What are newsrooms for?
Published:
October 11, 2014 at 12:52pm
The Electrogas consortium has several significant Maltese shareholders. Why is no newsroom knocking at their door? Even if what you get is a stone wall, at least show you’ve tried.
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L-Ahwa! Comrades!
Haddiema tal-id u tan-nisa!
Great news everybody!
The migration issue will soon subside as our erstwhile foreign affairs minister takes the lead on border issues when Malta takes over the EU Presidency in 2017. For six whole months, l-Ahwa!
This was disclosed in tahdidiet ufficjali with our Slovak borthers-in-arms who, our foreign minister underlined, are facing unrest in Ukraine just as we face unrest in Libya, with IS Inc. now seeking their prize thanks to their allies at the military industrial complex.
“It is too early to come out with topics and issues that will be discussed at EU level,” our FM disclosed, adding that since “there is a lot of baggage from the previous presidency” it’s best not to blow hot air in hollow trumpets.
His Slovak counterpart agreed and thanked our FM for allowing the “thousands of Slovaks coming to Malta as English language students” to have a hellish time.
We are different, he said, referring to our FM’s bushy eyebrows, “but have much in common.”
With Malta at the helm, the EU will be in safe hands. But to make sure no wheels get jammed, the Netherlands from Holland will be sharing the presidency, assisted by our brothers-in-arms, the Slovaks from Slovakia of Czechoslovakia fame.
Our FM will also benefit from a year-long apprenticeship with the preceding Dutch and Slovak presidencies, which means he’ll hit the ground scrambling before the word go.
Most certainly, Don Tusk, the Pole taking over from the Belgian Herman Van Haiku as EU Council president, will also be telling our foreign minister where to go whenever the opportunity arises.
This and more in Malta’s only SalvuToday Dispensation Programme:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/44814/migration_key_issue_for_2017_eu_presidency__vella#.VDhSZWdxm70
I saw Animal Farm in Edinburgh last August. 20mins into it all I could see was Joseph and co. and the Maltese electorate.
It would have taken you less if you saw 1984.
[Daphne – Saw? How about read – it’s a book, not just a film.]
G, that’s because you live in a matchbox.
F.X. – read 1984 and you will see how it’s all happening today… as long as you don’t live in a matchbox and mistake Oceania for Mellieha.
What are you on? Its effects are really interesting.
Youtube.
That’s right, Jozef. Watching aging frustrated spinsters stalking middle-aged men.
Ooh kev, che maschio.
Maschio, Jozef? La Redoute is nearing the anything-goes stage.
This makes the need to see that contract which Kurt Sansone told us was signed in May 2014 all the more urgent.
Does that contract contain penalties against Electrogas Malta if they do not deliver the capacity of 200MW of electricity from March 2015?
From that date, the first 200MW of electricity generated every second and available to Enemalta should cost the public 9c6 per KwH according to Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi’s energy plan.
If Muscat’s and Mizzi’s plan is delayed, who is going to pay to cover the excess cost over 9c6 per KwH incurred by Enemalta? Will this be paid from hidden taxes, or added to the national debt? Or will it be recovered in full from penalties imposed on Electrogas?
Kurt Sansone knock on a door to file an anti-government story? You have to be kidding.
[Daphne – It wouldn’t be an anti-government story but a pro-public story. The failure to make this distinction is one of the reasons journalism is so weak in Malta. People who go after the facts are not even backed by the public whose interests they serve because, as you have done here, an attempt to find out what is going on with that power station is “an anti-government story”.]
QahbuMalti, you’re talking about journalism, but Kurt Sansone is employed by a news dispensary. It’s been the trend globally. News dispensation agencies, otherwise known as the mainstream media, are there to parrot government sources and report on the hideousness of the crowd.
You’re employed by a political party.
Your move.
…a political party with real political ideas.
Mate.
The wrong ones.
If they were eighty-something drivers who accidently hit and run parked cars, then yes, they would knock on their door.
But since they are Labour-lovers, they shall not be disturbed.
[Daphne – Advertisers, I would say, rather than Labour-lovers. People like that don’t love any political party, but merely support the one that will bring in the most business for them personally – not through public policy but through cronyism. And to hell with the rest of the country.]
Exactly so, Daphne. In the new world order in which ‘It’s the Economy Stupid,’ it is the big business which has control over everything.
The big business have enough money to put entire political parties on their payroll. And they will be left with enough change to employ the media too.
And while at it, can someone explain the land deal at Marsaxlokk and why this is not a scandal?
Did Mintoff resign as promised when he did not have the majority of votes in 1981?
Don’t expect anything better from Joseph for not being able to provide the mother of Malta’s economical solutions: the LNG power station.
Have the Maltese investors given their comment yet, since Joseph Muscat/Konrad Mizzi for a change had gone out of their way to be so accurate on the project figures before the elections?
I was told they’d already started work on the project at their expense in anticipation of the contract. What does that translate to in terms of dues and expectations?
Wasn’t this deal expected to keep them all in pocket for the term of 15/20 years?
That makes sense as I suspect the present round of earth-clearing works at Delimara is being done, and paid for, by Enemalta in order to get things started and show that something, anything, is being done.
How sad Malta is ending up like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bh6M0Qj-Jo