NEW ANTHROPOLOGY DATA TIMELINE

New History Data Timeline

 

*The timeline is arranged so that the topic is over the date, with a short explanation of the significance following the date.  The YDNA (male) and MTDNA (female) refers to the founders date of the haplotype.  

Africa                                 

3,000,000        Australopithicines crude tool use Oldowan

China                                   

1,600,000        Homo Erectus using fire in China

AfroAsia                             

1,500,000        Homo Erectus tool/fire use Acheulean-Oldowan

Europe                                    

500,000           Neanderthal Mousterian established

YDNA A                                    

580,000           Sapiens, Erectus, Neanderthal, Denisova, Flores

Divergence                            

 400,000          Sapiens Neanderthal Erectus beginning speciation

MTDNA L Macro                    

288,600           Subsaharan Africa, became M,N, R

+MTDNA B006                       

188,000               Sapiens/Neanderthalensis/Amerinds/Europe

Last Homo Erectus                 

143,000               Raft building, S. Asia seacoast, shovel shaped incisors

Saginaw Comet Impact                      

140,000           Formation of Carolina Bays, Sandhills N.Amer.

Interstadial warm                  

135,000           Present Sea Level Height +135 M

Melancovich Cycle                 

132,400           Minimum axis tilt 22.1

San                                         

120,000           Begin gene exchange with panmictic Africa

Glacial begins`                                   

110,000           Rapid cooling North, sea level drop, warm South

Melancovich Cycle                    

92,700             Maximum axis tilt 24.5, Wurm glaciation began

Age of Taurus                            

76,160            

Out of Africa                            

75,000             Homo Sapiens migrated from Africa

Neanderthals                           

75,000            YDNA Interbred with Sapiens in Europe

Denisovians                              

75,000             Admixture Sapiens: Melanesians/Pre-South Americans

Age of Aries                           

 74,160                       

Toba eruption                          

73,000             Cooling episode ensued, population die off in mammals

Age of Pisces                               

72,160            

MTDNA N macro                     

71,000             Australia, W. EurAsia with haplotypes M & R

Age of Aquarius                        

70,160            

Asia                                          

70,000             Homo Sapiens migrations

India                                         

70,000             Homo Sapiens in India

Age of Capricorn                      

68,160            

Age of Sagittarius                    

66,160            

MTDNA R Macro                   

 66,000            origin SW Asia? India, Saudi Arabia, Melanesia

Age of Scorpio                          

64,160            

Age of Libra                              

62,160            

Olmec Maya                             

61,486             Begin New Calendar Round   13

Age of Virgo                           

 60,160                       

YDNA B M60                            

60,000             Tropical Africa, Pygmies some in Iran, Hazara

Australia                                 

 60,000            Homo Sapiens in Australia

YDNA D  M174                                   

 60,000            coastal migration Jomon, Ainu, Andaman, Japan, Arabia

Neanderthals                           

60,000             Sapiens admixture in M East, India, Europe, Denisovans

+MTDNA C                             

 60,000            NE Asia, Amerinds, Siberia, Eurasia

MTDNA M macro                    

60,000             Asia, Japan, Tibet

Age of Leo                                

58,160            

Age of Cancer                        

 56,160                       

Olmec Maya                             

56,366             Begin new Calendar Round   12

MTDNA U                                 

55,000             paleolithic Europe, W.Eurasia, N.Africa, S. Asia

YDNA E                                                 

55,000             African, Bantu, lite Arabia, Malta, Greece, Baltic

Age of Gemini                          

54,160            

Age of Taurus                                        

52,160            

Melancovich Cycle                    

51,700             Minimum axis tilt 22.1, glaciation & lower sea level

Olmec Maya                             

51,240             Begin new Calendar Round   11

+YDNA C                                 

50,000             Indus, Americas,Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, E.Eur

MTDNA Q                                 

50,000             Australia, Melanesia, New Guinea

India                                         

50,000             Lonar Crater Lake, bolide hit

+MTDNA B2                              

 

