Let me ask one question, just one.

If a company leaves a town where most of the people were employed by them, how in fact will that town revitalize their economy if there is not redistribution of government monies from State and Federal governments to assist them?

Answer:

I suppose there are all sorts of clever thoughts, but, in reality that is exactly what was occurring when the federal government bailed out the car industry, AIG and Wall Street banks in 2008 and 2009. There is not one administration, Republican or Democrat, that has not bailed out a major industry or company during their administration through redistribution of government money.

The redistribution of government funds stopped the implosion of the USA economy to a certain extent. It stabilized the slide.

The Recovery and Reinvestment Act stabilized the implosion of state treasuries for the most part. It provided breathing room for states across the board to continue to receive tax dollars through their own taxation while providing opportunities for employment. There was one state, I don't recall which one, that had a program for its bridges, called "The Worst Goes First." That was pretty bad. The bridges in the state were in profound disrepair for lack of investment for some many years and decades.

Those bridges connected people through personal transportation and pubic buses to economic opportunity. Opportunity for work or tourism. While the bridges were employing people for repairs, they also opened up areas of the country which were going to be closed if those bridges were destroyed. Economy. Bridges are economy. They provide the venue for economy.

While most people think of Wall Street as paper such as stocks and money, their ability to carry out the economy that facilitates that paper is paid for by the redistribution of taxes they pay and the wealthy pay and Americans pay to their treasuries at all levels of government.

The Peace Bridge in New York, the Ambassador Bridge in Michigan and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge all demonstrate vital infrastructure paid for by redistribution of government monies to enhance, create and support economies between countries across borders and across long spans of water.

There are cities and towns across this country with minimal economies because of failure of their once flourishing economy. It is reaching out to bring new hope to these areas that will help revitalize local economies. Infrastructure and redistribution of government monies, including internet access, will improve and more probably vastly improve their local economies compared to at least the decade past.

So. Redistribution of government monies? You betcha. 

I have no problem with this speech by President Obama in his early days.

Redistribution of government monies works. A favorite GOP redistribution of monies are Farm Subsidies. So, to way redistribution is a BAD thing is completely taking it out of context.

This is going to sound like a broken record from this website, but, it is true. Women are prime examples of the success of redistribution of government monies. Women have been able to start small businesses, employ people, MAKE MONEY, become millionaires and PAY TAXES all because their beginnings were to do redistribution of government monies.

If destroying redistribution of government monies is a goal for the Romney campaign then he is more and more defining himself and any administration he would enact as a Plutocrat catering to the wealthy. 

Why tax the wealthy if government isn't going to redistribution monies? Of course, government monies are redistributed. It pays the National Debt, pays the military and enhances business opportunity through redistribution of monies. The entire idea this is a communist plot by anyone is completely silly.

The government DOES distribute monies. That is what it does, ask the GOP under Bush, they'll tell you all about it. "Six Flags Over Lincoln" didn't happen because government did not redistribute monies. Oh, wait. Hm. "Six Flags Over Lincoln." That is Wall Street. I'll be darn.


The idea Romney has discovered a 'secret agenda' by President Obama from 14 years ago is about as creative as Karl Rove lying to the grand jury in regard to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. Karl returned to correct his TESTIMONY at least six times.

The United States of America redistributes money, the Recovery and Redistribution Act was redistribution of money. Those monies prevented an economic disaster in the USA. It reignited programs to repair neglected infrastructure and seek opportunity for energy sources. Every state in the union received monies from the Recovery Act. Their citizens benefited form the tax credits and their unemployed received extensions. 

President Obama has been correct about the ability of government to return function to impoverished areas. He was correct 14 years ago and he is correct today. His work needs to go forward.

The USA House of Representatives under the bill presented by Congressman Shuster wants to declare war with Russia.

...Whereas Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (click title to entry - thank you) stated in Tbilisi on July 5, 2010, that, ‘‘We continue to call for Russia to abide by the August 2008 ceasefire commitment. . . including ending the occupation and withdrawing Russian troops from South Ossetia and Abkhazia to their pre-conflict positions’’;...

The House is voting on measures to increase tensions throughout the world. I remind there were over 1000 innocent civilians killed by the Georgian military while they were helpless to stop it. The killing of civilians by the Georgian military is a human rights violation and urge Russia to take the matter to the United Nations general assembly and the World Courts at The Hague.

While the words in this bill state peaceful resolve is the only way, it completely ignores the acts of the government of Georgia against its own people and is the first step in a really stupid issue to force Russia to move from its protective stance in Georgia. It also does not recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as developing independent nations no different than Southern Sudan. 

There are 23 bills in the House today that 'sets tone' to international relations based in lies and opposition to other countries serving the people of such regions. The tones are hostile, carry no valid facts of any brevity and reach back a decade or more to make their case. The bills are constructed to aggravate relations internationally and show NO resolution for peace in a way that is realistic.

