Oil Exploratory drillings in Canarian Islands

The execution of these oil explorations is not a legal issue. The Supreme Court resolves in its field of competence. Legally, there is no objection.

It corresponds to the Government to decide whether it is convenient from an environmental point of view; if it is appropriate for the quality of the civic life; if it is in favor or against the inhabitants of the Canary Islands; whether it is or not hazardous for the current and future economic interest in relation to the high attraction of tourists and residents...

The executive power should not rely on the proper sphere of the Court.

Everyone must face his own responsibilities.

Why not consulting the scientific community?

Really, Minister, would you say that it is “extraordinary news” to initiate some activities that can cause irreversible damages?  Why to look for black gold when there are white clathrates on the seabed?

Recently, I heard Professor Chu, advisor to President Obama, saying the following:  “The Stone Age ended when there were many stones; the oil age will end when there is still a lot of oil”.

Israel and Palestine

Peace between Israel and Palestine should urgently cease to be a discretionary option accepted by Israel.  It is enough! Again and again hopes on reviving the peace process have been fruitless. And the Palestinian confined humiliatingly seeing how another opportunity vanishes.

Lluis Bassets in his excellent article entitled “The End of the Street” – “El final de la Calle” (“El País”, April 3, 2014) expresses that present negotiations will end without success -as so unprecedented- and without any alternatives.  The current “street” does not offer glimpses of new solutions right now.

The “quartet” and Blair (how was appointed one of the “three of the Azores” as mediator?), the former protagonist countries of Middle East, a European Union only concerned on the premium risk... walk to fail any other initiative.

Settlements remain......, it continues to be impossible that the United Nations, which gave Israel the condition of “State” in 1947, may do the same, based on a peaceful coexistence, with Palestine.

I had the opportunity to follow very closely the development of the Oslo Agreements with Yasser Arafat, Isaac Rabin and Simon Peres.  When Isaac Rabin offered solutions that successfully culminated the process, a bullet cut off his life.  Like another bullet had eliminated the Egyptian Rais Anwar El-Sadat some years before...

So now Netanyahu could not continue deepening the "maybe final shipwreck of the peace talks”, in the words of Bassets, a popular outcry, the voices of millions of world citizens should spread unstoppable through the cyberspace.

The power of the citizens.  It is not possible to remain as passive spectators.

Ukraine: urgent solutions

When everything about the coup is known and the Government “settled“ in Kiev, it appears that the best way to establish coexistence is a federal State and call elections.

The EU should review quickly, after many failures, its foreign policy. Now, once again, the solution is in the United Nations to which should be entrusted to ensure a reliable electoral process.

I think it is worth reproducing the article of the Blog I published on the 10th of last March:

There was –if neoliberals of the G7, G8, G20 recognize it or not- a democratically elected president. This president -as it often happens!- did not behave very democratically.

And a popular uprising began. Up to here all is right.

What happens is that suddenly appeared armed to the teeth insurgents, acting with extreme violence and a very suspicious confrontation strategy. By brute force regained power lost at the polls.

The European Union, that should have reacted immediately, finished as spectator (satisfied because there are too many interests, especially related to the numerous pipelines) and blessed the new government not taking into account the “procedures" used. Everything is fair, because the fuels they receive worth a lot...

The Russian minority in this part of Ukraine does not count as well as the non-Russian of Crimea (the Ottoman Crimea, Russian and then "given" to Ukraine by Khrushchev) Putin has warned not to play with this “Russian territory”... and now there is a real threat of military confrontation.

They must return to the polls. A well prepared election throughout Ukraine under the supervision of the United Nations should be presented- it is clear that the "plutocratic groups" are not useful to fix things but exclusively complicating them- whose result could be a federation or confederation which would ensure a democratic self-government to respond to the cultural and political life of Ukrainians as a whole diversity.

The unity in diversity would have been solved and would have given a splendid lesson to those who have always subordinated to markets the key dimensions from a historical, ethnic and cultural point of view...