monkeytassle
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Fair enough. I don't really read newspapers
This car bomb in Malta
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Even online? Was all over the bbc as well
monkeytassle
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Not really no. The BBC website is a shambles so I avoid it
so you just read Bloomberg then
Its Him Again
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What did it say as a matter of interest.
Just walked through background on her and the stories she was uncovering about alleged links to Azerbaijan and the govt.
monkeytassle
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I skim the torygraph, guardian and the ft. Even the graph and guardian websites on mobile are clunky and shit.
Malta is being run by Russian mafia and other eastern European gangs these days...
Corrupt as anything.. This is the start of it
Corrupt as anything.. This is the start of it
Its Him Again
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Was it not Panama ?
The bombings so far have all been carried by locals as far as I'm aware marra.
People used to take the piss when I said this is the most corrupt country in Europe.
I know a lot and it's like the wild west
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flashpants
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dad in law used to run the dry docks in valetta a few year back. was an interesting job to say the least. some dodgy bastards over there.
Its Him Again
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Yip I know some over here . I get in well with them . Don't take the piss. It's all about respect.
I still love the island.
My late dad's ashes are in Valletta harbour.
Went to visit him today on his birthday.
Got one of the small boats into the harbour, the bloke was 79 year old who captained the boat.
First thing he said without prompting was I'm glad that women was blown up last week.
This place is strange at times
It was the Panama papers. But she had apparently been looking at links between the Maltese government and Azerbaijan
Its Him Again
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Apparently something major was going to come out.
As you know I love this place but some things are unbelievable
Its Him Again
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I was at the justice for Daphne march. Very emotional. I'm in Castille now
Two and a half percent of Malta's entire GDP comes from selling passports for just under a million quid to people who have no Maltese links and most of whom won't ever live on the island - most of them from Russia, the former Soviet republics and the middle east. About 12% of GDP is from gambling.
Caruana Galizia's stories suggested that some of the offshore accounts held by politicians and revealed in the Panama Papers were used to receive kickbacks in connection with the receipt of some of these passports. And to receive some very strange payments from Azerbaijan.
Put all that together, and not much surprise that it's bordering on being a mafia state.
Caruana Galizia's stories suggested that some of the offshore accounts held by politicians and revealed in the Panama Papers were used to receive kickbacks in connection with the receipt of some of these passports. And to receive some very strange payments from Azerbaijan.
Put all that together, and not much surprise that it's bordering on being a mafia state.
Sam Handwich
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Full of wrang'uns
tynevalleyblackcat
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Not really relevant to the thread, but I was less than half a mile from where the bomb went off the week before while on holiday. Seems odd that something so violent can happen in a place like that.
Herberthall
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It did, one morning during the week think was Wednesday, article was being discussed about 4:00am, wasn't on the main BBC news.
Dodgy as fk.
It was all over the broadsheets as has already been said
Look at the sheer number of guardian articles for starters
https://www.theguardian.com/world/malta
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