In this bill in particular I demand all the people dead in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the way in which they died to be included in this bill. I also demand valid anthropological research into the wishes of the citizens of this region as a part of this bill clearly illustrating their concerns for their lives and their wishes to be autonomous nations.

Open letter to David Corn at Mother Jones.

I love you dearly, David. Like a brother. But, kindly remember from here on out that you don't hand the Palestinians the game ball, okay?

Mr. Romney cannot say the pundits for Obama are showing snippets of the dinner party.

WATCH: Full Secret Video of Private Romney Fundraiser (click title to entry - thank you)

Mitt Romney wanted the full tape. Here it is.

—David Corn

David Corn is correct. Romney wanted the public to hear the entire exchange
to justify His words. I am not so sure any of his words justify his point of view 
to donors. His comments on foreign relations will set the Mid-east into violence 
that may never stop. His words about Palestinians are outrageous and actually
aligns with his statements in his visit to Israel where he was backed by 
Sheldon Adelson (click here).

There is no way Romney can be trusted with foreign relations and if he were
to be president, his State Department would be filled with Neocons. So, a vote
for Romney is a vote for war. A presidential candidate cannot make such 
inflammatory statements and expect to be elected. He is wrong in every way.

I wish David Corn did not put the entire dinner party out there. It is disastrous and brings into view the words of Nicholas Kristof's editorial, "The Foreign Relations Fumbler (click here)." Romney, without question, has and is causing
foreign relation problems for the USA. He is not competent when it comes to 
this vital component as President.

Mitt Romney is specialized. He specializes in making 'mad money' through the 
Wall Street paradigm. He is incapable of sincere policy at the federal level of 
our government.

Reverend Sharpton stated a large percentage of the 47% Mr. Romney referred 
to at the dinner party is actually within his own constituency. It is true. The 
southeast states below the 35th Latitude in the USA are impoverished. I find
Reverend Sharpton's willingness to bring this to the attention of the country more than helpful to the Romney campaign. See, Romney is 'victimizing' his own election. No one can state Reverend Sharpton is not fair in his opinions of the political campaigns in the USA.

Willard Mitt Romney believes buying an election will be doing the nation a 
great favor. There is no doubt he wants to be POTUS. The problem is he is 
not qualified. His campaign is shooting from the hip and not even bothering
to do sincere research regarding the needs of the country reflected in his
policies and statements to constituents, even those he is seeking the trust 
of monies. 

I think his campaign is very sad. He is used to a great deal of power as a CEO and Director of Olympic Games. But, he is not at all used to prudent measures
in leveraging that power when it comes to the lives of Americans, be it domestic or abroad.

Romney is not capable. The USA has no reason for war anywhere in the world. It has partners internationally that can provide intelligence if the leaders of 
our country would only follow it and make it a priority.

We have had CEOs in the Executive Branch before. They TYPICALLY do well in delegating authority but never taking responsibility for the delegation they do. So, when the FBI or CIA comes to the President with a memo entitled, "Bin Laden Known to Strike Within the USA," we need someone who puts themselves in charge of the next measure to end that possibility, NOT, someone who delegates it back out for MORE STUDY.

If Romney is standing by his statements on the Mother Jones' tape then he is simply money hungry and convinced money will win him the presidency.

The increase in food stamp / SNAP use started under Bush.

There have been millions of Americans abandoned by the USA government in its policies under Bush that lost everything. They have emotionally recovered from the devastation and are retraining. They are increasing their degrees and expertise. They are seeking jobs and to pull the rug out from under them will only undermine the growth of the USA economy.

Romney is a desperate man uncaring to be honest with his donors or the people he seeks for votes!

It is incomprehensible for any presidential candidate to cast off 47% of the electorate as hopeless in achieving their understanding of policies that will improve personal outcomes.

Besides, in the tape it was laughable, Romney states, 47%, 48%, 49%, 4-...

The "4-" is the real gaff in the tape. Unfortunately even the arithmetic of the Right Wing didn't have a higher number to follow 49% beginning with a four. Romney has two degrees from Harvard? They must have started with a BA in something because ANY BS can count.

The idea Israel and Iran should have any nuclear capacity is a joke.

They are both counting on having the wind blow in the right direction.

Idiots.

The Middle East should be VOID of any nuclear capacity. It should be a "No Go Zone" for nuclear capacity, peaceful or otherwise.

I am quite sure Israel FEELS secure with the idea of nuclear weapons, but, to actually employ them in the immediate vicinity would guarantee the nuclear illness of vast amounts of their own people through radiation fallout alone. Israel's ONLY realistic capacity to protect itself is through conventional weapons. The Israelis are very good at developing and manufacturing conventional weapons.

