Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 13, 2010
Haiti suffers again
One of the worst earthquakes to hit the Caribbean region struck Haiti Tuesday afternoon. With a magnitude estimated at 7.0, it leveled shantytown dwellings as well as causing the collapse of the National Palace. It seems nobody was spared. 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 »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
December 13, 2009
For a world free of landmines
In 1997 many in the world heard about landmines and their devastating effect because Princess Diana, after a visit to Angola to see some of the victims of these landmines, called for an international ban on them. That same year the Princess died and it seems that much of the world preoccupied with other disasters and terrorism forgot about it. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 18, 2009
GPS in Dutch roads
From the Netherlands an interesting new project in Europe (Singapore is introducing a similar plan in 2010) to end chronic traffic jams and with the added benefit of cutting carbon emissions. The Dutch government is introducing a green tax for motorists that will replace the annual road tax charged on cars. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 18, 2009
The Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change
Slim indeed seem to be the chances for an agreement to be reached at the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. With just a little over two weeks for the conference to begin, most of what we hear and read is no good. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
November 17, 2009
First abortions, now mammograms…
Well, I don’t want to make a feminist blog out of KeyboardPolitics but lately some of the news are involving women too much to just ignore it. Yesterday I commented a little in my update about what is going on with politics and abortions. Today I was a little shocked and confused when I read the new reevaluation of breast cancer screening. Read the rest of this entry »