50,000             Origin in SE Asia, found in Americas

MTDNA P                                 

50,000             Australia, Melanesia, Phillippines, Bataan origin SE Asia

+MTDNA A                               

50,000             Origin Asia: N. America, Aleuts, Siberia, N. Asia

Age of Aries                             

50,160            

+MTDNA D                               

48,000             E Asia, China, Amerinds, NE Asia, Central Asia

YDNA F  M89  macro               

48,000             SW Asia, SE Asia 90% nonafrican hominids

Age of Pisces                          

 48,160                       

YDNA K macro                        

 47,000            S&W Asia, Formed T-R Y haplogroups          

Aurignacian                               

47,000             CroMagnon (tall form?) Europe R1b Ydna, MTDna H

YDNA K                                                 

47,000             SW Asian origin, Australia, Micronesia, Melanesia

YDNA M-P256                          

47,000             SE Asia, Melanesia, W New Guinea,

Age of Capricorn                      

46,000             Goatfish

Olmec Maya                            

 46,124            Begin new Calendar Round   10

MTDNA J                                  

45,000             paleolithic Europe, origin Levant/Caucasus

YDNA H M69                            

45,000             paleolithic India, tribal India, Sri Lanka, Dravidians

Age of Aquarius                                    

44,160            

MTDNA F                                

 43,400            E Asia, SE Asia, Taiwan

Age of Pisces                            

42,160            

Age of Scorpio                          

40,160            

YDNA P macro                          

41,000             became Q, R not found in Africa

YDNA O           (M214)                                    

41,000             E Asia, Melanesia, SE Asia

MTDNA K                                 

40,400             Ashkenazi, Neolithic farming populations, Levant

Olmec Maya                             

40,998             Begin new Calendar Round   9

England                                     

40,000             Chlorine date Stonehenge?

Age of Libra                             

40,160            

Africa                                       

40, 000            East and West African populations mix

Egypt                                        

 38,000            “Gods” Reigned in Egypt until 14,800 bp

MTDNA E                                  

39,000             SW Pacific, Guam, Saipan, Indonesia, Philippines

Age of Virgo                              

38,160

Age of Leo                                 

36,160

Olmec Maya                              

35,872             Begin new Calendar Round   8

MTDNA G                                  

35,700             Ainu, Japan, Mongol, Tibet, Jomon, Sea of Okhotsk

Europe                                       

35,000             Chatelperronian/Mousterian became Gravettian?

Americas                                   

35,000             Homo Sapiens migrations

YDNA R M207                           

34,700             Central Asia disbursal

Age of Cancer                                        

34,160

MTDNA Y                                  

33,300             Ainu, N. Pacific, Sakhalin,

Age of Gemini                           

32,160

YDNA J P209                              

31,700             Arabia, Ethiopia, Egypt, Anatolia, Med. Sea

Olmec Maya                              

30,756             Begin new Calendar Round   7

Age of Taurus                            

30,160

YDNA G                                      

30,000             Baltic, Mediterranean area, Pakistan, Alps

YDNA I M170                           

 30,000            Bosnia, Macedonia, Danes, Finns, Iceland, Sardinia

MTDNA HV                                 

30,000             origin central Asia, paleolithlic Europe, WAsia, S. Europe

+MTDNA X                                

30,000             Levant, N America, Druze, Scots, Algonquin, Sioux, Dene

YDNA L            (K, M120)                     

30,000             Indus Valley origin, Dravidian, S. India, Afghan, Syria

Age of Aries                              

28,160  

Age of Pisces                             

26,160

YDNA N                                                 

25,000             N Eurasia, Siberia, Finns, Saami, Baltics, Yakuts, Hungary

MTDNA H                                  

25,000             European, Mediterranean, Gravettian, Magdalenian

European Asian Split                 

25,000             Genetic markers for migration, citation

MYDNA T                                  

25,000             origin Levant, Eurasia, Europe

Olmec Maya                              

25,630 Begin new Calendar Round   6

Age of Aquarius                                    

24,160 Water bearer

MTDNA I                                   

23,000             Europe Carpathian, Iran, glacial expansion, Anatolia

MTDNA W                                 

23,900             minority clade, Pakistan, Kurds, Caucasus, Australians

YDNA E3b M215                       

22,400             Ashkenazim, Sephardim, Sardinia, Europe, Africa, Tunis

Age of Capricorn                       

22,160 Goatfish: 

