The lesson from Malta

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2018-09-22T07:42:26+02:00Sat, 22nd Sep '18, 07:42|

The Economist magazine 1843 published a long story entitled 'Murder in Malta'. It's written by Athens based journalist Alexander Clapp and here's one paragraph you should read first: "The lesson from Malta is not that journalists can be killed in tranquil places. This has always been the case. But, as Nicholas Shaxson, author of 'Treasure [...]

Because you thought today was Independence Day

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2018-09-21T12:03:43+02:00Fri, 21st Sep '18, 11:59|

It’s not a rhetorical question. What is ‘independence’ for you? Is it citizenship? Look at this British company selling Maltese citizenship to people who have never been here and never want to be. Who have never contributed to the wellbeing of this community and never mean to. Who have to look up Malta on the [...]

Partit Demokratiku also condemns censorship of protest memorial

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2018-09-20T17:52:10+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 17:52|

Partit Demokratiku issued this statement earlier today. Minister Owen Bonnici’s recent handling of the Daphne Caruana Galizia memorial issue is further proof that the Labour party has metamorphosed from the broad church it portrays itself to be to an intolerant cult which stops at nothing when it comes to erasing uncomfortable reminders and activities to [...]

(Socialist, Green, Liberal and Popular) MEPs say the removal of the Daphne makeshift memorial is ‘unacceptable’

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2018-09-20T17:10:12+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 17:08|

Liberal Democract Sophie in t' Veld, Green Sven Giegold, Socialist Josef Weidenholzer, and Popular Party Roberta Metsola heard from activists how the government, by order of Justice Minister Owen Bonnici, has removed, repeatedly, mementoes left at a makeshift memorial set up when Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed. In remarks to the press today they called this [...]

The memorial is back

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2018-09-20T17:05:31+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 16:53|

https://youtu.be/sHjNxVT5B4k Until they censor the protest again. Would Owen Bonnici consider this 'appropriation' too? Does he believe this can cause harm to a national monument? Would he consider this a health hazard? Would any of the excuses for blind censorship that have been used till now be applicable to this? In the meantime go and [...]

Why I deleted the ‘cockroaches’ post.

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2018-09-20T16:54:48+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 16:43|

If you’ve seen the story you know what I’m talking about. Or maybe you spotted the report on other websites who commented on what I posted. Or maybe you saw a link on Facebook. If you haven’t seen it, no harm done, you can ignore what follows. I want to leave on the record however [...]

Brian Tonna and Karl Cini do not want their passports on line. Maybe they should not visit this website then.

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2018-09-20T12:08:55+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 12:08|

Brian Tonna and Karl Cini want privacy. Crooks have that. They try to use the law, wrongly in this case, to protect themselves from public scrutiny. They asked the authorities to force Peter Caruana Galizia to delete pictures of their passports from her blog. He refused and gave legal reasons why, including the detail that [...]

At 2pm I’m laying flowers and candles at the Great Siege Memorial

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2018-09-20T16:43:14+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 11:56|

If we let them suppress this protest, they can suppress any. They'll be able to stop complaints about environmental degradation, about the privatisation of your healthcare, about discrimination and abuse of minorities, even about your own property and your life. I am not taking the Great Siege Memorial with me. I do not 'appropriate' memorials. [...]

Ever wondered why we demand justice?

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2018-09-20T11:23:05+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 11:23|

The Court of Appeal, presided by three judges, deferred their decision on whether Judge Antonio Mizzi should be made to recuse himself from hearing an appeal by Joseph Muscat and the Panama Gang from a court order the police investigate them to October 29th. Now you can read that sentence again and try to draw [...]

Italian anti-mafia journalist calls for colleagues to come to Malta and join protest in October

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2018-09-20T17:49:36+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 10:50|

Italian TG1 anti-mafia journalist Maria Grazia Mazzola has published an appeal on anti-mafia NGO website Libera Informazione calling for journalists and Italian civil society to come to Malta to join public protest events marking the year since the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia. The journalist compares the unanswered questions about the assassination of Daphne Caruana [...]

The PN condemns Owen Bonnici and suppression of freedom of expression

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2018-09-20T10:37:08+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 10:37|

The PN issued a statement yesterday after Owen Bonnici publicly sought to justify the state's suppression of the protest in Great Siege Square. It interprets the government's actions as a violation of the right to free expression. Here's the statement: Id-dritt tal-espressjoni ħielsa taċ-ċittadini m'għandux jiġi mxekkel Il-Partit Nazzjonalista jqis l-aġir tal-Ministru tal-Ġustizzja Owen Bonnici [...]

Guest Post: Clearing the democratic right to protest

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2018-09-20T10:21:38+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 10:21|

Sent in by a sixteen year old author known to me. DOI photo of Joseph Muscat marching in protest after the murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris. When I think the government cannot stoop any lower, my expectations are always surpassed. They put their own banner now. What the government is trying [...]

Owen’s slander

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2018-09-20T10:05:41+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 10:05|

Read here Owen Bonnici’s case for the prosecution against the crime of public protest. No one is seeking to ‘appropriate’ the Great Siege Memorial. Using big words does not make the speaker any less ridiculous. I didn’t see anyone taking the Great Siege Memorial home. I didn’t see any one of the protesters in Paris [...]

Helena Dalli’s pride

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2018-09-20T09:22:27+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 09:22|

I wanted a few days to pass from Saturday’s gay pride march before I commented on this. Only a few years ago gay pride was a very difficult experience for people marching in it. And now that it has rightly become a party I would hate to sound like I resent any of it. For [...]

Iran Foreign Minister quoted acknowledging Ali Sadr was part of Iran’s “lifeline” to dodge sanctions

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2018-09-20T07:40:22+02:00Thu, 20th Sep '18, 07:40|

A July report in London based Kayhan Life quotes Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif saying “Americans have discovered our lifelines, especially with the arrest of Ali Sadr Hashemnejad”. The Minister was reportedly speaking in June at the Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture. Kayhan Life is a British-Iranian on line publication. It reported [...]

Admire his awesome power

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2018-09-19T08:18:47+02:00Wed, 19th Sep '18, 08:18|

There's the Great Siege Memorial this morning after the great national heroes of the Cleansing Department in the dead of night heroically won the struggle against the persistent stains of flower petals and faint flickering candles. The Memorial is now nicely and neatly boarded up with a pretty wrap around. No works in progress in [...]

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