The Maltese prime minister’s bio on the speakers’ list for the Miami ‘citizenship’ conference
It makes the electorate seem even more idiotic than he does. Is this the sort of thing that the prime minister of an EU member state should have down on his bio?
Well, it’s good to see that in 2006 somebody gave him the year’s most outstanding person. I hope he has treated that poor soul properly ever since, and is not keeping him chained to his stove making his naqa soup.
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Dr. Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of Malta. He graduated with Honours from the University of Malta in Public Policy and later as Master of European Studies. In 2007 he attained a Doctorate of Philosophy in Management Research from the University of Bristol (UK).
He was elected member to the National Executive of the Partit Laburista at the age of 21 and later nominated as Education Secretary of the Party. From 1997 to 1998 he was a member of the National Commission for Fiscal Morality. Dr. Muscat was also a market intelligence manager and investment adviser.
He successfully contested the first European Parliamentary elections in Malta in 2004. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Outstanding Young Person of the Year. In 2008 he was elected as the Leader of the Partit Laburista.
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Joseph Muscat doesn’t stand out. He sticks out, both figuratively and literally. Unless the award was referring to his outstanding girth.
You’re right, but he hasn’t got anything else to put in, does he? Graduated with Honours – as if anybody with a grain of sophistication would ever list that.
It looks somewhat more like a university graduate’s cover letter for his second job since leaving university.
Then again, Obama’s CV is not much better really…
Market intelligence manager and investment advisor at IPSE.
Joe Vella Bonnici was the CEO then. Now his former employee has employed him as head of Identity Malta.
They were both still there in 2003, PW, KPMG, Deloitte et al presumably minor outfits.
Muscat must be living his dream, heaven help us.
I have long been unhappy with the dishonest way many people who obtain a BA (Hons) allege that they ‘graduated with Honours’. Getting an average grade pass in that degree is NOT graduating with Honours.
It is how well one performs, and not the title of the degree, that determines whether one has graduated with Honours (cum laude). Obtaining a Grade 1 with distinction in a BA general degree would be more appropriately described as having graduated with Honours.
Do you “attain” a doctorate (or any other university degree for that matter) or “obtain” a doctorate?
Only if you write your own thesis. Otherwise, you FRAUDULENTLY obtain a PhD.
Neither, you read for and are admitted to a degree. It isn’t something physical which would warrant the use of attain or obtain.
I’m surprised he thought “Made in Brussel” didn’t deserve a mention.
It is difficult to believe that none of this was arranged before the election. With the speed and slickness of everything that has gone on over the past few months, it is clear, to me at least, that this was all waiting to happen.
The stone wall we are up against, and will be up against for the next five years at least, is packaging.
We all, perhaps foolishly, believe that policies will work out the way we imagine them to because most of us think inside the box, our box of moral parameters and values.
The reason why the PN never came up with all these things the PL has in this very short time is not because they didn’t want the people to benefit. It is because they knew it was wrong, flat out wrong.
It was so wrong that they couldn’t even pin Muscat down during the campaign, because they just couldn’t fathom how he planned on achieving all these great and wonderful things he was promising. The PN was thinking within its moral parameters. It was not making allowances for the lack of them on the other side.
Sure they told the people “These are empty promises. They cannot be fulfilled” because they were still thinking inside their box of doing the right thing. Those promises could be fulfilled by doing the wrong thing, yes.
But Muscat’s confidence scarred the PN. No matter how many times they said “It can’t be done. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about”, Muscat bulldozed on boldly and defiantly, framing the PN as greedy bastards who don’t want to make the choices he wants to because they want to keep everyone below them and everything for themselves.
This framing, and these statements, fooled even the most ardent PN supporters, who felt that they must be missing something, and that there might be an element of truth in what the PL was saying.
Some were even worried that they might actually be brainwashed into believing that the PL is dangerous since the PN didn’t actually pin down the methods the PL planned on using. “If they can’t explicitly pin their objections down, then maybe they aren’t that convinced themselves”, they thought.
This combination of Labour’s secrecy and amorality and the PN’s inability to think like rats, resulted in the PN calling out to everyone not to trust the PL without giving the type of evidence that actually put Muscat on the spot, which in turn was very useful for the PL because it helped them with their “Negative” pigeon-holing.
The PN became the equivalent of a woman warning her sister or her friend not to get involved with ‘that man’ because she knows there’s something deeply wrong with him only she can’t pinpoint what or explain why, and meanwhile the sister/friend, in her excitement, accuses her of jealousy, fearmongering, negativity and wanting to spoil her fun. And then it all blows up, years down the line.
But of course, Muscat was deceiving the people. He got rotten ideas, like pimping out our country, selling 30% of our power monopoly to China and making us dependent on a privately-owned power station, then “packaged” it all into what looked like a delightful deal.
Much like the food dressers on fast food adverts who use steak not burgers, toothpicks and PVA glue gloss to make the disgusting food look mouthwatering, so did Muscat stage his performances and presented his packages to the people giving them what they want. Once people felt that delightful feeling of getting what they want, they then became blind to the means of how that will be granted.
Mintoff used Gaddafi’s blood money to give people a children’s allowance. Who cares about the people suffering in Libya when you’re getting (their) money. Now Muscat has gone behind the people’s backs, struck deals that make this country China’s little pimp-cum-prostitute, and everyone is blind to any consequences because they are “getting what they want”.
Or so they think. It will all come crashing down on them like a ton of bricks. Perhaps only then will we learn the true value of holding people to account. Perhaps only then will we understand how we as a people are so easily manipulated and tempted by money and driven by an inferiority complex.
Packaging is always designed to be appealing. But people didn’t insist on being told what will be inside. People bought the product without even watching the commercial. They were all fooled.
So here is something we must get used to: never believe what Muscat says he will give you. It will never be what you think it is. The best way to guard yourself from this is to always have in mind a solid idea of what it is you expect, and then compare it to what you are given.
Like with gay marriage (now changed to civil union), electricity, and now this, it will never resemble what you thought it would be. And remember that you have the right to say so. Don’t think you just need to think positive, because no amount of positive thinking is going to shape-shift physical matter, fill your bank account with money or turn a fake into an authentic.
The PN must stand as firmer than they ever have, and make sure they put a stop to everything they can, defiantly ignoring the (increasingly desperate and ineffective) cat-calls of ‘negative’. This is the only way to expose the PL for the fakes that they truly are.
National Commission for Fiscal Morality
WTF?
Exactly and one of the first things he does is sell citizenship.
I second that. Is that some agency in Iran?
Was it one of those 96-98 Sant brainwaves designed to brighten JM’s bio for future allure effect?
Well his lack of experience is painfully evident in his actions. Perhaps he needs to grow up.
Mysteriously, his working experience at Super One has been erased off his CV.
How is it that Joseph Muscat ‘s CV doesn’t show that he conducted a TV programme “Made in Brussels” on Super One Tv?
His bio seems more like that of a consultant rather than that of the prime minister of a country. This makes me wonder in what capacity he is truly participating.
Do his interests lie in furthering those of Malta or is he there solely as a salesman, or even worse an agent, safeguarding his commission.
I would find it somewhat hard to believe that somewhere, within this international set-up, this monopoly granted to foreign consultants, there isn’t a kickback scheme and the promise of good things to come in five years time should Muscat be spurned by the electorate.
No, given the present parameters, such a scheme is so easy to set-up, too attractive and lucrative to avoid, that disregarding the possibility is not an option.