The Shift News called to offer their support earlier in the week when this site first went down under a DDoS attack. They did so again today and offered to publish an article by me while my site was down. My thanks to them and to Lovin Malta who later picked the story up as [...]
This was first posted on my Facebook page while my site was inaccessible. manueldelia.com continues to be unavailable for most of those trying to access it. This is due to a heavy DDoS attack on multiple fronts on the servers it uses. This is the second downtime this week and the longest in the year long [...]
Published first earlier today on my Facebook page when this site was done. So Labour stalwarts Own Bonnici, Rosianne Cutajar, Kurt Farrugia and other sundry corporals in the zombie apocalypse army of Joseph Muscat are all over Facebook and Twitter taunting civil society activists to throw themselves in front of the bullets the Catholic Church [...]
With the possible exception of a few loons no one feels anything but a depth of anger, sorrow and sympathy after the senseless assault on a traffic cop by a murderous lout. But some also cynically find in that near unanimity an opportunity to use the despicable incident as a pretext for their political advantage. [...]
I am greatly relieved that it turned out that no one had actually placed a suspicious package outside Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando’s house. That would have been horrible. And how sad to see that he got such an awful fright. People should really be careful about where to dump their rubbish. I really do hope he’s [...]
Picture caption competition. Chris Cardona with the President in Portugal. What's he thinking?
On the Hindustani Times this morning. This is from the Delhi edition:
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Ali Sadr’s lawyers offered the US court a bond package of 20 million US dollars in order to guarantee he will show up to trial if his released on bail. In arguments to the court for Ali Sadr to be released until his trial, his lawyers explained that part of the bond will be secured [...]
The article is by Ranier Fsadni and was published in the Times of Malta this morning. It is, as is usual from this author, brilliant, clear and devastatingly cogent. People who shared the article on Facebook have had it struck down after Facebook received complaints the article is spam. We are fighting a battle merely [...]
A family of a policeman is going through unbearable suffering. He was doing his job directing traffic and a young man tried to kill him. I’d have to say allegedly tried to kill him of course, but his arrest and arraignment though not a prejudice to the presumption of his innocence are manifest and reasonable [...]
Verses sent in by Sean who is known to me: Numbers are allowing for this validation, A constant tallying of national falsification. Championing through daily rights for civil liberty, Whilst enabling the degradation of moral purity. Pumping stations will fuel this egoistic vanity, Trees mortgaged to satisfy our Dubai fantasy. A country where men can [...]
My speech at yesterday's vigil in Valletta: https://youtu.be/St2x3RowX-o Nixtieqkom tilbsu ż-żarbun tas-sorsi li kixfu dak li nafu fuq il-korruzzjoni f’pajjiżna. Meta l-whistleblowers tkellmu sentejn jew sena ilu ħadu riskji kbar. Xebgħu jaħbu għall-imbruljuni u stħaw flok sħabhom li baqgħu jagħlqu għajnejhom. Ħadu riskji kbar. Tilfu xogħolhom u għal xi żmien il-libertà tagħhom. Esponew ‘l uliedhom [...]
Do people feel the way they sound when they go on Facebook to say the thug who ran over a policeman should have reversed over him to finish the job? It was not a universally held view by any means but what possesses apparently normal people to say such things in open view of everyone? [...]
This website was down for almost 15 hours after what is called a DDoS attack, an act of sabotage that, the engineers who manage this website told me, was a considerable, relentless, well planned and focused effort to keep this website down for as long as possible. It can't be a coincidence that whoever did [...]
I don’t subscribe to the idea that just because Martin Scicluna is old he can be excused for his ramblings as the drool dripping out of his over-extended mind. I think that since he writes his hypocrisies, he deserves the respect of being replied to. Nor does it matter that once upon a time he [...]
The protest banners set up in the wee hours of this morning to ask who killed Daphne Caruana Galizia did not see dawn. They were, as was expected, removed. Although I have not seen them do it, my money, such as it is, is on the police. They removed the banners in the same way [...]
