Cowardy Custard
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May 22, 2014 at 5:04pm
The Malta Independent reports that the prime minister slipped out through a back door at Pender Gardens to avoid journalists who were waiting for him outside after having been called there to cover his visit to the place.
They hung about waiting for him to finish his meeting with the Pender Gardens developers but after around half an hour, one of his aides came out and told them that he had left.
The journalists were obviously annoyed and realised that he had done this to avoid letting them have the final available opportunity to ask him questions before Saturday’s election. No political events are permitted tomorrow.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-05-22/news/prime-minister-ducks-out-of-building-to-avoid-media-5114920961/
Do I smell chicken?
Come year 2017 he will need a chopper instead of his Alfa to evade the media.
On another note, now it is not “doable” anymore but “staggered”.
So now we are staggering, “gas down gol-hajt”.
Lanqas erba’ gallettini jew xi sandwich ma baghatilhom din id-darba.
Forsi ghaliex ma kienx hemm ta’ Pietrupawl biex inewwluhomlom?
Midget Kurt’s strategy to save his Master from embarrassment.
What a chicken.
Have to say, hats off to the prime minister for doing his best to tell the truth.
That is because Joseph Muscat is the most transparent prime minister around. After all, he did preach transparency before the elections and he does not lie.
I am truly disgusted watching our PM who barks like a hungry dog because he wants more power. He is so self-centred that he is making this election a race between himself and Simon Busuttil. Utterly disgusting.
Two relatives of mine work in a government department and I hear stories which you would not believe. It is like going to work at a PL club each and every day.
They cannot mention or joke about the government because they are afraid of repercussions. Promotions are being given to PL supporters who do not even know how to use a basic Excel sheet.
Those who voted Labour for a change surely got it. But a change for the worse. If you love watching One news all the time and if you feel proud you voted Labour for the first time you have no idea what it is like working under a Labour government.
Of course I am happy that my water and electricity bills will be reduced but I would feel better still paying the same tariffs and not going to work every day watching such arrogance and hatred from people who want to destroy everything and everyone that comes in their way.
Cluck! Cluck!
Mussolini was a chicken also.
You just cannot trust Labour.
Last laugh before these elections:
Feel the Force – Energija Posittiva.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLz0nBGj4Uk&feature=youtu.be
And yet, Maltese journalists continue to champion Muscat. He treats them like idiots and he’s their hero. Unbelievable!
on another matter: see site
http://euandi.eu
but more importantly these link show the difference in opinion between PN and PL
http://euandi.eu/showPartyDetail.html?idParty=136
http://euandi.eu/showPartyDetail.html?idParty=135
most probably one has to carry out the whole survey before given access to last 2 links.
On the whole it confirmed my vote intentions for this weekend.
It is beyond belief that over half the island will still vote for this dip-stick.
Insomma, Prim Ministru Laburista bla kukkis.
Biex jipriedka lil ta’ madwaru tajjeb, mhux ta b’xejn xtara is-skiet ta’ Bondi.
Jo bhal sidu jirreccta quddiem il-folla idjota imma jahrab sitwazzjonijiet li jistghu igibuh dahru mal-hajt. Bezziegh.
Oops, The Times has done it again.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140522/local/power-deal-signed-but-upfront-30-million-payment-is-staggered.520110
The Minister is confusing the issues.
Extract from the interview:
Times reporter: “…Fuq il-kuntratt tal-Electrogas – gie ffirmat jew le?”
Minister: “Iva l-kuntratt gie ffirmat.”
Times reporter: “Meta?”
Minister: “Emm, gie ffirmat Ivan dikinhar li ppublik… semmjeniha, I think it was last week jew the week before.”
Times reporter: “Gie ffirmat mal-Electrogas – jew mal-koo… – tista ttina iktar dettalji?”
Minister: “Mela le. Inti meta tiffirma – il-composition li ghamilna huwa li kkrejajna Malta Gas and Power – MGP kienet sussidjarja tal-Enemalta. Din il-kumpanija prattikament is-shareholders taghha se jkunu l-individual members tal-Electrogas – jigifieri is-signing ikun mas- Siemens, mas-Socar , mal-GEM Holdings u mal-Gasol – ma’ l-erbgha li huma – l-erbgha li huma ffirmaw.
