La Jungle de Calais
Posted on 22. Sep, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Featured, Mediawatch, Politics
This morning at 0730 hrs the police in Calais encircled the illegal camp known as “la jungle” and began the evacuation of what was left of its population. La Jungle consisted of a run down camp built by refugees and sans papiers as a temporary base before attempting to hop off the mainland and into [...]
Applauses in Lampedusa
Posted on 19. Jun, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Featured, Politics
The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports the story of Salvatore Cancemi, captain of the Italian fishing boat “Twenty Two”. On a stromy night Captain Cancemi and his crew defied the odds and bad weather and saved 300 souls from the sea. They returned to Lampedusa to a heroes welcome. Lampedusa too suffers wave upon wave [...]
Quando Maroni rima con cogli…
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Featured, Politics
J’accuse has been severely handicapped by an obtuse former monopoly and its incompetent set of technicians (barring a certain Frederic who should be awarded a medal of honour for his attempts at providing a normal service from within a company of idiots). Anyways, this has meant that I am only just about getting up to [...]
Speaking in the name of…
Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Featured, Politics
The GRTU said today that Vince Farrugia, a PN candidate for the European Parliament elections, would stay on as its director-general but would not speak on its behalf until the elections were held on June 6.
Which means what exactly? That should Vince Farrugia not get elected on June 6th he would then revert to being [...]
Talking Shop
Posted on 19. Feb, 2009 by Jacques Rene Zammit in Featured
So Inhobbkom Joseph believes that by “breaking the institutional silence” and getting the three score and some parliamentarians to talk about the problem of rising influx of immigrants we will solve the problem. Gonzi’s posse did not believe that the problem warranted any discussion by parliament (which comes as no surprise seeing the disdain for the [...]
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