Enid Blyton’s Famous Four: Keith, Kurt, Konrad and Joseph go to Baku
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December 16, 2014 at 11:54pm
More postcards from the trip – and it really is just the four of them.
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http://azertag.az/en/xeber/Maltese_Premier_deeply_impressed_by_Icheri_Sheher-818695
He managed to find a podium in Baku, too.
Yes, Antoine – from where he was reading the Bible before going to sleep.
Muscat’s body language – especially in the first and last photos – speaks volumes.
http://www.naturalgaseurope.com/malta-azerbaijan-energy-cooperation?utm_content=bufferb585a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Key paragraphs:
“The Socar sources said to NaturalGas Europe on condition of anonymity that “Socar Trading will supply LNG for Maltese project from the third sources not from Azerbaijan, more likely from Africa”.
“Azerbaijan is a landlocked nation and it does not has any LNG facilities in country or overseas, for example in Turkey. Moreover, future gas supply from Shah Deniz-2 field to Europe has limited by 10 bcm a year. All this amount has been covered by sales-pushed accords to 9 European buyers”, the sources said.”
I think we had discussed this on this website before. What is the purpose of having SOCAR acting as a way-in-between for third party sources to the Electrogas Consortium?
Isn’t this just a way of adding costs payable to SOCAR in the form of margins or commissions?
Did SOCAR declare its intentions to outsource the LNG gas from third parties at the time of the tender process?
And the more important question: If SOCAR cannot provide its own LNG gas to Electrogas, what gas deal exactly did the prime minister agree to in his MOUs with Aliyev? Did the prime minister agree a gas deal with a country which does not have enough supply of gas?
Also the part where Malta deals with Shell, Shell deals with Socar.
There’s another circular reference.
First two photos: Joseph took Kurt with him to carry his overcoat? Taxpayers’ money well spent.
Re first photo: humiliating, having to bear a propaganda film seated like a schoolboy.
The screen shows a photo of the young Heydar Aliyev, who is to Azerbaijan what Mintoff is to Malta (i.e. worshipped like a god). It is indeed a propaganda film.
He probably enjoyed it. He worships Mintoff.
That’s indoctrination prior to succumbing to eat humble pie during ‘talks”. No wonder Kurt bit his fist in a ‘God Almighty what have we done’ mode.
Why are they all alone? Where is everybody?
Ask Lou Bondi or Peppi.
Photo number 1 is spookily weird.
I almost feel sorry for them. They’ve been put in that room and told to watch the propaganda film, while the Azeris probably laugh at them from the adjoining room.
This whole trip is so embarrassing, and they probably don’t even realise that they are being taken for a ride.
Laqgha kbira f’Baku ghall-mexxej taghna lkoll.
Enid Blyton had a Dick character too. as well.
Hawn the three stooges qisom ghax Konrad ma jidher imkien. Tghid fejn kien? Kien qed jaghmel xi ‘deal’ iehor forsi?
More like Augustus Gloop in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
The Four Musketeers
Where is Konrad?
Looking for Sai and the children
Christians have a “Reconciliation Day” in the Christmas period, so why shouldn’t Konrad look for a reconciliation even if his marriage is as strong as ever.
He’s the photographer.
Gowzef and his three stooges have been treated like four school boys on a school outing.
They have shamed Malta and themselves.
Komrade Konrat is missing in the film-viewing photo and invisible in all the rest.
Was he the one with the camera?
Promoted to press photographer or future columnist to replace Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando?
A school outing. That’s exactly what it looks like.
You are wrong. Every delegation will have to pass through it, and when you are at the receiving end of the deal, you will oblige and pretend interest. There are only some two countries who can snub such things, and they will probably not do, out of respect. Grow up and learn.
Where are the hosts ? There were at least 10 of them at table.
Can you imagine our PM hosting another PM and sending him off to the Upper Barakka alone?
Are the Azeris downright rude, or did the meeting go wrong?
His body language translates to: what the hell are they talking about. He simply has no idea what they are saying.
Or perhaps the guide’s English is not that good. And, what is a body language for someone ‘who has an idea of what they are saying’? Simon’s stare perhaps? If I tell you that when Simon will become a prime minister, he should be nowhere near such meetings, because he immediately projects an image of a weak country, would you agree? I do not. Because I will need to know what was said before. Go for substance, rather than superficiality.
[Daphne – If somebody has dispatched you to these threads as to take on the role of ‘impartial observer who is really a Laburist’, please tell them from me that you are doing a lousy job of it.]
Joseph and the KKK. Makes a lot of sense.
Ara veru dawn nies patetici.
Looks like a re-education program from a fascist state.
Completely with you.
Does not seem interested to me.
I am sure the four Maltese lads were traumatised by this experience. It is one of those trips into a surreal culture where the State is a vast emptiness of fear.
So, was Konrad’s role to take his colleagues’ photos? Where is he in the first three? Tax payers’ money well spent.
Oh my, Oh my…making a meal out of some photos. Out of a split second photo with some facial expressions as they should be in a prime ministerial meeting, you pretended, or better ASSumed you can deduct that the deal is bad, is corrupt, that our side is incompetent…and so and so forth.
If our delegation’s size was a big as the Azeris, you would have complained otherwise. More so, one blogger wanted to raise a scandal, and another hinted at a protest. Then there was the flag photo, or better the emblem of Azerbaijan, when even a quick glance could have revealed to a normal mind that they were actually looking and reading at a plaque behind the flag.
This is not the way to win switchers back. This is very infantile at best. Well, even the previous administration had dirty dealings in energy, and a proven scandal, at all levels. But theirs was also dirty energy. Now at least this is clean energy. We will see if it is also affordable, or if money wise we are better compared to the prices of the previous administration. Other than that, the end justify the means.
[Daphne – Please tell your party bosses that you are failing in your mission. They need somebody more intelligent and subtle.]
‘Now at least this is clean energy’.
‘the end justifies the means’.
Is this all the elves can muster lately?
It seems to me that the group went for a holiday.
In the first photo they look in a sperm donation bank waiting for the porn movie to start in order to help them get off and get some money in return.
‘Enid Blyton’s Famous Four’?
One of them must have died since I was young.
I was sure there were five of them.
Kif infalli l-pajjiz nibda ndoqq il-balalajka.
F’ritratt minnhom qed jaghzel kitarra ghal Lou Bondi.
Ha jdum jiccassa lejn dik l-kitarra? Forsi talabilhom ghal siehbu Lou.
Three names start with a ‘K’
Any suggestion for one instead of Joey ?