“Lures investors”
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September 6, 2013 at 6:56pm
I see Times of Malta has been advised to change the title to this piece. In the print edition, it says “Marine hatchery lures four investors” – as though into a trap via some con operation.
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Maybe Times of Malta knows something we don’t.
Methinks someone at The Times finally got his pun right.
No, Daphne, The Times has been coming up with a lot of stupid basic grammar mistakes for the past six years or so.
On a distantly related note (well, okay, the only link is money):
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/05/mission-congo-pat-robertson-aid-rwanda
The gentleman in question, Pat Robertson, often writes (vide his 1991 book “The New World Order”) about ‘a worldwide Jewish conspiracy’.
I suggest that this blog’s resident conspiracy theorist – Kevin Ellul Bonici – speak to people in the finance world, instead of gullibly following snake oil merchants.
Meanwhile, while Joseph Muscat is ‘luring’ investment from the Ukraine…
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/ukraine-lgbti-2013-09-06
Hands up all those who think we should be magnanimous and say they were trying to use a “fishy” word to be witty.
“Marine hatchery lures investors”
Top class bait ensuring an abundant catch each time nets are cast, perhaps.
Luring was topical in The Times today. “Insults fly as court hears how accused lured l-Imniehru”. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130905/local/insults-fly-as-court-hears-how-jason-galea-lured-l-imniehru.484950
A “lure” is the artificial bait used for fly-fishing. A clever play on words. Pity it was probably not intentional…
It would have been a clever play on words if it didn’t give the impression of being a trap – which is not what they wanted to imply, I’m sure.
An example of the correct use of the word ‘lures’:
The Pied Piper of Labour lures all the rats on the island to his Golden Years lair, where they are poisoned before they know it.
“The oil deal Malta and Libya struck this week would be implemented once the North African neighbour managed to increase its oil production, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said yesterday.”
We were told earlier that this deal will bring stability in fuel prices.
But how can stability in oil prices be guaranteed when this promise depends on an unstable country which cannot provide even enough fuel for itself?
What will happen if we start importing oil from Libya and all of a sudden some crazy trigger-happy Libyan freedom-fighter shuts down the oil refineries and stops exporting crude oil?
Would anyone in his right senses call that stability?
The Times of Malta has lost its soul.
Long ago. Yet many educated PN supporters still buy it.
Did it lose its soul, or did it make a Faustian pact?
Surely intended as a pun?
The Times still practise this old habit when it comes to their headlines.
“Lures” is usually associated with scams. No sub-editor proof-reading in order to get item online asap.
1 September 2013
Mr Peter Paul Zammit, Commissioner of Police:
Over the past weeks, I have seen the contents of reports that confirm my worst fears: that the police had invaluable information and material about the perpetrators linked to the arson attack that took place at my former residence in Naxxar in May 2007.
I have no idea what has kept the police from continuing with their investigations and pursuing many of the leads that they had for identifying the arsonists – which took place in front of the police station in Naxxar.
It is also clear to me that the perception that the attack was linked to the issue of migrants, which reverberated in the press at the time, is wrong. Neither was the arson attack linked in any way to the arson attack that took place some weeks later in Bidnija.
I believe that the motivation was purely political and fuelled by my writing on political matters and my criticism of the government of the day.
Furthermore, I would like to know why the police investigated but never interrogated Inspector Taliana on the matter.
And lastly, whether his position then as security officer to the then-home affairs minister had any bearing on this decision.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Saviour Balzan
Editor, MaltaToday
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/blogsdetails/blogs/The-askholes-20130903
How is it that Saviour Balzan has access to police records on presumed innocent people?
The advantage of firmly entering middle age is that before dementia sets in you can remember stuff when it started.
The fish farming industry was started by PN administrations soon after 1987, notwithstanding the ridicule of the village luddites of the Labour party. As usual, they are on the wrong side of history, on everything. Then they come round, at a cost to us, of course.
Whilst on the subject of being on the wrong side of history, a June 2013 poll shows that 77% of Maltese now think that EU membership was beneficial to Malta. If we assume that ALL PN supporters think so (not a given), it also means that almost 60% of Labour supporters also think so.
Labour have been opposing such a fundamental issue since 1970. Yes, that’s a full 34 years if you’re generous and assume they stopped in 2004. Quite apart from all their other crazy policies, think where our standard of living would be if we joined the EU in say, 1980.
And yet people still vote for them. I’m not surprised and shocked at the magnitude of their majority or that they won the election, I’m shocked that they get more than 10% of the vote.
Stereotypes exist for a reason, The Labour voter is clearly a masochistic idiot.
If I had faith in the university I would say that this problem is destined to go away, but as long as our university continues to churn out exam passers rather than thinkers, that’s not going to happen.
Gorg Borg Olivier, the man who actually made university free (contrary to what Orwellian Labour will tell you), used to say that if you push education on to the Maltese, eventually “Mintoffianism” will become irrelevant.
Unfortunately, we’re still a long way away.
So true. I think the PN’s greatest failing in all the years they were in government was “education” in it’s broadest sense.
It so sad to see so many people who still can’t think for themselves.