Trid tghid “mod dittatorjali” mhux “mod aristokratiku” – mod kommunist Ciniz tant ammirat minn Muscat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZ19c_5nCI

So there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HePvTuATnjw

90% of China’s groundwater is polluted, 60% severely so, can’t be used for anything, China now faces massive food shortages through its forced urbanisation and as a consequence of rapid industrialisation poison spewing monsters.

16 out of the world’s 20 most polluted places on Earth are Chinese cities, Linfen a major cancer epidemic ticking away.

Then there’s this mental control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3cBjcJ_U_Y

Every government official will tell you not to compare Chinese ‘democracy’ using Western parameters belonging to fully developed countries.

Sweet, allow us our Dickensian phase, that we catch up, preferably through the best of times, the worst of times.

Which is why the left in Malta requires a paradigm shift, based as it is on Mintoffian terzomondismo.

It does not trust a population to better itself, feeds off a fatalistic streak that everything is ultimately futile.

Mintoff chose to replace the local strain of Catholicism instead of challenging the church’s stasis, problem is, he absorbed all its tendencies to isolation.

Anything too mental soon becomes dangerous to social stability. Ever been shut up simply because you dared look at things differently?

It’s usually the ones who’ll declare themselves sorted and very free of everything. Why they have to lay it into others remains a mystery to me.

Labour isn’t a political party, it’s a creed, mindset, obsessed with distracting oneself from the ‘predicament’ of being born in this tiny place.

Land use, nanny state, parochial micro-politics, superlatives, all require the typical people you mention to express and personify as national misgivings.

That’s why democracy’s in the way, too crowded and not necessarily up to these ‘constraints’.

Noticed how Labour stopped all talk of any higher education and personal achievement as being the ultimate ambition, the moment they moved into power?

That’s a luxury we can’t afford in their book. The spiel slowly becoming ‘il-pajjiz ma jiflahx mod iehor’.

Surely you mean “no tanks”?

Dictator envy is a common affliction in democratic countries. The very nature of democracy is simple an endless parade of fluctuations and sharp changes in directions. It never sails smoothly forward, but rather stumbles and fumbles on its way changing governments and policies, laws and attitudes.

As a result, democracy can be somewhat slow and unable to take decisions because everything keeps on changing all the time, causing the leaders of a democratic country a lot of problems. They just fixed a new pipe line, but the press keep harping on about unemployment, for example. Governments are dropped at the whim of the people.

This makes all leaders of a democracy somewhat jealous of dictators. Sure their people are unhappy, oppressed and poor, but at least they get things done. Of course only the true democratic leaders will then follow that thought up with “but the people’s freedom is paramount”.

However, to the uneducated and clueless, not to mention out right ignorant who are not self aware in the slightest and who think that just because they feel something then it must be correct, the very nature of democracy gets seen as a form of ineffiency. It’s not practical, nothing can get done, you have to constantly change and adapt because people object and you have to listen to them (humph!). The very reasons why democractic countries are more successful than dictatorships are viewed with scorn and they feel that democracy is holding them back from being that great and almighty leader they just know they are deep inside: belying the crucial fact that they are not good leaders at all.

Muscat and the Labour Party are completely guilty of giving in to this envy. I suggest they read up on it, because the fact that Muscat said that means it’s on his mind already, even after just one year, and the Labour Party love to justify such forms of leadership which are unacceptable.

LNG?

No, that was LPG. That’s what Chinese authorities said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQrVXEPQrM