Look who thinks just like Joseph Muscat: the Azerbaijan dictatorship
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March 19, 2014 at 2:02am
The priority (read duty) of journalists is to safeguard the national interest. And of course, like our prime minister, the national interest is defined as the government’s interest, even though democracy places a clear barrier between the two.
Many times, the national interest and the government’s interest are in headlong collision. That’s always the case in Azerbaijan and nowadays, it’s often the case in Malta.
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http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/65364.html
What I don’t get, and nobody I ask seems to know, is why foreigners like Arriva are bad, yet foreigners like Henley and whatsisname are good.
How can it be in the national interest to handover the running of the passport scheme to foreigners?
Ah, but you seem to forget that Joseph knows best. Malta is a nation of blind faith.
A good read for Malta-cum-Star-Today journalists and some of the staff at Times of Malta.
Same advisor advising them both?
The overriding national interest translates into never criticising the government.
In totalitarian states.
What about Gieh ir-Repubblika for Aliyev?
Can Aliyev sing?
Back to citizenship, it looks like the Minister of Foreign Affairs is not on message.
After all the government protestations about the opposition’s plans to withdraw citizenships obtained unlawfully- the government claims this would breach human rights – the minister goes ahead and withdraws a woman’s citizenship leaving her stateless. The court upholds the minister’s decision.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140317/local/court-upholds-foreign-ministers-decision-to-withdraw-citizenship-acquired-fraudulently.510993
The PL government understands human rights as being USD, GBP, EUR, CNY, RUB and so on.
Everything with a price tag, including human rights.
M’hux xorta.
Very many Maltese are ignorant or/and delusional or/and in denial so nothing will convince them about the real state of affairs in Malta.
Many Maltese don’t even know how to think.
I agree with you both.They only think what they are told to think by governments,band they are brainwashed to agree that everything this government is doing is right through brainwashing propaganda videos and messages.
It is all so FAKE.
If Joseph Muscat wants to look good then he can come out on his own and talk to us on his own like a true statesman instead of making this country look like a Baskin and Robins ice cream commercial.
Thinking presupposes the ownership of a brain.
Even Hungary is ticked off at the European Union:
“On the occasion of Hungary’s 1848 revolt against the Hapsburg Empire on March 15, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, lashed out at that Empire’s would-be successor, the European Union. Ever since he decided to tax the banks and bring the Central Bank in line with Hungarian interests, Brussels has carried out a pressure campaign against him.
According to Britain’s Guardian, speaking before tens of thousands of supporters, Orban charged,
“We are more than familiar with the character of unsolicited comradely assistance, even if it comes wearing a finely tailored suit and not a uniform with shoulder patches”
obviously a comparison of the EU with Hungary’s former domination by the Soviets.
“Today also, they look at us with suspicion. European bureaucrats look at us with distrust today because we said: We need new ways. We said we have to break out of the prison of debt and we also declared that Europe can only be made great again with the help of strong nations. You will see my dear friends that we will be proven right yet again.”
The European Commission has threatened to take Hungary to court for defying its dictates, including demands for legislation guaranteeing so-called independence of the central bank, and the fact that the Hungarian government has passed laws preventing foreign speculators from buying agricultural land, which contravenes the EU’s free-trade chokehold on behalf of the banks and cartels.
Orban continued,
“We have with us the silently abiding Europe of many tens of millions, who still insist on national sovereignty and still believe in the Christian virtues of courage, honor, fidelity and mercy, which one day made our continent great.
“As a thousand-year-old European nation we have one demand. We demand equal standards for Hungarians. As a European nation we demand equal treatment. We will not be second-class European citizens.”
If the EU wants to unseat Orban, they will have to use illegal means, as they were happy to support in Ukraine, since Orban and his Fidesz party, which holds a two-thirds majority in parliament, enjoys the strongest democratic mandate of any of European Union’s 28 member states.
Orban has also been critical of EU policy in Ukraine and has expressed concern about the Hungarian ethnic minority there. He also has said his government will not allow the situation to interfere in its relations with Russia and China, with whom they have recently concluded significant trade and economic agreements.”
Daphne caruana galizia, your thinking is about 87495275949276589736% stereotypcal.
I remember very well the time when Herr Mintoff introduced the bill named Il-Ligi Dwar l-Indhil Barrani sometime after the 1981 election result that made Mintoff a dictator by a designed quirk of the constitution of Malta.
That law was a copy-paste job from Mussolini’s law.
It could be that Mintoff coped that law from Mussolini’s one, but it could also be the case of megalomaniacs thinking alike.
Mintoff also had this knack of convincing his faithful that everything the opposition said was traitorous especially if supported by the democratic forces of western Europe. Joseph Muscat is trying to use the same propagandistic Goebbelspeak but with much less effect.
The Maltese of 2014 are not the same as those of 1985. 30 years have passed since then, 30% of that population has died and as many have been born and grown up into persons having more open minds and much are better educated, suffice it to say that one even can have 5 university degrees these days.
What a difference 25 years of PN administrations have made.