Anthony, de Bono is 80 years old. He has a long line of “unsatisfactory (business) relationships” behind him where he wasn’t the party doomed, quite the opposite. Everyone is either too embarrassed to report or thinks it quite futile to go against “the name.”

Once the position you are lying from is a forceful one, then others – we’ve already for gotten locals here – will be pressured and cajoled into believing that lying politician.

Joseph Muscat has learnt from a professional.

People find it far easier to deal with a liar and get ahead than to notice the spokes in the wheels and not get ahead as fast or at all. The keeping up with the Joneses mentality has a price.

Lies are like cheap hamburgers these days, you know that they’re bad for you, but masses are sold. If you, like me, don’t include them in your diet, then you must be one of the rare ones.

In my time I was summoned peremptorily to report to Mintoff escorted by the then Commissioner of Police within the hour – no reason given and of course no question asked. I just had time to speak to a very senior police officer who happened to come into my office at Police GHQ. He had time to give me some very useful advice before before the Police Commissioner escorted me to Castille.

Firstly he advised me to allow Mintoff to run out of steam before daring to open my mouth. Secondly, keep repeating to yourself all the time, silently of course, “This man is lying to me. This man is lying to me”.

That advice saved the day for me but it landed the Police Commissioner, a Mintoff devotee up to then, in trouble.

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What is of particular interest to me is “Mr. Nair specializes in developing major infrastructure projects utilizing Chinese EXIM credit”

Exim Bank of China is:

1. Distinguished by its role as the solve provider of Chinese government concessional loans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concessional_funding#Concessional)

2. Commercial activity includes export credits mainly in the infrastructure fields (roads, power plants, oil and gas pipelines, telecom, and water projects) and investment loans for Chinese businesses to establish overseas in the energy, mining and industrial sectors.

3. Exim does not publish figures for overseas loans.

All the roads lead to China.

Look at his forehead and the tell-tale liar’s line.

HE IS LYING.

The comment that people are not stupid is, unfortunately, wrong. Too many are.

One has only to read the comments on timesofmalta.com, from people who don’t understand basic issues even when they are clearly spelled out, and who then go on to defend the indefensible.

Beg to disagree. We wouldn’t be in the situation we are if there weren’t quite a few people who are stupid.

Peter, why are you surprised?

Fact: He did not tell the truth so many times during the election campaign. He changed answers from yes to no and vice versa in any particular press conference, and yet journalists did not challenge him and told him so there and then. And he got away with it. Only this website had the balls to say so then.