Comments on: The foreign ministry stirs again https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:52:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Interested Bystander https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66780 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:52:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66780 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1p3gz_monty-python-s-attila-the-hun-show_creation at 12:33

]]> By: Interested Bystander https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66779 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 06:37:17 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66779 Check out Monty Python’s ‘news for parrots’ sketch

]]> By: Antoine Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66778 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 23:59:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66778 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Whoever broadcast the news needs a geography lesson: Malta is actually to the south-east of Tunis so a plane flying northwards would not pass anywhere near us. Moreover, I would expect any type of modern plane to have enough fuel to take it to Sardinia or even France.

]]> By: Cuckoo's Nest https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66777 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:15:03 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66777 And over to Valletta, where starving, unemployed youths self-immolate in Pjazza Regina because of the cost of diesel:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110114/local/thousands-protest-against-rising-cost-of-living

]]> By: Cuckoo's Nest https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66776 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:11:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66776 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tunisia-president–quits-after-protests-2184733.html

]]> By: Cuckoo's Nest https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66775 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:05:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66775 Don’t look to the Maltese newspapers for coverage of what’s happening 200 miles away. Instead, look to London:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12195025

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/01/the-foreign-ministry-stirs-again/#comment-66774 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:53:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=8886#comment-66774 My contacts tell me (OK, I read it in the news) that Ben Ali’s plane flew northwards, and refuelled in Malta. It is being reported that the Maltese government released this news at 20h00.

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