Solutrean                                  

 22,000            R1b Ydna Europe

Age of Sagittarius                     

20,160 Archer:  hunting, war

Olmec Maya                              

20,504 Begin new Calendar Round   5

YDNA R 173                               

18,500             Native American

YDNA R1b                                  

18,500             British Isles, Iberia, Cameroon, Caucasus, W. Europe

Neanderthal                              

18,000             Extinct Europe, assimilation competition climate change

Oronce/Reis maps                    

18,000             Height of Northern Glaciation/Shallow Southern Seas *

Bermuda Rise                           

18,000             Island present and on map S of 40th

Puma Punku, Tiwaniku                          

18,000?           Andes, Lake Titicaca, megalith *

Saksayhuaman                                      

18,000?           Andes fortress, megalith *

Malta                                        

18,000?           Megalith Civilization*

Japan                                          

18,000             Yonaguni, underwater now

India                                          

18,000             Kerala, underwater now

Southern Hemisphere              

 18,000            Warm shallow seas more land than now

Mediterranean Sea                   

18,000             2 freshwater lakes, fertile valley, Gibralter landlocked

Europe                                       

18,000             Magdalenian/Gravettian cave art, microlithics

Age of Scorpio                                        

18,160 Scorpion

Andes                                        

17,000             Kalasasaya megaliths at Tiahuanaco

+YDNA Q                                    

17,000             Dominant male haplotype in Native Americans appears

Age of Libra                               

16,160             Scales: trade, justice

YDNA R M17 (R1b)                   

15,800             Origin W India, assoc/w Indo European lang, Brahmins

Antarctica                                 

15,000             Antarctica partly ice free/low sea levels, Scotia Plate

Olmec Maya                              

15,378             Begin new Calendar Round   4

Egypt Shemsu-Hor                     

14,800             End of Reign of Gods, Followers of Horus reigned

India                                         

 14,000            Rama Empire War (legend or truth?)           

Sahara                                       

14,000             Nabta Playa/verdant Sahara/richat?

Egypt                                         

14,000             Sphinx

Age of Virgo                               

14,160             Woman, grain

Clovis Culture                            

13,500             North America, megafauna hunting

Turkey                                      

13,000             Gobekli Tepe Megaliths

Japan                                        

13,000             Ainu Jomon

Lake Agassiz                             

13,000             Great Lakes Area, 1st warming melt flood

Spain                                        

12,000             Old Tartessos disappeared

             

12,000             Ice Age Ends/rising sea levels/megafauna extinction

China                                         

12,000             Neolithic agriculture millet

Age of Leo                                

12,160             Lion

Quebec Comet Strike               

12,900             Caused flood, disrupted warm current to N. hemisphere

Younger Dryas Glaciation      

12,800-11,500 Icy Northern Hemisphere, warm South

Clovis Culture                           

11,500             Cultural alteration/assimilation

Interstadial Resumes               

11,500             Global warming sea level rise

Nabta Playa                               

11,560             observatory Egypt

Atlantis                                                 

11,650             Disappeared under the sea (Plato’s date)

Melancovich cycle                   

10,700            maximum 24.5 axial tilt

Neolithic in Europe                  

10,200             New lineages enter Europe, E1b1, Ashkenazi

Olmec Maya                             

10,252             Begin new Calendar Round   3

Argentina                                 

10,000             Rio Quarto Craters asteroid strike

Lake Agassiz                             

10,000             Refilled with glacial melt

+Americas                                

10,000             Na dene, Inuit migrations

Age of Cancer                                       

10,160             Crab

Catal Hoyuk Turkey                    

9,000               Neolithic, chalcolithic, cattle, grain, lead

Indus Valley                                 

9,380               PreHarappan horizon

Bolide Indicator                                     

9,500               radiocarbon blip in dendrochronological record

Bolide hit                                   

 9,640              SEAsia,S. Aus,IndianO,Scand, Azores,SWMex,Tierradelfu

MTDNA V                                   

9,800               from HVoa, origin Levant

Homo Florienses                        

8,000               went extinct on Flores SE Asia

Age of Gemini                            

8,160               Twins  

China                                           

8,000               written language petroglyphs

Lake Agassiz                              

 8,200             Final flood, 9ft rise in sea levels

Persia                                        

 7,000              Hammered meteoritic iron

Sumer                                          

6,500               Establishment of first settlements

Indus Valley                                

6,300               Chalcolithic

Egypt, Sumer                              

6,000               Hammered meteoritic iron                           

Age of Taurus                             

6,160               Bull

Tauregs                                                   

5,600               Haplotype Ydna E North Africa

Indus Valley                                

5,300               Harappan Civilization

Olmec Maya                               

5,126               Beginning of new Calendar Round   2

England                                                  

5,000               Stonehenge

Middle East                                 

5,000               Iron smelting

Polynesia                                    

5,000               Expansion in South Pacific, Rapa Nui

Minoans                                    

 4,700              Minoan trading empire begins from Crete

Climate Change                        

 4,200              End of Warm Period from 9,640 BP

Bolide Hit                                  

 4,200              pattern of worldwide cultural extinctions

Bolide swarm impacts                 

 ?                     Book of Enoch. Sibyls, 7 hits/deluge/instant winter *

Dodwell Karnak                                      

4,345               25o 09’ 55”  precession aberration

CLIMATE CHANGE                      

4,350               End of Neolithic Wet Phase, severe droughts ensued

Buache/Bouvet maps                  

4,300              Onset of Glaciation in N. Antarctica/Rising Sea Levels                                                                                  /drying of the Sahara/N. Hemisphere warming

