<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:00:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Sandro Vella's blog</title><description/><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>12</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-6087896418307918085</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-24T02:07:32.317+02:00</atom:updated><title>The reflections garnered on a Sunday afternoon</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/reflections-made-on-sunday-afternoon.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/papa_bush-791037.jpg" alt="" border="0"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;The capitalist &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;tate par excelance is the vatican. Marriage is only valid if the &lt;a href=http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/do-not-let-disabled-come-to-me.html target=”blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;couple is able to reproduce.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Love can go and take a hike.&lt;br /&gt;
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Make children. Make many children. If you haven't got enough money to raise them it’s your problem. If the breadwinner &lt;a href=http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/financial/article_6255.shtml target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;should end up without work&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and in frustration leave the wife with four children - worry not - &lt;a href=http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=507 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;the government will pay.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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From our side we'll save on the holy hosts as &lt;a href=http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/cronaca/articoli/articolo418930.shtml target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;we only provide communion to the pure.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Your donation to the church is needed so as to let us fix the back door to heaven.&lt;br /&gt;
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But make children, so they will consume more, the &lt;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDP target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;GDP&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; will rise, and so that capitalism will function.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is all the better if you remain poor, because the poor have not the opportunity to study, and so we'll be able to screw around with you just as we like.&lt;br /&gt;
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The pope needs to meet up with George instead of St. Francis.&lt;br /&gt;
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The bishop goes to bless the &lt;a href=http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&amp;t=a&amp;aid=99803845&amp;cid=72 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;central headquarters of the nationalists&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; instead of blessing the &lt;a href=http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/local/article_6554.shtml target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;ship yards.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;The nuclear bombs are in the vatican!&lt;/b&gt; Somebody tell Joseph!&lt;br /&gt;
God is dead and I think that I know who killed him.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Love each other as I have loved you myself. I repeat: Love each other as I have loved you myself.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;"Blessed are those whom are poor in spirit, because they have the fortune of not knowing what the fuck is going on" &lt;/i&gt;- (Vella, 3:01)&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, &lt;br&gt;"The reflections garnered on a Sunday afternoon".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/reflections-made-on-sunday-afternoon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-891152254967363952</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-24T02:07:02.137+02:00</atom:updated><title>Immigrants going back home</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/immigrants-going-back-home.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/messiku-773600.jpg" alt="" border="0"  /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/2008/06/l-immigranti-jmorru-lura-d-dar.html"&gt;&lt;font size=1 face=arial&gt;Click here for the Maltese version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080430/local/migrants-prepare-for-resettlement-in-the-us target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;America is taking on the illegal immigrants that are coming to Malta.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Tonio Borg is thankful and the Maltese people pull down their trousers for whenever America asks for a favour that cannot be refused.&lt;br /&gt;
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America is making a great sacrifice in taking illegal immigrants from Malta. It’s paying all the costs, including the airline fuel. These immigrants illegal in Malta that shall become legal in America have colleagues &lt;b&gt;whom are fleeing America.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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A Top Stories article in the Californian &lt;a href=http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/710321.html&gt;&lt;b&gt;Star Telegraph&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; states: &lt;b&gt;"Fuel costs sending immigrants back to Mexico".&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The contractors who employ workers in the construction sector no longer have the money to maintain their vehicles and so they employ people who have their own vehicles. The Mexicans are no longer able to sustain the costs of living and working in America. The pay may be a lot better than that which they had in Mexico - but they now spend a &lt;b&gt;lot of the money on petrol.&lt;/b&gt; Many of them remain homeland only go to work twice a week. Now they no longer afford to send $50.00 back each week to their familiars that remained in Mexico and it won't be long before it is &lt;b&gt;no longer in their best interest&lt;/b&gt; to remain in America. Many of them already returned home.&lt;br /&gt;
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In a situation of crisis it is natural for the immigrants to return to their family nucleus and it is also natural for them to again try to &lt;b&gt;return to Malta&lt;/b&gt; so as to find more security, confidence and since they'd be a part of our population they &lt;b&gt;would also want to receive many forms of assistance, forming precedents.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;I want to see the blueprints of the american embassy in Ta'Qali. I repeat: I want to see the blueprints of the american embassy in Ta'Qali.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, "Immigrants going back home".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/immigrants-going-back-home.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-4853336575967020408</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-24T03:18:34.493+02:00</atom:updated><title>Do you feel like protesting?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/do-you-feel-like-protesting.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/protesta-755099.