Kim Il Sung Balzan can’t take the heat but he won’t get out of the kitchen
The true test of whether somebody was raised in a rabidly Mintoffian family (or a backward village) or not is their ability to get to grips with the concept and reality of free speech.
Saviour ‘Kim Il Sung’ Balzan can’t. Just like the household hero of his childhood, Dom Mintoff, he wants to say what he likes about those he hates, say nothing about those he loves, and silence through force or whatever means possible all those who say things he doesn’t like about him.
Take the heat, Saviour. Haven’t you noticed that I’ve never called for you to be silenced, locked out or shut up? I don’t even agree with those who say your newspaper should be boycotted. And this despite the fact that you do nothing but insult me in every issue and hate me so much that you can’t even bring yourself to write my name.
I wasn’t raised by Mintoffians.
Oh, and incidentally: I don’t know who any of those Twitter guerrillas are, but they have certainly made the world of dire Labour tweets a far more entertaining place. The trouble is that you have always been a humour-free zone and have no wit to speak of.
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Yeah, sock it to him baby – the lousy twerp. Cowards the lot of them.
Report them to who? The Internet police? Maybe he wants them “to ‘cuse’ them to Madam Balzan?
Pride comes before a fall, Saviour.
Daphne, you could not have said this better.
As you say, did anyone ever here suggest that Saviour Balzan’s Malta Today should be boycotted or blocked on the internet? We even quote from the paper on this website and rebut their arguments.
I agree also perfectly with your statements about free speech. This is the ultimate test of anyone claiming to respect human rights.
Here we have it. Saviour Balzan promoting the blocking of one of the fundamental human rights.
Twitter is credited as one of the main tools of the North African revolution, and it is used wherever people are organising themselves against oppressive regimes, including in Hong Kong. It is widely reported how the dictatorships have tried to block the use of Twitter and to interfere with its use.
Saviour, let the people make their own decisions about who to believe and who not. Meanwhile, your own credibility has just suffered another dent.
Worse still, Saviour not only promotes the blockage of the Twitter accounts, but also their reporting. To whom, Saviour, to the Gestapo?
Is China lending expertise in this direction too?
What is it about free-speech that bothers them?
Finally a direct channel of communication, and they can’t take it. Nor do they reply. So much for their attacks on the NP about communication and access.
Malta Taghna as a fear barrier is not enough.
An excellent negative tool, but not enough.
@ Gahan
If the account is at any point suspended or blocked you should receive a message from Twitter stating that.
If you receive nothing by word of advice from Twitter, and your account is malfunctioning with numbed features, it has most likely been hacked.
You can always continue to tweet from a hacked / compromised account by tweeting from Support at Help Central.
“Finally a direct channel of communication, and they can’t take it. Nor do they reply. So much for their attacks on the NP about communication and access.”
You reminded me of “Gvern li jisma.” Dak li jaqbillu.
Perhaps he is barking loud for more TVM iced buns.
Great new layout. Love that it is now possible to go back easily and not through the archives.
Saviour Balzan should go into a corner and weep.
Labour has been there for not even two years and people have to resort to anonymity to voice their dissent. And why?
Because democracy under Labour has always been a joke.
Or it would be a joke if wasn’t so bloody serious.
People are scared and Balzan should peel the red veil off his retina and wake up to why.
Does anyone remember any of this shit in 1988, a year into a Nationalist administration?
X’kull wahda ukoll. Gej bir-“report them” hej, Madam Balzan Junior.
Meanwhile in Hollande’s France…
Hollande is the man who encouraged the Maltese to vote for Joseph Muscat.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29686257
Shouldn’t Muscat be teaching the man a few lessons about how to sell France to China and get its debt and budget problems solved once and for all?
“And to cap it all, France has in Francois Hollande a leader who is about as far as is possible from being the man-of-the-hour.
The president makes a boast of being “normal”, when the times require exception. He invites ridicule, when France needs someone of stature. He vacillates, when France looks for steel.
President Hollande said he loathed finance, when that was the expedient thing to do. Afterwards, he discovered the virtues of business, and appointed a former Rotchschild banker to run the economy.
Foolhardy indeed to conjecture what the president actually believes in.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wf5MBuZ2Go
http://292fc373eb1b8428f75b-7f75e5eb51943043279413a54aaa858a.r38.cf3.rackcdn.com/a1835c7d69cdf60dc7589e431032b30d1506843864-1362671574-5138b7d6-620×348.jpg
He had better see if the Chinese’s English is better than their French. Who was it who was in awe of Chinese parents and China’s education system, was it Evarist Bartolo?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1146283/Wash-hand–coleslaw-The-hilarious-examples-mangled-English-world.html
Can anyone brief us on how to use a Twitter account?
Dos and don’ts. It seems that people my age need to show their approval for the tweets of these democratic twits.
Watch the film “Chef”and you’ll get an idea of my illiteracy in the subject.
