The Los Angeles Times has the story Putin calls for U.N. investigation of gas attack as G-7 nations reject new sanctions against Russia.

Instead of sanctions, the meeting’s final communique called for an investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to determine who was responsible for the “war crime.” The U.S. and Britain say there is little doubt Assad’s forces are culpable.

Perhaps this is a sign that the wall of intimidation that the USA has built is starting to show cracks. It isn’t crumbling yet. We will have to see if the instinct to resort to reason can overcome the money of the oil interests. I wish there were little doubt that reason would win.

YouTube has the video Interview with British Journalist Tom Duggan.

Interview with British Journalist Tom Duggan in Damascus Kasaa at the French Hospital tells us about the chemical attacks accusations:

You can find links to this video all over the internet. Here is one from The International Reporter – SYRIA: Terrorist Attacks on Civilians in Damascus, Alleged Chemical Attacks in Idlib – Tom Duggan Reporting Live.

I was trying to find other instances of Tom Duggan’s reporting other than the above interview. One that I found was Project 1070 Under fire ASP report Aleppo Tom Duggan with Sinan Saeed. This has been enough to convince me that Tom Duggan might actually be who he claims to be. In this web of lies that reporting on Syria has become, it is hard to know if anybody can be trusted to tell you even a portion of the truth.

Naked Capitalism has the article, Trump’s Idea of Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens, based on The Real News Network’s interview with Michael Hudson.

The idea of running it like a business is to screw labor. To pay labor as little as possible, and to get as much money for themselves — the businessmen — as possible. So, when Kushner says, “Let’s run government like a business,” what he really means is, let’s run government for business.

In general, a business’s purpose is to make a profit. Selling something is one way to do it. Speculating in commodities or other company’s stock is another. Whatever the business, the main purpose is to make money. In the old economy selling something was the where most profit in the economy came from. In today’s financialized economy, the most profit is made via financial transactions.

In the days of making things and selling things, it was not a zero sum game. A manufacturer would take raw materials and turn them into something more valuable to sell.

In today’s financialized economy it is a zero sum game. What ever one business gains, it comes from someone else’s loss. There is very little of value being created.

Naked Capitalism has the article Wolf Richter: Great Debt Unwind: Consumer Bankruptcies Jump, First since 2010; Commercial Bankruptcies Spike.

The irony is thick: In all major sentiment surveys, economic confidence has soared since November: consumers, owners of small businesses, and corporate executives are riding high on their own ebullience. But the economic reality is tough for businesses and consumers struggling under the hangover from eight years of ultra-low interest rates.

There is an election irony here too. It is hard to figure out though. On the one hand, voters voted based on their current feelings without knowing what was coming in the near future. On the other hand, the ebullience since November might be caused by the election results, nevertheless, the people don’t know what is coming.

To the question that was asked in one of the comments “Who gets hurt badly by zero interest rates? Retirees, that’s who.” I responded as follows:

I am not so sure retirees get hurt. By the way, I am one. I remember my father reveling in the 13% interest rates he was earning on CDs in the 1970s. I kept telling him that the income was looking great, but inflation was eating up his principle.

Now that I am earning around 3% or so in dividends, the income may be low, but my principle isn’t being eaten up by inflation. I haven’t done a calculation to answer the question exactly, but I think I am doing OK.

The Atlantic published the article UN Sources Say Syrian Rebels — Not Assad — Used Sarin Gas on May 5, 2013.

Plus how in the world would the rebels even get sarin gas? It doesn’t grow on trees, and though the government does have a bunch on hand, they’ve been guarding it heavily.

Perhaps my previous post Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels provides the answer to this question. What did Hillary expect the Syrian rebels would do with the Sarin?

Hawaii News Now has a video interview on Facebook Gabbard Speaks on Syria

This is one heck of a wise woman. We need to be the media that broadcasts her message, because you know the corporate media won’t do the job. While the corporate media dollars are spent as the echo chamber for the war promoters, we have to be the chorus of voices that oppose them. Our only hope is that our numbers can outweigh their dollars.

You can also see this video outside the constraints of Facebook. The Hawaii News Now website has the same video posted as U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks out against missile strike on Syria

The Washington Examiner has an article Tulsi Gabbard ‘skeptical’ Assad is behind Syria chemical attack that shows a CNN interview.

During an interview with CNN, the lawmaker from Hawaii criticized President Trump’s “reckless” missile strike against the airbase where defense officials believe the chemical attack originated. She asked: “Why should we just blindly follow this escalation of counter productive regime and sending American taxpayers’ dollars on these failed-regime-change wars that we have seen too often in Iraq and Libya and now continuing in Syria?”

She doesn’t even go so far as acknowledging the possibility that the gas attacks never happened. I have posted some critiques that claim that the Syrian Rebels may have manufactured this whole incident with fake photos and using people that they had kidnapped just two weeks before the “incident”.

The Hindustan Times has the article Tulsi Gabbard opposes US air strikes on Syria as ‘reckless’, ‘short-sighted’.

“If President Assad is indeed guilty of this horrible chemical attack on innocent civilians, I will be the first to call for his prosecution and execution by the International Criminal Court.” she said.

“However, because of our attack on Syria, this investigation may now not even be possible. And without such evidence, a successful prosecution will be much harder,” Gabbard, who is also a co-chair of the Congressional India Caucus said.

Tulsi Gabbard may be the lone voice of sanity in our Congress. Even Bernie Sanders has succumbed to the blind hysteria.

YouTube has a video they would like to suppress, but it still seems to be there – Evidence Suggests SYRIA GAS ATTACK Is False Flag

This seems to have some conflict somewhat with my prior post After U.S. Strikes Syria, Russian PM Says It’s ‘On The Verge Of A Military Clash’

On Wednesday, the Guardian reported, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the poison attack was the result of a Syrian airstrike hitting a “terrorist warehouse” full of “toxic substances.”

In all the confusion, it is going to take a while to sort this out, and we may never know what account of this incident is true, if any one of them is.

Since the corporate media is saturating us with the other side, I feel that someone has to counter it with other possible explanations.

I decided to look up the vote totals for the three most recent Presidential elections. I found the data on the 270 To Win web site.