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;While the Maltese media worries itself over Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, over who will be taking Joe Saliba's place, how lovely the new nationalist headquarters is and speculating over how much fun the important Maltese personalities had on &lt;a href=http://www.xarabank.com/index.php?lid=1&amp;id=0&amp;type=programme&amp;cid=748 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;Xarabank's cruise;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in Europe and in other parts of the world there exist the &lt;b&gt;first protests against the persistent rise in the prices of petrol and diesel.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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In the following video it appears that there are problems in England, with fighting in the squares, strikes in Spain and India and even shortages at Lisbon airport which remains without petrol and diesel supplies.&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Kj090Nhl1M&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9Kj090Nhl1M&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=justify&gt;The Maltese also seem very worried. In fact there were many who hung the flag of Italy from upon their roofstops in a show of solidarity since the country imports 38% of its oil from Libya and since the Italian &lt;b&gt;P&lt;/b&gt;eople will yet be royally screwed by this predicament.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/Lybia-Oil-Exports-4-775327.JPG"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=justify&gt;The Italian government has already had the foresight &lt;a href=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/15/2274918.htm target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;to station soldiers by &lt;b&gt;p&lt;/b&gt;eoples' residences &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and increasing the military presence on the streets so as to prevent the eventuality of somebody sparking a revolt.&lt;br /&gt;
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Gonzi is not at all worried. He sent his soldiers on a quick course for partnership for peace. Gonzi has peace of mind with the Maltese people and should there be even an inkling of a problem he'd call his buddy Pierre Portelli to hurry up and make a new edition of l-iSpjun but without having trouble with Endemol because otherwise he'll have to increase the licensing fees for television and run the risk of street protests. It appears also that Peppi is safely planted within both PBS and ONE TV's journalism. &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/03/modern-americans-in-tents.html target="_blank"&gt;Hence there is nothing to worry about.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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When the people lose the conscience of their own rights, any who rise into power are indifferent. The people will always remain a &lt;b&gt;slave&lt;/b&gt; populace. Liberty is not born from above but from below.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is active corruption that consistently violates others' rights. There is passive corruption that consists of allowing this to happen.&lt;br /&gt;
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You can fight the foreign enemy. You can fight against tyrants. You can fight against a vicious oligarchy. &lt;b&gt;But you cannot fight against a people who have lost their conscience.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is right to remain uncaring of Gonzi or the phantom ethics of politics. It is not Orlando who should be upholding ethics but Gonzi through risking the loss of the seat beneath his buttocks with respect to those whom had put him there.&lt;br /&gt;
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Keep it up Jeffrey! You have the solidarity of myself as well of the indifferent.&lt;br /&gt;
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The following video depicts a protest by Spanish farmers over the price of oil and also, improbably but allegedly because a person was going to try and illegally build a discotheque on some sensitive land who also happened to be a member of parliament who vowed that he wouldn't be resigning.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Had he also vowed upon his children, then there would be an even bigger probability that he'd resign.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;I want to join the boy scouts. I repeat: I want to join the boy scouts.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, &lt;br&gt;"Do you feel like protesting?".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/do-you-feel-like-protesting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-161816765963384175</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-24T02:11:31.147+02:00</atom:updated><title>Do not let the disabled come to me</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/do-not-let-disabled-come-to-me.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/matrimonio-vuoto-798615.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;The messiah who came before Joseph, he performed many miracles. He healed the lame. He healed the blind. He healed the damned. He healed those with back pain. He healed all who had a pimple upon their buttocks. He healed those infected by Mary Magdalene. The son of god performed all of these miracles for a reason – &lt;b&gt;so that they will be able to marry.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Marco is 25 years old and lives in Viterbo, Italy. She may be a little younger than he. They fall in love and decide to get married. The date was set for the 7th of June 2008 in church.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the first week of May, Marco had a traffic accident and comes through it with semi-paralysis. He would recover and would be able to get married on schedule. They both remain very much in love and they both want to continue upon their life together.&lt;br /&gt;
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All that remained were a few documents that needed signing. The bishop of the place, monsignor &lt;a href= http://www.chiesacattolica.it/pls/cci_new/bd_vescovi_cei.edit_v?id_v=145 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;Lorenzo Chiarinelli,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; wanted that they confirm in writing their will to get married in spite of the accident. The couple confirmed their desire and sign.&lt;br /&gt;
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But his excellency told them:&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;a href= http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,3398632,00.html?maca=en-english_current_affairs-96-rdf target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;"Over my dead body will you be married. Non possumus.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I greatly regret Marco, my dear son, that with this accident that you had, and everybody understands yourself, you are unable to perform in bed, you cannot fuck your wife, and you are unable to have children. This is called copulative impotence and if you have copulative impotence, my dear son, I cannot marry you both due to clause a, b, ż of the code of canonical ethical rights. I can do nothing for you. The Evangels? Yes true you have a point but what does this have anything to do with it? Jesus Christ, yes, yes, I understand, but what would you have me tell you... You cannot be married and that is that."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Is there anybody here who knows why the church is losing patrons? Or why it is not enough?&lt;br /&gt;