To actually use nuclear capacity anywhere along the Mediterranean Sea would destroy and taint economies and shipping lanes for hundreds of years. It is not possible to have nuclear capacity in this area. It is a hideous idea that endangers people by the simple fact a nuclear rod exists anywhere.

The countries in the region have to take a strong stand against nuclear capacity and demand every nation obey Non-Proliferation. It is the ONLY way to protect the people of these nations.

Nuclear Iran?

After the tsunami of the Japanese nuclear plants, every country in the world has to question the wise use of nuclear power for peaceful purposes.

Nuclear power in a third world country is the worst idea for peaceful use of such energy. They do not have the expertise to handle disasters, they do not value their own people in ways that would require prudent thinking in the way these reactors are placed in relation to populous.

There are many, many considerations when nuclear power is employed rather than alternatives energies. Even Russia, when it comes to Chernobyl, has to admit the civilian population was effected. Three Mile Island in the USA was a huge event requiring 'rethink' of all the measures to contain disasters.

The paradigm for using nuclear power for peaceful purposes has to be re-standardized. The IAEA has to place higher priorities on human life should a disaster occur on every country on the globe.

The Japanese tsunami, no different than Chernobyl, will be polluting the oceans for decades if not centuries. It is not acceptable. At all! The oceans provide valuable service to people from every country, especially Third World Countries. It is not acceptable in any way to pollute the oceans with such toxic materials as occur with nuclear reactor accidents. It is not acceptable to devalue human life and their food sources for the sake of nuclear energy.

Iran is not one of the five nations accepted in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, so the idea they would seek nuclear weapons as a means to provide some kind of security to their nation is wrong. It is just wrong. 

It is wrong in the worst way because it opens the Iranian people to danger in simply being a country with nuclear weapon capacity. Iran does not even have to use the weapons to be a target. When inflammatory speech comes from a nuclear power prepared to kill other people with nuclear weapons that is incentive enough to seek prevention in whatever way necessary. 

Does China? Russia? France? The United Kingdom use inflammatory speech in regard their nuclear stockpiles? Absolutely not. Why? Because they do not even admire their nuclear stockpiles anymore as a means to protect their people. It is not a means to protect a nation, it is a means to destroy vast numbers of people. 

The only time the USA touted their nuclear capacity as a weapon of choice was when idiots like Bush / Cheney were too scared for engaging in illegal wars that they used the nuclear capacity of the USA as a back drop. Never before or since has the USA used the nuclear stockpiles as a back drop to aggression around the globe.

Long before any nation's leader touts their nuclear stockpiles as a weapon of choice while engaging inflammatory speech there needs to be a clear understanding as to their ability to control such outcomes. Inflammatory speech from a nation intent on using nuclear capacity and in the case of Pakistan, India, North Korea and potentially Iran they are doing ILLEGALLY. There is a global understanding these countries, including Israel, contain nuclear capacity illegally.

I remind there were countries with nuclear weapon capacity that have removed their stockpiles. 

What nations? Just Libya?

Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, South Africa

Ohhh, we forgot about them. We forgot how prudent decisions to stand down from nuclear capacity took place with leaders of many countries. They didn't want to be a target and / or their political stability was in question.

Non-proliferation is the only way to peace and stability in every country in the world. It is the only way we should value nuclear ability either peaceful or weapons. It is the only way we should seek to love our children's security today and in future. 

Nuclear ability of a nation is not an asset, it is a danger.

"Green on Blue MURDERS," is that what they are called?

It is a sovereignty issue for Afghanistan.

There is only one way to handle it. Treat the USA military training as if a prison yard. Every training session has to take place within a walled facility with armed USA military on the walls facing the yard and facing the street. Just that simple.

There is to be no friendship gatherings between the two forces and no Afghan military will be allowed near the USA military until the point when Karzai, Commander and Chief, can GUARANTEE there will be no attacks on USA military on a training mission. 

When the USA military goes into the streets and on missions with trainees, there are always to be more USA soldiers than Afghan soldiers. All training missions and 'street review' are under the tightest security and not revealed until the Afghan military is assembled and explained their orders.

There will be no more Green on Blue murders. There will be no more breach of sovereignty of the USA military or the nation of Afghanistan. Karzai needs to get his act together and pandering to the violent is not the way to do it.

Violence in Afghanistan is over. And for those that refuse to believe it, then it is shoot / kill on sight. If this faux loyalty to the Taliban and al Qaeda and Haquani and extremism continues, then the people traitors to their own government and the encampment will be the enemy as much as the individual.

Believe me, I would not be admired in the USA military by today's standards.

One of the worst comments I heard about the global unrest is, "They hate us because they hate us."

That simply gives permission for war. That is part of the problem with new democracies. People kill each other because of the angers of the past.

