You are correct Daphne. Those lies cost the lives of 50 million Europeans and the misery of other hundreds of millions. Lies provoke hatred that in turn provoke confrontations and in extremis, wars.

Milosevic repeated the same Goebbels-esque dirty game, raising the Kosovo story from the dead to instil hatred in the heart of Serbs who initially, during the Gorbachev (mostly peaceful) revolution had demanded his resignation and the introduction of democracy in what was left of the Yugoslav Fedration. The hatred machine overtook the democracy demand and hey presto; another genocide. Srebrenica, with the UN looking on to boot.

Communists are of the same ilk. Stalin caused the death of another 50 million.

That will be hilarious, it will simply expose Muscat’s real limits.

That reshuffle was panic at its purest, the moment Farrugia handed him his resignation, Muscat just had to rush and get rid of the problem.

Which in his mind was keeping Marlene Farrugia and co. quiet.

And to hell with common sense and what needed to be done.

Mela mhux hekk, jigu jghidu li miskin Konrad Mizzi kien overloaded jonqos.

Desmodronic actuation of valves implies purely mechanical means to lift and lower valves; the springs normally used to push them back up, and their physical limit how fast they can spring back, replaced.

That means the engine can rev faster, and that’s more power. Basically Ducati was able to envisage a small(ish) single cylinder which matched the performance of engines with twice the cylinders and capacity.

Problem was the resulting complex cylinder heads on top of an aircooled engine, drive from the bottom end somehow requiring to be transferred to this new type of camshaft/valve configuration. A pulley chain arrangement on one side of the cylinder would have created assymetrical cooling and hotspots.

Enter the bevel drive, much like a hand operated whisk, with a spindly vertical shaft sleeved in a tube running up outside the finned cylinder.

Elegance, sharpness and an advantage gained by inherent dry, logical thinking.

Now for the geeky video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3WtOXHQFTM

And how the engine transformed how bikes looked, rode and what that meant, fast bikes monstrous lumps until then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZj-c0sw9GE

Bevel drive showing clearly at 0.05. Notice the Y shaped oil passages used to transfer oil to the two valve banks, the bevel shaft itself shaped like an Archimedes screw pump.

Nothing left to chance, efficiency resulting from duality of purpose of every component true to form.

Now imagine Labour, yes, terrible.

Matt, there’s a major flaw in your first sentence. There’s no strategy team.

A promise kept.

A smarmy legality conferred.

A precedent set.

And Bob’s your uncle.

All done without as much of a yawn or the batting of an eyelid.

Hurrah.

And we expect deterrents to crime?

At the end of the day, Muscat is steam rolling over us – the people will realise what an incompetent lot they all are.

I was skeptical at first but I’m sure that the level of incompetence will have its backslash soon. The traffic jamming our roads is one such example. Decrease in foreign investment is another.

This is the situation . Let them be. They are unwittingly sowing the seeds of their undoing. And I can hear murmurs of discontent from those who would have sworn we needed a change.

The challenge for the PN is, of course, to cajole back the “murmerers” into voting the PN but criticism will not obtain that result. Brainwashing will. And put plain and simply, brainwashing needs money. Look what the PL did. The PN needs to ally itself with strategic partners who have an interest to keep the PL at bay – partners who are of sufficient means to ffuel a strong campaign.

My worry with thePN now is not that it is practically absent but that it has no vision.

Simon Busutill is not a suitable Opposition leader.

Too weak and too nice a guy for the job.

Details, please. I’m not much into cars, beyond Bugatti blue.

Another cabinet reshuffle on the way and Chris Fearne promoted to minister? He’s been looking very pleased with himself lately.

Our Dear Leader is concerned at the loss of revenue due to electricity theft and he solemnly tells us that he will have none of this and so slapped a smart meter where there was no meter at all.

Nothing to do with land, mind you. That must be a minor, insignificant issue.

So now we know the scale of priorities: stealing electricity is a no-no for our Dear Leader but the takeover of public land for private use is well, not a pressing matter, is it?