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The couple still marry on the 7th of June via civil means and &lt;b&gt;in a civilized fashion.&lt;/b&gt; The couple married on the same day that the new messiah was preparing his discourse for the delegates and the members: &lt;a href= http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/govt_politics/article_6679.shtml&gt;&lt;b&gt;"The honeymoon is over."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Coincidence?&lt;br /&gt;
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I would like to be just with the bishop. Everybody can make a mistake. I think that the bishop confused the documents and spotted a paper where the young man wanted to enter for a clerical role and be married with god. In this the bishop was right because in order to be a cleric you need to have your pecker in &lt;b&gt;full&lt;/b&gt; working order.&lt;br /&gt;
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This Marco, poor boy that he is, happened not to be a muslim. They would have baptized him, fed him the holy host and had him married in a single night.&lt;br /&gt;
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The curate defends itself with an announcement that, had it been made by Joe Saliba, would have been more convincing: &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;"All happened in the sharing of the sincerity of the situation with all human and christian attention."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Saint Matthew (Chapter 5, Verse 7) makes an even better statement: &lt;b&gt;"Forgiven are those whom are merciful because they find mercy."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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This Chiarinelli remains behind the times. Since when have the married had sex between themselves?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Lord who art in heaven, hear me, descend from above. Send nobody else. I repeat: Descend yourself. Do not send another again.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, &lt;br&gt;"Do not let the disabled come to me".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/do-not-let-disabled-come-to-me.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-692374443560994830</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T12:32:08.755+02:00</atom:updated><title>What happened to building 7?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/what-happened-to-building-7.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/wtc7_bbc-763448.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;On the 6th of June 2008 otherworldly events occurred. Joseph Muscat rose to leadership of the labour party against George Abela, three women stopped me in the street to tell me what a nice butt I have, and the &lt;a href=http://www.ft.com target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;Financial Times of London&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; asked of building number 7.&lt;br /&gt;
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This is a historic date. The most mainstream of authoritative of media, always aside from Xarabank, puts forward the question after seven years: &lt;a href=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d174b42-31fa-11dd-9b87-0000779fd2ac,s01=1.html&gt;&lt;b&gt;"What happened to building 7?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Building number 7 is the third tower that fell on the 11th of September 2001. A 47-storey building that fell without any aeroplane having crashed into it. A bit like when Alfred Sant's &lt;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Mintoff#Political_career target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;government fell because of Mintoff.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;b&gt;It fell for the heck of it.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The strange screw-up here is that the Financial Times attracts the attention of BBC mentioning the collapse of building number 7 a half hour before this actually happened.&lt;br /&gt;
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Journalist Jane Standley was talking in a direct live broadcast at 4:45pm and spread the news of the collapse of the third tower, yet tower 7 still stood behind her. It fell just 26 minutes later.&lt;br /&gt;
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Because of this footage which can be found on &lt;a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqqhX8gkhE0 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;Youtube,&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the BBC was bombarded with questions as well as accusations that the BBC were acting out one of Bush's script plays. Suspicions grew when Richard Porter, head of international news at BBC, said that he had no copy of the footage. If it were Charlon Gouder I'd have understood it.&lt;br /&gt;
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As soon as Joseph Muscat came to know of this, he called Porter and wanted to appoint him to the &lt;a href=http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=70960 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;board of journalistic ethics of ONE TV&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; since Peppi Azzopardi had to resign from this position - he had to fly up to Rome and ask Bush about this mystery. But Bush &lt;a href=http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0803154.htm target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;between Peppi and the Pope,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; decided upon he whom as of late has done the greatest groveling, and so Peppi remained unanswered just as many millions of Americans have remained unanswered. &lt;br /&gt;
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How can two aeroplanes bring down three towers? &lt;br /&gt;
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I trust the &lt;a href=http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/Index.html target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;official version.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; That building number 7 fell in a show of solidarity. The rest of the buildings in the vicinity are sponsored by RyanAir.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;I demand the return of Joe Debono Grech. I repeat: I demand the return of Joe Debono Grech.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, "What happened to building 7?".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/what-happened-to-building-7.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-3717517743815937246</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T12:32:31.411+02:00</atom:updated><title>Lorenzo's Oil</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/lorenzos-oil.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://peakoil2010.com/oil.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/2008/06/i-ejt-ta-lorenzo.html"&gt;&lt;font size=1 face=arial&gt;Click here for the Maltese version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;To lose an election also means to lose the principle. The principle here is one alone: &lt;b&gt;Let us win the election and that'll be the end of the story.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The national Joseph said that all that the Labour party has proposed in the last election was not good because the people refused them. After ONE News spent entire bulletins of their journalists going to England praising the reception class, now the reception class is not good because the people refused it. The problem with the reception class was not the reception class itself but the messenger and his secretary. Lets get rid of the reception class and keep Jason Micallef so that we'll surely be in even greater need of reception classes.&lt;br /&gt;