Cultural Expansions                  

 4,300              Agriculture expands, Age of Exploration

+Americas                                 

 4,000              Minoans Mining Great Lakes, R1B1, X established *

Age of Aries                                 

4,160               Ram: 

China                                          

3,700               Shang Dynasty

Mycenae                                     

3,600               Greek civilization grows

Egypt                                          

3,100               Dynastic Egypt began, iron smelting

Thera Eruption                                        

3,525   3,647  Destruction of Minoans

Dodwell Karnak                           

3,570               24o 32’ 06”

Dodwell Chinese                        

3100                24o13’56”

Dodwell Chou Kung                    

3100                23o54’04”

Egypt                                          

3,100               Dynastic Egypt began, iron smelting

Umm al Binni                            

 3,000-5,000    Bolide hit S. Iraq

Indian Ocean                              

2,800               Burckle Crater, tsunami, bolide hit?

Age of Pisces                               

2160                Fish

Dodwell Hindu                                 

2900                24o11’04”

Dodwell Ben Maimon                

1174                23o31’51”  Cordova

Dodwell Nasar-Al-Din               

 1290               23o31’40”  Maragha Persia  

China                                            

 550                 Shanxi Province 10,000 killed meteorite rain

Europe                                        

 463-163          ‘Little Ice Age’ cooling trend, migrations to Americas

Maunder Minimum                  

 368-288          Extremely low sunspot activity

United States                                 

240                  technological civilization

Olmec Maya                                    

 2                     Beginning of new calendar round (2012)  1

Melankovich Cycle                       

present                        23.1 axial tilt and decreasing to 22.1, 11,700 years away 

Age of Aquarius                                      

Present                        Water Bearer 

 

 

 

Zodiac Ages:     Three 26,000 year cycles plus 1, from  76,000 BP to present

 

Olmec  Maya  12  Calendar Rounds to 61,486 BP

 

 

Dodwell:      mathematical proof of precession aberration resulting from bolide strike,   related to the Melankovich Cycle

 

Portsmouth Ohio Moundbuilder

RESPONSIBLE CAPITALISM 2014

 

 

I caught part of the new New York mayor’s inaugural address and heard a call for income equalization and a scheme to tax the rich to pay for pre-K child care and after school care for all the people who live hand to mouth, struggling to pay for the rising cost of child care due to increased government regulation, taxation and licensing fees.  Chain child care institutions can afford all the fees, so local businesses are struggling to stay in business and prices rise and rise.  The reasoning here is that the rich deserve to pay the costs through taxation for the children of the lower income people and the government is the intervening agent. 

Who should pay for someone else’s child?  Did they create the situation of higher and higher costs for these people?  Are they profiting off government subsidies for their businesses and do they fund suggestible politicians who will work for their goals?  Are their goals of the short term profit variety and be damned the consequences?  Or are their goals to perpetuate the free enterprise system and take profits that allow for the continuation of the economy?  People can’t pay higher and higher prices on a static income in perpetuity.  A social consequence of this apparent policy is the mentality that would use the government to take from the wealthy, process the funds to enrich themselves, then distribute the remainder to the poor in the form of subsidies and services.    

So Socialism and Communism rise when the megarich get richer and everybody else gets poorer.  Is that what is happening in the USA right now?  Who should redistribute their high income to the poor because they went to school and worked hard to increase income?  Yet if the rich are rapacious and insensitive and are cramming things down the throats of people, like crooked politicians and mandates, then they can historically expect social problems.  A voluntary investment policy that increases jobs created Microsoft and Apple.  Innovation creates demands and jobs to satisfy those consumer demands like cell phones, Ipads, kindles and other related gadgets that people really want.  People don’t want spending mandates.      

