Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Happy New Year

Happy New Year Video


CLICK HERE TO SEE LARGER: Happy New Year by RepresentativePress
Cartoon showing baby representing New Year 1905 chasing old man 1904 into history. 

Regarding the version on YouTube: (UPDATE 12/30 3:40PM: I restored the audio when YouTube monetized this. This video was a test and YouTube failed again by failing to monetize this video. It was suggested to me if this happened again to remove the audio and give a link to the video over at Daily Motion: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3k3j9n_happy-new-year_fun )
Link to cartoon:

Sunday, December 06, 2015

If we're going to get killed, they're going to get killed back.

From NYT article Published: September 12, 2001 By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

"Yasser Ahmed, manager of an Arab-owned candy and grocery store on Broadway in Upper Manhattan, said about 10 people had come in shouting, ''You guys did it!'' and other accusations.

At an Arab-owned grocery store on West 177 Street, a shouting match erupted among customers when a Palestinian woman blamed American support of Israel for the terrorism.

''I'm Arabic and Palestinian and I have just one thing to say,'' said Yasmeen Hindi, 19, a customer at Uptown Deli Grocery. ''I feel bad, but Americans have to understand something: If we're going to get killed, they're going to get killed back. Stop supporting the Israelis.'' " http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/us/a-day-of-terror-the-ties-in-us-echoes-of-rift-of-muslims-and-jews.html

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Metal Fires which may have been in the World Trade Center ( WTC2 )

"Much of this debris came from the aircraft itself and from the office furnishings that the aircraft pushed forward as it tunneled to this far end of the building. Large fires developed on these piles shortly after the aircraft impact and continued to burn in the area until the tower collapsed. " Isn't it common sense that any metal fires are due to material we would expect when a plane crashes into those floors? You do know they make Fire Extinguishers for metal fires because they can happen with aircraft materials:

 Class D Fire Extinguishers are used for fighting class D Fires.

Class D: Metal fires involving magnesium, sodium, potassium and sodium-potassium alloys.

Class D Fire Extinguishers are mainly used for the aircraft industry, auto body shops, factories that work with metals, and other metal fire hazards.


I thought your "controlled demolition" theory insisted that MANY floors (almost every floor or ALL floors) were attacked with "thermite" to make the towers collapse "so fast" *so why are these metal fires only where the plane material was?

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

YouTube hid my comment to T.J.

Here is what I tried to post. I just tweeted it and am including it here: +The Amazing Atheist Yes of course it is manipulation of the media and it is clear that it is why the policy was put into place, because some people resented some content creators making money while discussing certain topics and I think it was expanded in order to do do EXACTLY as you describe "discouraging content creators from talking about certain issues"

I hope you see my other comment I just posted: +The Amazing Atheist Yes of course it is manipulation of the media and it is clear that it is why the policy was put into place, because some people resented some content creators making money while discussing certain topics and I think it was expanded in order to do do EXACTLY as you describe "discouraging content creators from talking about certain issues"

I hope you see my other comment I just posted: This is what people have been talking about. It is YouTube policy to not allow you to monetize it because of the topic.
 Please help by sharing the link to this petition with your fans because I think everyone will see that we are all in the same boat with this policy change: https://www.change.org/p/larry-page-cofounder-google-susan-wojcicki-ceo-of-youtube-eric-e-schmidt-executive-chairman-google-sergey-brin-co-founder-of-google-sridhar-ramaswamy-senior-vice-president-ads-commerce-youtube-please-restore-ad-revenue-for-journalists-reporting-on-wa?recruiter=393335316&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive
I think many will see the need for solidarity and want to share this petition. We really need to work together to get YouTube to reverse this destructive policy change because it could even get worse. What is being aggressively imposed now is just one of the 5 main things YouTube lists as "Content that YouTube considers to be inappropriate for advertising" but look at the third one listed at their policy page: "Inappropriate language , including harassment, profanity and vulgar language" and think about how many times you use the "F" word in your videos. We need to get back to the original policy fast before it gets even worse and as far as independent journalism it already is extremely bad.

This is the wording from YouTube's policy page as it stands now where it mentions war and political conflicts: “Content that YouTube considers to be inappropriate for advertising includes but is not limited to: … Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.” source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en
 (and as I point out, that is just part of what they list as things supposedly "inappropriate for advertising";) So please mention this petition in your next video and ask your viewers to sign it and share it with others because YOU and I and EVERY OTHER content creator should not be financially hindered because of topics we discuss if we abide by what was the original YouTube policy as abiding by Terms of Use.