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While the opposition was asleep somebody went and whispered into the ears of Fred and Jason to reduce the surcharge by half and to have it removed later on. Its probable that Fred had other important things to do and forgot to ask how this would be done. Certainly Jason was going to ask him but remembered how intelligent he is and how he knows it all and so ended up not asking him. It may have been that Jason would have had the answer down below, and that Fred would have known how to answer Peppi, Joseph's new buddy &lt;a href=http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=70960 target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;whom together decided to educate the people&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; about how to stick to one's &lt;a href=http://www.illum.com.mt/2008/06/15/l6.html&gt;&lt;b&gt;principles.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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How Lawrence Gonzi and Europe are mucking us around where the surcharge and the price of oil are concerned:&lt;br /&gt;
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In the year &lt;b&gt;2000&lt;/b&gt; the american dollar was valued at one euro and four cents &lt;b&gt;($1 =  €1.0393)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;If we were to remember that in 2000&lt;/b&gt; a barrel of oil was valued at 28 american dollars, if one were to leave aside &lt;a href=http://www.inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/Historical_Oil_Prices_Table.asp target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;inflation&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, then a barrel was worth &lt;b&gt;29 euros and 10 cents.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Year 2008:&lt;/b&gt; The american dollar today is worth 64 euro cents &lt;b&gt;($1 = €0.6437)&lt;/b&gt;. &lt;a href=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080616/business/oil-surges-to-new-record target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Today&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; a barrel of oil costs 140 american dollars. One barrel should cost &lt;b&gt;€90.12c.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;2000 = 1:1.04 / 028/ barrel = 28.10 euros per barrel&lt;br /&gt;
2008 = 1:0.64 / 140/ barrel = 90.12 euros per barrel&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Today oil is supposed to cost little more than 3 times the price in 2000.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The oil crisis is not nearly so dramatic for those who sell the petrol and the government sucks from upon us. &lt;b&gt;The surcharge is fraud&lt;/b&gt; of an immoral and obscene sort which is being used to cover up the mistakes of Enemalta. It is so as to reap a profit with the blood of the slaves. It is probably intended so as to sell it off to foreign investments, just as Gonzi did with other strategic companies. He'll be able to get peace of mind that he has much fewer responsibilities to uphold, and will try to win the election to come, again.&lt;br /&gt;
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If the dollar should find its footing and rise again then we'll be screwed further. The devaluation of the dollar is compelling us to pay for America's debt.&lt;br /&gt;
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This brand of capitalism is a fraud from tip to toe.&lt;br /&gt;
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When the american economy went down the drain Europe was supposed to reduce the oil prices. Aside from this America is indebted to the Central Bank of Europe, that of the &lt;a href=http://www.centralbankmalta.org/site/imgs/flusna.gif target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;euro our currency&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;; it circulated &lt;a href=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/93060.html&gt;&lt;b&gt;400 billion euros&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; so as to sustain the dollar. Papers upon papers... invented from and based upon nothing at all. Why is Europe paying the debt of America? Can anybody explain this to me? Why do we pay the debt of those who pay for the elections of Iraq and Palestine?&lt;br /&gt;
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There is a chance that the dollar will never recover. For it to recover there will be need for Americans to consume 30% less than they consume today... and this would be a further catastrophe for the world economy.&lt;br /&gt;
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The simplest solution is war. The imbeciles who run the world are &lt;a href=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1604546,00.html target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;thinking about this alone.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It is probable that the extra money that the government is reaping from this story is going towards the pay of those whom at face value do not work for &lt;a href=http://www.maltastar.com/pages/msrv/msv2ArtDetailPrint.asp?an=20677 target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;six months&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; as well as parliamentary pensions and for some single mother so as to be able to enjoy father's day with their offspring.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;I do not feel represented. I repeat: I do not feel represented.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, "Lorenzo's Oil".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/lorenzos-oil.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-5765779807255077935</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T12:33:26.701+02:00</atom:updated><title>Miracle at the Mile End</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/miracle-at-mile-end.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/miraklu-796944.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/2008/06/miraklu-fit-tmiem-il-mil.html"&gt;&lt;font size=1 face=arial&gt;Click here for the Maltese version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;font size=4 color=black face=arial&gt;"&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=2 color=black face=times&gt;This here is not Europe. This today is a market. It’s just like a fish market in Tokyo. It’s a united europe but to the advantage of the capitalists and the bankers.&lt;br /&gt;
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Europe has to become a lot more than this. Europe has to become like a box of valuable jewels distinguishing us from other continents.&lt;br /&gt;
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This has to be not in order to create barriers, but so as to keep and give that which is good with that which europe represents. I want for Malta to be the very best of Europe in this season of the new winning generation.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the past we made our mistakes. Partnership winning was a mistake. The ideology of Switzerland in the Mediterranean was not perfect. But there are certain things that my dear friend Alfred, whom I had challenged in standing for european parliament and stood against his will, was right about - such as the exaggerated inflation rates due to the euro, the military interference and foreign interference.&lt;br /&gt;
