Qatar behaving badly…

There deeds are finally catching up in the tiny country of Qatar,

A small country in the persian gulf which likes to meddle in the world politics at a grand stage.

Supporting Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, playing active roles in Libyan and Syrian uprising.

They are home to Aljazeera and at the same time one of the largest US bases,

On March 5,  2014 Saudi Arabia, UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar.

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/government/uae-saudi-arabia-and-bahrain-recall-their-ambassadors-from-qatar-1.1299586

On March 14, 2014 the Saudi government officially demanded that Qatar close down aljazeera

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/riyadh-demands-qatar-shuts-down-al-jazeera-1.1304168

Saudi Arabia ‘has evidence of Qatari meddling’

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/qatar/saudi-arabia-has-evidence-of-qatari-meddling-1.1305303

And all this for a country which is planning to hold soccer world cup in summer 2022.

 

Muslims face more scrutiny for US citizenship

It was not immediately clear how many immigrants have been reviewed under the program, which began in 2008 and is formally known as the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program.

The ACLU learned about the program through records requests after detecting a pattern in cases of Muslim immigrants whose applications to become American citizens had languished.

A government program to screen immigrants for national security concerns has blacklisted some Muslims and put their U.S. citizenship applications on hold for years, civil liberties advocates said Wednesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California said in a report that the previously undisclosed program instructs federal immigration officers to find ways to deny applications that have been deemed a national security concern. For example, they flag discrepancies in a petition or claim they didn’t receive sufficient information from the immigrant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/21/muslims-blacklisted-us-citizenship_n_3791799.html

 

Can you live without PRISM?

Recently released National Security Agency documents indicate the U.S. government is “tapping directly into the central servers” of your favorite Internet services as part of a secret program called PRISM.

So much for those privacy policies, huh?

The Guardian and Washington Post revealed the stunning extent of the PRISM snooping operation: the NSA and FBI are monitoring Microsoft, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Skype, Apple, and others.

 

 

How to get by on the Internet without PRISM companies

 

Obama: A One-and-Done President?

President Obama promised to turn around the floundering economy that he inherited from his predecessor. He promised jobs. He promised transparency. Not only did he not deliver on those campaign promises, he has led the nation further into the abyss on all counts. Today we are less prosperous, deeper in debt, and enjoy fewer liberties than when Obama first stepped into the Oval Office.

 

His own party is losing faith in the messiah.You can see that loss of faith in the steady downward trajectory of Obamas approval ratings. While Democrats can take heart from the fact that no truly viable candidate has emerged from the GOP, its clear that “Hope and Change” will not be sufficient to rally the electoral troops for Obama again in 2012. Voters are hurting, and Obamas claims that the blame lies with George W. Bush no longer provide any solace.

 

Not only is the presidents own reelection in jeopardy, his sagging polls are dragging down other Democrat candidates as well. Republican Bob Turner handily took Anthony Weiners seat in New Yorks 9th Congressional District, a district that had been a Democrat stronghold since 1923. New Yorks 9th District has previously been represented by such Democrat stalwarts as Chuck Schumer and Geraldine Ferraro. During the special election for Weiners seat, Obama had only 31 percent approval in that district, although he won there with 55 percent of the vote in the 2008 presidential election.

via Obama: A One-and-Done President? – Casey Research.

 

Robosigning Credit Cards: The Next Major Bank Scandal?

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has quietly ceased filing lawsuits to collect consumer debts around the nation, dismissing in-house attorneys and virtually shutting down a collections machine that as recently as nine months ago was racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in monthly judgments.

via Robosigning Credit Cards: The Next Major Bank Scandal? | The Reformed Broker.

 

Tiny Qatar wielding powerful political punch

DOHA Reuters – From its startling winning bid to host the 2022 soccer World Cup and mediating roles in Middle East and African conflicts to its role leading Arab efforts to isolate Syria, tiny Qatar is aspiring to an ambitious role: global powerbroker.

via Tiny Qatar wielding powerful political punch.

 

FEMA Seeking Subcontractors to Provide “Temporary Camp Services”

For the better part of two decades FEMA detention camps were believed to be a figment of tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists. As more information over the years has been made available through alternative news researchers like Alex Jones in his full length documentary Police State 4 and former governor Jesse Venutra’s FEMA camp exposé, it is becoming increasingly clear that the government has been taking steps for quite some time to ensure a rapid and effective response in the event of a national disaster or U.S. military deployment on American soil.

As many of our readers know, the U.S. Senate recently passed the National Defense Authorization Act, which, it has been argued, authorizes the establishment of domestic war zones and the subsequent detention of those who are suspected of engaging in terrorist-related activity – including, arguably, U.S. citizens. What you may not know, however, is that just days after the passage of the act reports are surfacing that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, is requisitioning private contractors to provide services for government, defense & infrastructure pertaining specifically to FEMA activities with respect to emergency services.

via FEMA Seeking Subcontractors to Provide “Temporary Camp Services”.

 

I was prime minister for far too long, says Mahathir

“To People who retire, please dont just go to sleep and stay at home. Do something because if you are interested in doing things, you will live longer,” Dr Mahathir said to laughter and applause from the crowd.

Responding to a question from a man named Pong, who asked about his recipe for success in turning around Malaysias economy during the 1997-1998 financial crisis, Dr Mahathir said: “If you keep your money under your pillow, the economy will never grow.

“But if you spend the money and somebody makes a profit, the government is always very happy because 28% of the profit goes back to the government.”

via I was prime minister for far too long, says Mahathir.

 

Mercedes Targeted as Luxury Cars Burned in Germany

Berlin resident Renate Langanke woke up shortly after midnight to a loud explosion. When the pensioner peeked out her window, she saw flames billowing from two Mercedes-Benz brand cars parked across the street.

“Fire and smoke were everywhere, you could smell burned rubber, it was awful,” said Langanke, who lives in a sleepy area with tree-lined alleys in white-collar western Berlin. “I’ve always felt safe here, now I’m scared.”

Arsonists have set fire to 26 cars in the German capital in the last two days, mainly from Daimler AG (DAI)’s Mercedes, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) and Volkswagen AG (VOW)’s Audi, police said today. That brings the total number torched this year in Berlin to at least 138, more than double the figure for all of 2010.

via Mercedes Targeted as Luxury Cars Burned in German Globalization Protests – Bloomberg.

 

Harrisburg Mayor is starving to end the financial crisis

One Mayor has her own method for taking on the financial crisis: Stop eating.

Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson said in a statement on Friday she will join religious leaders in three days of fasting and prayer to encourage ‘a cooperative spirit among government leaders, the business community and citizens.’

The refrain from food will begin on midnight Tuesday and run through 4 pm on Friday.

via Harrisburg Mayor is starving to end the financial crisis | Mail Online.