Friday, October 23, 2015

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Reports of Death on the News

“another study found that reports of death on the news make viewers respond more positively to advertisements for status products, like luxury cars and Rolex watches.” p. 140 The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It by Kelly McGonigal

YouTube, Please Restore Ad Revenue for Journalists Reporting on War



The text below is read aloud in this featured video
(CLICK HERE TO SIGN PETITION)
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Youtube and Google have made a major change to their longstanding advertising policy and this has resulted in an enormous setback for independent journalism. Their policy change deprives independent journalists of advertising revenue if they report on such topics as war and political conflicts. This imposes a serious financial hardship for those trying to earn revenue from reporting.

For years journalists have been led to believe that they could report on the news of the day and earn an income for their work through the placement of ads which YouTube and Google would place. Now YouTube and Google have pulled the rug out from under independent journalists by arbitrarily declaring topics such as war and political conflicts to be content which they no longer consider “advertiser-friendly.” 

What we are asking for with this petition is a return to the policy which allowed independent journalists to earn income from advertising revenue exactly the way it was in previous years with the original YouTube/Google policy. The promise which YouTube/Google held of giving those reporting independently from “mass media” or “mainstream news” a way to earn revenue has been cruelly taken away.

If you value a healthy free press then we ask you to join with others signing this petition asking YouTube/Google to restore the policy they had before they changed it. The button to sign this petition and the tools to share this petition are on this page to the right. And there have been victories where YouTube has been successfully petitioned with a Change.org petition, so let's work towards another victory: Please Sign this and Share this with everyone you can.

Below are more details about how wrong, unfair and misguided Youtube and Google’s policy change is along with specific examples and explanations: 

“Monetize” is the term YouTube uses to describe allowing a video to have the ability to earn revenue through advertising.

We are asking for YouTube/Google to return to the policy which had allowed independent journalists to monetize their videos even when reporting on newsworthy topics such as war and political conflicts. It is important to note that YouTube/Google has arbitrarily imposed an enormous disadvantage on independent journalists compared to major media outlets which can and still do derive revenue from commercials appearing on their TV news shows and websites. And the very fact that there are plenty of commercials during TV news, which often features stories about war and political conflicts, calls into question the premise of YouTube's new argument that such topics are "unfriendly to advertisers.”

Author Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. cites studies in her book “The Willpower Instinct” which challenge the premise that content YouTube is now suddenly deeming “inappropriate for advertising” might hurt sales, “another study found that reports of death on the news make viewers respond more positively to advertisements for status products, like luxury cars and Rolex watches.” So if the premise that YouTube is arguing is that they have to impose their unfair policy change to “protect advertisers,” the argument doesn’t hold water. And how could it since for years YouTube had monetized videos on serious subjects such as war and political conflicts?

An example of the unreasonableness of this YouTube policy change is the demonetization of a video titled “War Warning from Madison, 4th US President.” That video quoted the Father of the Constitution who wrote,  “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.” That video had been monetized for years, yet now, with the policy change, we are apparently being told that advertisers will supposedly find James Madison's words "too controversial or sensitive?”

This is the wording from YouTube's policy page as it stands now where it mentions war and political conflicts: “Content that YouTube considers to be inappropriate for advertising includes but is not limited to: … Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.” source: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

Yet even on that same policy page Youtube seems willing to allow for “newsworthy” content “where the creator’s intent is to inform” and “not offend or shock” when they say: “In short, advertiser-friendly content is appropriate for all audiences, from our youngest to older viewers. It is content that has little to no inappropriate and/or mature content in the video stream, thumbnail, or metadata such as video title. If there may be inappropriate content, the context is usually newsworthy or comedic where the creator’s intent is to inform or entertain, and not offend or shock.”

But the problem now is that in many cases YouTube is not taking into account if videos are newsworthy or if the creator's intent is to inform. And we can see many examples where the policy isn't even being applied equally to all content creators, some are allowed to earn revenue through advertising on subjects YouTube claims are "controversial or sensitive” while others are not even when reporting on the same topics such as war and political conflicts. (see example in this video)

There is serious concern that this policy change is being exploited to financially disincentive reporters on YouTube from reporting on things which some don’t want reported. YouTube says “when determining if a video is suitable for advertising” they not only rely on “sophisticated technology” but “we also depend on our user community to flag inappropriate videos to us for our review.” And now it appears that special interests can abuse this system by coordinating attacks in order to financially harm YouTube channels reporting things they disapprove of.

What we are petitioning for is simply the very same right to support our work with advertising revenue as the network TV news shows do. Depriving reporters on YouTube of that same opportunity is destroying the promise YouTube once held for truly independent journalism. Without the same kind of revenue generating opportunities as network news, journalists trying to report independently suffer an enormous disadvantage and many simply cannot afford to continue operating as they had. This change is effectively economic censorship imposing political censorship.

