Short cash

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2019-01-15T08:57:40+01:00Tue, 15th Jan '19, 08:57|

The argument that Adrian Delia’s private affairs are his own rings hollower than ever now. Times of Malta published a breakdown of Adrian Delia’s monthly expenses excluding of course the cost of his existence. Adrian Delia is sleeping somewhere which is not his home so he must be paying some form of rent. Clearly he’s [...]

‘Vicious’ DDoS attack on The Shift

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2019-01-14T17:33:55+01:00Mon, 14th Jan '19, 17:33|

The Shift News is reporting on its website it is undergoing “a vicious cyber attack” which is aimed at taking their website down. Caroline Muscat described the attack as “well-funded and professional”. The site is not yet down due to the security system that protects the website from these attacks. In their post around an [...]

Unanimity

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2019-01-14T10:17:47+01:00Mon, 14th Jan '19, 10:17|

Unanimity in a voting result for a political party or any other political process is normally the outcome of a rigged or undemocratic ballot. They have 90% majorities in the Chinese ‘national people’s congress’ or elections a Castro runs for in Cuba. It is, therefore, wrong to assess the 10% dissenting votes Adrian Delia estimates [...]

Joseph Muscat on irrevocable democratic choices

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2019-01-14T09:33:12+01:00Mon, 14th Jan '19, 09:33|

There’s something profoundly exquisite in Joseph Muscat speaking of obscure forces in the PN acting in defiance of a democratic decision to have Adrian Delia as a leader. “This betrays a mind-set where democracy is only relevant if you like what the people have decided”.  Just 4 months ago he went on BBC Radio 4 [...]

We meet again on the 16th

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2019-01-16T21:27:40+01:00Mon, 14th Jan '19, 08:58|

Fifteen months after Daphne Caruana Galizia was assassinated and we still don’t know whose idea it was. We do know who’s better off since she was killed and we do know they’re still in office. Her death has not served in any way to make us aware of the need to upgrade standards in our [...]

When is Huawei’s project in Malta going to become a matter of political concern?

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2019-01-14T08:00:29+01:00Mon, 14th Jan '19, 08:00|

Poland has arrested Huawei’s sales director for espionage a few days ago. Huawei, which vehemently denies being an agency that serves China’s security services, promptly fired that employee saying that it “complies with all applicable laws in the countries where it operates, and require every employee to abide by the laws in the countries where [...]

Ali Sadr trial rescheduled to October 2019

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2019-01-14T07:20:17+01:00Mon, 14th Jan '19, 07:20|

A request by former Pilatus Bank owner and Chairman Ali Sadr Hasheminejad for more time for his legal team to prepare his defence has been accepted by a New York federal court. The trial was scheduled for May 2019 but US District Judge Andrew Carter agreed that the interests of justice are better served if [...]

Bend the knee

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2019-01-11T17:52:28+01:00Fri, 11th Jan '19, 17:52|

I always found the way political parties produce photographs of the crowds that attend their events a redundant, childish and irrelevant exercise. To an extent, of course. Anyone who is communicating an idea to the public feeds on the feedback the public gives them. You may tell yourself you don’t want your restaurant to be [...]

You win or you die

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2019-01-09T16:52:01+01:00Wed, 9th Jan '19, 16:51|

The President of the PN Executive told The Sunday Times a few days ago his committee will be discussing the current state of play in the party, which would of course be a discussion on whether Adrian Delia should remain the leader. In the meantime other newspaper reports suggest that Mark Anthony Sammut has had [...]

Guest Post: In the wise man’s words

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2019-01-09T14:21:57+01:00Wed, 9th Jan '19, 14:21|

Rather than write a guest post in my own words, I would much rather quote and bring to the public's attention the words of Giovanni Bonello from the preface to "Misunderstanding the Constitution". "The very last bulwarks that protect democracy, that assert the rule of law, that foster the ethics of the Constitution, when these [...]

We must keep knocking on the door

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2019-01-09T14:03:05+01:00Wed, 9th Jan '19, 14:03|

When justice is not granted, it must still be demanded. We can’t just give up. Unlike what the Labour Party and its many bedfellows in the Nationalist Party think the pursuit of justice is not a game. It does not have winners or losers. If justice is not served on criminals because they are powerful [...]

Jacques Rene Zammit: Judge Grixti’s ruling is faulty

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2019-01-09T07:23:15+01:00Wed, 9th Jan '19, 07:23|

Lawyer and legal blogger Jacques Rene Zammit (akkuza.com) commented on yesterday's Panama Papers decision by Judge Giovanni Grixti. He was developing the argument on an excellent analysis by Twitterer BugM which gives more reasons why what has happened is so wrong. The two remind the court that like murder, money laundering is a crime even [...]

Judge Grixti did more than make it pointless to ask for an inquiry; he made it impossible to convict anyone of money laundering

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2019-01-09T07:31:35+01:00Wed, 9th Jan '19, 06:48|

Judge Giovanni Grixti’s decision yesterday is truly ground breaking. For altogether the wrong reasons. Consider how he concludes that the Panama Papers and the documents revealed out of Mossack Fonseca’s servers are a “hack” and cannot therefore be considered as grounds for an inquiry. Judges and prosecutors from all over the world, by Judge Giovanni [...]

Beyond the beyond the bizarre

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2019-01-09T06:23:11+01:00Wed, 9th Jan '19, 06:23|

You may have not had had the time to read the entire speech by Judge Vincent De Gaetano about rule of law in Malta a few weeks ago. He was speaking about the state of rule of law in Malta and if you take one thing from that speech, make it this choice quote: "Malta [...]

Roberto Saviano: Malta and Italy — open for criminals, closed for women and children at the mercy of the sea

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2019-01-08T17:31:48+01:00Tue, 8th Jan '19, 17:31|

This was posted a short while ago by Italian journalist Roberto Saviano. Sums it up well. My translation is beneath. "Malta is the European gateway for untraceable dirty money coming from all over the world. Italy is the country where the most dangerous and powerful mafie that exist hide, spreading out everywhere for more than [...]

Star Comment: After the court’s ruling today

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2019-01-08T17:20:20+01:00Tue, 8th Jan '19, 17:20|

This was sent in by Chris in response to my earlier post on Judge Giovanni Grixti's decision today effectively saying that anyone complaining to the court when the police fail to investigate a crime, must first investigate and prove the crime themselves. It's a good thing that my readers' memories are better than mine. "hardly [...]

NGOs call on government to let the 49 migrants come on shore

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2019-01-08T17:02:32+01:00Tue, 8th Jan '19, 17:02|

This statement was released today by 44 local organisations: People are more important We are appalled beyond words that, after 18 days of negotiations, 49 men, women and children remain stuck on a boat within sight of the Maltese shore. In spite of countless calls for solidarity, European Member States have not managed to find a diplomatic solution [...]

In his mind

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2019-01-08T15:54:12+01:00Tue, 8th Jan '19, 15:22|

It is reassuring that Adrian Delia is conscious of his own delusions. Repeatedly in his Times Talk interview with Herman Grech he kept premising his more outlandish claims with the prefix ‘in my mind’. It’s a big leap from ‘stat ta’ fatt’. In his mind indeed. In his mind he’s supported in the party. In [...]

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