We woke up today to the news of another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6. It struck eastern Turkey in the pre-dawn hours killing at least 51 people. Read the rest of this entry »

After writing about so many disasters, natural and man-made, I found some different news that could go under a Pet Politics category! Read the rest of this entry »

After the terrorist attempt last December by the so-called ‘underwear-bomber’, in a flight that took off from Amsterdam and was bound for the US, the matter of more security for the airports began to be discussed in many countries, specially the introduction of body scanners. Read the rest of this entry »

Today President Obama and Vice President Biden were in Tampa, Florida. The president, in a move that is almost a tradition, is going to travel to several states to bring the plans he talked about in his State of the Union last Wednesday to the citizens. The idea is to try to convince them so that the plans can be implemented. Read the rest of this entry »

When some rescue teams were giving up on the task of rescuing more people alive from the rubble and planning to return to their countries, a magnitude 6.1 aftershock, the strongest since the 7.0 magnitude original quake, struck Haiti Wednesday morning. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »