any evidence themselves.
Of course I did not miss it. It never goes for recycling either. It’s like I have an encyclopaedia of them.
Thanks for Info about “Taste” I am away this week end and would have missed it. I phoned up home to ask them to get e a copy as I have been collecting “Taste” since the first issue.
The magazine cover looks amazing. A dear friend in Malta surprised me with the last issue and I really enjoyed it.
A most pleasant surprise this morning. Off to Canada this week, will be able to deliver it personally.
Thanks for Taste magazine, Daphne. Thanks also to all the chefs for sharing their recipes with us. Looking forward to trying out some of the latest recipes that are quite easy to follow. Prosit to all!
Ever considered the possibility of issuing binders for “Taste”?
Whenever I’m in London I never miss my pilgrimage to Brick Lane. Principally for the superb Bangladeshi restaurants at amazingly reasonable prices.
The one I recommend is on a corner in the central part of the Lane with windows onto the street that look as if it’s a railway carriage.
There’s a great general atmosphere around as well.
Is the Elderflower Collins included in your list of cool cocktails? The absolute bee’s knees.
[Daphne – No, we went with the standard ones. The more esoteric ones will have to wait.]
Don’t say that. You’ll have the conspiracy theorist on my back.
Daphne, when is the ‘Taste’ app going to materialise?