Go straight to the end of this video to see the woman Owen Bonnici made a magistrate
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November 29, 2014 at 9:33am
Joanne Vella Cuschieri puts her hand on heart and says to the Labour Party’s Kunsill Generali: “I will now say what my mother and father taught me to say: Viva l-Labour.”
It’s amazing. She goes to school, gets through six years of university, goes to the hairdresser, wears make-up and smart clothes, works at a career, sets up a household, becomes a working mother, acquires all the trappings of a ‘middle-class’ life, and she still says something like that.
Her politics are a slogan her parents taught her in Sliema’s Lazy Corner (yes, right, another one) three decades ago.
And then Owen Bonnici makes her a magistrate.
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He made (to) her other stuff too *wink, wink*.
Sleazy, power-seeking amateurs.
On a different topic, does Mario Abdurrahman Farrugia Borg, senior official at the Office of the Prime Minister, MEP election candidate, and proud Maltese Muslim, have any comment about Mario Philip Azzopardi’s anti-Muslim rant?
There was no need for my parents to teach me any political slogans because living under a Labour government in the best years of my life I could see and feel that it was like living on a time bomb.
What do you expect, Daphne? Despite successful careers and lives, the Maltese rarely question the religious and political doctrines riveted into their minds at a very early age by their parents.
Religious indoctrination relies on the pliability of children’s minds. Many parents do exactly the same thing with respect to politics. “Viva l-Lejber” and “Duminku s-Salvatur” are recited as prayers.
Unfortunately our education system does not teach us to read and be critical. Few actually make the leap from swallowing all hook line and sinker to questioning, reasoning, and drawing reasoned conclusions. On the contrary, when a child asks why, the typical response is “because I told you so.”
Joanne Vella Cuschieri does not express a political conviction but regurgitates an unquestioned assumption inherited from her parents.
“Ikkaratterizzata minn tifhir lejn il-mezzej Laburista Joseph Muscat.”
Blow, blow, blow…sorry…ventilate, ventilate, ventilate!
Milli jidher kull ministru huwa imexxi minn xi persuna ohra.
Don Manwelino minn Silvio jghidu. Hemm ohrajn bhal l-prim ministru minn xi wiehed ghandu fabbrika tbiegh l-injam jew kartun jew il-karta.
Li ma nafx forsi Mrs Caruana Galizia ikolla hjiel huwa li smajt li l-president ukoll hemm xi gurnalista li jghidu li hija saret qisa l-presidenta.
Is the magistrate related to minister Owen Bonnici?
In the meantime, whilst Kon-rat is costing is roadmap V2.0, the LNG Gemini is still out and about.
http://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/LNG-GEMINI-IMO-7390143-MMSI-538001388
LNG Gemini is being converted.
We will probably find out that this is what Joseph Muscat meant when he said parts of the new power station were being built in Europe not China.
Joseph Muscat is a good magician.
Follow his hand and never his mouth.
The LNG Gemini is in the Navantia Shiprepairs’ Fene-Ferrol, in Ferrol, northern Spain, where it is supposed to be undergoing conversion work – and I would imagine a major rust cleaning – before it sails – or shall I say ‘floats’ – to Malta.
The map you linked shows that. It appears that the tanker has been in Ferrol since late 2013.
Now my bets are that its arrival in Malta will be timed to happen only after the local council elections of 2015.
Apparently LNG Gemini isn’t on the books anymore.
We should also congratulate the PM for his choice of President who has today reacted to the Eur 500,000 hike in salaries which she has seen fit to burden tax payers with.
Has she heard of the concept of overhead expenses? She has made herself an NGO but with unlimited opportunity to dip into tax money and then trumpeting the amount she collects for charity. What sense does that make?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141129/local/presidents-office-reacts-to-wage-bill-story.546133
MLP logic = forever more.
Politics based on promises are a never ending story and they’re caught up in the trap of it.
*promises = favours
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-29/local-news/What-PN-ministers-had-pledged-to-pay-back-was-increase-in-honoraria-not-full-amount-6736126555
They just keep coming.
Does he really expect the previous cabinet return the full honoraria?
‘…In Parliament this week, Dr Muscat insisted that former Nationalist Ministers and parliamentary secretaries should pay back the full honoraria, but the declaration made by Dr Gonzi – to which the Labour Party then in Opposition had not objected – was clear that only the increase was to be paid back….’
How desperate he must be to confuse matters this way and how vile it is to use these tactics.
Judging by the Xarabank audience, his tactics work.
What happens if I ever have to face Joanne Vella Cuschieri in court? Jien Nazzjonalist convint. Does it mean I won’t have a fair hearing?
God forbid you have to face this magistrate in court. I faced her as a defending lawyer and she was shouting and waving her hands in court as if she was at a Labour meeting.
We are now back to the ‘onoraria’ – another deviation from the current political mess ups by the PL government. The PL elves are all over the comments boards.
They sure stick up for their own and the Nationalists keep on harping about ‘mistakes’ of the past.
The Nationalists should print a list of all the salaries and wages of their ministers, parliamentary secretaries, board members, and so on, and keep right on harping about how nobody had three or four jobs off the public sector.
read: of all the PL Ministers
Isn’t this a development on ODZ land? Isn’t ODZ reserved for agricultural purposes according to the new ODZ policy of the MEPA?
A school between a quarry and animal farms?
What do the environmental organisations have to say? This is far more than a 400 metres-squared agro-tourism project.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141129/local/government-to-build-new-secondary-school-near-rabat.546142
The way some Ministers are behaving leads one to assume that they may be reviving ‘izra u rabbi’
When I’m prime minister, I’ll ban forever the word and phrase “viva” from Maltese.
Viva Gianpiet, #1 intik jien.
Just because someone will “go to school, gets through six years of university, goes to the hairdresser, wears make-up and smart clothes, works at a career, sets up a household, becomes a working mother, acquires all the trappings of a ‘middle-class’ life” won’t mean he/she’ll start seeing straight.