People do hate the United States. Diplomacy is not about happy talk. Diplomacy is about setting limits on hate and averting war. It is always about changing the course of hate and building relationships instead. Diplomacy is on going and until there are actions by nations that cannot be extinguished by peaceful measure; never giving up on peace works.

Today, in China there are demonstrations focused on the Japanese. Does that mean Japan simply gives up and states, "They hate us because they hate us?" Seriously, now.

By Associated Press

Published: September 17

Updated: Tuesday, September 18, 5:21 AM

BEIJING — Old wounds amplified outrage over a burning territorial dispute Tuesday as thousands of Chinese protested Tokyo’s purchase of islands claimed by Beijing and marked the 81st anniversary of a Japanese invasion that China has never forgotten.

China marks every Sept. 18 by blowing sirens to remember a 1931 incident that Japan used as a pretext to invade Manchuria, setting off a brutal occupation of China that ended only at the close of World War II. Demonstrations are not routine, but this year, as Chinese fume over last week’s Japanese purchase of long-contested islands in the East China Sea, they spread across the country....

If people are protesting the USA while stating it was an offensive video about Mohammad that has them enraged, then it is a video that has them enraged. Taking that reason away from the protests and violence and assigning it to hatred alone, removes reasons to move forward with peace and continued measures to end the violence. Removing measures to peace is a good idea?

I think the unrest over the video has multiple reasons, but, for the USA to assign 'nothing' as a reason for them is a mistake. Including 'nothing' as a possibility is just being ready for a different reality and protecting from that, but, to assign an understanding rather than take the ? excuses ? seriously to protests and violence is not a venue for moving forward, it is a venue of war. I reject it. 

We are not going to war over a video and we are certainly not going to war in a country without contained security to simply repeat the same mistakes of Iraq and kill more. One has to ask how prudent it was to have a diplomatic outpost in Libya rather than a protected consulate in Tripoli. 

I admire Ambassador Stevens. He is irreplaceable, but, his bravery was not prudent. We have seen this in Libya before. People too confident of their standing to act prudently. Journalists were lost in Libya because they treated their expertise as they did when they were imbeds with USA troops. They over reached and they were too willing to be ambitious to find the truth in a very dangerous place and time.

Videographer among Libyan civilians (click here) who roamed through the consulate after rampage over anti-Islam film last week said he heard someone call out he had tripped over a dead body, but ‘he was alive.’

If he was alive why wasn't he saved and brought to clean air to breath? The questions continue to mount without sound answers to date regarding what occurred in Benghazi.


Ambassador Stevens was one of a kind, but, in all honesty his expertise did not prepare him for a power vacuum in an ending war. I am sure he weighed the idea of a larger military contingent when he traveled, but, as many before him (ie: McChrystal and USA military officers and commanders in Afghanistan since McChrystal) the appearance of strength over a welcoming posture to a populous is sometimes worse.

By Greg Jaffe, Published: May 14

...The planned promotion (click here) to head the U.S. European Command will allow Allen to remain deeply involved in Afghanistan policy and work with NATO allies who have maintained a presence in the country despite the war’s growing unpopularity in Europe.

Defense officials cautioned that the plan could change if conditions in Afghanistan shift.

“No final decisions have been made regarding a follow-on assignment for Gen. Allen or the future of European Command,” said Capt. John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman.

If the White House nominates Allen, the general will have to be confirmed by the Senate....

The other day, President Hamad Karzai criticized the USA mission in Afghanistan for involving civilians in an attack against those killing our troops. We know for a fact al Qaeda and the Taliban strategically use Pakistani military units on the border and civilians as human shields. That is not the problem of the USA, that is the problem of the Afghan people. They allow the Taliban to continue to victimize them. Do we allow our soldiers to be killed because Afghan people cannot reject the infiltration of the Taliban? Absolutely not. I am unapologetic for the deaths of Pakistani military or the Afghan civilians knowing they are willing to be victims to those seeking to kill the USA military intent on establishing stability in the region.

Do they actually hate us because they hate us? No. They hate not just us but those they victimize as well. The Taliban and al Qaeda have no reverence for life of soldiers or civilians, yet we are suppose to be careful according to Karzai. I don't think so. The USA military knows exactly what they are doing. These are not errors, they are removing dangerous criminals from the country and saving USA lives in the balance.

Do they hate us because they hate us?

No. 

However, they might hate us because we are undefeatable.

Marriage is a sacred trust. If Great Britain wants an heir to the throne I strongly suggest the Royal Couple be left alone.

Basically, Mr. O'Kane is an arrogant jerk.

The Duchess of Cambridge is married to a Prince to the throne of England. There is a profound understanding that married women and men share intimacy in any way they like. It is one of the joys of marriage.

