Tag: robert abela
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For Sale!
Are you for sale? Your knee-jerk answer from a perfectly sane person would be a resounding “no.” After all, we are people with integrity, that have a fixed identity, or so we say; we would not compromise or what have you to no force on heaven or hell and anything in between. But the truth…
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Valletta, City of (Multi)Culture…
Ironically most racist people start their racist remarks by outlining that they are “NOT racist but…” What is being said in this post by a certain Maltese citizen is that they are disappointed to hear African music at the city gates of the Maltese Capital City. Of course without going into the why that person…
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Your Own History, Now at Bargain Price!
It is very understandable that especially with the products and technologies involved to preserve historical sites, especially within a capitalist context, maintaining a place such as this would cost quite a hefty amount of money. Being manned by the public sector, however, maintenance at the Hypogeum is government-funded and therefore paid by our taxes; asking…
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Victim Shaming On Steroids
This is a truly distressing time around the island, given three disappearances around the island at the same time – although one is reportedly resolved – the one involving Karmenu Fino not only holds the innate tragedy in which an elderly human being of questionable health issues walked out of a residential hospital just like…
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It…and I feel fine!
The tsunami alert has caused a wave (!!) of reactions that would amount to, mostly and understandably, a panic not yet rivaling the levels of early COVID; from people insisting it is a figment and a conspiracy, others already panicking, masking with humor and so on and so forth. I am not one to comment…
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Bon Appetit, Babe!
The above quote from Katy Perry’s single “Bon Appetit” as well as the rather questionable video that went with it took me back to a moment in Douglas Adams’ The Restaurant at The End of The Universe in which the protagonists are offered a platter of beef, only the beef is still attached to the…
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“Cut Here”
I love this image; It is highly symbolic of how what we are asked to see instead of needing to see changes everything. That is the danger of agenda. To name two. Conservative entities, traditionalists, will hunker down and insist that “their belief” is the only belief system that should be espoused by the system,…
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Facing the Music
It is truly refreshing when the oppressed fight back isn’t it?Especially in an era where the oppressor abides especially to rhetoric of constant commodification. In this case, we have a case of the commodification of the peace and quiet of the residents of our capital city, Valletta. Granted that the odd Disco is welcome pockmarking…
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Poor Patrol
I really do not want to be “that guy.” But does it not come across as bizarre that certain problematic areas in Malta are miserably under-patrolled? Even for those who are, police intervention seems thoroughly laid back and geared toward minimizing direct involvement as much as possible. I do not desire my country becomes a…
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Holding the Standard….
Those who do not work in education would not know that the situation is far from good, (perhaps even because we are afraid to complain about it publicly for one reason or another) and this is not the fault of the children in it, and very often not of the schools themselves, some of who…
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