In the first question, the Times reporter asks about “the Electrogas contract.” The minister replies “yes, the contract has been signed.”
But neither the journalist nor the Minister specify precisely which contract they each refer to. They could be talking about completely different contracts which are somehow remotely related to ‘ElectroGas.’ More specifically, neither the Times reporter nor the Minister unequivocally refer to the POWER PURCHASE CONTRACT OF 18 YEARS FOR THE PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY BY ENEMALTA (excuse my caps).
And how can the Minister reply yes to a question about a contract with ‘Electrogas’ when Electrogas is not in existence as a legal entity as yet? In fact, the Minister later says that it was the consortium members who signed something. So the answer to the first question cannot be “yes” because Electrogas does not exist.
The reply to a question can be as good as the question. An ambiguous question leads to an ambiguous answer.
Next the Minister was asked about the date of the signing.
Would you believe that the Minister does not know the date of an important agreement and he says that it was signed when it was “mentioned”?
When asked for details, the Minister says that the shareholders of MPGL “will be” the four individual members of the consortium – he speaks in the future tense – and then he says that the four of them “have signed.” But he does not say what they have signed.
Let us assume for a moment that the individual members of the consortium had signed a power purchase agreement – something which does not make any sense – then why exactly has MPGL been created?
But there is one detail which proves that the power purchase agreement has not been signed. The Minister has missed an important party to the signing. The omission of this party proves that the power purchase agreement has not been signed. That party is ENEMALTA. Enemalta is the party that will buy the power from MPGL once the latter becomes ElectroGas Malta Limited – this company will be owned by the consortium members as shareholders, remember? ElectroGas Malta Limited will be the supplier of electricity, while Enemalta will be the buyer.
Can The Times check with the MFSA about whether MPGL is still a subsidiary of Enemalta or if the consortium has now taken it over?
If Gasol had signed a power purchase agreement with others, it would be required to publish this to the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange where it is listed, giving details and explanations of the deal – including reference to the period of 18 years, the names of all the parties, the sums involved in investment and so forth. To date, Gasol has not published anything in this sense.
If Enemalta had signed a power purchase agreement of the proportions mentioned by the government – 18 years supply of electricity – then Enemalta would have to publish an announcement for the benefit of its stakeholders, not least the bankers.
I am morally convinced that the government – Enemalta – has not signed the power purchase agreement with ElectroGas Malta Limited as I write.
The Times of Malta must investigate more…
Can The Times or any other newspaper kindly send this straightforward question to the Minister for Energy, Health, Ovaltine and Podologists. Didn’t he say that he wanted all questions in writing?
On Friday 9 May 2014, did Enemalta Corporation sign a long-term power purchase agreement and a gas supply agreement with ElectroGas Malta Limited for the period of 18 years, in accordance with terms of the Expression of Interest and Capability (EoIC) for a long-term Power Purchase Agreement and a Gas Supply Agreement issued on 11 April 2013, the related submissions by ElectroGas Malta Consortium and the Award Notice of 4 December 2013?
He must have calculated that by opening his trap he was more likely to lose votes than to win any.
Elvis has left the building
Imbarazz.
Jitmejjel b’Simon Busuttil, minghalih, ghax qal li hareg minn qoxortu.
Hu donnu iktar ma jghaddi iz-zmien iktar qed jibza u jidhol hu innifsu f’qoxortu.
Man-nies Busuttil jidher genwin, Muscat dejjem wiccu mqit, jara lil kulhadd dubbien.
The journalists were not even given biscuits.
A silence that speaks louder and more eloquently than the usual harangue!
I am lost, because why on earth is this big schoolyard boy doing scuttling away out of a back door?
We’re all lost, because why on earth is this big schoolyard boy our Prime Minister?
Malta got more than it voted for.
It voted for transparency and it got invisibility.
This is a guy running scared.
I watched the scene on Castille square thirty minutes ago while Jo was leaving his office.
It reminded me of Giovanni Falcone leaving the Palazzo di Giustizia in Palermo twenty-five years ago.
All we need to add are a few sub-machine guns and some balaclavas.
This is not the first time and surely not the last.All the reporters need to do is boycott him especially when he calls them for some two cent great news.
