A reply to Owen Bonnici

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2018-09-26T17:36:21+02:00Wed, 26th Sep '18, 17:36|

Owen Bonnici misled the public with a statement today suggesting I withdrew court action arguing his censorship of the protest in Great Siege Square is a breach of human rights. I have done no such thing. I have issued the below statement in response. Stqarrija bi tweġiba lill-Ministru Bonnici Nirreferi għall-istqarrija tal-lum tal-Ministru Owen Bonnici. [...]

Marionettes

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2018-09-26T12:31:12+02:00Wed, 26th Sep '18, 12:31|

So Joseph Muscat ‘disagreed’ with whoever decided a middle manager in the civil service with a vote that could make a difference between ruining Silvio Debono and making him a billionaire should be flown in and out of her holiday by private jet to be at the PA meeting. He sure can act powerless when [...]

In case you wondered if they would ignore us

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2018-09-26T10:07:58+02:00Wed, 26th Sep '18, 10:07|

The public cleansing department has confirmed it continues to remove flowers, candles and pictures left in Great Siege Square. They are not on the Great Siege Memorial. They are not obstructing any workers. They are not in the way of pedestrians. They are just there. And they remove them. Every night.

GUEST POST: Thank you letter to Edward Scicluna

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2018-09-26T12:34:11+02:00Wed, 26th Sep '18, 09:56|

Guest post by Anna Briffa in the form of a letter to Edward Scicluna. Dear Professor Scicluna, Very Few Crumbs I’m so glad I don’t even have to feign gratitude for the the measly €45 to €60 cheque that you so condescendingly distributed among workers. I didn’t get one. Not because I am a pensioner. [...]

How organised crime pays the media to make it look good

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2018-09-26T11:04:26+02:00Wed, 26th Sep '18, 09:44|

There’s an ongoing scandal in the Sicilian press that should be of interest to us. The Catania court has found that the media company that owns newspapers La Sicilia and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and TV stations Antenna Sicilia and Telecolor served the interests over many years of organised crime by ensuring that news on [...]

Protest is a duty

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2018-09-26T09:07:23+02:00Wed, 26th Sep '18, 09:07|

This is not about a memorial to Daphne Caruana Galizia, Mr Martin Scicluna. She'd have hated the thought. This is about continuing the protest demanding justice in the face of government suppression. It's not even about where the protest congregates and what form it takes. It's about a government that thinks they can, just because [...]

State secrets

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2018-09-25T18:03:37+02:00Tue, 25th Sep '18, 18:03|

The reports of Peter Grech testifying in Adrian Delia’s case against him for not giving him a full copy of the Egrant inquiry are like a dive in a boiling cauldron yet uncooled with a baboon’s blood. I know that with time I have grown impatient with Peter Grech’s obsequious squishiness. But today has been [...]

The Dark Tower

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2018-09-25T16:51:45+02:00Tue, 25th Sep '18, 16:51|

One apartment in the newly permitted dB tower in St George’s Bay is being advertised for sale for €7.7 million euro. That’s about what most people would earn in around 300 years. Presumably this will be the most luxurious apartment in the whole block. The block will have 99 apartments. If another one like this [...]

John Vassallo: The enemy within (Part 2)

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2018-09-25T10:57:43+02:00Tue, 25th Sep '18, 10:57|

This is a two-part series by guest author John Vassallo. The first part was published yesterday. The Enemy Within (2): Traitors in our midst Seneca, the Roman Stoic philosopher and adviser to Emperor Nero was the word of truth, integrity and reason in the court of absolute power of an irrational Emperor. He advised against [...]

Groundrules

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2018-09-25T11:34:53+02:00Tue, 25th Sep '18, 10:09|

The oldest rhetorical secret weapon for those who run out of argument is trivialisation. Troll central dispatched the usual suspects to react to the constitutional application I filed yesterday saying the removal of the protest in Great Siege Square by state agency is a breach of the freedom of speech. The old canard that “a [...]

Russian-born “Maltese” runs Finnish company suspected of massive money laundering

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2018-09-24T16:43:00+02:00Mon, 24th Sep '18, 16:43|

Finnish National Broadcaster YLE has identified a Maltese citizen born in Russia as the frontman for a company suspected of being involved in a massive money laundering operation worth close to 10 million euro in real estate transactions. The unnamed Maltese citizen, born in Russia in 1964, was made chairman of a Finnish real estate [...]

How negative is your reading?

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2018-09-24T16:14:29+02:00Mon, 24th Sep '18, 16:14|

Charles Mercieca published a statistical review of articles appearing over the summer on four online media outlets and this website. It’s nice that he included this site with the big boys: Times of Malta, Malta Today, Newsbook and Lovin Malta. This website is a one man show so obviously my 300 English language articles on [...]

GUEST POST: The enemy within

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2018-09-25T10:35:48+02:00Mon, 24th Sep '18, 13:59|

This is a two-part series by guest author John Vassallo. The second part will be published tomorrow. The Enemy Within (1): Traitors in our midst The recent law suits in the US against advisers, employees and supporters of Donald Trump give a lot of food for thought. This week’s book launch of “FEAR Trump in [...]

Terrifying

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2018-09-24T09:46:45+02:00Mon, 24th Sep '18, 09:45|

This is the protest in front of the court of justice as it flickered last night.   The dangerous, polluting, offensive distracting protest was 'cleaned up' during the night. This is what Therese Comodini Cachia wrote on the subject in this morning's Times of Malta: "Is it so terrifying to our government, that a community [...]

Self-assessment

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2018-09-23T14:11:36+02:00Sun, 23rd Sep '18, 14:11|

The prime minister ruling out an independent inquiry into what the state could have done to prevent the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia and to determine whether there is any responsibility by state actors in the occurrence is an abhorrent decision. It belies his claim that he would leave ‘no stone unturned’ to find out [...]

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