Go to http://www.twitter.com. Fill in the sign up form and click the sign up button.
Now you’ve got yourself a twitter account, you can follow other accounts, acquire followers, post messages (tweets), respond to others’ messages, etc.
To respond to someone’s message, click on the left arrow button at the bottom of the message. Your reply will be visible to everyone who visits Twitter.
To show your approval of a tweet, click on the star button at the bottom of the message (‘favourite’).
If you want to send a message, click on the Tweet button (top right) type out a message in 140 characters or less, and press ‘Tweet’.
If you want your tweet to show up in someone’s Twitter feed, start your message with that person’s Twitter name.
e.g. @Saviour Balzan Taking lessons from #China now, are you?
That tweet will show up in Saviour Balzan’s Twitter feed until he blocks you to show that he supports freedom of speech only as long as it suits him.
The # sign before a word is what is called a hash tag. Using hash tags makes your tweet easier to pick up when someone runs a search.
You can search Twitter for conversations by topic. Either run a search for key words using Twitter’s search box, or click on a hash tag.
To find someone’s Twitter account, run a search by name. If you want their messages to show up in your Twitter feed, click ‘follow’.
If you’ve upset Saviour Balzan, when you click ‘follow’ you will receive a message saying that you have been blocked. This means that Saviour Balzan’s tweets won’t show up in your news feed. You can still see his tweets and respond by looking at his account. He won’t see your replies automatically, but everyone else will. And every time his tweet is retweeted (i.e. forwarded by other users) your response will show up too.
You can delete your own tweets, including replies. You can’t delete anyone else’s. That’s a lesson the internet censors in and out of government still have to learn.
The way things are going, you might do well to create a weibo account too.
Thanks. I needed that lesson. I am going to enjoy myself tweeting.
Thanks for the info. I’ve been wondering how this Twitter works? I’m an adult, but soon an adult elder! Bravo!
Yes, Saviour is the first to dish out and publish allegations then sends his staff telephoning for adverts.
The threat is implied: pay up and I will shut up.
Coventry is a very busy place.
So now, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Have a nice day, Salv.
So are you telling us that the Malta Freemasons are bankrolling him?
He stopped publishing any stories about the fraternity. I thought he obliterated them from these islands.
Pity he gave up on his weekly splutter, papal bulls behind blinds.
Tamed to serve the purpose.
This week it was Mallia doing a Henry VIII, someone riding a Toyota van to oblige, and just this morning Crystal Finance launched Sir Matthew.
It is becoming hard to re-write history or keep a lid on every story you break Ms DCG and his idol did not leave instructions how to get rid of the internet.
I wonder what Mintoff would have done if he had known about sharing of information or the internet and what a thorn in the side they are for the shenanigan masters we are yoked with today.
Since Chinese press seems to be by far more overt than the Maltese, I will this time say “ship him to North Korea” instead.
Now, now, Saviour, I repeat.
Calm down.
Get a grip.
http://www.illum.com.mt/opinjoni/ilpunt/39010/lezzjonijiet_gallasta#.VFtIXPmsWSo
Is this Alex Saliba the PL guy?
The gallant Balzan uses freedom of the press only when Labour is in Opposition. He expects everyone else to shut up now that he supports the government.
I hope that this Labour regime will not emulate the Hungarian government which has imposed a tax on internet users; it is one way of taxing Hungarians and warding off criticism through this medium.
I think that the Hungarian government has retracted the tax on the internet.
The Labour government should impose a tax on iced-buns. It would also fight obesity.
Baxxter, MinhexaMexa et al,
he can block guerillas on his twitter account, but he can’t block those of a Saviour Bezzan can he?
Simply retweet all Saviour Balzan to it and hey presto, Saviour’s back.
The problem is that MLP cannot get anyone with the same skills to square up to Daphne, therefore they have to resort to lies, threats and insults.
What a government we have in Malta. Everyday that passes the reputation of the island just goes down the toilet.
His lackey, Matthew Vella is using the same tactic. Vera losers.
Do Saviour Balzan, Miriam Dalli, Kurt Farrugia, Ariadne Massa, and Herman Grech think that they are untouchables and beyond ridicule/criticism just like the politicians they suck up to?
Or perhaps their involvement with Taghna Lkoll and the 36,000 majority has gone to their heads.
Welcome to the real world.
Attaboy, Salv. Hope to see you on the PL candidate list for 2018. By then we’ll need a Minister for China.
Balzan is scared of middle-aged women.
Fancy that.
Can’t stop laughing my head off.
A few words to Balzan: ‘Sparixxi Salv. Many of us will be happier’,
It is rumoured that when Saviour Balzan’s brain was delivered it came in the usual packing only this time it wasn’t around the brain but inside it.
Censorship is the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Savior il gurnalizmu tighak ma ghadux iktar kredibbli Joseh Muscat ikkontaminak ghallura ha nighdlek bl ingliz go and fuck yourself.