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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Many tourists who visit Madrid have been told to go and see the Valle de los Caidos (Valley of the Fallen) located outside Madrid. For many of these tourists it is just something else to see in Spain. For Spaniards it means much more. Read the rest of this entry »

With less than 50 days for the climate summit set in Copenhagen at the beginning of December, there is not much optimism for the results. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said too many people have not yet grasp the scale and urgency of the problem. Read the rest of this entry »