In Bidnija

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2018-09-15T14:17:22+02:00Sat, 15th Sep '18, 14:17|

These photos were taken this afternoon. The call for Justice is 11 months old. But no fainter.

Labour Councillors vote against awarding Daphne Caruana Galizia her town council’s posthumous recognition

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2018-09-15T14:07:06+02:00Sat, 15th Sep '18, 13:49|

Labour Councillors in Mosta voted against a motion to recognise Daphne Caruana Galizia with the town’s yearly recognition. The President of the Local Council’s Association, Malta’s foremost representative of local autonomy and democratisation, Mario Fava, issued this post criticising the Councillors in Mosta who supported granting Daphne Caruana Galizia the recognition. Mosta did not rush [...]

Brush up on your rights

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2018-09-15T13:33:46+02:00Sat, 15th Sep '18, 13:33|

At a civil society action near the Great Siege memorial in Valletta today some hecklers told activists "you've gone too far". The action was a silent protest that involved hanging a banner, laying flowers and placing candles. No molotov cocktail in sight. And yet they say it is "too far" because it carries the temerity [...]

Founder of Cryptomoney firm welcomed by Joseph Muscat, accused of fraud

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2018-09-12T22:49:26+02:00Wed, 12th Sep '18, 22:49|

Shanghai police have taken OKEx founder Star Xu into custody for voluntary questioning in relation to fraud alleged to have taken place in a crypto project. Chinese media reports that Xu’s possible connection to the project is being investigated. Local law enforcement states that Xu is accused of involvement and fraud by other investors. Star [...]

Defending the bulwark of democracy

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2018-09-12T22:31:48+02:00Wed, 12th Sep '18, 22:31|

I don’t know if anyone showed Jean Claude Juncker a picture of the memorial in front of the Law Courts as it’s been reduced since last Sunday before he made his speech today. But he was definitely thinking of Malta and Daphne Caruana Galizia when he said that too many journalists across the EU were [...]

Joseph Muscat lays flowers at memorial

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2018-09-12T21:59:44+02:00Wed, 12th Sep '18, 21:59|

The prime minister went on one of his flower laying jaunts today. He’s in the habit of visiting memorials to his predecessors in his high office of the state. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with him laying flowers there. Flowers are nice. I like flowers. Most people I know like flowers. Whether you are [...]

Matching Eddie

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2018-09-12T22:06:42+02:00Wed, 12th Sep '18, 21:29|

Eddie Fenech Adami will always be a hard act to follow. I realise that sentence sounds like it was written in 2003. We certainly all thought it at the time, no one more so than Lawrence Gonzi I should imagine. He is now four leaders of the PN ago. A man of his time who [...]

Malta 2018

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2018-09-11T17:07:48+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 17:07|

A woman bought three candles and stretched her arm through police barriers to place them on the steps of a public square. Another woman straight off the street got close to her and took pictures of her doing so with her phone. There was no doubt she was not taking pictures in admiration but rather [...]

Blood on their hands

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2018-09-11T17:01:25+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 17:01|

I was in Valletta this morning when activists on the trapped ship Lifeline Mission protested in Valletta. They couldn't have been more than 10 people marching quietly down Republic Street. One of them wore a mock mask of Joseph Muscat. Some people recognised that and the fact the protester was wearing handcuffs. They did not [...]

It’s gambling. But not a gambling problem.

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2018-09-11T16:14:33+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 16:14|

And they want to tell the world that we’re set up for money laundering. An unemployed man called Alfred Degiorgio gambles almost €600,000 in four casinos in Malta over a period of three years. And no one asks where does this guy gets his money. Eventually, Alfred Degiorgio would become famous for being accused of [...]

Blockchain industry journal: Cryptocurrencies should look away from “authoritarian” Malta

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2018-09-11T15:52:56+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 15:52|

Not everyone in the blockchain industry is entirely enthused by Malta and the government’s offer. Read this piece in industry news site ETHNews. The publication describes itself as “an emerging provider of Ethereum and Blockchain ecosystem news”. Its recent editorial on Malta is unhappy reading for the promoters of Malta as “the blockchain island”. “Rising [...]

Bloomberg: How Malta lost its soul

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2018-09-11T13:48:03+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 13:48|

Read this on today's Bloomberg and see how the name of this country has been sullied for generations to come. I will just give you these lines from the article by the journalist standing next to the Great Siege Memorial before it was wrapped and barricaded by the government: On this day, dozens of tourists [...]

Who is racist?

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2018-09-11T13:26:32+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 13:26|

The defence of the PN for adopting a xenophobic line is that the government are manifestly neglecting immigration issues and consequently the opposition are duty bound to speak up. They don’t mean to be racist but if that’s how they sound when living up to their responsibilities of speaking about uncomfortable topics, too bad. There [...]

Backfiring provocation

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2018-09-11T12:53:47+02:00Tue, 11th Sep '18, 12:33|

The Malta Independent this morning warned the government their decision to barricade the Great Siege Memorial to prevent the continuation of the protest demanding justice that started when Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed 11 months ago “will backfire”. The newspaper respects the tenacity of activists protesting there and thinks the government should be showing the [...]

‘Stand up to foreigners,’ he said.

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2018-09-10T19:10:39+02:00Mon, 10th Sep '18, 19:05|

Adrian Delia’s call to Maltese people “to stand up to foreigners” is the pits. It is the lowest point a politician can reach when they seek to split the community into subsets, creating division and drumming up the hate for the vulnerable. There have been signs the PN was going to lurch to the right [...]

DW: Scandal in Valletta

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2018-09-10T18:35:37+02:00Mon, 10th Sep '18, 18:01|

This video by Deutsche Welle sums up the outcome of Valletta 2018. Our chance to be in the spotlight, to boost the support and confidence of the local artistic community, to live and experience genuinely European values of openness, tolerance and critical debate has been squandered and replaced with the silencing of protest. The feature [...]

Attempt to stop Council of Europe investigation on truth in Daphne case fails

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2018-09-10T17:53:41+02:00Mon, 10th Sep '18, 17:53|

An attempt by the government to stop a Council of Europe report on “ensuring the whole truth on Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination emerges” has failed. The attempt was made by the Parliamentary Labour Party’s representative in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, former Minister Manuel Malia. Manuel Mallia asked the Committee on Legal [...]

Il-Kenniesa on the ‘official story’ on the Great Siege Memorial

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2018-09-10T09:30:36+02:00Mon, 10th Sep '18, 09:30|

Il-Kenniesa's statement: We note that the government has taken the extraordinary step of covering and cordoning-off the 'The Great Siege' Monument, also known as the makeshift memorial for Daphne Caruana Galizia, on Victory Day. The day on which this monument is normally honoured. The official version is that this was done to “restore” the monument. [...]

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