Whatever the motivation for imposing the new policy, depriving independent journalists posting videos on Youtube or writing on their websites of the same financial opportunities which major media's network news profit from is misguided and unfair. It puts those who challenge the dominating news outlets at a enormous disadvantage. Several independent media channels have put years of work into building on the funding model which YouTube's long standing policy had once promised but now that has been ripped away. If you enjoy independent media then you will want to sign this petition because without a reliable source of income many independent media cannot function at the same level.

Please don't sit back and allow YouTube/Google to take away the same opportunities of revenue earning which major media outlets can and still do benefit from on TV and websites. You can help petition YouTube/Google to ask them to stop imposing such a financial hardship on independent media. Signing this petition and sharing it with others helps spread the word. This video titled “YouTube, Please Restore Ad Revenue for Journalists Reporting on War & Political Conflicts” promotes this petition and viewing it and sharing it with others helps get the word out about our efforts.

Sunday, September 13, 2015

With regard to the towers

There are no "problems" with the collapse. With regard to the towers, the very signs of a fire-induced collapse which David Ray Griffin says would be there in a fire-induced collapse WHERE EVIDENT (he is just ignorant of them or suppresses them) With the towers, we can see inward bowing of exterior load bearing columns well before the collapse. We can see that the inward bowing progressed over time until the point of failure.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAoRrBoPRM&list=PL0EA5787F8154537B 

The very first video I uploaded to YouTube which should have put an end to David Ray Griffin's ignorant claims several years ago :‪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGAoRrBoPRM&list=PLfrlsC1yJ2dSIYYEW5LRZx-m25GW9xAps‬
The very same area that we can see in a photo here: ‪https://sites.google.com/site/representativepress/east-face-of-wtc2-9-21-am‬
 then you can see that the bowing has progressed in a photo here:  ‪https://sites.google.com/site/representativepress/east-face-of-wtc2-9-53-am
Then you can see that very same bowed in area where it reaches the point of total failure in this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQmaGCxHxj8‬
We can see the early stages of the bowing in the two pictures linked above and then we can see how that bowed in area reaches the point of total failure in the video linked above.

All these conspiracies about "controlled demolition" are a misdirection from the MAIN motive for the attack which was anger at US support of Israel. People in positions of power such as journalists, pundits and politicians have suppressed or downplayed or lied about the main motive for the attack. THAT game is what "9/11 Truth" helps by having people fixate on a collapse when the point is WHY was the attack perpetrated and I have show how the two top commissioners admitted that their concern over protecting the the policy of supporting Israel, keeping the public from reevaluating that policy, is what concerned them more than fulfilling their mandate to give a full accounting. http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2006/09/reviews-of-without-precedent-inside.html

Sunday, September 06, 2015

New Twitter Header


 Image by Aaron Durand (@everydaydude) for Twitter, Inc. Adapted by Tom Murphy for @RepPress https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0

Friday, September 04, 2015

Whites Only Soap Dispenser Debunked

UPDATE CORRECTION: Black hand DOESN'T touch the sensor, it is touching where the "low refill" light is located. (That's the flashing red light you see at the base of the dispenser.) I still think the most likely explanation is user error and I do want to point out (as I say in the video) that the diagram I show is for a different soap dispenser. I found the instruction sheet in a reddit post ( https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3jfnet/whites_only/cupcpgu ) for this TC soap dispenser. What it shows is that the sensor is not at the base of the unit: http://www.technicalconceptsforless.com/OneShot-Foam-Instruction-Sheet.pdf So I made a mistake in assuming that what he was touching was the sensor. I think this info jibes with the idea that the person with the black hand is at the wrong angle for the device to work. The "Flashing red light indicates low refill" so that isn't even the sensor.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

North & South Korea Landmines & Loudspeakers EXPLAINED Part 1

AND CHECK THIS OUT (What I started talking about in part 1 I show you in part 2) http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2015/08/north-south-korea-landmines.html

North & South Korea Landmines & Loudspeakers EXPLAINED

I work to hard on these videos for people to be playing games like this. See part 2 where I show you what has been done to my videos on North Korea.

