For Youtube there is software which lets you download and save files. For the other one, I suppose you could ‘right click’ and save or, if that fails, ask the dept concerned nicely.

It’s going to be ugly – it’s going to be a monument to a decadent, arrogant sensibility. It will be replaced in 50 years, maybe 100. The new work will not last.

… who is driven by her ego and who loves to be in the limelight,

… who blurts out whatever comes to mind very often without checking the facts,

…. who does not care if what she says will unjustly discredit other people,

… who calls for resignations of people on flimsy and unjustifed reasons,

… who asks others like George Debono and Lesley Kreuppl to come to her rescue with offensive letters against anyone who criticises her,

… who presents her opinions as being those of an expert when in fact she has little or no knowledge on the subject at hand.

Now that there are people willing to challenge her views, she complains and talks about fear of ridicule and retribution.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100403/local/faa-says-it-is-not-involved-in-stop-project-piano-petition

How pathetic!

Speci qed taghti permess biex il-progett jibda?

While she was in Italy, she should have had a look at their countryside (especially in the south) dotted with thousands of developments, both legal and illegal. A laissez-faire approach to development and successive condoni edilizi has wrecked havoc with large stretches of Italian countryside.

Compared to Italy, the Maltese Islands are heaven on earth as far as developments in the countryside go. This is not so for the FAA know-it-alls who make every ODZ issue seem the end of the world.

As far as countryside goes, we are far better off than the civilised Italians.

The Triton fountain was beautiful before it got wrecked and had to be fixed using a column for support. And guess who wrecked it…

I was asking Astrid.

The reconstruction of the Porta Reale will compliment the entrance to Valletta by this open space.

The existing shabby bus terminus will be transferred further down near the War Monument at the ditch on the way to Castille.

Unfortunately we are too focussed on criticising everything without taking into consideration that Piano is mastering this project. He is one of the most renowned architects of his time.

Yes, he wanted a place d’arme though, not a beautiful square with aesthetic considerations. In any case, that’s by the by. Let’s build the damn thing. There’s nothing worse than inaction.