Ciccio, l-armar tal-festa ta’ Burmarrad nofs tuzzana qsari tal-plastic fuq travetti tal-injam.

X’ridtu jara meta hareg mid-dar?

Well, they better hurry, Goldman Sachs, RBS, every German bank and more are in a frenzy to get their trillions out of China’s national institutions.

Seems they waited too long to see some returns on projects which it seems were never going to make money anyway.

And that’s what happens when you scramble onto a regime riddled with officials, technicians and experts all out to make the fastest buck in the East.

What’s crystallising is a regime no longer capable of controlling its own party officials and a population on the verge of social collapse.

When one of your problems is the absolute contamination of a sub-continent’s groundwater, no checks, no quality, just fast bucks, even the one dry swell can reduce extensive provinces into deserts.

Imagine having to abandon a ‘miraculous’ industrialisation process to combat its consequences to be able to feed a nation.

The whole place is literally coming apart.

Għandna biex nidħku! Iktar nista’ ngħid tal-biki.

Sewwa qed tgħid. Il-PN reqdin raqda papali. Qishom qatgħu qalbhom u ma jafux x’se jagħmlu.

Qumu fuq tagħkom PN għax se nerġgħu nispiċċaw bħas-snin 70 – inbaxxu rasna u nobdu mingħajr ma nistgħu nilmentaw jew nipprotestaw.

Bħalissa f’moħħi qed jiġini l-film Tenko fejn in-nisa miżmuma priġuniera riedu ta’ kuljum xemx, xita, bard u sħana, joħorġu barra mill-barrakki li kienu jgħixu fihom u suldati ġappuniżi joħdulhom l-attendenza…jgħajtu lil kull waħda minnhom u dawn ma setgħux jilmentaw…..għax b’rashom idur.

Żmien tal-biża’ jidher ġej fuqna.Il-Bambin biss jista’ jilliberana flimkien magħna jekk nagħarfu ma nibqgħux ċassi.

Seems like the manufacturers of monorails have lost their customers in the important cities, and someone is trying to offload a monorail system onto the Maltese government led by Joseph Muscat.

Joseph Muscat gives me the impression that in terms of mental development, he is stuck in his teen age, where everything new is like “wow, one day I will have one of those.” So he thinks he can Malta like Dubai or Singapore, with his grand ideas of a monorail, land reclamation, high rises…

Qisu qatt ma hareg mid-dar.

Instead, what we want here is an authentic Malta. Not one covered with concrete and steel. But one which truly reflects the colour of the natural Mediterranean stone and rock formations under the clear sun shine.

If the Piano project was a “kapricc” according to Muscat, what is a monorail?

China is also planning to set up a new development bank to rival the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, which they cannot fully control (i.e. force them to use the authoritarian rules that are normal in China).

In addition to my previous comment, no journalist can get into China as a journalist unless they are invited by the Chinese government.

Why does he have to go that low to make his arguments?

Why does the Prime Minister have to criticise the mission of the head of government of another EU country in this way? It’s not a competition.

Angela Merkel is working on concrete joint ventures involving real firms from the German private sector. She is not in China to sign a piece of paper containing a wish list which may mean anything and may mean nothing.

Look at the headline here, now, before they change it:

“Possible Chinese investment in Marsamxett breakwater”

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/40987/gozo_bridge_feasibility_study_first_item_on_muscats_china_visit

So is it only “possible,” or is it definite?

I know, why a monorail which leaves no possibility of crossings and junctions in a maze this small?

I can understand an urban light rail network, rails integrated into the street surface or an independent semi-underground, but not the disadvantages carried by both.

Let’s elevate the damn thing then.

For sale; Sliema seafront apartment, perfect to board the monorail, balcony carrying necessary permits.