Bastjan Dalli was in Lourdes with his brothers J Dalli BA and Patri Gorg. Was he helping out with the miracles?
For years the Labour Party press and its fellow-travellers at the General Workers Union referred to John Dalli, then a cabinet minister, routinely as HuBastjan.
This is because Bastjan Dalli was notoriously corrupt and his brother the cabinet minister never did anything to distance himself from the situation. Rather the opposite, I would think.
Looking back, it now looks like John Dalli might well have used his brother as his fixer.
I seem to recall that he made a brief attempt at hauling his image away from that of his brother Bastjan after Bastjan was thrown into prison awaiting trial for drug-smuggling. But then John went and ruined that by telling the media about the disembodied voices his brother heard in prison, telling him various things about plots against John.
But back to the miracles and how miraculous events seem to dog Bastjan – more miraculous than anything the Madonna of Lourdes has ever performed. His most famous miracle was when customs officials opened a container of bottled water he had imported, only to find that the bottles of water had miraculously become bottles of whisky.
Then there was that more recent famous miracle, which took place aboard Bastjan Dalli’s vessel, the Jolly Roger, off a pitch-black and quiet part of Malta’s coastline at night. When the police boarded it in search of the large consignment of cannabis resin Bastjan Dalli had bought in Libya and brought back to Malta, they found that it had turned into green soap.
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Turning bread into money..no doubt…
‘…the disembodied voices his brother heard in prison, telling him various things about plots against John..’
What?
[Daphne – Come on, didn’t you know? He made such a big deal about it.]
I must have been away at the time.
What next, stigmata?
Disembodied voices?
Joan of Arc, move over and make way for J.Dalli.BA.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101014/local/bastjan-dalli-says-he-was-offered-freedom-if-he-implicated-brother-in-hospital-allegations.331324#.UqXX-Cf9x1M
It must have been the Madonna. If she speaks to Tonio Fenech, why not to Bastjan Dalli?
Lourdes is just the right place for Bastjan.
Both he and Bernadette heard voices.
Hope he doesn’t turn the sacred pool into whisky. It happens to him without his knowing.
Do you think he can turn it into Earl Grey (instead)?
http://maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Bastjan-Dalli-says-he-was-approached-to-implicate-his-brother-in-Joe-Zahra-s-report
Let’s hope that Bastjan doesn’t turn the Lourdes’ water source into whisky.
Ghandu biex jiftahar Dun Gorg b`hutu. It-tnejn ghamlu l-mirakli.
Dun George is cut from the same cloth as his brothers. The Archbishop had to remove him from parish priest of Ibrag Parish as he wanted to go his own way and wreaked havoc in this parish.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131209/local/monuments.498282#.UqXXDGRDufs
Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, ugly, horrible, horrible, horrible.
One of these scale models definitely looks like Elvis Presley.
Straight from Via San Gregorio Armeno, Naples.
Hammer Film Productions
Ditto. ad infinitum.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101014/local/bastjan-dalli-says-he-was-offered-freedom-if-he-implicated-brother-in-hospital-allegations.331324#.UqXX-Cf9x1M
After having completed the Mater Dei Hospital report, he found it useful to visit Lourdes to thank personally the MATER DEI for the illumination
The best miracle of all was the one before the March elections. J Dalli Ba, according to medical certificates, was so sick, that he couldn’t even board an aeroplane to come to Malta. Hey Presto, a miracle, after the elections which were won by the PL he came to Malta as strong as ever.
Since when has small talk become newsworthy?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131209/local/calleja.498219#.UqX5lvRDt8E
In other news: Joseph Calleja declares it is nice to see Obama. Shakes hand too.
The good, the bad and the shady.
There is the Third Act to the comic opera ‘San Sebastinus’.
I remember that during Eddie Fenech Adami’s second term in office, John Dalli led a delegation to Libya and one of the cars accompaning him was involved in a traffic accident.
Lo and behold, his brother Basjian was in this car but was not injured. When a reporter asked Minister Dalli if Bastjan was part of the official delegation, Minister Dalli said that his brother was given a lift as it happened that they were going the same way.
It could be that after their trip to Lourdes they think their sins are all forgiven. What they do not realise is that first they have to be forgiven by those whom they trespassed against.
As for the fuss that J Dalli Ba made about his brother Bastjan, check the hypocrisy in the following links.
http://www.maltastar.com/dart/20101016-my-brothers-allegations-should-be-investigated-john-dalli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUO9omsIhWY
J DALLI BA is his brother’s keeper.
http://4th-one.blogspot.co.uk/
Tafu sew lil J Dalli BA int. Missek tghidilna aktar.