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I do not accept that there is not interpretation of the Maltese language in european parliament. You saw me on Xarabank and how I snapped at those of Europe when they didn't bring along an interpreter. Because this is what we had agreed upon and I am a man of principle. That’s what I told those of europe and they crapped in their pants: &lt;b&gt;'What is the point of having it in black and white when we do not respect that which is written?&lt;/b&gt; What the hell?' And I slammed the papers also and afterwards sat myself down. &lt;br /&gt;
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I want to show that this is a true country. That it has balls, as Mintoff told me when I went to see him with my &lt;a href= http://maltastar.com/pages/msrv/msfullart.asp?an=21847 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;friend Jason.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Europe belongs to Malta too and it’s not Malta that belongs to Europe. And even though I agree with the Lisbon Treaty that I read in all of a quarter hour, still I need to respect the deal that was made with the whole of europe that if the Treaty should be refused by just the one country, it needs to go back to the drawing board. Because this is what we agreed upon and I am a man of principle. What is the point of having it in black and white when we do not respect that which is written? What the hell?&lt;font size=4 color=black face=arial&gt;"&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm afraid that I have homosexual tendencies. I am afraid because otherwise I won't be able to receive communion because I might infect somebody with my &lt;a href= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_1_29/ai_n8706905 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt; disease&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I am afraid because I dreamt of Joseph Muscat - the cutest leader of a party in the country. I dreamt that he spoke those same italicized sentences while on the treadmill addressing the delegates. My wife began to get jealous and spent a whole day asking me more about this Muscat and this Jason that I spoke of in my dreams. I told her ‘In the name of the God and joseph, just call him Joseph or we will have many problems’.&lt;br /&gt;
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My wife kept bugging me and so I turned on Xarabank for her. There he was on a white sofa with his new friend Ġużeppi. There was a youth who pleaded that he enforces distance between the fireworks factories from near the schools. I was of two minds as to who was the true youthful leader amongst them.&lt;br /&gt;
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Joseph responded very well: he told him that it wasn't the fault of the fireworks factories that the schools were there. How wise indeed are Joseph's responses. Who knows how many votes he earnt himself from the festive hobbyists and further votes from parents whose children attend such schools and wish to divorce.&lt;br /&gt;
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And then so that Joseph would not lost votes, he condemned the shooting upon a dog and yet shooting upon birds is alright since it’s a hobby. A new leader for a new generation. The spring of victory. You can shoot upon birds...not dogs. It’s like saying that it’s bad if somebody shoots you in the chest but it's fine if he shoots a hole right up your ass.&lt;br /&gt;
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And then Joseph had a very difficult moment before him. Asked by a homosexual woman whether they ought to have the right to marry, Joseph, as a new man who keeps astride with the times, had the courage to tell her that they will have the same rights as brothers who cohabitate in the same house. Joseph is right - you've no idea how many brothers there are giving him each others asses so as to get their chance at glory in the house of Labour.&lt;br /&gt;
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Joseph is the future of the present. He managed to admit mistakes that did not exist. The leader of a great mass of labourites that &lt;b&gt;kept&lt;/b&gt; following him and showing pride in being told that their party has been screwing them over for the last 10 years. But now Joseph has shown light to the blind flock.&lt;br /&gt;
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Indeed Joseph is a great man. He sent a letter to the vigilance board and requested that a letter be sent to all those who were kicked out of the party. Lino Spiteri received one such letter and in the last sentence he found written: &lt;b&gt;"I forgive you because you knew what you were doing."&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Joseph did not stop there. He enlisted his &lt;a href="http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=70960" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;new friend Peppi&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; so as to sit upon the board of journalistic ethics in the newsroom of ONE. It’s like he bought a condom for the rapist. Screw her as much as you like for as long as you don't get her pregnant.&lt;br /&gt;
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Joseph Muscat is the new Albert Marshall.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The wine is becoming water. I repeat: the wine is becoming water.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, "Miracle at the Mile End".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/miracle-at-mile-end.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-8216011399702811792</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-24T02:10:49.237+02:00</atom:updated><title>The hero of the working class</title><description>&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/hero-of-working-class.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/uploaded_images/rockefeller-lavoro-784663.jpg" width=400 alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face=times size=2 color=black&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://sandrovella.org/2008/06/l-eroj-tal-klassi-tal-addiema.html"&gt;&lt;font face=arial size=1&gt;Click here for the Maltese version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p clear=all&gt;&lt;p align=justify&gt;&lt;font face=times size=2 color=black&gt;I'm ignorant. I'm a fool. I'm a vagina. I'm a dickhead. These are the main themes of the majority of messages that I've been receiving through the mail. The screwup is that &lt;b&gt;they are right.&lt;/b&gt; I admit it. I'll not admit only to the claims that I'm ugly, fat and bald.&lt;br /&gt;
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Other correspondence compelled me to do a PhD and even a Doctorate. I changed my mind because I learnt that the more you know, and the more intelligent you are, the more that they screw you. There is no need to be intelligent so as to obtain a Doctorate's degree. Intelligence and wisdom will only take you part of the way to a Doctorate's degree but to actually get it you almost &lt;b&gt;have&lt;/b&gt; to be cunning. Either way however, whether you are wise or not, to possess a  Doctorate's degree will only get you screwed over worse that if you didn't. For example: the leader of the new season; with a 15 year plan for a 3 month season. I don't know which season it'll be; probably some other spring.&lt;br /&gt;
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Joseph Muscat deserves to be declared european of the season as, aside from the Lisbon treaty, he succeeded in covering up the future of the working class - whom this very day he is representing through the taxes of the people as from September and the members as from June.&lt;br /&gt;
