J'accuse

20/02/2024

Żibel kollkom. Bla kantunieri. Issa Refalo (Anton) jmur jitla fuq xi tractor mal-Bdiewa jgħidilhom li qatt ma vvota kontrihom ġewwa Brussell. Miżbla ta' politiċi b'politika tal-miżbla.

" it will eat into roughly 11,000 square metres of arable land and disrupt Gozo’s biggest watercourse, il-Wied ta’ Marsalforn."

62 will be transplanted, 37 uprooted and replaced with compensatory trees

10/11/2023

Israel is busy playing God in Gaza. Defying all appeals of humanity. In the face of all that is just, it is engaging in an exercise of blind retribution.

No amount of righteous people will be enough to spare the Gazan population from their wrath. And the children keep on dying.
TheShiftNews J'accuse

There is a story in the bible, in the book of Genesis to be exact, that tells of when Abraham pleads with God for the wicked city of S***m. The story, common to both Jewish and Christian belief, tells of how God told Abraham of his intention to wipe out the city “because the outcry […]

16/10/2023

“Out, damned spot.”

6 years of scrubbing,
6 years of washing,
6 years of smothering facts,
6 years of muzzling institutions,
6 years of abuse of power,
6 years of drowning out protests,
6 years of gaslighting,
6 years of stifling progress,
6 years of consolidating corruption,
6 years of government vs the people,
6 years of backsliding rule of law,
6 years of inertia,
6 years of injustice,
6 years of desperate crooks.

The blood will not out.
The stain is there to stay.
You WILL bear responsibility, even if it takes another six years to get there.

Justice will be done.

  On any other day this facebook post would have been taken up and pasted onto the Running Commentary. The blog is no more but the spirit not only lives on but will grow. I am reproducing ...

08/10/2023

That narrative, elections everywhere.

05/10/2023

“The PN must die” is a mantra I have been guilty of repeating for a long time. The time has come now to update it. The PLPN must die.

J'accuse TheShiftNews

If this is not the boiling point, then I do not know what is. Robert Abela’s ill-judged replies to the driving licence scandal reeked of the rot that has long afflicted Maltese politics. There it was, the Cosi fan tutti defence that was as remarkable in its brazenness as it was astounding in its c...

04/02/2022

What we are facing is a collapse in living standards. The price hike will be the last thing on our minds compared to the devaluation of take-home pay, rising energy bills and rising cost of living. There will be a limit to the number of times the government chooses to plunder public money.

J'accuse

Households will experience the biggest fall in their living standards since records began as they face soaring inflation, tax increases and rising energy bills. In a bleak assessment of the year ...

15/11/2021

Let the institutions work, they say.

With rules like these that provide virtual immunity to defrauders of the State, we can see how the institutions are only allowed to work when their operation is perverted into becoming tools for the criminal and the corrupt.

TheShiftNews

‘Immunity’ has to be the word for 2021. The race to curb the spread of the pandemic reached new levels in 2021 as vaccination programmes around the world gave us new hope. A new surge and the return to strict lockdown measures is an increasing possibility. This weekend Austria announced a lockdo...

14/07/2021

The new measures for travelling to Malta are now written in stone. The tweaks made after the first reactions are welcome. We have one niggling doubt though - where is the MIA getting the restriction of a 14-day period between second dose and issue of certificate from? Are travellers in possession of a valid vaccination certificate being illegally deprived of their right to travel?

Most of yesterday's post was based on public declarations of what the new measures for the 14th July would be as well as on the preliminary reactions by the Commission. The Legal Notice "Travel Ban ...

01/01/2021

New Year’s outlook...

This year has been a quiet year on this blog. Most of my writing has taken place elsewhere, mostly on the j'accuse column over at the Shift News. It's not just COVID19 that is to blame for the year ...

06/10/2020

Il-Bouncer ta' Kastilja.

GUEST POST: In this classic facebook post by Christian Grima takes a good look at what it takes to get into the Auberge de Castille. The standards at the door are those set by bouncer par excellence ...

