Saturday saw 500 or more (mostly) young people don their Anonymous masks and demonstrate their general anti-ism against ACTA and the international conspiracy of (as Edward Scicluna would have it) the monsters behind it. The interviews posted on the Times of Malta (see video on link) website simply confirmed the blindness of the protesters as interviewee […]
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Fighting the law and winning? – ACTA
Labour MEP Edward Scicluna was reported to have made the following statement when addressing students at a university debate yesterday. Here, with all the caveats related to “il detto del detto” is how the Times reported him: Edward Scicluna appealed to students not to try and understand the details of Acta but rather to see […]
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Franco Bonaparte?
Last time that I hinted at a link between Franco Debono and a historical figure I was told off in private by one of the blog’s more finicky readers. Well, mea culpa if Franco does not quite fit the “Generalissimo” label but the Rebel MP has now taken to quoting another general for his purposes. […]
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The Queen of Pop and the National Subconscious
This weekend a whole nation sat glued to the TV screen watching what is arguably one of the largest crowd pullers on prime time TV. This nation loves to think it is at the centre of the known universe and was clearly aware that other nations were peeping in to steal the show. Superbowl XLVI […]
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Perspectives on ACTA – Andrei Tuch (Part II)
Andrei continues his reasoned analysis of ACTA, concluding that though it is not evil it must be rejected anyway. ACTA is not evil : It must be rejected anyway – Part II In Part I, I described why ACTA is not the intrinsically evil entity that people think it is. In fact, it is a […]
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Perspectives on ACTA – Andrei Tuch
The J’accuse impromptu ACTA series continues. I knew that when I asked (provoked?) fellow blogger Andrei for his ideas on ACTA that I would not be short-changed. Based in Estonia Andrei describes himself as a “technical writer, freelance translator, standup comedian, occasional journalist, all too rarely blogger, wannabe exegete”. Here is the first part of […]