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It was in 1919 when the International Organization of Workers established the maximum amount of time that a worker has to be chained to the office and the factory: 48 hours a week. At the end of the second world war, in all "western" countries the time was reduced to 40 hours a week, just as at present. France alone was the exception whom in 1997 reduced her maximum to 35 hours a week.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Malta the Harvard's doctorate in socialism was looking at possibilities as how to embellish Cottonera instead of bringing standards of the worker to the level of France so as to have time to read his books and maybe open his mind.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Malta something extraordinary is happening. Its not only that Dolores Cristina came to realize that success in the arts and culture does not need to cost money, nor is it just that Peppi Azzopardi is to be on the &lt;a href=http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=70960 target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;board of journalistic ethics of ONE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;, not only that Jason Micallef will again contest for the post of Secretary General, but also that the rights that were once ours are again being tabled for discussion in Europe.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;a href= http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7574765 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;On the 10th of June 2008&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the european commission decided to revisit working hours. It’s actually not possible to work more than 48 hours a week, including overtime, except for certain delicate work categories. Things have now changed, not through the reduction in working hours, as would be expected as per common social evolution, but through increase in hours.&lt;br /&gt;
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If the european parliament confirms this decision taken by the european commission, the people who are not ignorant or pussies like myself, who work in the areas deemed important and delicate will &lt;b&gt;legally be able to work between 60 and 65 hours a week.&lt;/b&gt; 65 hours if you're of a profession more delicate such as healthcare or night security. &lt;br /&gt;
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Ignorants such as myself can only risk working up to 48 hours and maybe get a chance to blog and fire away sweet little idiocies while the special cases are able to read blogs like this one only from on the work place. &lt;br /&gt;
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The proposal to work over 48 hours a week is only on a voluntary basis as per the free will of the individual. &lt;b&gt;This is exactly the same as what happens today where overtime is concerned!&lt;/b&gt; Beds shall soon be as common to offices as cheap coffee machines.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Spanish government is against this directive. After &lt;a href= http://www.maltafly.com/modules.php?name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=908 target=”_blank”&gt;&lt;b&gt;Ireland&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, will we be saved by Spain? Why didn't Joseph save us?&lt;br /&gt;
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The epoch of 1800 is knocking on Ħamrun's door. Joseph Muscat said that everybody is welcome in the Labour party for as long as one holds socialist beliefs.&lt;br /&gt;
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What does &lt;a href=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080524/local/labour-leadership-contenders-fume-over-schulz-endorsement-to-muscat target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Martin Schulz&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; think about this proposal?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;I love you all greatly and so let us love each other. I repeat: I love you all greatly and so let us love each other.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Click here to write your comments about the blog post, "The hero of the working class".&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/06/hero-of-working-class.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-9163667794848040854</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-17T02:54:05.866+01:00</atom:updated><title>L’Union Mèditerranéenne</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sandrovella.org/images/2008/march/unjonimed.jpg" width=420 borderline="0"&gt; &lt;p align=justify&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Every people gets the government that it deserves - Voltaire &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The opiated Maltese person votes so as to participate in the prostitute reveling of band clubs affiliated with the emblem of the torch upon the floor tile.&lt;br /&gt;
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He is occasionally also bought, as one finds the free market functioning within the elections and not only within the political economy. And then somebody like Fred comes along with his dialectics and his relatively futuristic concepts and expects to reason with such people.&lt;br /&gt;
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Not even the university students understood him. In fact they thought he was a goat: Booooooooooo. A scene that reminds one of the romance of Dostoyevsky&lt;br /&gt;
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The problem is that not even the party faithful understood Fred when he told them that he'd like to re-open the accession packet of Europe. If they had understood him then Sharon Ellul Bonnici would also have been understood and she would have been allowed to contest with Labour. Yet the Labour party feared they would lose votes because Ellul bonnici was against entry into the European Union and it was for this reason that she wasn't allowed to contest. Yet the national Fred, who won the favour of partnership, not only contested but was at the helm.&lt;br /&gt;
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Nestor Laiviera wrote a very interesting article for di-ve.com. He mentioned the European Union summit that the prime minister and the finance minister attended so as to boast that they have a relative majority.&lt;br /&gt;
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Laiviera forgot to include that which the Prime Minister forgot to say upon his arrival back in Malta: The European Union's approval of the idea of Mediterranean Union by French president Nicolas Sarkozi.&lt;br /&gt;
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In few words the creation of the mediterranean union shall offer an alternative to Turkey entering as a full member of the European Union.&lt;br /&gt;
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It is said that Sant and Gonzi copied Sarkozi though it is Sarkozi who copied them as he did the exact opposite to the wish of the people. The French voted NO in the referendum on the European constitution in 2007, also due to the risk of Turkey entering Europe. Sarkozi seems like he is going to appease them.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sarkozi is also attempting to eliminate article 88/5 of the french Constitution, that which states that for every new proposal from Europe, the French should call for a referendum. In this way the French can no longer say 'no' to new members.&lt;br /&gt;
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Constitutional amendments, no to referendums... Sarkozi's stay in Malta bore fruit.&lt;br /&gt;