People pay real money to go to resorts around the world to do EXACTLY what William and Kate did in their own private estate. They never should be ashamed of who they are or how wonderful their marriage is for the world to witness. They are dynamic, they are changing the face of the royals to be more human and more accessible.

I find the moral content to marriage, any marriage to be above exploitation. A couple's intimacy is a comfort in a marriage. It is shelter from the world. It is a real place in someone else's heart and is a strength without compromise to see each through the worst of times and joy through the best of times. 

Have they celebrated their first anniversary yet? Okay, April 29, 2011. Newlyweds still. 

I find the press stupid in their attempts to win monies from readers. There needs to be an understanding that married couples are above exploitation. Not just when they are royal, but, always. I've had enough of the trash, especially when it hacks away at some of the most decent acts of intimacy of a married couple.

Does the assault on decency never stop? Hacked emails and not this trash rag.

Monday September 17 2012

The editor of the Irish Daily Star (click title to entry - thank you) has been suspended from his role at the newspaper over the publication of topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge.

Publishers revealed the decision to stand down Michael O'Kane while an internal investigation is carried out into the editorial decision to re-run the images.

The newspaper, co-owned by media baron Richard Desmond's Northern and Shell group and the Irish-based Independent News and Media, has been under threat of closure since publishing the pictures.

Mr O'Kane's suspension was announced n a statement by the company behind the Dublin operation, Independent Star, just hours after Ireland's Justice Minister Alan Shatter said he was reviving abandoned privacy laws on the back of the scandal.

The Irish Daily Star ran with the pictures in Saturday's edition. The decision was robustly defended by Mr O'Kane in a radio interview where he claimed Kate was a celebrity like singer Rihanna, that the photos were taken from a public road and that it also highlighted a royal security issue....

All the people in the USA 'with him' are not poor or struggling, but, trying to achieve. (click title for link to video - thank you)

As a matter of fact, WOMEN, have depended on government for many aspects of their lives. Women have sought government intervention for as long as I can remember. I have as well. It wasn't about dependency. It was about independence and obtaining it.

Turning to government agencies to leverage equity and opportunity is common place with women and their achievements in their lives. Seeking higher education when one is unable to achieve that goal alone is reliant on government providing a safety net. A safety net not just for women, but, for their children. 

Seeking the intervention of government for women is about security, the future and equitable opportunity. It is not dependence women seek for themselves or their children, but, independence through enforcement of equal opportunities in work and education.

Mr. Romney is getting to be a really terrible person regardless of his moralizing in regard to religion. Regardless of playing the hero. Regardless of his generosity to his church. He sincerely distains Americans. He especially distains vulnerable Americans. 

He can't stand up for himself before his donors to prove he is deserving of monies for his positions on policy? He has to defame half the people of the USA to do it, huh? Well, I never consented to have my life as part of the Romney dialogue with donors.

Link to Politico as well (click here).

He is terrible. He will take people's money dishonestly without actually portraying facts and his merit for even seeking the nomination for the GOP. Romney lies, he has always lied and he always will lie. He is not trustworthy.

Dozens Arrested at Occupy Protest in NY

More Photos (click here)

The 99% still exists and if we don't #Occupy Romney he will single handedly turn one generation of Americans into two generations of unemployed Americans.

Romney and his band of thieves want to promise all these jobs in drilling for gas and destroying the country's land. He doesn't believe in moral jobs and a sustainable environment.

Romney expects Americans to grovel for every crumb of food. Take what you get or you get NOTHING! Make profits for the 1 percent, damn you!

I remember when Bush was elected and the economy went sour in more ways than one. There were Right Wing commentators and legislators absolutely astonished at the 'will' of Americans to stand against them, as they put it "In their own self interest."

What they meant was Americans stood for a moral America, not a groveling America willing to bend to the first crumb tossed at them!

NO MORE POSTPONEMENT of our moral country, where generations of Americans and their need for jobs are NOT set aside for Wall Street profits!

Republicans believe beggars can't be choosers. Well, they can and they will! They will be beggars no more and will have their dignity besides!

I saw the photos. Like. Ah. So, what. I am pleased they have pressed charges. There should be.

They seem happy in their marriage. Something wrong with that?

...With Harry we had a young single man on the lash with his pals behaving in a very unprincely manner with people he hardly knew, shortly after frolicking in the very public hotel pool and in the process raising very serious issues about his security.

Kate, on the other hand, is a newly-married young woman enjoying a relaxing and obviously loving moment with her husband on holiday in a private chateau miles from any other member of the public.

Harry clearly compromised himself while Kate did not, yet on both occasions the outrage was that the photographers involved, either an opportunistic groupie of a determined paparazzo, had committed a gross breach of privacy no matter what the circumstances and that others had given them wider circulation....

I am taking the evening off.

Until tomorrow.

Tariq Ramadan is a well known authority on the faiths of Islam.(click title to entry for his appearance on Book TV)

He also has a website (click here).