Monday, August 10, 2015

Wednesday, August 05, 2015

SAMICA KNIGHT ANSWERS 13 QUESTIONS

(this is additional info to the new Sandra Bland video on the Representative Press channel where I debunk yet another conspiracy) Twitter.com/RepPress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85vlQQ-y_Cg
Posted by Representative Press on Wednesday, August 5, 2015
My Facebook post of this video, please like: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1018698174829351&id=159271010772076 You can also go to Samica Knight's Facebook page and post this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85vlQQ-y_Cg to people who don't understand the photos: https://www.facebook.com/ABC13SamicaKnight/photos_stream
For example: https://www.facebook.com/ABC13SamicaKnight/photos/pb.179686955403530.-2207520000.1438837655./928020870570131/?type=3&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/ABC13SamicaKnight/photos/pb.179686955403530.-2207520000.1438837655./928020803903471/?type=3&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/ABC13SamicaKnight/photos/pb.179686955403530.-2207520000.1438837655./928020787236806/?type=3&theaterhttps://www.facebook.com/ABC13SamicaKnight/photos/pb.179686955403530.-2207520000.1438668797./928020653903486/?type=3&theater

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Mogherini & Zarif on Iran Deal, Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action State...



A big thank you to all the media that have been following our endless but successful negotiations for all these days and nights, weeks and months.

Today is an historic day. It is a great honor for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue.

With courage, political will, mutual respect and leadership, we delivered on what the world was hoping for: a shared commitment to peace and to join hands in order to make our world safer. This is an historic day also because we are creating the conditions for building trust and opening a new chapter in our relationship.

This achievement is the result of a collective effort.

No one ever thought it would be easy. Historic decisions never are. But despite all twists and turns of the talks, and the number of extensions, hope and determination enabled us to overcome all the difficult moments. We have always been aware we had a responsibility to our generation and the future ones.

Thanks to the constructive engagement of all parties, and the dedication and ability of our teams, we have successfully concluded negotiations and resolved a dispute that lasted more than 10 years.

Many people brought these difficult negotiations forward during the last decade and we would like to thank all of them - as we would like to thank the International Atomic Energy Agency for its critical contribution and close cooperation as well as the Austrian government for the support and hospitality.

We, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security policy and the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with the Foreign Ministers of the People´s Republic of China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America met here in Vienna, following several months of intensive work, at various levels and in different formats, to negotiate the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), based on the key parameters agreed in Lausanne on 2 April.

We have today agreed on the final text of this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

The E3/EU+3 and the Islamic Republic of Iran welcome this historic Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which will ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful, and mark a fundamental shift in their approach to this issue. They anticipate that full implementation of this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will positively contribute to regional and international peace and security. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action includes Iran’s own long-term plan with agreed limitations on Iran’s nuclear program, and will produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN Security Council sanctions as well as multilateral and national sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program, including steps on access in areas of trade, technology, finance, and energy.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action comprises of a main text, and five technical annexes - on nuclear, sanctions, civil nuclear energy cooperation, a joint commission, and implementation. These documents are detailed and specific: that is important because all sides wanted clarity so as to ensure the full and effective implementation of the agreement.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a balanced deal that respects the interests of all sides. It is also complex, detailed and technical: we cannot fully summarize the agreement now. But the full main text and all its annexes will be made public still today and will be presented within the next few days by the E3+3 to the Security Council for endorsement.

We know that this agreement will be subject to intense scrutiny. But what we are announcing today is not only a deal but a good deal. And a good deal for all sides – and the wider international community.

This agreement opens new possibilities and a way forward to end a crisis that has lasted for more than 10 years. We are committed to make sure this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is fully implemented, counting also on the contribution of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

We call on the world community to support the implementation of this historic effort.

This is the conclusion of our negotiations, but this is not the end of our common work. We will keep doing this important task together. Thank you.


Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Let me join Ms. Mogherini in thanking members of the press for your patience, your perseverance and for keeping us company during these difficult negotiations. Now as it has become our customary form of presentation, I will present exactly the same paper that Ms. Mogherini read in English in Persian. So don't worry, it's the same thing.


Today is an historic day. It's  a –it's  an honor for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iran's nuclear program.

Through courage, political will, mutual respect and excellent leadership and management, we delivered on what the world was hoping for: a shared commitment to peace and to join hands in order to make our world safer. This is an historic day also because we are creating the conditions for building trust and opening a new chapter in our relationship.

This achievement is the result of a collective effort.

No one ever thought it would be easy. Historic decisions never are. But despite all twists and turns of the talks, and the number of extensions, hope and determination enabled us to overcome all the difficult moments. We have always been aware we had a responsibility to our generation and the future ones.

Thanks to the constructive engagement of all parties, and the dedication and ability of our teams, we have successfully concluded negotiations and resolved a dispute that lasted more than 10 years.

