Justice Minister’s girlfriend at Busuttil press conference read out questions from Kurt Farrugia On WhatsApp
Labour Party TV reporter Janice Bartolo, the Justice Minister’s mistress. She looks nothing like this in real life, as those of you who watched this afternoon’s press conference will have gathered already. She probably put up this picture on public view on Facebook to help reel Owen Bonnici in.
It’s bad enough that the Labour Party’s television station sent the Justice Minister’s girlfriend to the PN leader’s press conference this afternoon.
When there is such a hideous mess already, with the Police Minister’s driving shooting at people, and the Police Commissioner, the Police Minister and the Prime Minister working hard to cover things up, should the Justice Minister’s girlfriend be at a press conference challenging the Opposition leader?
Of course not. The situation is ridiculous, and compromises the Justice Minister more than he is embarrassed already.
But to make matters worse, Malta Right Now is currently reporting that Janice Bartolo was not even there as a journalist/reporter but as a stooge. The prime minister’s spokesman, Kurt Farrugia, was sending her questions and comments on WhatsApp and she was asking them, or trying to ask them, given that at one point a clearly contemptuous Simon Busuttil asked that the microphone be moved to somebody else.
That’s the problem with most smartphones: they have massive screens that can be read by people next to you. This Janice Bartolo should be taken off Super One newsroom duties immediately because not only is she even more compromised than she would be already simply by dint of being an employee of the party in government, but she is also the Justice Minister’s mistress. And some point she is going to do something stupid and bring him down – not that he is doing very much to help himself.
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Yes, that’s what I said. Angular features describes her.
Bring him down?
Don’t be a spoilsport, I’m having a whale of a time watching josephmuscat.com clutching at straws.
Sometimes Joseph Muscat’s straws are a noose around the neck of his dissidents.
Tabatha White is right.
In the Maltese system, which is a perversion of democracy, our government holds absolute power. There is no need for Joseph Muscat to clutch at straws, because he has any number of options open to him. And there is no telling what he might do.
He could, for instance, plant false evidence to incriminate his opponents.
It’s been done before.
He could order assassinations.
That too has been done before.
He already controls the flow of information. He decides what you should and should not know. When information is power (i.e. information shapes public opinion, and public opinion means public approval) it means he controls his destiny.
Now before any of you accuse me of flights of fancy, please do visit St George’s Square. Even now, four big screens are churning out government propaganda, 24/7. There’s a big tent for “main du prince” meetings every evening.
If it quacks like totalitarianism, then it is totalitarianism, no matter what our pundits may say. Mugabe, Gaddafi, Castro and Hitler were all elected by popular vote. And yet.
(P.S. Just to preempt the obvious: Yes, I am comparing Joseph Muscat to Adolf Hitler, in so far as both abhor and stifle rational thought and public disapproval.)
Hitler wasn’t elected Chancellor by popular vote. He was appointed Chancellor because it suited Hindenburg.
Which is not to say that Muscat’s attitude to democratic principle is any different to Hitler’s, or that his supporters are any smarter.
Hitler’s supporters cheered when the Reichstag was blown up.
Don’t they look the part?
https://www.anonimg.com/img/56918a3eb5c2a87c8e8cf39109f8a260.jpg
Now before any of you accuse me of flights of fancy, please do visit St George’s Square. Even now, four big screens are churning out government propaganda, 24/7. There’s a big tent for “main du prince” meetings every evening.
I think we have reached a point of no return.
Instead of having Big Brother only watching over us there is a whole population of little brothers who have information and communication technology at the touch of a few buttons.
One can have photos, messages and smses instantly transmitted just when Kurt has finished a liar’s day of work and having a long awaited good night’s rest.
Labour and freedom can’t live together.
We’re not in China where even there people are communicating with technology while avoiding the Great Fire Wall of China.
If I’m not mistaken they’re transmitting and receiving messages with Bluetooth in crowded places.
Muscat knows very well that he can’t do much against the masses. It’s not his style to go against the masses; he prefers breaking the big bundle of sticks (public perception) one at a time, stealthily.
The problem is that for every stick he’s breaking, thicker and harder sticks are multiplying in his bundle.
Now we are in a situation where Simon Busuttil calls the tune and Joseph has to dance to it, and Joseph doesn’t know how to handle it.
Surely, “go down on him”?
While reassessing morality laws, no doubt.
Now that’s sexist.
I’m not sure if this is a stupid question but can this blog be present at press conferences to ask questions
Attakk faħxi fuq ġbint il-ministru Owen Bonnici, fuq ġurnalista ta’ One TV, kif ukoll fuq l-uffiċal tar-relazzjonijiet pubbliċi tal-minitsru tal-ġustizzja, minn Simon Busuttil.
X’għarukaża!
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/12/06/kurt-farrugia-jghid-lill-gurnalista-tal-one-tistaqsi-mistoqsijiet-dwaru/
What was yesterday’s Xarabank about?