In his discussion on Book TV he stated there are tens of millions of dollars invested in the elections in Egypt to place the most conservative parties in influence. There are members from religious orders that stated they would never be part of the government. And these are among the most backed parties in the country. I thought his insight was more than interesting.

Someone needs to move against this man to secure his assets for court actions that will result here.

The protests have moved outside of the Mideast and are as far away as Australia. 

In the USA the political Right Wing is really spastic about this. They carry on like Chicken Little screaming the sky is falling. They can be rather interesting. They really are scared of the protests. 

Saturday
September 15, 2012

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California (click title to entry - thank you) filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed Saturday by federal probation officers at a Los Angeles sheriff's station, authorities said.

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, 55, was interviewed for about half an hour at the station shortly after 12 a.m. in his hometown of Cerritos, Calif., said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department.

After that, deputies dropped Nakoula off at an undisclosed location....

...The Riverside County man who was a script advisor to the film and who has a long history of anti-Islamic activism told the Press-Enterprise newspaper that he has received multiple death threats...

There is no excuse for violence. The upscale neighborhood where the USA consulate was located was not surprised at the attack. The extremists became defiant due to a security vacuum in the country. These security vacuums existed all over Iraq so having an occupying military is not the answer. 

14 September 2012 Last updated at 17:45 ET

...To many, the ferocity of the incident came as little surprise. (click here)

They blamed rising extremism, lawlessness and uncontrollable militias for the worsening security situation in Libya, almost one year after the downfall of Col Muammar Gaddafi.

On Tuesday, eight Libyans and four Americans were killed in the attack, including the US ambassador to Libya, J Christopher Stevens.

The attack was apparently provoked by a film that mocked the Prophet Muhammad and was allegedly produced in the US and excerpted on YouTube with dubbing in Arabic....

Any assignment in Libya was going to be a dangerous assignment and all one has to do is look at the four men lost in this attack to know who was there and why. The death of Ambassador Stevens died of smoke inhalation from the fire.

BENGHAZI, Libya — Heavily armed militants (click here) used a protest of an anti-Islam film as a cover and may have had help from inside Libyan security in their deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate, a senior Libyan official said Thursday.

As Libya announced the first four arrests, the clearest picture yet emerged of a two-pronged assault with militants screaming “God is great!” as they scaled the consulate’s outer walls and descended on the compound’s main building....

...The Benghazi attack also underlined the precarious conditions in Libya nearly a year after Gadhafi’s fall, with a weak central government, militias operating as local governments, a destabilizing proliferation of weapons, and militant groups — some inspired by al-Qaida — that are active under the government’s radar....

...The crowd built at the consulate — a one-story villa surrounded by a large garden in an upscale Benghazi neighborhood — in several stages, El-Sharef said. First, a small group of gunmen arrived, then civilians angry over the film. Later, heavily armed men with armored vehicles, some with rocket-propelled grenades, joined and the numbers swelled to more than 200....

Those were the same dynamics in Iraq. No strong central authority and local militias providing law and order. The proliferation of weapons is a curiosity. In Iraq the USA military had their own weapon supply and I am quite confident there were munitions secured from the military itself. But, this? I suppose those that fought the war received weapons from anywhere they could find them. Those sources are probably still providing weapons for their own reasons, including religious preference. 

My sympathies to all those affected. 

Apology to the Mideast protesters. My loyalty is with you.

But, in the USA there is no public hangings of a person that makes a stupid film. There is reasons for that. If I may?

The USA has rules that divide the passions of religion and government. That is a good thing for the USA because we have vastly more religions within our borders than do many of the Mideast countries.

Now, I don't mind burning the film, but, one has to ask will it be completely destroyed if we did that. The Digital Age of which we live and have brought progress to democracies, dare I say, has a way of getting away from authority to control it. So, while there can be and perhaps should be a pubic burning of this completely deranged video there would manifest another copy and we would have accomplished little to no effect to protect Mohammad's sacred truth with his people.

The USA advocates non-violence within our diversity. We enforce the non-violence. Not to say there is no crime that occurs which violates that non-violent directive, but, the laws of the USA AND the civil courts do protect people from hate. At least they do the best they can to control hate. We have laws that punish people for violent hate crimes.

Now, the civil courts, in many ways, are far more punitive than one might expect. The civil courts actually take up these issues with a great deal of brevity. If representatives from the Islamic community filed a lawsuit against this filmmaker, the civil courts in the USA would give the complaint a great deal of brevity. The complaint would have to go to the correct jurisdiction and I am confident my Mideast friends would understand that. Communities have leaders in the Mideast and those leaders would be able to convene important meetings. It is the same here, except, it is more formalized and such. Complete strangers can call upon our judges to hear their pleas. The judges take everyone very seriously. It is a promise they make in the form of AN OATH to their power. An oath in the USA is similar to a prayer to seek purification of the laws under which all in the USA live.

