Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 11, 2010
Sarkozy to create a “school for spies”
Perhaps the disarray that took place among the United States intelligence and security agencies,with their failure to stop what could have been a disastrous terrorist attack in the skies over Detroit on December 25, is what has prompted French President Nicolas Sarkozy to go ahead with his plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 10, 2010
And now Yemen?
After the Christmas day failed terrorist attempt by a Nigerian who allegedly was trained in Yemen by al-Qaeda, talk about going against the terrorists in Yemen was something that many thought could happen. To the point that the Yemeni government had to warn Washington to learn the lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 10, 2010
After the Lisbon Treaty
On the 1 January, Spain took over the rotating EU presidency, a six-month tenure with a change from the until now other presidencies. Since the Lisbon Treaty which entered into force a month ago, the EU has a newly appointed president, Herman Van Rompuy, and the rotating presidency of Spain will have to work together with him. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 8, 2010
Buying and selling body scanners…
We began the year talking about body scanners. Terrorism was in our minds but the scanners,in many of the gatherings, were far more fun to talk about. Then we began thinking and realized that, if the US was able to influence governments around the world to buy and install them, most of us would have to go through one of those machines and the fun in many cases stopped. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 5, 2010
Resolutions for 2010
As we entered a new year, a new decade, we celebrated for a short time on New Year’s Eve making resolutions and wishing that 2010 would be a much better year than the one we just left behind. And yet, when we finally woke up hours later we had to realize that all was not going to be suddenly better and many problems were lurking. Read the rest of this entry »