Well, it appears that his miracles happen to have only a 50/50 chance of going the right way, perhaps some more practice is needed.
The Dalli’s also seem to have a direct line to God, hence the mass organized by J Dalli BA, and said by his brother Gorg, in thanksgiving for divine intervention in the timely substitution of John Rizzo by Peter Paul Zammit as Commissioner of Police.
That change triggered off yet another miracle cure, instantly delivering John Dalli of the affliction that had prevented him from flying from Brussels to Malta while Commissioner Rizzo was still in charge.
Maybe now he in Lourdes to pray so that all problems affecting the Mater Dei hospital and which he listed in his report (that one which according to Godfrey Farrugia was not requested by the government, but which according to Dalli was requested by the Prime Minister) will go away.
Then he might claim that he solved all the problems.
So today was the day for the traditional RTK debate between the leader of the opposition and the prime minister.
Guess what? Joseph Muscat did not turn up because he had some “important business”.
One thing’s for sure, Simon Busuttil proved to be consistent and very assertive.
I liked the way he tackled the issue about the foreign press: what he says to the press in Malta he says precisely the same things abroad; that’s unlike what this government does.
Joseph Muscat was probably busy packing his suitcase.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131209/local/pm-in-south-africa-for-mandelas-memorial-service.498309#.UqYo4RYVGcM
That evil Saviour Balzan. Is it a case of misreporting by his own newspaper?
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/courtandpolice/Oil-trader-had-meetings-with-Austin-Gatt-and-Lawrence-Gonzi-20131209
Nowhere in the report is there any indication that Austin Gatt or Dr Gonzi did meet the rogue oil trader.
The e-mails quoted do not prove any such meetings having occurred. Does this misreporting tantamount to contempt of court?
Ejja lura Malta Bastjan, ha tibdel l-ilma f’ pilloli u medicina.
And now it’s the FT
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7de0a9fe-60fe-11e3-b7f1-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2n0jL6WlO
All the brothers went for a visit to Lourdes to thank the Madonna for all those Maltese people who voted Labour.
For Bastian and John Dalli Labour was their only way to survive and to be freed from all the crimes and corruption they have committed.
Labour governments always defend the corrupt as long as the corrupt defend them.
We all remember the statement:
Jekk hemm bzonn naghmlu hbieb max-xitan.
What is the Labour Party’s position on the Estrela report?
Will the Socialist MEPs vote in favour or against?
Ejja lura Malta, Bastjan, ha tibdel l-ilma f’tablets ghax tal-year 4 ghadhom minghajrhom.
U kif tkun hawn ara jirnexxilekx tbiddlilna 4 passaporti ghax 15 il-miljun biss issa se jdahhal il-Ministru Scicluna. U hu pacenzja ha nkun ftit tost, kif tkun hawn ara ddurx dawra Mater Dei ghax hemm ftit sodod please.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/includes/file.aspx?f=8581&width=440&height=297
So by presenting some e-mails and this picture , Salvu wants to convince the public (the courts won’t be impressed) that Gonzi and minister Gatt had their finger in the pie on this so called oil scandal.
Interestingly there’s no reference to Tonio Fenech who in this picture does not seem to recognise this family, and which our Salvu wants us to believe that Fenech knew well.
What I believe about this whole story is that our politicians put business people with a good reputation in key government positions, and left them to their own devices. These chairpersons and financial controllers found a fertile atmosphere where they could ask for kickbacks without being caught for years.
The agent had to hand in a cut to these white-collar criminals in return of information about the bid price of other oil suppliers.
We will soon be told by our Salvu that the boy in the picture is implicated in the scandal: he was the one who forged and sent the said e-mails to Malta Today, because daddy did not buy him the latest computer game.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7de0a9fe-60fe-11e3-b7f1-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2mz8OmEEe
Malta passport sale puts UK under pressure
John Dalli is trying to relaunch himself in the banana republic. We are all very curious about his next steps, not that we do not have enough laughing stock with every single minister in this republic.
His gimmicks are of another nature though, a tragi-comic person who always wanted to play the first fiddle only to produce a string of continuous jarring notes at the expense of a whole nation.
The embodiment of corruption in Malta needs forgiveness. So much a Roman Catholic story: screw your neighbour for as long as you can or you feel like it, and when the guilt or worry get too much, ask forgiveness before you die – just in case. God is very forgiving. And like that, you will have had the best of both worlds.