Henley & Muscat have put us in the news again

Published: February 18, 2014 at 1:00am




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  1. kevin too says:
    February 18, 2014 at 2:18 am

    On times of Malta.com comments board
    joemborn
    9 hours ago
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    Obviously it’s not YOUR job that was lost by the mistaken votes. If it were YOU who lost that position, YOU will be making that fuss!
    And what dialogue are you referring to? The PN had been telling him to remove the secrecy clause regarding the IIP, and to include residence with investment. Joe PASSED the law, had to amend it 4 times, cause havoc in the EU, lost the support of all the Socialist, and only THEN did he listen to the ‘dialogue! And regarding the gas ship, is HE LISTENING to the troubles of the residents?

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  2. RF says:
    February 18, 2014 at 7:01 am

    Henley couldn’t find a more moronic collaborator for their scheme. This is not a game or a joke. Our reputation and future are at stake. All ministers and labour MPs are just as accountable and responsible to stop this dangerous nonsense.

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    • La Redoute says:
      February 18, 2014 at 12:22 pm

      Passports shouldn’t be sold because it’s wrong, plain and simple, not because of Malta’s reputation and future.

      This is supposed to have been an investment scheme. Nobody bought that lie. Even Muscat now speaks of selling citizenship, rather than bringing in investment.

      Incidentally, his boast of a billion Euros over five years rings hollow when FDI dropped by half that amount in just a year.

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  3. Frankie's Barrage says:
    February 18, 2014 at 8:01 am

    Seems like the Russians are not too keen about Joey’s cosying up to the Chinese and selling them an EU passport. RT used to be called “Russia Today” and is considered as mouthpiece of the Kremlin.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)

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  4. Anthony says:
    February 18, 2014 at 8:05 am

    Bidu gdid, trasparenza, meritokrazija u direzzjoni gdida.

    Qabza ta’ kwalita’.

    Kulhadd jitnejjek bina.

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  5. daffid says:
    February 18, 2014 at 10:22 am

    http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/world/Gas-blast-causes-extensive-damage-in-Istanbul-20140218

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    • ciccio says:
      February 18, 2014 at 10:59 am

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQrVXEPQrM

      Year 2012…China…

      LNG gas tanker truck leaks 50 cubic metres (20 tonnes) of LNG gas, which explodes.

      Year 2013…Malta…

      Labour comes to power with a “power plan” and a roadmap.

      China buys a “hypothetical” 20-30% stake in Enemalta, Malta.

      Year 2014…Malta…

      Enemalta plans to moore an LNG FSU with a capacity of 130,000 cubic metres – requiring 12 annual refills from another LNG carrie – right in the middle of the residential, touristic and commercial Marsaxlokk – Delimara – Pretty Bay area, opposite the Malta Freeport…

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  6. kev says:
    February 18, 2014 at 11:19 am

    Recruits to sleeper cells do not need to buy an EU passport. If not homegrown they’re supplied with a free passport courtesy of Western intelligence.

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  7. Nuri Katz says:
    February 18, 2014 at 12:16 pm

    As I said, the truth will come out.

    I can’t understand how your PM is not even the slightest bit afraid of all of this bad press. It will most likely be his downfall.

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    • H.P. Baxxter says:
      February 19, 2014 at 1:29 am

      You would have to understand Malta. Then you would understand. In a nutshell, he has a solid, unassailable electoral majority, and most of his voters, and a many of those who voted for his opponents, haven’t read a single word or watched a single news item on this whole sordid business. Malta is a democratically illiterate country.

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  8. Gaetano Pace says:
    February 18, 2014 at 3:07 pm

    The show must go on. At least for next four years Labour is in the saddle and Zeppi riding the steed.

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  9. The Rising Star of Labour says:
    February 18, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    What has the Parliamentary Secretary for EU Funds, Dr. Ian Borg, been doing in the past 10 months?

    Does the “rising star” of Labour have any vision, other than rendering national political discourse like that of a village-piazza in some rural hamlet?

    A “rising star”? A black hole, more like it.

    http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-02-18/news/hotel-industry-projects-stalled-as-2014-is-going-down-the-drain-for-eu-funds-3988586496/

    “This year is a lost year for EU funding for the hotel industry, with Westin Dragonara’s director of finance, Malcolm Jones, saying that the Maltese economy is suffering and projects are on hold because the government has “underestimated” the time needed for funding programmes to get the green light from the EU.

    “There are no funds. There is nothing coming out in 2014 and everywhere is at a stall. They have to go fast. They have not yet structured the projects for which Malta has to apply for funding with the EU. Once you [the government] apply it takes at least six to eight months to get a reply from the EU,” Mr Jones said.”

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    • The Top Job says:
      February 18, 2014 at 7:21 pm

      Maybe he has been thinking about how to get to the top job.

      Ian Borg is as presumptuous as they come. If Joseph Muscat made it to prime minister at 39, Borg seems to think that he can make it by 29.

      Joseph Muscat must be watching his back.

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  10. unhappy says:
    February 20, 2014 at 1:18 am

    http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Minister-refuses-to-publish-entire-Henley-contract-20140217

    Yes, no doubt about the need to keep this hush hush ….. as both will have no legs to stand on if this comes to light

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  11. Calculator says:
    February 21, 2014 at 8:23 am

    I think these lines from an article from The Economist on Ukraine perfectly describe our own situation:

    “Viktor Yanukovich is a democratically elected president who has used his powers to eliminate liberal-rights safeguards and jail political opponents on dubious charges. He has reinforced his political position by building cronyistic relationships with powerful business figures. In this system the state creates economic rents and awards them to favoured business interests, who in turn buttress the state’s political power, all while maintaining the trappings of democracy. In other words, Ukraine looks a lot like Russia or Egypt; more significantly, it looks like other states that are in the early stages of similar threats to liberal democracy, such as Turkey and Hungary. The enemy of liberal democracy today is more often kleptocracy, or “illiberal democracy” (as tiger-mom Amy Chua put it in her book “World on Fire”), than ideological totalitarianism. The threat is less obvious than in the days of single-party states and military dictators. But it ends up in the same place: economic stagnation, a corrupt elite of businessmen and politicians, censored media, and riot police shooting demonstrators.”

    The only thing missing so far is the riot police shooting on demonstrators, and that probably owes a lot to the fact that there’s haven’t yet been any demonstrations in Malta.

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