Dan ragel (zgur mhux politiku serju u tal-affari tieghu) li ma ghandu jafdah hadd.
Hija hasra kbira li baqa’ fostna tant boloh u *wie* li ghadhom jemmnuh.
The fact that he left through ‘the back door’ and his aides took their time to inform the journalists confirms that Joe Muscat ‘chickened out’ from meeting the press.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-05-22/news/pm-promises-unprecedented-fight-against-drug-trafficking-5122457601/
He’s been promising many challenges this week: a fight against drugs, an assault on precarious work, a battle against discrimination, a crusade on waiting lists, a war on out-of-stock medicines…
All that belligerence: it must be that he is enjoying his role of Generalissimo of the army of steel soldiers.
But is he thinking that he was still in opposition for the last 14 months?
He is an asshole, afraid to face the media
“SHANGHAI (AP) — China signed a landmark $400 billion deal Wednesday to buy natural gas from Russia, binding Moscow more closely to Beijing at a time when President Vladimir Putin’s relations with the West have deteriorated to the lowest point ever.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/21/china-russia-gas-deal-gazprom_n_5364004.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000014
Europe. What is the EU. A long time ago, out of the havoc wrought by the Nazis, two men had an idea…..they weren’t alone. And they gave flesh to the idea and the EU was born. We are 17 now……a union with a single currency, but not a single army, with the biggest economy in the world, with a space where we can all develop, but with some really good if flawed solidarity politicise, like CAP and the Fisheries policy, but not a united common foreign policy. We are united but diverse, but so much more needs to be done so that our Children can inherit this precious Union, a union that has an anthem which does not speak of war and conquest and pride, but Joy……
There are those that don’t believe in this dream, the Eurosceptics, the extremists and…….yes…….the Malta Labour Party. Despite the lip service towards the EU, they never really embrace it, and their enthusiasm is a trifle forced and false…….they have not understood the Euopean Dream, nor do they, I suspect, want to understand it. They believe in handouts and arrangrsi, in the politics of the half lies, the untruths, and the machinations. And their gaze is not inwards, northwards, and westwards, but eastwards, towards the Chinese and the Azeris. Because that’s where the easy unprincipled money lies.
On Saturday, vote for the party and the people who took us into the EU, and tried to mature this country. They made many mistakes, but they tried to uphold European principles and our Christian heritage, without thumbing their nose at the Chinese or the Arabs, and without the soulless push backs and nigger hating of this present lot.
on Saturday, vote for your Children so that they may as yet believe in the EU dream, without it being soured by the many MLap wannabes who want in not because they believe in the EU, but for the lashings of gravy it will give them…….Karmenu, Miriam, and Fredu being the principal ones in the running.
We will start questioning our membership if the MLP does not get a strong message on Saturday. Within three years we will be out, or thrown out. And we will once again go back to our Sicilian Arab backwaters mentality………which is what Joseph, and his predecessors always wanted, because an ignorant populace is so much easier to control.
So use your vote. And vote for the PN. The party of Europe.
Ġifa mimli bih inniffsu, Nittama li nhar is-Sibt nagħtuh tbeżbiża ddoqq l-iskotti li bil-biża u l-paniku li jaqbdu jagħmel taħtu.
This is how to face the media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Qe5ccWRCc
It’s fine to say that one does, and will, stand up for the rights of farmers (most of whom, after all, do a commendable job) – but, with so many reports of slurry-dumping made in the press, why don’t the same ‘responsible’ people publicly defend the rights and safety of the end consumer?
“Times of Malta has discovered slurry dumped on a planted field in the Manikata area this week, raising fresh concerns about food safety.
Photographic evidence was forwarded to the agriculture department for action to be taken. Yet, it emerged this would still not guarantee that the produce in the field in question would not reach the market for consumption.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140523/local/new-slurry-dumping-on-crops-in-manikata.520196
Ma rridx li jghid xi hmerija jew xi gidba ohra halli ma jkompliex jarraq s-sitwazzjoni li tefa fijha lill partit tieghu stess.
Ragel bezziegh!!
What a twat. It’s not like the journalists were going to ask some really uncomfortable questions anyway.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has left the building.”