Matter of trust

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2019-12-16T14:02:59+01:00Mon, 16th Dec '19, 14:02|

Perhaps it’s still early to work out what the full impact will be of the court’s decision today to order the attorney general to hand over a full copy of the Egrant report to Leader of Opposition Adrian Delia. In any case Adrian Delia still doesn’t have the report. Incredibly the AG is trying to [...]

GUEST POST: How to walk into a brick wall

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2019-12-16T11:29:06+01:00Mon, 16th Dec '19, 11:29|

When you find a disgraced Joseph Muscat and his wife on television carrying on as if they were the only victims of some recent act of God working in tandem with a hostile media, it's then that you know that these are strange times. They sit before the Super One cameras talking in riddles and [...]

We asked for the President’s protection

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2019-12-16T10:42:29+01:00Mon, 16th Dec '19, 10:42|

The president of NGO Repubblika Vicki Ann Cremona wrote this letter to President George Vella this morning. 16 ta’ Diċembru 2019 L-ET il-President ta’ Malta Il-Palazz Il-Belt Valletta Sur President: DWAR: KAMPANJA TA’ INTIMIDAZZJONI U THEDDID MILL-KLIKKA MAFJUŻA LI QED TAĦKIMNA Niktbu lilek minħabba li smajna b’attenzjoni d-diskors tiegħek ta’ nhar il-Ġimgħa. U niktbu lilek [...]

GUEST POST: I was in transit, my deers.

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2019-12-16T10:38:16+01:00Mon, 16th Dec '19, 10:38|

An exclusive glance at Michelle Muscat’s soon to be published “My Journal, by Maxalle”, as leaked (not) to Andrew Borg-Cardona. For reasons that are not immediately clear, dates have been left out of the leaked draft. It is surmised that it may become necessary to mess with the time-line in order to fit whatever narrative [...]

This is not the Labour Party. This is the Mafia.

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2019-12-16T09:58:30+01:00Mon, 16th Dec '19, 09:58|

Look at Neville Gafà bashing Evarist Bartolo for not singing with the chorus of praise for Joseph Muscat's mafia state. This post is not an episode of partisan glee seeing two Laburisti quarrel. I do not play into the myth of 'unity' and 'division' in political parties. I disapprove of cultism which necessarily means I [...]

So we hate paralympians now

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2019-12-16T09:31:50+01:00Mon, 16th Dec '19, 09:31|

My friends and I are receiving all sorts of messages and threats, some privately and some publicly now. We're being invited to cut our veins. And they don't even ask nicely. You can switch your mind off to things people say on Facebook for some time. It becomes a bit harder when people shout at [...]

RaiUno Special tonight on Mafia in Malta and Europe

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2019-12-16T09:56:15+01:00Sun, 15th Dec '19, 12:14|

Rai Uno has announced it will be broadcasting a special documentary on the infiltration of organised crime in Malta and Europe tonight at 23:30. Their announcement describes the situation in Europe as a 'mafia emergency'. Rotterdam harbour receives the bulk of cocaine shopped from South America. Amsterdam is a hideout for Italian fugitives of the [...]

Wet soldier

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2019-12-14T16:03:45+01:00Sat, 14th Dec '19, 15:47|

Photo: Paul Borg Olivier Joseph Muscat does not want us to be wondering why Keith Schembri can pass secret intelligence to wanted murderers and get away with it. He does not want us to ask why Konrad Mizzi, forced to resign over the Panama/17 Black scandal, has not yet been questioned by the [...]

No permit is needed

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2019-12-14T16:10:42+01:00Sat, 14th Dec '19, 15:09|

The police issued a notice saying the the people gathered in Valletta marking the 45th anniversary of Malta becoming a Republic were not covered by a police permit. As a person who grew up in Valletta, Republic Street was alway lined with barriers on Republic Day (and other events of national importance) to allow the [...]

Light a candle, Mr President

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2019-12-13T18:55:46+01:00Fri, 13th Dec '19, 18:55|

Photo: Robert Agius President George Vella made a remarkable speech today. It was free of the sort of obtuse obliviousness that Ministers in his government appear to insist on with the occasional pause to pity themselves about how they have been betrayed and how they aren't happy Daphne was killed even though she [...]

The Decline and Fall of the Muscat Empire

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2019-12-13T18:03:33+01:00Fri, 13th Dec '19, 17:52|

I never saw so many policemen in a single street, not even at a police parade. I’ve been to mass demonstrations in Berlin, Barcelona and London, to rock concerts in Paris and Jakarta and street parties in New York, to state occasions in Moscow, Cairo, Tunis, Harare and Madrid and seen Biblical crowds milling in [...]

Rules of engagement

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2019-12-13T08:10:12+01:00Fri, 13th Dec '19, 07:11|

To describe the presence of the police in Valletta early this morning as heavy is a hopeless understatement. No matter how substantial the number of protesters responding to the call made by Repubblika and #occupyjustice for people to participate in the Republic Day events, the ratio of policemen to protesters is likely to be unprecedented. [...]

Guardians

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2019-12-13T07:05:37+01:00Fri, 13th Dec '19, 07:05|

Activists, volunteers and well-wishers shared the burden of standing guard by the protest site calling for justice for Daphne Caruana Galizia last night ensuring that the morning of Republic Day finds the memorial at its most glorious. The silent act of defiance renews the pledge of civil society protesters to stick to their ground until [...]

The Bast in Europe ħi

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2019-12-12T20:42:56+01:00Thu, 12th Dec '19, 20:42|

I wouldn't normally recommend you watch a score heads of government pose for a photograph. But this one is worth your time. Watch patiently and to the end and watch every single head of government in Europe finding ways of pretending Joseph Muscat did not exist. Thanks to him, you realise, this means that today [...]

All night protest vigil on the eve of Republic Day

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2019-12-12T20:20:56+01:00Thu, 12th Dec '19, 20:20|

A group of people are convening around the protest memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia in Great Siege Square, Valletta to spend the night guarding the memorial from the nightly onslaught of cleaners who come to take it away. The protesters call themselves a "group of concerned citizens" and have called people to join them for [...]

Betrayed

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2019-12-12T13:56:10+01:00Thu, 12th Dec '19, 13:56|

It was Daphne Caruana Galizia that was killed in a car bomb and her family that lost their mother, daughter, sister and wife. But the government still wants to cast itself as the victim of this crime. It was Keith Schembri who is being accused in court by a witness pardoned by the government itself [...]

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