Euronews interview Maria Efimova

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2018-05-30T16:10:43+02:00Wed, 30th May '18, 16:08|

Maria Efimova spoke yesterday at a whistleblowers conference and was interviewed by Euronews. See the interview here. "My motive is to show these people; who feel powerfull, who possess all the wealth and believe they can do whatever they want, is that things are not like that. There is always God to judge them. God [...]

My name is

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2018-05-30T15:21:00+02:00Wed, 30th May '18, 15:00|

I worked in political positions for PN governments for almost 17 years. Before that I ran twice on the centre-right ticket for the national union of students. I contested the parliamentary elections on the PN ticket in 2013. So for a long time I’ve done a lot to earn the tribal assumption that I’m PN. [...]

Kris Bajada owes over €110,000 on luxury cars

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2018-05-30T12:47:29+02:00Wed, 30th May '18, 12:29|

Kris Bajada is being chased for payments of over €110,000 for luxury cars he purchased from car dealer J. Zammit Limited a company owned by James Zammit who owns Raymond Auto Dealer of Żebbuġ. Kris Bajada published photographs of himself in the Mercedes SL350, one of the luxury cars he procured from Raymond Auto Dealer [...]

Regimes and murdered journalists: Russia demands journalist’s murder is investigated; offers condolences to family

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2018-05-30T07:22:00+02:00Wed, 30th May '18, 07:22|

Arkady Babchenko is yet another journalist killed right outside his home. He left his apartment in Kiev to buy bread and was shot several times in his back by a killer who waited outside for him. His wife found him bleeding outside there door. He died in the ambulance. Arkady Babchenko was living in Kiev [...]

Euronews interviews Matthew and Andrew Caruana Galizia

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2018-05-30T12:00:31+02:00Tue, 29th May '18, 21:55|

Matthew Caruana Galizia: "Once your break down institutions, and capture them and destroy them in order to enable your own corruption you let in the door everything else, all the other bad stuff in the world. It's like inverting the Pandora's Box. This is what's happened. So, of course, as long as there's impunity and [...]

Shut up Manuel

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2018-05-29T09:06:50+02:00Tue, 29th May '18, 09:06|

The reaction to any blog post or article that is critical of the PN from a source of information that is habitually critical of Joseph Muscat’s government is as predictable as it is sad. It’s not that an opinion that is expressed that is in some way controversial or challenging should not expect to be [...]

Metropolis: Valletta 2018 (Arte)

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2018-05-29T08:08:52+02:00Tue, 29th May '18, 08:06|

See this episode of Metropolis, the first feature of which explores the contradictions of a European Capital of Culture that tries its best to ignore that a journalist has been killed. This is the French language version.

Wagging tongues

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2018-05-28T15:41:09+02:00Mon, 28th May '18, 15:41|

Adrian Delia has caught up with his outstanding taxes and paid his tax debts off after disposing of assets he used to hold and does not hold anymore. He has given a detailed account of this to David Lindsay of The Malta Independent on Sunday who was shown documentation some of which is publicly available [...]

The agony of Gozo General

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2018-05-28T15:28:54+02:00Mon, 28th May '18, 08:19|

The fate of the Gozo General Hospital has been hanging in the balance since the government decided to abdicate its public responsibility to ensure the provision of overnight health services on Gozo and ‘sold it’ to someone else. The national health service — the obligation of the state to provide excellent health services to everyone [...]

Chris Cardona hard at work

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2018-05-28T07:53:23+02:00Mon, 28th May '18, 07:53|

Chris Cardona’s travel calendar makes fascinating reading. He is really that rare breed of minister whose memoirs you actually look forward to and hope they are the most sincere thing he’s ever written, which in his case is a very low benchmark. Relying on the information he gave Parliament about his travel over the last [...]

Women and fast cars

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2018-05-27T10:46:43+02:00Sun, 27th May '18, 10:46|

Is it not fascinating that Minister Chris Cardona often travels on his own on official duty? Given that he spends tens of thousands on these trips it is not likely that he travels alone to save money to the public purse doing away with the accompanying stage hand. First of all there's the many trips [...]

Ali Sadr out on bail

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2018-05-27T10:10:00+02:00Sun, 27th May '18, 10:10|

Ali Sadr is having his first taste of freedom after two months in lock-up in New York where he is indicted for multiple charges of bank fraud and sanctions busting. The story was broken in Malta in a Matthew Vella report on Malta Today who had it confirmed by a member of Ali Sadr's legal [...]

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Turning Tables

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2018-05-27T09:54:07+02:00Sun, 27th May '18, 09:54|

From my article in The Sunday Times today: "Journalism cannot alone bring about political change. The facts are not enough to silence lies. Truth is not a devastating weapon that wipes out iniquity and plants the seeds of justice in its place. Whistle-blowers do not scare bosses. Consequence is not outside the control of the [...]

Stop asking the President to commit a putsch

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2018-05-25T15:16:44+02:00Fri, 25th May '18, 15:16|

I’m with the President on this one. It doesn’t matter what she thinks about the executive actions she is asked to sign. She has to sign them. There is no way she can refuse. This is why I completely disagree with people who think of the President as some form of saviour of last resort [...]

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