While at it, can we have all the Xarabank programs published on You Tube?
I would be more than grateful to watch Peppi when he was not muzzled and not kept under a leash.
Peppi? What about Lou.
Money makes Lou Bondi’s world go round, world go round.
Maybe Daphne will just blame this lack of integrity on their working class background.
[Daphne – Lou Bondi does not come from a working class or materially deprived background. Joe Azzopardi does. I have never said that people from a working class background have no integrity, or that people from a non-working class background do. On the contrary, I have said the opposite: that the last general election demonstrated clearly how many people of my sort of background (I’m speaking socially and not in terms of values) have little or no integrity.]
I so miss Bondi+.
Imagine those audience figures.
Kollox u kullħadd għandu prezz, la mhux hu jħallas!
Simon Busuttil showed us during the last weeks that he can do. We can only show our gratitude by being more generous with our donations during the coming marathon fund-raiser.
When Simon Busuttil said to Janice: “Yes we know who you are”, I am sure he would have loved to add: Gbint Owen.
But he smiled and bit his tongue.
Dr Busuttil made short shrift of Janice (x’raghlha Owen, mamma mia?) and an even shorter one of the One News reporter (sorry, forgot her name. But I hope you won’t mind).
I am sure that most ,if not all of us,have had enough of this incident,nothing but a storm in a teacup.
We first started off by being scandalized that ministers’drivers/security are armed, we even draged in those or the president.’Of course we accept the fact that all ambassadors, and their cats and dogs are guarded by heavily armed soilders..
We have already blamed the policeman for shooting this Smith,without knowing exactly what led him to take that decision.
We don’t know how far Smith’s car was when hit. Bullets tend to swerve at long distances.
Could it be there was someone in the minister’s car, who the policeman was protecting.
We were uncertain as to the Nationality of this Smith let alone as to who he is and is it possible the policeman mistook him for someone else and used his discretion ,something he must have been trained for in acting the way he did.
So how about allowing the judges who will be investigating the whole incident, do their job,and till than just shut up and pick some other topic to fill this blog.
Sure. Here’s my suggestion for a topic.
First they came for their adversaries in crime, and Loporto said nothing, because shady characters deserve that and more.
Then they came for Daphne, and Loporto said nothing, because journalists shouldn’t ask questions that undermine the government.
Then they came for me, and Loporto said nothing because I am a troublemaker.
Then they came for him, and there was no one left to speak up.
Totally wrong dear Baxter.
I would fight to my last breadth to see that our Daphne has the right to say what she wants.
As for you, I need more time to think as to what I should write,not to be called some ugly word.
As far as I’m concerned,I don’t think anyone would even think of coming for me, they have been trying for the last seventy three years.,most of them have daisies growing on them.
Then you shouldn’t be asking us to pick another topic. When your government is corrupt, you don’t go off seeking distractions. You hold it to account until you can force democratic change.
Seventy-three years? Is Silvio Loporto Eddy Privitera?
[Daphne – No, he’s Silvio Loporto from Sliema. An institution of sorts.]
Bullets tend to swerve at long distances do they?
Sure, they even go round corners.
If some journalists had not clawed their way away from the load of rubbish the official statements tried to shove down our throats we would all be happy that everything is perfect in North Korea.
Some would rather know the truth, however ugly.
Some might even realize that if Joseph Muscat had been given a clock he might not now have a problem remembering what time it was when he got the call. Isn’t that ironic?
Discretion?
Mistook him for someone else?
No, we don’t know in fact what led to the shooting. But without having asked, we were told it was because there was a hit and run, because a mirror got hit.
And then it turns out that is just one and two of the lies told.
The culmination of all the lies told, and how and why they got told.
The Police could have said nothing, I suppose. But Kurt Farrugia and OPM panicked.
Why?
Why do you accept a PM, a Minister, and a Police Commissioner who are happy and satisfied being invisible and delivering one lie after another and removing evidence with intention to obfuscate?
Are you included in Manwel’s “ok, siehbi” protection network?
Ajma Silvio, iddahhaqni kemm tirraguna minn sormok,
One thing that I have not seen mentioned, Silvio is: did the guy who shot at Smith actually identify himself as a policeman at all? Maybe the judges will ask.
Oh the famous PL phrase – a storm in a teacup.
A policeman/driver of the minister of the interior shooting in a public area at a man who allegedly hit the side mirror – that is a very serious incident and not a storm in a teacup.
You should be extremely worried that the Minister of the interior, in cahoots with high officials of the police and the Prime Minister, should try to cover up something like that.
This was not a simple car accident but that there might be other more sinister reasons that might include a wider group of people including the minister himself, his driver and his in-laws, and that should really worry you just as it worries so many of us.
Mr Loporto, it seems that your teacup seems to be as big as the Atlantic Ocean!
Just to put you in the picture, in Malta there are many who are called “L-ingliż” L-Awstraljan ,and “Il-Kanadiż”.
