Comments on: Seven MEPs are sanctioned for describing Azerbaijan’s elections as free and fair. But the Speaker of Malta’s parliament goes unreprimanded because he’s not accountable. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:48:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Foggy https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1599967 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:48:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1599967 How likely is it that anyone will investigate why Anglu Farragia’s favourable report was also at variance with that of the OSCD? I am not holding my breath.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598544 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:06:09 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598544 In reply to La Redoute.

Says that “If Azerbaijan were your home instead of Malta you would…use 51.87% less electricity.”

That’s of course assuming that in the case you are the Maltese person, you are an honest individual, and not one whose name is on Joseph Muscat’s list of 1,000 persons who have corrupted public officials to obtain a tampered smart meter.

Unless it is telling us that all Azeris are corrupt persons who have rigged their smart meters and are saving about 51% on their readings.

]]> By: qwerty https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598537 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 01:04:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598537 Heh ma kkalkulawhx

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598441 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:16:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598441 We have here, as the prison warden in ‘Cool Hand Luke’, said, we have ‘a failure to commuinicate.’

Our ‘Speaker’, who roams the world, sanctioning corrupt elections, would have fitted right in. Illiterate, incompetent, and way out of his depth.

]]> By: An Estate Agent https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598424 Sat, 01 Mar 2014 00:01:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598424 Courtesy of a friend on Facebook. Malta’s really nurturing dangerous bedfellows.

http://www.redpepper.org.uk/azerbaijan-the-pipeline-that-would-fuel-a-dictator/

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598413 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:49:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598413 That was the election when the results were announced before votes were cast.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/douglas-murray/2013/10/a-deliciously-crooked-morsel-from-azerbaijan/

]]> By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598406 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:43:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598406 Interesting comparison:

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/MT/AZ

]]> By: Joe Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598403 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:41:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598403 In reply to Joe Micallef.

This did not help

https://reportingproject.net/occrp/index.php/en/press-box/1772-occrp-names-aliyev-qperson-of-the-year-q

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598402 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:41:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598402 Sorry to go off-topic but this is interesting.

The pro-government media (including TVM) has made some fuss about Joseph Muscat being the first head of government to meet the new Italian Prime Minister.

It turns out that it wasn’t true. This afternoon Matteo Renzi also met the Prime Ministers of Romania, Belgium and Austria.

At 4.00 pm he met the PM of Romania, at 5.00 pm Joseph Muscat, then at 6.00 the PM of Austria and at 7.00 that of Belgium.

So, even chronologically, Muscat wasn’t the first. Normally this would be meaningless but it becomes significant as it shows up once again the crudeness of government propaganda.

Their lying is almost pathological. They need to lie even on something as minor as this.

http://www.ilmondo.it/politica/2014-02-28/renzi-vede-premier-romania-malta-belgio-cancelliere-austria_417564.shtml

]]> By: Joe Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/seven-meps-are-under-investigation-for-describing-azerbaijans-elections-as-free-and-fair-but-the-speaker-of-maltas-parliament-goes-unreprimanded-because-hes-not-accountable/#comment-1598399 Fri, 28 Feb 2014 23:38:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44465#comment-1598399 Maybe Farrugia read this story and was “worried”

http://www.hrw.org/node/118595

The links particularly that at the hyperlink “explored President Aliyev’s family’s Dubai real estate holdings” are very interesting.

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