Many people brought these difficult negotiations forward during the last decade and we would like to thank all of them - as we would like to thank the International Atomic Energy Agency for its critical contribution and close cooperation as well as the Austrian government for the support and hospitality.

We, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security policy and the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, together with the Foreign Ministers of the People´s Republic of China, France, Germany, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America met here in Vienna, following several months of intensive work, at various levels and in different formats, to negotiate the text of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), based on the key parameters agreed in Lausanne on 2 April.

We have today agreed on the final text of this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

The E3/EU+3 and the Islamic Republic of Iran welcome this historic Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which will ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will be exclusively peaceful, and mark a fundamental shift in their approach to this issue. They anticipate that full implementation of this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will positively contribute to regional and international peace and security. Iran reaffirms that under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action includes Iran’s own long-term plan with agreed limitations on Iran’s nuclear program, and will produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN Security Council sanctions as well as multilateral and national sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear program, including steps on access in areas of trade, technology, finance, and energy.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action comprises of a main text, and five technical annexes - on nuclear, sanctions, civil nuclear energy cooperation, a joint commission, and implementation. These documents are detailed and specific: that is important because all sides wanted clarity so as to ensure the full and effective implementation of the agreement.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is a balanced deal that respects the interests of all sides. It is also complex, detailed and technical: we cannot fully summarize the agreement now. But the full main text and all its annexes will be made public still today and will be presented within the next few days by the E3+3 to the Security Council for endorsement.

We know that this agreement will be subject to intense scrutiny. But what we are announcing today is not only a deal but a good deal. And a good deal for all sides – and the wider international community.

This agreement opens new possibilities and a way forward to end a crisis that has lasted for more than 10 years. We are committed to make sure this Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is fully implemented, counting also on the contribution of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

We call on the world community to support the implementation of this historic effort.

This is the end of our negotiations, but it's not the end of our common effort. We do jointly peruse this important responsibility. Thank you very much.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

How could this statement make sense to you?


Mike,

How could this statement make sense to you if your theory is correct? "... the Mujahideen saw the black gang of thugs in the White House hiding the Truth, and their stupid and foolish leader, who is elected and supported by his people, denying reality and proclaiming that we (the Mujahideen) were striking them because we were jealous of them (the Americans), whereas the reality is that we are striking them because of their evil and injustice in the whole of the Islamic World, especially in Iraq and Palestine and their occupation of the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries." -Osama Bin Laden , February 14 , 2003

Why would these words be spoken from what you claim is "fake"? You can see how the media spun it by omitting these words from news reports about the tape recording. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/14/binladen.tape/ 

U.S. officials don't deny it was bin Laden talking. We know why they would want to omit parts. The question is why "create" those parts only to then suppress them?  The thing that makes no sense is that if what you claim is true in your theory, then why in the world would "secret agents" fake a message saying Bush is a liar? Why would "secret agents" fake a message saying that the real reason for the attack is because of the Americans's "evil and injustice in the whole of the Islamic World, especially in Iraq and Palestine and their occupation of the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries."? You know the powers that be like to insist that the reasons were along the lines of Bush's explanation for the motive, so why "secret agents" "create" a tape that says calls Bush a liar about his claim about what the motives were?

-Tom

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Manufacturing Consent 2.0

Manufacturing Consent 2.0 Links What YouTube is doing to the ‪Representative Press‬ channel could be called Manufacturing Consent 2.0 I talk about it in this video:‪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMECO9mUrnA‬ and at the end of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijMX3voPOo&feature=youtu.be&t=3m47s


Byline interviewed Noam Chomsky, to find out his views on the current media landscape. Are the media still "manufacturing consent"? https://www.byline.com/column/3/article/7

"an alternative model is public support for the widest possible range of information and analysis and that should, I think, be a core part of a functioning democracy." http://marker.to/ZBMvf4

Think about retrofitting Voice of America through legislation to mandate that it be totally under the control of the people, totally transparent and dedicated to serving the needs of all Americans. Think how fast we could reach that tangible goal. https://www.youtube.com/user/RepresentativePress/about

"In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, besides using printing contracts to subsidize favored party organs, the federal government supported the press in what First Amendment lawyers today would call a "viewpoint-neutral" way--through cheap postal rates that were available to all newspapers. And since the 1960s, both the federal and state governments have aided public broadcasting, which has enabled public TV and radio stations to become important sources of news." - Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It by Robert W. McChesney (Editor), Victor Pickard (Editor)


Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It by Robert W. McChesney (Editor), Victor Pickard (Editor)