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In the mediterranean union all shall enter: member countries including those with nothing to do with the Mediterranean, such as Sweden and Finland.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sarkozi succeeded in convincing Angela Merkel in order to gain consensus for this ambitious project. This under the condition that Germany be a part of this mediterranean project so Sarkozi may be sure that Berlin and Frankfurt (where one finds the quarters of the European central bank) are in charge.&lt;br /&gt;
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Europe is piling up the bills without the shop-owner: China.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ron Paul said "The moral imperative of not imposing our will on others, no matter how well intentioned, is a powerful argument for minding our own business. The principle of self-determination should be respected. Strict non-intervention removes the incentives for foreign powers and corporate interests to influence our policies overseas."&lt;br /&gt;
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Alfred Sant managed to compress the words of Ron Paul into a single word: Partnership.&lt;br /&gt;
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The effects of the Maltese opiate are still passing.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;information:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3083&gt;&lt;b&gt;What Is Really Behind the Mediterranean Union?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;- John Laughland - The Brussels Journal&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=http://www.nato.int/med-dial/qa.htm&gt;&lt;b&gt;NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue &lt;br /&gt;
&amp; Istanbul Cooperation Initiative&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/03/lunion-mditerranenne.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-8260201927488899682</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-17T22:24:01.661+01:00</atom:updated><title>The time has come for a change</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;a href=http://www.sandrovella.org/english/2008/03/moment-for-change-has-arrived.html&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sandrovella.org/images/2008/march/jasonnappy.jpg" width=200 borderline="0"&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p align=justify&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;The Labour party has a serious problem. They have many problems. But this problem: Is the problem of problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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Labour supporters are represented by neither the government nor their own party. The labour supporters, gradually, but still needing chance for the opiate effects to pass, are realizing that they spent a long time kissing the asses of the wrong persons whose only interest was the acquisition of power.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Labour party never learns. To send Jason Micallef on the national Xarabank was a strategic error. If Michael Falzon had gone, then it would have been a different story. It would have been probable that everybody would have ended up embracing and Peppi himself, with tears in his eyes, would have nominated him as the new leader, and the general conference would have been held there in a direct broadcast with closure of discussion and from the following Monday the pay of parliamentary members of the opposition would have begun to be justified.&lt;br /&gt;
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All that Jason had to do is was make up a minor affliction or that he had a fall and impacted his head upon the pavement of Handaq and that he couldn't attend for that premeditated attack. There wasn't a single person in that programme who was on Jason's side. Not even Jason himself.&lt;br /&gt;
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Charlon Gauder also became confused. It was probably the legs of Anna Mallia rubbing against him that distracted him and hence he became confused about seeing that there being a category of labour supporters who wish to speak their mind in the party but whose voices are being oppressed beneath the  bureaucratic partitocracy in the name of democracy.&lt;br /&gt;
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There is no need to spend months analyzing Labour's loss. The analysis occurs every time that Jason poses in front of the mirror. His attack leveled at the impartiality of Peppi's programme was futile. The people preferred another five years mediocrity of televised manipulation every Friday of relevance to those wanting to win a Kenwood than five years mediocrity of a general secretary who affects the country.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jason has peace of mind. For Easter he shall be giving two large eggs to the delegates. Within them there shall be chocolate in a mon cheri style but rather than whisky there shall be opium so that they'll be able to calm down so that things may stay as they are.&lt;br /&gt;
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The labour membership card is there only so that Alfred Zammit can tell them Happy Birthday on Kalamita.&lt;br /&gt;
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The labour delegates need to understand how a person who disrespects the intelligence of the people managed to win the general election. The reason is because the labour supporter was disadvantaged as, aside from Gonzi, they also had persons from their own party who showed no respect.&lt;br /&gt;
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There are other labour supporters who have opinions and would like to express them. If there were Gonzi in the place of Jason he would pretend to let them talk and pretend to take notice. Not even through pretense did Jason want to!&lt;br /&gt;
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The time has come to change the soiled nappy and for the empty tears to end.&lt;br /&gt;
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Who shall be the saviour? Who shall be the courageous lion?&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;archives:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=http://sandrovella.org/2008/02/it-tieni-jum-33_05.html&gt;&lt;b&gt;The second day / 33&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/03/moment-for-change-has-arrived.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-6852253528091761333</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T12:36:55.669+02:00</atom:updated><title>Modern Americans in tents</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sandrovella.org/images/2008/march/gonzimohhokmistrieh.jpg" width="420" borderline="0"&gt; &lt;p align=justify&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;If it weren't for Gonzi the Maltese would end up living in tents.&lt;br /&gt;
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An American woman who used to live in an apartment with three rooms and two further bathrooms now lives in a tent. The reason: She can no longer pay off her house loan.&lt;br /&gt;