17/08/2020

Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching. Our class of charlatan exhibitionist politicians holidaying on yachts, Instagramming their gold and signature face masks, lapping the adulation of their loyal crowds on festa day would have absolutely no idea where to begin on that one.

As the lady would say…. bogans… the lot of them.

TheShiftNews

Vouchers. Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia is convinced that rather than take responsibility for a series of hapless decisions, she should be somehow lauded for having "pushed" for the Maltese people to be showered with vouchers. In

13/07/2020

In opting for this doctrine the President’s advisors steamrollered over any consideration concerning article 90 other than the admission that a combined reading of 90(4) and 90(2) could result in revoking and appointing Adrian Delia ad infinitum. Having discarded the possibility of leaving the LOOH office vacant (there will be a LOOH according to article 90 has been read as there will be one at all times) the solution was simple: we keep him there because it is a remedy for serenity.

PR 201337 - "Press Release from the Office of the President" does not feature on the DOI Press Release page. It should be there since PR 201336 and PR 201338 are both on the page. I tried to find ...

08/07/2020

The Presidents’ prerogative is qualified with the words “in his judgment” though I doubt if George Vella can come up with a plausible reason to deny all evidence pointing to the obvious. Delia no longer commands the confidence of a majority of opposition MPs. His appointment to Leader of Opposition should be revoked.

As Malta braces itself for an invasion of constitutional experts I thought it would be opportune to throw my hat in the ring with a short series of Constitutional posts related directly or ...

05/07/2020

Now that’s a first. Delia has already long proven to be unfit for political action let alone leadership. His time as PN leader has proven to be a train wreck. To derail a train that is already wrecked and picking up the pieces is something that only a paper desperate for a distraction from the real issues can achieve.

http://www.akkuza.com/2020/07/05/train-wrecks-dont-need-derailing/

23/06/2020

That, Robert, is the reason we cannot have accolades and triumphalisms. You might convince yourself and your roadies that tonight’s vote is some big cut off moment. As far as we are concerned, we literally ain’t seen nothing yet.

One by one they walked out of Mile End HQ with that pathetic smile that convinces only themselves and the diehard faithfuls that all is well in the State of Labour. No comments to the assembled ...

28/04/2020

The Maltese have a saying ; “Ħanqa/naħqa ta’ ħmar qatt ma telgħet is-sema”. (A donkey’s braying never reached the sky). I never quite put my finger on what exactly we are to learn from this proverb and normally put it down to mean that the noises some individuals make are best ignored because of their emptiness. I am reminded of the saying every time I come across posts by that sans pareil of Maltese wankellectualism Mario Azzopardi.

http://www.akkuza.com/2020/04/28/braying-donkeys-and-hyenas/

21/04/2020

Alex Agius Saliba (Tander) Labour MEP and member of the S&D group is a liar. More specifically Alex Tander Saliba is lying about what happened in the European Parliament on Thursday 17th when the parliament voted on a resolution entitled “EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences“. The controversy drummed up at EU level has been taken to a different level in Malta thanks to the immigration controversy that is vying with COVID for top heading in the news.

Tander and Lying Alex Agius Saliba (Tander) Labour MEP and member of the S&D group is a liar. More specifically Alex Tander Saliba is lying about what happened in the European Parliament ...

20/03/2020

20/03/2020

The key to understanding this aspect of the Global Reaction to the epidemic is to understand that this is everybody’s war. The cliche’ that the virus knows no borders is not an excuse to build those walls that the populists had so desperately advocated for in pre-plague times. Rather it should lead to an understanding that there is no local answer to the problem – it has to be world wide.

http://www.akkuza.com/2020/03/20/the-foreign-legion/

10/03/2020

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10/03/2020

Fifteen years of blogging so you don't have to. Much has changed since that 10th March 2005. We've been quiet for a while (aside from a weekly article in TheShiftNews) but we'll be back. Soon very soon. Thank you for reading.

14/01/2020

Testing loomly for the greater good!