Molasses...

I am still on ironing out and making DevRiot more stable (which is happening :-) but the latest developments around here are really hard to miss.

Well, the EU is launching a campaign to become more energy independent and efficient. It is extremely funny to hear this after Putin wrestled Yukos back from private hands several years ago.

It is not a matter of saying if it was illegal or not. That I do not know and I am not qualified to know. It should have been a red-flag of things to come period.

Few years later, the oil price spikes up. So, I wonder if France, England, Germany, etc, were on holidays or were reading the classifieds only.

This is the slowest reaction and processing of information that I have seen in a while. That USA is in the same boat? USA does not have the structural problems that EU has: demographic problems, higher taxes, employment and new business ventures creation, etc.

So, do not have the foundations to compete in this century and caught reading the sports section?

Spanish politics are a zarzuela. Now the debacle of the ETA negotiations and latests killings is because the opposition is obstructionist, according to the government. Let's see:

How come the opposition can be obstructionist if it has not been able to stop any of the government initiatives this term?

The government and its supporters in parliament have have passed every single initiative they wanted this term. The government put all its eggs on this anti-terrorist basket. The gamble failed.

They should stop the political marketing for a while, face the music, and pretend they are in control.