Dalli is seeking almost two million euros in “material damages”
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July 9, 2014 at 10:10am
Didn’t Dalli say that he was seeking “symbolic damages” one just one euro? Well, it turns out that he’s actually going after almost two million euros in material damages.
Because, you know, he wants to line his tomb in gold and furnish it for the after-life. Shouldn’t he be in China right now, hoovering up cuts on contracts under the five-year cooperation agreement?
When people say it’s a miracle the Maltese survived on this barren rock for centuries and boomed with liquidity, I saw that no, it isn’t. The explanation is down to something far more prosaic than a miracle.
When all else fails, sell your culo or get out your knife and use it.
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http://euobserver.com/institutional/124903
Kemm jiflah ikun hanzir dan il-bniedem. So he is still enjoying benefits as a former EU commissioner (when he doesn’t deserve them) and wants compensation on top of that.
I am sure that Barroso is regretting not having fired him as he should have done. Gonzi too must be feeling somewhat responsible for having foisted this poor specimen of an individual on the European Commission, causing so much harm to Malta’s reputation in the process, and so many problems for the Commission.
As for Joseph Muscat, shame, shame, shame. If there was any need to show that he has no moral compass whatsoever, it is his failure to distance himself from Dalli.
What moral compass are you talking about? Just look at the way Muscat is wooing the Chinese. Why all the secrecy? Why have not all the press been asked to join the PM? What is Muscat hiding from us?
Muscat is showing no respect to us and our children. He is a dangerous man and will plunge Malta into serious trouble.
Dalligate works in Muscat’s favour. The scandal will help Muscat distance himself from Dalli only when the time is right. At that stage it would be a case of being placed with his back against the wall. And Dalli would have served Muscat’s purpose.
I didn’t say Muscat has a moral compass. On the contrary.
The symbolic one euro in damages was not mentioned in the original court case Dalli filed. Where did the story come from?
Dalli’s claim is headline news here:
http://euobserver.com/tickers/124899
What a depressing state of affairs in our media.
Is there not one journalist around who would investigate why Dalli John phoned Muscat Joseph first rather than his wife or Dr. Lawrence Gonzi? Do our journalists ever try to imply and ask themselves questions so then they can get the truth?
It is obvious that Dalli John has something big with which he is holding Muscat Joseph by the b*lls.
Morally convinced that Dalli will pass the €1.9m over to his charity fund in the Bahamas.
The plural of ‘euro’, is still ‘euro’…’euros’ is a very common mistake, ‘Euros’ even more.
[Daphne – The plural of euros is euros, just as the plural of pound is pounds and the plural of dollar is dollars. We are speaking English here, not European continental Globish. Only certain members of the British working-class say ‘that cost fifty pound’, and only certain members of the American working-class say ‘give me fifty cent’. You are correct, however, about the use of the capital letter E.]
Actually:
“The euro. Like ‘pound’, ‘dollar’ or any other currency name in English, the word ‘euro’ is written in lower case with no initial capital. Where appropriate, it takes the plural ‘s’ (as does ‘cent’): This book costs ten euros and fifty cents”
From the European Commission Directorate-General for Translation, ‘English Style Guide: A handbook for authors and translators in the European Commission’
I based my comment on the European Commission’s “Spelling of the words “euro” and “cent” in official community languages as used in community legislative acts” (read also the footnote).
http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/publication6336_en.pdf
[Daphne – Well, I’m afraid that’s not British English but Globish, and more pertinently, it was done as a pragmatic solution to the problems of forming the plural for euro in the various languages of the European Union which don’t simply take an ‘s’ like English. Hence, the Maltese ‘ewro’, singular and plural, rather than ‘ewrijiet’. But when you speak and write, it’s ‘euros’, pronounced you-rows as in row the boat not have a row with your neighbour.]
It all makes sense now
If we had a cerebrally-active artistic community – a Mario Philip Azzopardi, for example, who instead of filming regime propaganda were involved in real art – then we might have a film with this story-line:
while the nation watches Dalli’s hnizrijiet, youths in Bugibba watch porno in public:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140709/local/porno-videos-left-playing-on-interactive-panel-in-bugibba.527006
Of course, such filmmakers would have to have some etymological sensibility. I very much doubt whether Mario Ph Azzopardi would …
http://i.imgur.com/OXex1iR.jpg
This guy has all the attributes of one Dom Mintoff.
Without the rabid violence, thuggery and cockiness.
And one from the Golden Years…
http://i.imgur.com/oONRe2l.jpg
Surprise, surprise. Maybe he has his eyes set on a couple of Chinese investments.
Well I have 3 questions for Mr Dalli.
1) Who informed the man from Philip Morris that he was holidaying in a Gozo hotel?
2) Who accompanied him to the hotel?
3) Was is by coincidence that Silvio Zammit was there too?
Johnny Cash Dalli loves money too much to settle for the symbolic one euro in damages.
He is still smarting from missing out on that super lovely 60 million euros bribe.
And the 10 billion dollar deal with Mary Swan in the Bahamas.
MIchelle Obama once said “Success isn’t about how much money you make but the difference you make in people’s lives”. Well Mr. John Dalli you are certainly making a difference to the reputation of the Maltese society. I wonder if you intend to be stuffed with 500 euro bills instead of cotton wool when your time is up.