It’s interesting that Justice Sotomayor issued a stay against a portion of Obamacare that dealt with a mandate for hiring institutions to provide contraception insurance coverage, based on religious objections.  The objection was a violation of religious beliefs, not against the insurance purchase mandate itself.  My objection is against the purchase mandate of anything, insurance or otherwise.  My personal rights are being violated when I am forced to buy.  Buying should be my monetary decision, not the governments.  Are religious beliefs more important than personal freedom among the judgmental elite?  The real issue is the mandate, not the specific belief violated. 

How can free enterprise work at all if people are forced to buy?  And the insurance companies have pricing discretion but the purchaser does not?  The middle class money flow into the coffers of the insurance companies and the government is a tsunami of political change. 

So I’m not sure what consortium is behind the change in the money patterns of the economy but I can see the results: 

·         Low interest rates due to the institution of sliding interest percentage payments based on prime rate so small holders can’t get any returns on their cash deposits. 

·         Huge payments to certain banks from the Federal Reserve which has been labeled money creation.

·         A ‘target’ inflation rate of 2% imposed on the economic system which harms fixed income people.

·         The huge banks can be in debt far more than they have on deposit and will get a government bailout if they lose their gambling debts. 

·         Fake ‘products’ like derivatives tie up real money and produce nothing but gambling profits for a few.

·         Opportunities for opening a small businesses are dwindling due to zoning requirements, fees, taxes, payoffs and cutthroat competition from chain businesses who can take a loss for a few months until the smallholder goes broke. 

·         Obamacare insurance mandates will cost jobs and investment in the small business sector.

·         Zoning laws prevent people from operating small businesses on their home properties, forcing the use of expensive investors’ properties.     

·         Students are in debt for degrees that are either in saturated markets, closed markets, or are simply archaic and need more education to be economically viable.  Student debt is an economic nightmare but somebody made big bucks off it.  Instead of working to keep educational costs down, they freely made debt available and profited off it instead.  I blame the educators, lenders and the politicians for that one.  I don’t see social justice here.  If they don’t bring the educational costs down, student numbers will decline. 

 

I know the demise of the Glass-Steagall Act dates to the Clinton administration and the rich have definitely become richer at the expense of the rest of the citizenry since then.  I know it’s nice for a poor boy to make good but what about the long term consequences of the tip in the economic balance between the rich and the poor in this country?  What are the long term effects of the lower economic persons not being paid enough to afford the current high prices in child care, material goods and real estate?   Now tack on sky high insurance costs and deductibles, and more people will be marginal economically. 

Perhaps devaluation in prices is in order.  Pay the people the same but get less profit per widget by lowering the prices people pay for services, goods and real estate.  The recent JC Penny problem is a case notable by initial high prices, a lowering of prices by a large percentage and a much lower profit margin per item.  Not no profit margin or a loss, but a lower profit.  People actually shopped there because the clothing was of a reasonable price for fair quality, instead of super high price for fair quality.

The late real estate boom resulted in devaluation in the value of properties, but no devaluation on the debt owed on the real estate.  Inexpensive housing became palaces for sale on paper and if you wanted a home, you had to pay those inflated prices.  I know people who were left in debt for a home that was now valued at 40% of the debt on it.  People are now paying high rents due to high debt levels on the properties they rent.  Everybody buying was cheated, and the sellers made off with the money, leaving behind them tears, despair and a lack of value.

Recent trends point to a lack of morality somewhere.  Responsible capitalism is not a game of decimating your rival and making off with all the cash:  Responsible Capitalism is employing people, taking a reasonable profit AND perpetuating the system.  

History teaches that excessive profit taking and gambling on the part of the wealthy results in popular uprisings.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

 

 

 

 

Obamacare Insurance Debacle'

Having been buried in academia since the Paleoamerican Odyssey conference in Santa Fe 2013, I surfaced from the sea of anthropological data and constructing my Timeline to look around at the political scene. 

The ‘Obamacare Insurance Debacle’ amounts to a raid on the available cash of the middle class economic brackets and the growth of the power of the insurance companies that will surpasse the Federal government that enabled it.  The all bets are off freeforall that is occurring is not benefitting the consumer because of the ‘mandate’ to buy.  Insurance is once again confused with health care.  Huge deductibles and copays prevent people from obtaining actual health care while they are ‘insured’, which looks good on paper but is actually twaddle.  

