Comments on: The New York Times: we’re selling passports because we’re “motivated in part by economic stress and in part by what some call crass opportunism”. And the picture they’ve carefully chosen is an indicator of what they really think. https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:20:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1548919 Wed, 05 Feb 2014 01:20:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1548919 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

So is our Harry.

]]> By: teapot https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1548570 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:28:57 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1548570 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Umm, Justin Bieber is Canadian.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1546405 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:06:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1546405 In reply to Melissa.

Muscat never looks you straight in the eye. He’s always reading from the left or right teleprompters.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1546400 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 23:01:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1546400 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Ah, but Justin Bieber has more “Likes” on Facebook than Joseph Muscat.

And Bieber is “young.”

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1546399 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 22:59:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1546399 In reply to Jozef.

As Antoine Vella once mentioned here, Andreotti had described Mintoff as “Quel Venditore di Tappeti.”

Joseph Muscat has gone one better. Muscat is the “Venditore di Passaporti.”

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1545941 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 14:03:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1545941 Economic stress.

http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-02/news/top-pharmaceutical-company-snubs-malta-invests-155m-in-iceland-3845357574/

‘…Sources told this newspaper that one of the reasons the company hesitated over its plans to invest in Malta was because of the bureaucratic procedures that foreign companies are required to go through in establishing a business here, despite the new government’s pro-business attitude…’

Nsomma, burokrazija zejda.

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1545877 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 12:26:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1545877 http://members.tripod.com/wckfc_library/mencius.htm

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1545482 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:14:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1545482 In reply to Conservative.

Eastern Romans, please. Ρωμαίοι.

]]> By: Conservative https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1545469 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 01:52:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1545469 In reply to john.

Yes, it was: the Byzantines.

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/02/the-new-york-times-were-selling-passports-because-were-motivated-in-part-by-economic-stress-and-the-picture-theyve-carefully-chosen-is-an-indicator-of-what-they-really-think/#comment-1545448 Sun, 02 Feb 2014 01:28:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43926#comment-1545448 Malta was never ‘ruled over by the Greeks’.

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