Now, the difference between the civil courts and criminal courts is sincerely remarkable and can cause sincere harm to power in the USA. In other words, the people/person creating this atrocity film will suffer damage to their reputation and could suffer financial devastation. These decisions can be made with a jury of persons similar to those making the complaint so the chances of that being important in that court room is very good. Juries and Judges in the USA take their responsibilities to the people very seriously. If a finding goes against the person charged with the complaint it could ruin their future ability to live a good and prosperous life. They will then have a bad reputation and have financial liability to those harmed by their actions. I dare say, that if the families of those dead in Libya come to a finding of extreme harm due this wayward filmmaker they can sue him for the deaths of their family.

Now, with foreign interests there needs to be an American component to access the civil courts in the USA and there are very devote Islamic people in the USA. I am quite sure while they seem more silent due to lack  of violence they are as equally pained by the implications of this film.

So.

With all that, if the Islamic communities in the USA join with their brothers and sisters in the Mideast to stand up against defamation of Mohammad they can be effective through courts in this country. After all, the children exposed to this atrocity have their religious savior defamed as well. That is not good. There is always the component hate here. Did this film actually intend to take flight and have people killed through violence in the USA? Was this film made to promulgate hate and seek bodily harm of others. The USA has a history of bigotry which killed other people. There is a lot to say about the potential for having harmed others in the Islamic community in the USA if a video was allowed to be accepted within our communities.

The Islamic communities want peace as much as any other community in the USA and globally, this film obviously has hurt that process. 

So, while the USA is less punitive toward this filmmaker and not seeking the death sentence for this atrocity, there are ways of making sure these people/person never conduct themselves in the same way. I would think to begin such a process would require a request for a temporary restraining order for the emotional harm he has already caused and a permanent restraining order to attempt to end his hate filled video production. Perhaps the work is permanent injunction to end such hate films.

I wish we had the power to stop it, but, in the USA that is not possible through death and these things happen. We don't like it or approve of it, but, our laws work when employed. Our communities are stronger for the laws here and we stand up for each other. The righteous are in larger measure of numbers of people than those that hate.

Kurdistan takes shape.

Why is it I saw this coming over 9 years ago?

While the Mideast is upset over a film defaming the prophet Mohammad, Iraq continues to split into autonomous regions based in ethnic divides. In some ways I have to wonder if all the sectarian differences within Iraq is set aside to be angry with the USA. Just a thought. There are demonstrations in Basra and Baghdad. Those are different regions of sectarian autonomy, but, they can hold the view of a wayward film and stand in protest for the same reason. 

In the autonomous Kurdistan region, however, there have been deadly clashes with Turks causing the deaths of 75 Kurds. Of course, Kurdistan extends into Turkey. This was a border clash.

By Suadad al-Salhy

BAGHDAD | Thu Sep 13, 2012 8:47pm IST

(Reuters) - Iraq's central government and the country's autonomous Kurdistan agreed to end an oil payment dispute after Kurdistan pledged to continue exports and Baghdad said it would pay foreign companies working there, a senior Iraqi official said on Thursday.

The decision resolves part of a broader feud between Baghdad and Kurdistan about control over oil and territory that has involved major companies including Exxon Mobil , Chevron and Total .

Deputy Prime Minister Rosh Nuri al-Shawish, a Kurd who is part of the central government negotiating team, said Kurdistan would keep pumping its share of national oil exports, and Baghdad would pay foreign companies in the Kurdish region....

It helps when major powers stand together to denounce violence.

SOCHI, September 13 (RIA Novosti)

Russian President (click title to entry -thank you) Vladimir Putin condemned on Thursday a recent attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya, and urged governments to react toughly and timely to provocations against people's religious sentiments.

U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed on Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. consulate building in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi by an armed mob angry over a U.S.-produced film that is considered by Muslims to be insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

“We condemn this crime and offer our condolences to the victims' families,” Putin told reporters at his residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

“The safety of diplomats is protected by international conventions and if someone fails to recognize this, it means that they put themselves outside the framework of the law and outside the framework of modern civilization," Putin said.

At the same time, the Russian president said "religious feelings of people of all beliefs must be handled very carefully" and government reactions to religious provocation must be "tough and timely," otherwise the people who feel offended will take matters into their own hands to defend their interests and views....

It is so strange to have Russia speak out against religious bigotry. In their history religion was a not valuable to the Russian leadership. Today, we have come a long way in a global understanding of the importance of church leadership in a society. No longer are religious issues a matter ignored or set aside as trivial. Every leader around the globe now values what their people value. I appreciate President Putin standing up to the violence in the name of peace and understanding.

