Comments on: Muscat: both his consultant and his bridge-builder are blacklisted by the World Bank https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:20:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2248938 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 12:20:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2248938 In reply to Jozef.

With so much water in the Mediterranean, the business of money laundering should be very successful.

]]> By: Claude https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2247019 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 20:12:59 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2247019 You joke, but this is the same strategy that Mintoff used. He used to identify rogue states and befriend them in the hope Li jiddobba xi haga.

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2246021 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:57:11 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2246021 In reply to RF.

Guess what, they’re looking at financial services foremost. The real prize.

]]> By: RF https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244512 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:59:32 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244512 Like a faithful poodle, following his previous master, Alfred Sant’s ethics: tbazwar ftit hawn u ftit hemm. The end justifying the means, at all costs, even tarnishing one’s own integrity and the country’s hard-earned reputation.

]]> By: Tabatha White https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244450 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:30:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244450 In reply to It-Tezi ta’ Mario.

They also specialize in trying to neutralize anyone who knows and recognizes their tactics.

By any which means.

]]> By: la Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244440 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:24:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244440 China cracks down on local journalists.

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-cracks-down-local-journalists-1624904

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244339 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:27:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244339 The best way to measure Joseph Muscat is to use his own yardstick.

Joseph Muscat, pre-2013 general elections:

“Min ma jiggilidx il-korruzzjoni huwa korrott.”

]]> By: M https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244298 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 21:08:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244298 Now what was that Maltese saying: ‘Ghidli ma min taghmilha…’ ?

]]> By: admin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244222 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:35:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244222 China Communication Construction Company was blacklisted by the World Bank in 2009.

Liu Qitao became president of that company a year later. He’s also Communist Party secretary, a boast in China but not in the West for reasons that are obvious to everyone who is not of Muscat’s mindset.

http://en.ccccltd.cn/newscentre/companynews/201403/t20140307_29941.html

]]> By: Gahan https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/07/muscat-both-his-consultant-and-his-bridge-builder-are-blacklisted-by-the-world-bank/#comment-2244203 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:24:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=49860#comment-2244203 We will soon have an ex-EU commissioner in that list.

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