VIDEOS: 
Chomsky Hitler History Lesson and MORE


Manufacturing Consent 2.0 Links

What YouTube is doing to the ‪Representative Press‬ channel could be called Manufacturing Consent 2.0 I talk about it in this video:‪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMECO9mUrnA‬ and at the end of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijMX3voPOo&feature=youtu.be&t=3m47s


Byline interviewed Noam Chomsky, to find out his views on the current media landscape. Are the media still "manufacturing consent"? https://www.byline.com/column/3/article/7

"an alternative model is public support for the widest possible range of information and analysis and that should, I think, be a core part of a functioning democracy." http://marker.to/ZBMvf4

Think about retrofitting Voice of America through legislation to mandate that it be totally under the control of the people, totally transparent and dedicated to serving the needs of all Americans. Think how fast we could reach that tangible goal. https://www.youtube.com/user/RepresentativePress/about

"In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, besides using printing contracts to subsidize favored party organs, the federal government supported the press in what First Amendment lawyers today would call a "viewpoint-neutral" way--through cheap postal rates that were available to all newspapers. And since the 1960s, both the federal and state governments have aided public broadcasting, which has enabled public TV and radio stations to become important sources of news." - Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It by Robert W. McChesney (Editor), Victor Pickard (Editor)


Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done To Fix It by Robert W. McChesney (Editor), Victor Pickard (Editor)

VIDEOS: 
Chomsky Hitler History Lesson and MORE


Friday, May 08, 2015

U.S. military outright invented lies

"It has been well-known for several years that the U.S. military outright invented lies regarding literally every aspect of the Jessica Lynch story. " - GLENN GREENWALD
 http://www.salon.com/2007/04/25/tillman_lynch/

Also see: Situation with YouTube
and YouTube's criteria for what they consider content that is “advertiser-friendly"

YouTube's criteria for what they consider content that is “advertiser-friendly"

YouTube says that “advertiser-friendly” content is content which "has little to no inappropriate and/or mature content in the video stream, thumbnail, or metadata such as video title." But they do say "if there may be inappropriate content, the context is usually newsworthy or comedic where the creator’s intent is to inform or entertain, and not offend or shock" and clearly the intent of the Representative Press channel is NOT to "offend or shock" but rather to "inform" the public with "newsworthy" content.

PLEASE Sign and Share this Petition: YouTube Petition to try to get them to change the policy back to what it was so independent journalists can once again earn revenue for their work.

 The Representative Press channel is presenting newsworthy content with the intent to inform (see the about page here) and is not a channel with videos intended to offend or shock.

YouTube says that content it "considers to be inappropriate for advertising includes but is not limited to:
  • Sexually suggestive content, including partial nudity and sexual humor
  • Violence, including display of serious injury and events related to violent extremism
  • Inappropriate language, including harassment, profanity and vulgar language
  • Promotion of drugs and regulated substances, including selling, use and abuse of such items
  • Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including natural disasters and deaths
YouTube says: "If any of the above describes any portion of your video, then it may not be approved for monetization. In cases where monetization is approved, your video may not be eligible for all of the ad formats we offer. YouTube reserves the right to not monetize a video, as well as suspend monetization feature on channels who repeatedly submit videos that violate our policies."

 Here is the YouTube Help Page that the above info is from. I am pointing this out because of this:

Situation with YouTube 

And here is the video where the YouTube Petition is read aloud: YouTube, Please Restore Ad Revenue for Journalists Reporting on War & Political Conflicts


Thursday, April 30, 2015

Drunken Peasants TJ & Ben Dismiss Complaints about YouTube as "Silly"

Situation with YouTube

I really am disgusted by how YouTube is pulling monetization from MANY videos. I was thinking I could email my viewers a list of videos which this was done to. You can join the Representative Press email list to see that list of videos (joining may also help deal with the situation of YouTube not notifying my subscribers of new videos.

(I also would like to test to see if people are getting the emails so please join the Representative Press email list )

It really is sad that YouTube is doing this to my channel because my videos are serious journalism and the YouTube actions are financially hindering that journalism. I am actually shocked at how many videos YouTube is removing monetization from. Here is a shocking example I alluded to in my most recent video which had monetization pulled for no good reason: 

May 7, 2015 UPDATE: Tonight I just noticed that YouTube restored the monetization for the above video BUT has removed it from the video I featured at the end of the "Drunken Peasants" video!  Yes, the video about how Representative Press was omitted from the list of YouTube partners has had its monetization removed!

As I said in my latest video called Drunken Peasants TJ & Ben Dismiss Complaints about YouTube as "Silly"  the situation of YouTube marginalizing the Representative Press channel has been going on for years. See this video for example.

