Author: Jacques René Zammit
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Judge Grixti’s Catch-22
“They don’t have to show us Catch-22,” the old woman answered. “The law says they don’t have to.”“What law says they don’t have to?”“Catch-22.” Catch-22, Joseph Heller Konrad Mizzi, the government and anybody with an interest in transforming the Mizzi/Schembri Panama Papers issue into yet another story of apparent ‘allegations’ are crying victory all over…
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Public Cleansing, memorials and humanity
Last Friday (the 4th of January) the vice-mayor of the Italian city of Trieste put up a post on Facebook in which he explained that while walking through one of the streets of the city he had come across a pile of covers, jackets and other similar stuff. “Since there was nobody around”, he posted,…
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The Sale of Public Land
Citizens have a duty to ensure that their government is monitored whenever it manages their public land.
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La Liberta’
Vorrei essere libero, libero come un uomo. Vorrei essere libero come un uomo. Come un uomo appena nato Che ha di fronte solamente la natura E cammina dentro un bosco Con la gioia di inseguire un’avventura. Sempre libero e vitale Fa l’amore come fosse un animale Incosciente come un uomo Compiaciuto della propria libertà. La…
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9 months
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A nation of tree buggers
Strong winds in Luxembourg last night uprooted several trees around the country. Bad weather can be a bummer. That’s bad weather though, in Malta some idiot sitting at a desk decided to kill a tree that had lived through a world war because “it was becoming dangerous for passers by”. The most dangerous naturally occurring…