Russia’s Muslim Leaders Decry Libya Violence (click here)

MOSCOW, September 13 (Dan Peleschuk, RIA Novosti)

Muslim leaders in Russia have condemned the American anti-Islam video that sparked the Libya riots which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, as well as the riots themselves, calling for unity amid what appear to be religious provocations.

“People of faith shouldn’t give into these kinds of provocations,” said Albir Krganov, Mufti of Moscow and first deputy chairman of the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims in Russia....

So, the religious leaders are in cooperation with the USA in criticizing both the hate film and the violence. Both are ridiculed in a civilized society where many faiths live together within the borders of one country.

Egypt's demographics.

Median age: total: 24.3 years 
male: 24 years 
female: 24.6 years (2011 est.)

USA demographics.

Median age: total: 36.9 years 
male: 35.6 years 
female: 38.2 years (2011 est.)

Russian demographics.

Median age: total: 38.7 years 
male: 35.5 years 
female: 41.9 years (2011 est.)


Source: Index Mundi (click here)

Tolerance of diversity in a society can be reflected by the maturing of the its people. It is all too frequent a picture in my memory of young men from the Middle East running away from a camera and toward government vehicles with home made bombs and explosives; Molotov Cocktails. That isn't noted in larger countries with older populations. There is a degree of immaturity in what is transpiring in the Mid-east countries. 

It is possible for the USA to disdain a video that doesn't even come close to a documentary. It isn't even entertainment, it is a film designed to instill hate. Just that simple. It can be ridiculed without the escalation into violence. Offense against the conscience of the society of people in the USA does NOT mean there is violence that erupts. In Egypt, today, the President is sensitive to the people and have called for organized marches within the country to demonstrate to the world their displeasure with such an atrocity. Yes, a film can be an atrocity. A mob with intent to use missiles and guns designed to kill is more of an atrocity than the USA could imagine happening within its borders.

Whoever put together this video wanted to convey a message of hate. That message has been rejected by the people of the USA. The people within the USA are appalled at this atrocity against faith. We are non-violent in our abhorrence of this video and we seek to end it's painful victimization of the images and words so wrongly illustrated as truth. Governments can take action against hate. Populous can stand the tide of victimization. I wish the countries of the Mid-east could find that same degree of civilized conduct to prevent such damage to their cities as well as themselves. I understand there are reports of 200 Egyptians wounded during these violent protests.

I mourn a wonderful group of brave Americans who saw the potential for good in their work in Libya. They did not deserve to be killed by the violence against a USA embassy. They did not ask for such a horrible film to be produced and they certainly would never consent to its message of hate. These people did not hate. They were selfless citizens of the USA and they are dearly missed now.

In understanding how hate can be stopped without violence and how benevolent understandings grow when people are mutually offended there is a clear vision of God in that. Peaceful resolve to atrocity by someone ignorant to the beauty of faith is godly. It is a higher purpose. So, when the USA seeks non-violence within its society it is with the understanding life is important and mistakes made with that life need to find definition and resolve.

I apologize for the misunderstanding existing between Islamic nations in the Mid-east and the way the USA conducts its disdain of hate. It is a cultural difference and I wish everyone peace knowing this hate will not be tolerated.

It will not be tolerated because of the conscience of the USA people, not because of the violence outside of embassies.

Ah, the journalist conspiracy of Peer Review.

This is simply rehearsal by journalists to try to have Mr. Romney actually answer a pertinent question. A frequent strategy for avoidance of answering questions is to take only one question per journalist. It is not usual for peers to seek a strategy to receive the answers they seek. 

The review by the Right Wing Media makes it sound as though the journalists are actually crafting answers before the questions are asked. That is not what this is. There is no prescribed outcome to the questions. The problem is Romney. He won't answer a question straight up. He talks around it, blames others and seeks avoidance of every topic involved in this election. It he would answer questions instead of avoiding them it would be helpful. What would be more helpful is if he would answer them honestly. I suppose he is saving the good answers for the debates. 

But, this is simply journalists doing what they do to every candidate in a race no matter where the race is, they seek answers to difficult questions. I suppose if a journalist wants to ask Romney what he got for Christmas he could, but, that isn't really a campaign issue.

The journalists don't know if they will even get a chance to ask their questions. So, to agree on questions most important to the people of the country is not a bad thing.

The accusations by the Right Wing Media are baseless, contrived and lies in themselves. There is no conspiracy here, just professionals seeking some kind of power in the situation to achieve answers to specific questions. Someone is awfully desperate. 

So much for freedom of speech. 

NEW RULE: All press must enter any Romney Press Room with hands in lap, eyes forward and complete focus to the front of the room. No talking allowed. You may breath. You will only speak when spoken to. Only ankles crossed. No poking, no hair pulling and no gum chewing. That sounds like a gender issue, too.