Now imagine if Sheehan quarrelled with someone who’s called “L-Olandiż”, I’m sure Kurt would have referred to the person with the fictitious beer bottle in hand as “the Dutch citizen”.
silvioloporto, I suggest if you have any objections just swallow them. You sound more incredible than the lying prime minister and his cabinet.
It is not the retired judges’ job to investigate. They are retired. It is Joseph Muscat’s job to decide whether Manuel Mallia should shoulder his political responsibility. He is the prime minister.
When Joseph Muscat does his job properly, then maybe this blog will have other things to talk about.
Wouldn’t you like to know Smith’s version of events, Silvio?
You’re waiting for it in the judges’ investigation report, aren’t you?
That’s why you want us to shut up and fill this blog with something else until we hear that report.
At least it’s an unusually fast investigation, not like a few others which are still ongoing or unpublished.
This incident was in first instance no job for judges, be they retired, be they still professionally active.
This incident has revealed the extent of incompetence, nepotism, entanglements and possibly corruption in a sensitive field affecting the nation’s internal security.
Loporto, I suggest you drink some kamumilla and go back to sleep. Your turn to shut up.
Are you living in the moon, Mr. Loporto?
Sorry on the moon.
You were right the first time, John Higgins.
Loporto lives IN one of the moon’s crater under a thick blanket of moon dust and only pops out when one of Daphne’s stories bites his a**.
[Daphne – I can gather that Mr Loporto is actually quite fond of me. He’s just narked because he took the massive psychological step of voting Labour for the first time in his 70s, picked Manuel Mallia for his number one vote as did so many others in Sliema, and was catastrophically let down, but admitting it even to oneself is a little difficult. That I can understand.]
Partly right. Of course I admire you and you are at your best when on the attack.
That is why my mission in life is to provoke you in showing your best side.
Agreeing with you like other lackeys who write on your blog would make my remaining days very boring.
What I wish you is that when I’m gone there will be other Silvios to bring the best out of you
By the way, well done for today’s magazine.
Owen’s bit on the side – well, one of them – is acting like she’s the best thing since sliced cheese.
I know that I speak for many – what about the reference to a 13 year old girl and hush money for her parents?
What is that all about?
It’s Christmas, and what we’ve got is the bullet that keeps on giving.
Super One reporter and Justice Minister’s girlfriend Janice Bartolo accused the PN of picking and choosing selectively from the telephone conversations, which shows that either she or Kurt who was communicating with her via WhatsApp knew what those conversations were.
We are now out of the sphere of ministerial responsibility and in the realm of criminal law. We are talking of perverting the course of justice.
Morality laws need reassessment, says Owen Bonnici.
So is this another subtle step towards Jose Herrera’s vision of transforming Malta into an “entertainment” hub?
The sleaze-bags running these establishments must be rubbing their filthy hands together and salivating in anticipation.
Add this to the decriminalisation of drug possession (which makes it a lot easier for dealers to increase their market) and we’re well on our way to becoming the whore-house of the Mediterranean all over again.
It will be a convenient stopover for the IS terrorists on their way from their new Libya bases to Europe, so they can relax in our land of milk and honey before committing some atrocity, with their Manuel Mallia-gifted Schengen visas via Libya.
All very liberal and progressive.
DAN HU L-PAJJIŻ TAL-MICKY MOUSE.
U FEJNHOM PEPPI AZZOPARDI U L-KARRAKKA TIEGĦU?
STEJJER BĦAL DAWN …MISSU KELLU L-AQWA WIRJA INVESTIGATTIVA, IMMA ILLUM MMUTA.
U WIEĦED JISTAQSI, GĦALA META GĦANDNA GVERN MAKKJAVELLISTA INTRINSIKAMENT KORROT KOLLOX QISU MHU XEJN? DIN X’INHI…OMERTA’?
No man is an island. Janice needs a man and Owen needs a woman.
What is extraordinary in this?
She will in the near future start accompanying him to functions which his wife rarely did.
If all men whose wives do not accompany them to an endless number of functions had to separate or divorce, we would be in a sorry state.
His wife probably didn’t accompany him because she was either at work at the hospital or taking care of their child.
The mistress doesn’t seem to have these responsibilities because she’s the preferred one at work, her mum takes care of her son on weekdays and the child’s father on weekends. Now what’s more important is up to the individual, I guess.
”F’rapport ippubblikat fuq il-mument, ġie żvelat li Kurt Farrugia, il-Kelliem tal-Prim Ministru, quddiem l-Inkjesta xehed li l-istqarrija li ħareġ hu, ħariġha fuq ordni ta’ xi ħadd minn fuqu li ordnalu biex joħroġ tali stqarrija sagħtejn biss wara l-isparatura.”
http://maltarightnow.com/news/2014/12/07/il-kaz-manwel-mallia-kurt-farrugia-jixhed-li-gie-ordnat-minn-fuq-johrog-l-istqarrija-qarrieqa/