On Euronews yesterday evening, when George Vella was on the phone telling TVM ‘journalists’ that he hadn’t noticed any trouble in Kiev
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December 6, 2013 at 3:37pm
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He is either deaf and blind or he has caught his master’s habit of lying on all possible occasions.
That is normal behaviour for Labour Party officials. Remember “tal-Barrani”? And then we had Frankie Tabone condoning that behaviour by claiming that Austin was the agent provocateur.
Typical Communist China attitude and approach. What a bunch of liars. And the Sliema switchers decided that it was Gonzi who was the liar.
The control of information is high on this government’s agenda.
We’ve got the news agency, the hacking and monitoring specialists and Muscat’s wish to emulate the Chinese.
Wait for some obscure bill next Summer.
Jesus, that guy! How thoughtful of the police to finally stop beating the crap out of him when they realised he’d stopped moving.
Gorg – mar biex issemgha lehnu dak ta! L-ebda vjolenza, l-ebda theddid, l-ebda bizgha jew tensjoni.
So no problem there – let’s get back to flogging passports, shall we?
Maybe his eyebrows are blocking the view.
Probably he didn’t see any trouble in his home town Zejtun way back in November 1986. You can never trust these kind of Socialists.
Oh, but that was all the Nationalists’ fault, how dare they expect Zejtun to be open to one of their meetings?
I was actually told this by someone who did her postgrad somewhere in the UK.
A man of George Vella’s age and experience (ahem) should be aware that his hosts were keeping him well away from any kind of trouble.
What does he imagine? That Russia would invite him to visit a gulag? That China would show him round the prisons where dissidents are kept before execution? That Yanukovych would want to show the groundswell of opposition that wants him out?
No, foggy – he just thinks we are actually living in the 70s when the internet didn’t exist. He expects us to believe whatever he says and not what is factual.
Isn’t he the dimwit who also said that “in my opinion Megrahi was innocent”? As if opinion and investigation are ever related.
That’s not riot control, that’s an army division.
Now let’s have a look at Labour’s North Korean friends…
This didn’t happen because George Vella did not see it:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/north-korea-reptile-media-kim-jongun
Kim Jong-un, like the Labour Party, is also a victim of manipulators and people who relentlessly damage his and his country’s reputation.
No trouble at all in Kiev, our foreign minister tells us. Not according to the Ukrainian president who decided to postpone his Malta visit.
Ah the 80s, beat the crap out of PN supporters (one lady had her nose bitten off) and then deny everythin – must give George a warm nostalgic fuzzy feeling to be in Kiev.
Presidential material…NOT.
George Vella is our very own Comical Ali ‘there are no tanks in Baghdad’
http://www.euronews.com/2013/12/02/ukraine-government-using-thug-force-against-media-covering-protests/#.UqIo94FxOsI.email
And to think that Vella is a leading contender for the post of President of Malta! Another chapter forthcoming in the ongoing Comedy of Errors.
He didn’t say there weren’t any riots but that he didn’t notice any.
The good thing about things now is that we have internet and we can access the outside world without any obstacles. In the Golden Era, our access to the outside world was sorely limited. However, now, this is not the case. Whatever happens to us may be known to the world in an instant. Whatever happens to the world may be known to us in real-time.
The beauty of nowadays is exactly that. The PL cannot expect to fob us off with excuses and lies. They just cannot because we have ways and means to know and make known.
The Norman Vella case is just one example. And there will be many many more because we’re all armed with “journalistic tools” – videocameras, mikes and so on. We cannot just be “hoped away” and what happens abroad does not simply stay abrad.
I guess that the PL has to rethink its lying strategy if it wants a shred of credibilty. Needless to say, it will not.
I cannot thank God enough that I never, for a single instant, considered to be a Laborite and/or vote Labour. It’s one great gift I was given in my childhood: the gift of analytical thought.
Yanukovych’s people must have taken our George Vella to their party HQ where they served him vodka and Ukrainian pastizzi.
It is, unfortunately, the order of the day that TVM is totally mum about the beatings being meted out to protesters by the pro-government forces in Kiev, but why on earth is NET tv not showing the clip above.
This piece of film should be shown in all its totality as it shows what’s really happening there and not what our foreign minister claims. Admittedly, it’s shocking to see but seen it must be to show what kind of friends our government seeks.
Mr Barathian, it is no longer called TVM, but One 2.
An interesting comment on Frank Psaila’s Facebook page:
Malta has a moral obligation towards the Ukraine and the freedom of the Ukrainian people.
It was PM Fenech Adami who had signed an agreement in 2004 with the Ukrainian government in Kiev to the consternation of the Soviet government in Moscow that was effectively controlling the Ukraine within the USSR.
The Moscow government expected to be consulted about this agreement. Dr Fenech Adami boldly did nothing of the sort and was the first foreign leader to respect the Ukrainian people’s right to independence.
In 1991 the Ukraine declared its independence.
The Maltese PM had effectively cast the first stone for the Ukrainian people’s independence from Moscow. Let us not forget Malta’s important role in this.