Now the IRS is forcing more revenue out of people, having obtained the power to tax the ‘uninsured’ and I do believe that this amount is scheduled to increase.  The Supreme Court ruled the Obamacare tax fine to be a tax.  Is there a guarantee that this tax will be spent on healthcare or is the $ up for grabs by powerful politicians? So the Democrats rammed through a massive tax increase and screwed up the health insurance setups and took away our rights to choose.  The rich got richer and the poor are now poorer thanks to the Democrats.  I think it’s time for a change to Republican leadership who would restore our right to choose whether to buy any insurance or not, conforming to free market principles that would bring the price down.  It’s un-American to be forced to buy something from anyone, private enterprise or the government.  The exorbitant price gouging on the part of the insurance companies would definitely cease. 

As for the chronically ill, they should expect to pay more for insurance because they use the service more.  Payment schedules can be worked out which are fair, without putting undue burden on the healthy.  Insurance should be available to them, but they should have to pay for it.  The same goes for drug addicts.  Why should non drug abusers be forced to pay for coverage of drug addiction?  We have lost our ability to pick and choose what plan is right for us.   Pregnancy coverage should be available for those women in breeding mode but why should the rest of us pay for it if we don’t want the coverage?  Pregnancy prevention should be cheap and available and not subject to religious rants about the evils of birth control.  Job creation is not even keeping up with population growth and it seems a good economic move to slow the population growth. 

It appears that the heavily subsidized are the few that are signing up for Obamacare.   I heard an intelligent man on TV saying that the existing Medicaid could have been expanded to cover these people with far less expense and manipulation of tax money.  Or how about sending funds directly to the institutions that treat these indigent people and skip all those insurance middlemen and bureaucrats?

Obamacare is not about health care:  Obamacare is about a huge money grab, a loss of rights for the individual and higher taxes for the middle class.

 

 

Syria and the Putin Connection

Syria and the Putin Connection

The dictator of Syria has a grassroots challenge to his authority and income.  He responds with death to anyone who supports the opposition.  War between the two sides ensues.  The dictator of Syria is losing control of areas important to his authority and income and so he responds with poison gas. 

President Obama has said that the use of ‘chemical weapons’ is a red line in the sand, which is a colloquialism for “a point beyond which such behavior will not be tolerated”.  The UN team determined that sarin gas had been used on the victims and the dictator of Syria is the one who had the means to deliver the canisters to the target. 

Even before the UN team investigated, Sen. McCain was calling for the bombing of Syria, with Sen. L. Graham on a leash behind him yapping for the same thing.  The press picked the ‘red line in the sand’ story to headline the news for weeks now, calling for bombing Syria and some of the most vociferous are calling for bombing of Iran, Hezbollah, and anybody else living and breathing over there.  

A press harried President Obama calls for bombing Syria, then asks for congressional support for his position, which was a wise move that averted the new war McCain and so many members of the press were slavering for.  I saw commentators who probably get out of breath walking to their cars ranting for our best young men and women to be sent to another war.  President Obama is criticized by the press for asking for congressional approval for military action in Syria, many of the same press who criticized President Bush for doing just that.  So many of the press are war mongering about Syria, I wonder why past massacres of people in Africa received no press attention….

So warships converge on the Eastern Mediterranean and other areas, all in anticipation of a showdown over bombing Syria, a crisis manufactured by President Obama and the press manipulating national policy.  Fortunately, President Putin of Russia has the common sense to defuse all this war talk and to work towards a diplomatic solution to the enforcement of a ban of chemical weapons.  As a trading partner with Syria, President Putin has leverage over what power the dictator of Syria actually has over the future of his nation.  Assad is free to make his own decisions and any member of the press who reports that Assad is Putin’s boy is lying.   Assad is totally responsible for his own decisions, including the use of poison gas.  I suspect that President Putin does not want the use of poison gas anywhere in the world, including Syria as a means to prop up a failing regime.  I applaud Vladimir Putin’s common sense in defusing this phony crisis. 

President Obama is shown to be inexperienced for creating crisis situations with loose comments and threats.  Yes, threats!  Drawing a red line in the sand is an offer to fight, just like on the playground where one kid draws a line in the dirt and dares another kid to cross it.  He is also foolish to respond so much to goadings from the press and he allocates too much power to the war mongering press.  Certainly, the images of gassed people were horrible, but the response to the atrocities should not be more death of innocents, inevitable if Syria is bombed.  A diplomatic response is preferable, and I hope that President Putin’s offer to mediate is successful.  Too many people have died. 

The sector of the war mongering press has been forced to publish surveys of the American people, who do not want a war solution to the violation of the chemical weapons ban by the Syrian government.  Congress is suddenly aware that the majority of their constituency does not want more military involvement in the Middle East.  The time for peace is nigh.