Author: Jacques René Zammit
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Black President Down
It comes as a bit of a surprise that President Obama is currently suffering a downturn in the polls and is as popular as George Bush and Richard Nixon were in the same period in their presidency. This is the period of budgetary planning, health care announcements and more importantly a little bungled issue on…
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Quaky Oaths & Lazy Journalism
Today’s Times (print edition) will include the figures relating to the declarations made by the EP candidates to the Electoral Commission. The public (or “the people”, if you want to irritate certain other “people”) will finally get to see how many of the candidates are prepared to exploit the “loophole” (J’accuse disagrees with this loophole…
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Bollettino #1: Melita vs Spagna (encore)
Scideu il cada ia giereni tale nithadditchem. Illum, ium il mulei sitta ta guniou elphein u disa, iena Gakbu Sfi*o nerga insellmilchom uara assentsa piuttsost estisa. Mincheiia li isc-scoghol tieghi ilu nieches ammont tuil ta zmien nista niggarantisci illi bcaina deiiem inhuphu u nigru uara d-donna bendata mat-truphiiet chollha tad-dinia. Dan l-ahhar cbadniha tissielet geuua…
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New(ish) kid on the blogs…
There’s a new kid on the Luxembourg expat blogging scene. Well, it seems that the new kid had been around for quite some time but not long enough to register on the J’accuse radar. That may have much to do with the fact that it is not really a blog but rather a column of…
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I.M. Jack – The Summer Sophisms (1)
1. Understanding Corruption What exactly is corruption in Malta? The trail of MEPA incidents provide an interesting subject for this kind of question. We had allegations (an interesting word of itself) of corruption all of which can be watered down to the allegation that someone obtained something unduly and that the obtaining of that…
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J'accuse: The Moral Question
Well, I’m back in the Duchy and still adjusting to the abrupt shift in weather conditions. Most days it’s raining and the early morning cacophony of the building site that is Paceville has been replaced by a much more pleasant yet still sleep inhibiting – a thunderous wake-up call by one of the monsoon-like storms.…