"Let's use this platform to advocate for the formal establishment of a Representative Press. Think about retrofitting Voice of America through legislation to mandate that it be totally under the control of the people, totally transparent and dedicated to serving the needs of all Americans. Think how fast we could reach that tangible goal." https://www.youtube.com/user/RepresentativePress/about

TJ mocks people's grievances against Youtube and Google, insisting that the Google system has no bias or agenda. Both Ben and TJ belittle concerns about YouTube channels being unable to monetize videos due to political content.

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This is where I got the clips for my latest video called Drunken Peasants TJ & Ben Dismiss Complaints about YouTube as "Silly" they come from 56 minutes into this video (you can hear the uncensored curses in the video, remember I added the bleeps to my video when I played the clips): Sarkeesian Time 100 Most Influential? #CENSUREWHEATON - GTime Johnny Sings Again! DPP #108 https://youtu.be/b7DfJWJfYGI?t=56m21s

Also see: YouTube's criteria for what they consider content that is “advertiser-friendly"

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Corporate Media FAILS us (again) on TPP coverage


Sen. Sanders says" I find it incomprehensible that, to the best of my knowledge, ABC,CBS, NBC and CNN have had zero coverage of the TPP ( the corporate-friendly Trans Pacific Partnership)

‪‪#NoFastTrack‬ ‪#NoTPP‬ #StopFastTrack‬ ‪#StopFastTrack #News #WorldNews #USNews #TPP #Trade #TPA #FastTrack #Obama #TTIP #Congress #StopTPP #ISDS #FreeTrade #Senate #ElizabethWarren #BernieSanders #GOP #Trading

Thursday, April 23, 2015

They Don't Want You to See TPP text! Demand to Here!

TPP Petition by Sen. Warren

You can't read this by Elizabeth Warren

Have you seen what’s in the new TPP trade deal?

Most likely, you haven’t – and don’t bother trying to Google it. The government doesn’t want you to read this massive new trade agreement. It’s top secret.

Why? Here’s the real answer people have given me: “We can’t make this deal public because if the American people saw what was in it, they would be opposed to it.”

If the American people would be opposed to a trade agreement if they saw it, then that agreement should not become the law of the United States.

Let’s send a loud message to our trade officials: No vote on a fast-track for trade agreements until the American people can see what’s in this TPP deal. Sign this petition right now to make the TPP agreement public.

The THREATS posed by the TPP and the TTIP. You Can Act!
For more than two years now, giant corporations have had an enormous amount of access to see the parts of the TPP trade deal that might affect them and to give their views as negotiations progressed. But the doors stayed locked for the regular people whose jobs are on the line.
TPP isn’t classified military intelligence – it’s a trade agreement among 12 countries that control 40% of the world’s economy. A trade agreement that affects jobs, environmental regulations, and whether workers around the globe are treated humanely. It might even affect the new financial rules we put in place after the 2008 crisis. This trade agreement doesn’t matter to just the biggest corporations – it matters to all of us.
Let’s send a loud message to our trade officials: No vote on a fast-track for trade agreements until the American people can see what’s in this TPP deal. Let’s send a loud message to our trade officials: No vote on a fast-track for trade agreements until the American people can see what’s in this TPP deal. Sign this petition right now to make the TPP agreement public.

SEE VIDEO:The THREATS posed by the TPP and the TTIP. You Can Act!

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The THREATS posed by the TPP & TTIP. You Can Act!


See examples of how the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are threats to our democracy.

"We’re organizing the Internet Vote on April 23rd to give Internet users everywhere a voice against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret deal that could lead to global Internet Censorship." Take ACTION http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2015/04/take-action.html

How "Free Market Capitalism" Really Works. Nader and Chomsky Explain the Game, a Nanny State to Take Care of the Rich. And the Truth about the Wall Street Bailout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDPxVy7h38&list=PLuf794ZZ4y0ue9DLq0El6ZldajuYe-NgG

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed new treaty, being negotiated behind closed doors between twelve countries of the Pacific rim, that will limit countries' freedom to make their own laws to protect consumers, Internet users, workers and the environment." "Congress is trying to make sure the public doesn’t have a voice in negotiations around the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). They’re trying to “Fast Track” the secret deal, threatening our Internet and our democracy. Fight back by joining the Internet Vote on April 23rd. Let's flood Washington, DC with calls and emails to make it clear how the Internet is voting: against censorship and against Fast Track".  See this link to the Representative Press blog  to Learn More:  http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2015/04/take-action.html

Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Until we know how bad this agreement will be
We're gonna have to stop the TPP
In an overseas private court, a multinational company
Can sue for billions through the TPP
Attacking our national laws, is not something that we want to see
So let's get that out of the TPP
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Don't wanna sacrifice our national sovereignty
That's what will happen in the TPP
They say that it will bring new jobs, but where are those jobs gonna be?
No way of knowing from the TPP
We all want our country to grow, so long as it's sustainably
We might not get that from the TPP
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Let's not gamble with our jobs and the economy
We're better off without the TPP
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Everybody let's stop the TPP!
Until we know how bad this agreement will be
We're gonna have to stop the TPP

The TPP and TTIP, are two different trade agreements, both will have the same disastrous results.
 hidden within this
deal are plans to include rules to give investors
the right too sue governments.
many fear their inclusion presents a
grave threat to democracy, public funds and the development of public policy.

For investors and their lawyers law firms becoming more and more creative at the kinds of government decisions that their attacking fifteen years ago there were virtually
no awards and very few cases and now there are
several hundred. that's a very large number in the context of international law and international adjudications investors are suing on a whole range of
government policies american tobacco giant Philip Morris is
suing Uruguay for two billion US dollars over health warnings on cigarette packs

It could be that all these actions have a freezing effect on policy discretion that states to no longer want to run the risk of doing things that displease investors

Sometimes the mere threat of an investor state dispute can be enough to kill legislation just because the policy makers are afraid of being sued
So that shows that investor-state disputes actually also an enormous threat to our democracy. Both the united nations and the International Monetary Fund have warned that investor rights in trade agreements can severely curb the state's ability to respond in times of financial crisis.

when the country's in economic crisis it needs to adapt all kinds of measures to get out of the crisis and also to protect its people from the West.

http://www.exposethetpp.org/

http://www.exposethetpp.org/How_To_Engage_in_TPP_Art_Activism.pdf

http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/trans-pacific-partnership

http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/trade-policies/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems/


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NEW VIDEO:

They Don't Want You to See TPP text! Demand to Here!

Please help spread the word by using the YouTube tools to share the video:
https://youtu.be/N78lJL7aIqk?t=3m46s

"We’re organizing the Internet Vote on April 23rd to give Internet users everywhere a voice against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret deal that could lead to global Internet Censorship."
Join the Internet Vote to Stop Censorship Click Here

 How "Free Market Capitalism" Really Works. Nader and Chomsky Explain the Game, a Nanny State to Take Care of the Rich. And the Truth about the Wall Street Bailout:

Links to the other videos which I used some clips from, Stop the TPP! and Suing the state: hidden rules within the EU-US trade deal are in this playlist too. Those two videos ( Stop the TPP! and Suing the state: hidden rules within the EU-US trade deal) were uploaded Creative Commons. My use is fair use.

  Newly Leaked TTIP Draft Reveals Far-Reaching Assault on US/EU Democracy Mammoth deal an even greater boon to corporate power than previously known, warn analysts TPP and TTIP, Two Different Trade Agreements, Both Will Have the Same Disastrous Results This film presents some of the dangers of the investor rights within the proposed EU-US trade deal. We need to stop this corporate attack on our democracy and policies to protect the public interest. And the TPP video: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed new treaty, being negotiated behind closed doors between twelve countries of the Pacific rim, that will limit countries' freedom to make their own laws to protect consumers, Internet users, workers and the environment.

For information about how the TPP will affect consumers' rights, see Consumers International's website at http://A2Knetwork.org/tpp. For its specific impacts on copyright and the Internet, see the Our Fair Deal coalition site at http://ourfairdeal.org.

http://www.exposethetpp.org/

http://www.exposethetpp.org/How_To_Engage_in_TPP_Art_Activism.pdf

http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/trans-pacific-partnership

http://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/trade-policies/tpp-potential-trade-policy-problems/

‪Trans-Pacific Partnership: Corporate Global Domination (Long Version)‬

"International negotiators have not yet hammered out final details of the TPP, and text is not public"

Elizabeth Warren wrote: "arts of the TPP trade deal that might affect them and to give their views as negotiations progressed. But the doors stayed locked for the regular people whose jobs are on the line.
TPP isn’t classified military intelligence – it’s a trade agreement among 12 countries that control 40% of the world’s economy. A trade agreement that affects jobs, environmental regulations, and whether workers around the globe are treated humanely. It might even affect the new financial rules we put in place after the 2008 crisis. This trade agreement doesn’t matter to just the biggest corporations – it matters to all of us.
Let’s send a loud message to our trade officials: No vote on a fast-track for trade agreements until the American people can see what’s in this TPP deal." Warren asks you to sign this petition.
NEW VIDEO PROMOTES that petition, please use the YouTube tools to share it: