Wakey-wakey, Arnold
The man formerly known in the Labour press as HuBastjan - in reference to his drug-trafficking brother
On 27 October, former AD chairman Arnold Cassola posted this on his blog:
The “muck” that is coming up in Gaddafi-Malta relations is so thick that I see the absolute need for the setting up of a truly independent board of inquiry. What should be its brief?
Its first task should be to investigate the role of Maltese politicians. I have received information about Maltese politicians involved in a glass factory project in Libya or the importation of fish from there to other countries. But these were anonymous tips and might not be even worth the paper they are written on.
Now do you see how and why it pays to read this blog regularly?
Had Arnold done so, he wouldn’t have made a right ass of himself by going on about anonymous tip-offs (which might not be worth the paper they’re written on) about Maltese politicians and a glass factory in Tripoli.
As all good readers of this blog know, the glass factory is one where John Dalli was a director, and where one of his daughters is now heavily involved.
The matter was also reported in the EU Observer back in March, after Dalli made some very unwise comments about the veracity of dead bodies and anti-Gaddafi protests shown on the international news channels:
The 62-year-old Mr Dalli has built up close personal links with the Libyan regime over the past two decades.
In 2004 he set up John Dalli & Associates, a consultancy firm which specialised in opening doors for Maltese businessmen in Libya and which had an office in Tripoli. He also worked as a director in the Azizia Glass Manufacturing Company (AGMC), which has a multi-million-euro factory in the north African dictatorship.
He quit AGMC and John Dalli & Associates when he became a Maltese minister in 2008. But he kept John Dalli & Associates in the family by handing the business to his daughters and he still owns a house in Tripoli.
In his own online biography posted in 2008 he spoke about his work for the Libya Maltese Joint Commission in the 1987 to 1996 and 1998 to 2004 periods when Libya was under UN sanctions.
He said that “levels of economic activities between the two countries increased” despite the UN measures. He added that he had “established a strong network at the political and executive levels of that country.”
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Why didn’t we hear more about this glass business in Libya on Joe Grima’s Inkontri when he interviewed the “cittadin Malti”?
Yes ciccio, John Dalli also revealed his secret invention for electricity production on Joe Grima’s Inkontri, saying he was ignored by the goverment.
Ironically the correct channel for disclosing such rocket science should have been through the Chairman of the Malta Council of Science & Technoloy.
Mr John Dalli’s recommendation, which was also echoed by Dr Joseph Muscat, was that instead of using heavy fuel oil we use ‘waste to energy’ such as peanut shells.
This is an ingenious proposition, you give peanuts and you will get electricity half the price …….. was it monkeys?
One other thing ciccio, just googled ‘peanut shells’ and discovered that they use it to produce soap.
No, not the green one ta’ Bastjan, a soluble one.
I was actually wondering whether we can produce energy from green soap. What I know for sure so far is that there is money in it.
Pearl of wisdom from yesterday’s Inkontri.
Gavin Gulia:
The growth of the Maltese economy can be attributed to the growth of financial services, which growth does not trickle down to the common citizen.
Apart from the idiocy of the statement itself (said with Gulia’s characteristic grin), reading between the lines makes things-to-be under PL a rather frightening proposition. After all they do not exactly have a cheerful history in their relationship with such services.
Simon Micallef Stafrace:
The achievements Malta has managed in ICT have nothing to do with Austin Gatt.
– ….hence as the past is a guarantee of the future he suggested that Austin Gatt is hopeless.
And that’s why, as far as I am concerned, I cannot trust the PL.
Is it only a glass factory or do they do ceiling mirrors?
Gulia to clarify immediately.
The Labour Party have been out of government for so long that they dont even know how to start running it… let alone take our country forward in these difficult economic times.
The PL just want to control everything themselves. Once again businesses will be at the mercy of their elite contacts. Never was it so easy to open a business and set up your own shop. You dont need contacts, you don’t need to bribe anyone, you don’t need friends of friends.
You just put your mind to it and open your own business.
And the PL. doesn’t like that. They can only brainwash people if they are `suppressed employees` on minimum wage.
How can a son of a PL supporter, who works in the financial sector, vote PL if that party is already mentioning that these jobs might go?
And why does Illum always have a front page with a pair of women’s gifts on the top right corner?
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.154417687935380.28668.150589004984915
Seriously look at the thumbnails of their front pages…. and it’s just plain obvious that they are trying desperately to increase sales.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/07/111111-palindrome-friday-morning
What will you be doing at 11.11 on Friday 11th 2011 ?
Arnold may wish to do some catching up:
“In 2004 he set up John Dalli & Associates, a consultancy firm which specialised in opening doors for Maltese businessmen in Libya and which had an office in Tripoli. He also worked as a director in the Azizia Glass Manufacturing Company (AGMC), which has a multi-million-euro factory in the north African dictatorship.
He quit AGMC and John Dalli & Associates when he became a Maltese minister in 2008. But he kept John Dalli & Associates in the family by handing the business to his daughters and he still owns a house in Tripoli.”
http://euobserver.com/843/31923