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The place is California, not the third world. Since June 2007, tents were set up near a train which invites hundreds of people. Every day new folks come. They are not immigrants, clandestine individuals or criminals but American families who lived their lives honestly upon a humble wage. They lost their home due to the debt crisis and have now become tent-living vagabonds.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Click &lt;a href= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwRIzNyArRY &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;play&lt;i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to see the BBC documentary :&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br&gt;( 1 minute u 30 seconds )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwRIzNyArRY&gt;&lt;img src=http://sandrovella.org/images/2008/march/tinda2.jpg&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;i&gt;Click &lt;a href= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeHiFZUWtE&amp;NR=1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;play&lt;i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; to see a documentary produced by the tent people :&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt; ( 4 minutes and 17 seconds )&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmeHiFZUWtE&amp;NR=1&gt;&lt;img src=http://sandrovella.org/images/2008/march/tinda1.jpg width="418"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The global decisions were errant and shall throw all into trouble. Voting for Gonzi with the stand of Padre Pio and voting for Padre Pio himself poses no great difference.&lt;br /&gt;
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Politics cannot solve problems. Especially so when it is not politicians involved in the running of politics.&lt;br /&gt;
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America sowed the seeds of destruction and now is reaping the fruit. The bad luck shifts upon the small workers, who probably voted for the actual administration thanks to opiate and a little egoism.&lt;br /&gt;
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It would have been cheaper to pay Iraq for oil than to assemble 200,000 soldiers in Iraq. The economists shall be calculating and realizing that it would have been better had they paid.&lt;br /&gt;
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The dollar has become like Willy Coyote in the cartoons. Every time that he used to run after his historical enemy: Beep-Beep, he comes to a precipice and keeps running upon the air until he realizes that he has nothing beneath his feet and plummets and hits the ground with a splat. Nobody knows when it will splat. The structure of balances in America is not sustainable for as long as they are not defended by continuous wars.&lt;br /&gt;
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Affronted with this problem, Gonzi of peaceful mind, send a letter to the American bankers.&lt;br /&gt;
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"Dear bankers, dear colleagues,&lt;br /&gt;
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While you may have a monopoly on credit and you could have printed the money yourselves, you were still vulnerable to bankruptcy!&lt;br /&gt;
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Since my country is of peaceful mind and is running on rubies I would like to send you this sum of money that the Maltese and Gozitan people collected for yourselves so that you may have capital for the bank. In return we do not even want your shares because we are very wealthy and the paper of crap is abundant.&lt;br /&gt;
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Always yours,&lt;br /&gt;
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Together Everything is Possible&lt;br /&gt;
Prime Minister ad eternum&lt;br /&gt;
Democracy of Malta"&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://sandrovella.org/english/2008/03/modern-americans-in-tents.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Sandro Vella)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4236750944863960942.post-6773283866098564885</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-23T12:32:57.476+02:00</atom:updated><title>George Pullicino's blog</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times;font-size:100%;color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://sandrovella.org/images/2008/january/hippoblog.jpg" borderline="0"&gt; &lt;p align=justify&gt;&lt;font face=times size=2&gt;Had it not been for George Pullicino: this blog ( sandrovella.org ) would be extinct.&lt;br /&gt;
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George Pullicino is small fry. A symbol of the government and the opposition, which restrains this country from moving forward properly. A symbol that proves everybody can become a politician. What’s important is to be loyal to the party.&lt;br /&gt;
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George Pullicino has a charming character, especially when he attends shows as “bla kondixin” (a Maltese show of satire), bursting out laughing at insults on his weight. He charms because, during the show, nobody speaks about the dioxin and the small particles produced by the incinerator.&lt;br /&gt;
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I have no interest in George Pullicino becoming redundant. All I want from him is to do his duties.&lt;br /&gt;
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During the term of office of Alfred Sant being prime minister, George Pullicino, addressing the nationalist party’s general council, used to criticise harshly the party’s communication skills, particularly the web site www.pn.org.mt , which in those days was shut down for a long period.&lt;br /&gt;
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But then again those were different times when Alfred Sant and Pullicino, stuck to the principle that neither party could change them. &lt;b&gt;The good old days.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Nowadays the national Pullicino attends the European Union’s meetings to sign everything while calling the Lazio's coach. When the coach heard Pullicino had called, he interpreted the call as coming from Pollicino (Little Tom Thumb), the Charles Perrault character.&lt;br /&gt;
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My blog attempts to be sarcastic, George Pullicino beats me. Next in line is Francis Zammit Dimech. They opened a blog to communicate direct with the people, but they did not realise that the internet population is not the mass population. They would not be taken for a ride.&lt;br /&gt;
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As Pullicino got wind of the resignation of Catherine Galea, he was quick to blog, during office hours, about the transparency and efficiency of MEPA. Because it had lodged the e-application. The e-application of MEPA had been running for 5 months!&lt;br /&gt;
Two days later, he attended the concert inaugurating the euro and two days later he wrote in favour of Ratzinger and the story of the La Sapienza University. The title of the article in favour of Ratzinger is: Intolerant and anti democratic and ant cultural.&lt;br /&gt;
(Anti Cultural?)&lt;br /&gt;
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In this article in favour of the pope, Pullicino followed the footsteps of the Italian media, indicating the university professors with the inverted commas (“professors”). Because the professors that do not bow their head to everything, and their guts they use we place in inverted commas.&lt;br /&gt;
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The scandal of MEPA can now be buried, because now we have the e-application active and Pullicino defends the Pope by quoting Silvio Berlusconi and once again went against the green party like when Naples drowned in refuse.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Pilate and Herod are students compared to Pullicino.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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