The most important signal sent by this resolution however is when it “calls on the Commission to present measures providing for the immediate suspension of” the Safe Harbor agreement. This is precisely what La Quadrature du Net and other civil society organisations have been demanding since the beginning of Edward Snowden's revelations. The suspension of this agreement, if enacted by the European Commission, would represent a concrete and effective measure, a necessary step to put a stop to the mass surveillance of European citizens. It would also push renegotiation of transatlantic relations on this matter.

https://www.laquadrature.net/en/

The recent unrest in Ukraine represents one more episode in an ongoing campaign of “Color Revolutions” by the NATO bloc to unseat recalcitrant leaders (those who do not conform to NATO bloc dictates) under the cloak of “democracy promotion.” The unrest in Ukraine conforms to a very familiar script: pro-democracy protestors are being repressed by an autocratic state, in this case, refusing to accede to their demands for EU integration against Western interests. As observed by the Voltaire Network:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/

Georgia will receive additional financial aid form the European Union. Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule announced in Tbilisi that the EU will provide Georgia with 22.5 million EUR to support reforms in monitoring public finances and strengthening democracy. The document was signed by Fule and Georgian State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Alex Petriashvili on March 4th.

http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/3067_march_6_2014/3067_ani.html

With some much going on in the West and Eastern Europe, the Middle-East has again been subjected to the rear pages of newspapers, and to idiot orientalist who have nothing good to say, where Western peoples largely are again put into the darkness like mushrooms kept in the dark and fed manure, only in this case manure laced with sleeping pills. Why? Well as in most countries of the West especially those of the Americas, the Middle-East has been immortalized now and forever as led by barbarous, uncivilized peoples, not unlike the American Indians of the Americas, needing radical changes in behavior and ideology, as well as in our case religious fervor.

http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=24557#.UyGgePl5P-s

The last two decades have witnessed the silent rise of a powerful international investment regime that has ensnared hundreds of countries and put corporate profit before human rights and the environment. International investment treaties are agreements made between states that determine the rights of investors in each other’s territories. They are used by powerful companies to sue governments if policy changes – even ones to protect public health or the environment – are deemed to affect their profits. ...

http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/publications/profiting-from-injustice.pdf

Que Dieu soit remercié pour leur présence. Ce sont les plus grands idiots de l’histoire, mais sans eux, nous n’aurions pas autant de guerres passionnantes… autant de sturm und drang… autant d’articles distrayants dans les journaux. Qu’auraient fait les Cosaques sans la Grande armée ? Quelle utilité avait la bombe atomique sans Hiroshima ? Et que ferait la chair sans les canons ?

http://la-chronique-agora.com/petrole-etats-unis-russie/#anc

Ce n’est pas le premier échec d’Ali Zeidan, mais il touche à la «propriété de tous les Libyens» : le pétrole, qui représente au moins 90% des revenus de l’Etat. C’est le franchissement de cette ligne rouge qui a convaincu les élus de se débarrasser du chef de l’exécutif. 

http://www.liberation.fr/monde/2014/03/12/le-premier-ministre-libyen-renverse-par-un-petrolier_986420

The “governability” bill’s provisions include a higher minimum 3.25 per cent threshold for parties seeking representation, up from the current 2 per cent. Sixty-seven members of the 120-seat Knesset voted in favour, but opposition parties boycotted the vote... Supporters of the bill... argued that it would improve governance in Israel by forcing smaller factions – including parties representing Arabs – to unite. ...

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b85e81b8-a92a-11e3-9b71-00144feab7de.html#axzz2vg7zmNKR

Polish leader Donald Tusk has said Germany should reduce its gas dependence on Russia for the sake of EU foreign policy. Speaking to press on Monday (10 March) at a military base in Siemirowice, on Poland’s Baltic Sea coast, he said: “In future, we will not be able to successfully resist against aggressive or expansionist steps by Russia if so many European countries will be dependent on [Russian] gas and will go even further down the road of dependence.”

http://euobserver.com/foreign/123410

Drei Jahre ist es her, dass ein Tsunami den Norden Japans verwüstet hat. Er folgte einem der stärksten Erdbeben, das der Inselstaat je zu bewältigen hatte. Und Japan ist auf Erdbeben gut vorbereitet. Für einen Tsunami war das Land deutlich schlechter gewappnet. Rund 20 000 Menschen verloren ihr Leben. Auf eine Kernschmelze in drei Reaktoren des Atomkraftwerks Fukushima Daiichi war Japan schon gar nicht vorbereitet. Zehntausende Menschen mussten ihre Häuser verlassen, viele leben bis heute in einem Provisorium. 

http://www.tagesspiegel.de/