Representative Press Blog

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Christmas Card Video

Please send this Christmas Card to others:

I just made the graphic into a card:
http://www.cafepress.com/SantaCard
A message from Santa Claus ... STOP these WARS! And why wouldn't he say that? The wars are wrong. If you have the power and the celebrity of Santa Claus and you know something's wrong, why wouldn't you speak out against it? Makes sense to me. Use your influence to put an end to an injustice.

How many people think this war is right? All the needless killing, all the needless suffering, all the waste. Why did the United States attack Afghanistan? Because the Taliban refused to extradite Osama bin Laden? That's not an excuse to attack a country and kill all these civilians. There are other countries - the United States refuses to extradite terrorists.

"Right now the US is refusing to extradite to Venezuela Luis Posada Carriles who's one of the leading - most notorious terrorists in the world." - Chomsky

Also, look what actually did work: police work. It wasn't war that apprehended the mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, it was police work. It wasn't war that apprehended the mastermind of 9/11, it was police work. And trying to use war? That is an example of it NOT working, Osama bin Laden got away.

Monday, December 14, 2009

If You Want to Stop Terrorism

VIDEO: If You Want to Stop Terrorism, Stop Killing Muslims

Please send link to others: Tinyurl.com/StopTerrorismNow

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Chomsky Birthday & Power and Terror: Israel Kills Civilians with U.S. Helicopters

SEE VIDEO: Chomsky Birthday & Power and Terror: Israel Kills Civilians with U.S. Helicopters

ChomskyDVD

http://tinyurl.com/ChomskyBirthday

"On October 3, the defense correspondent of Israel’s leading journal, Ha’aretz, reported the largest purchase of U.S. military helicopters in a decade: Blackhawks and parts for Apache attack helicopters sent a few weeks earlier. On October 4, Jane's Defence Weekly, the world’s most prominent military journal, reported that the Clinton Administration had approved a request for new Apache attack helicopters, the most advanced in the U.S. arsenal, having decided, apparently, that the upgrades were not sufficient for the current needs of attacking the civilian population. The same day, the U.S. press reported that Apaches were attacking apartment complexes with rockets at Netzarim. The German press agency quoted Pentagon officials who said that "U.S. weapons sales do not carry a stipulation that the weapons can’t be used against civilians. We cannot second-guess an Israeli commander who calls in helicopter gunships.""

http://www.cine.co.jp/chomsky9.11/eng/effect.html

http://tinyurl.com/ChomskyDVD

Amazon page: Power and Terror

30 Minutes of Bonus Footage Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928 which makes him 81 years old today. "Chomsky gave us hope that if we just organize and act, there's hope. That's wonderful. I feel better than I've felt for months." - woman from the movie "Power and Terror, Noam Chomsky In Our Times" http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2009/12/chomsky-birthday-power-and-terror.html From Chomsky's article (see link below) "The late 2000 confrontations began on September 29, when Israeli troops killed several people and wounded over 100 as they left the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem after Friday prayers." http://www.chomsky.info/articles/200104--.htm

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

w Follow-Up Video

New Follow-Up Video Re: The Media Trend of Omitting Motive for 1993 & 9/11 Attacks

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Media Trend

The Media Trend of Omitting Motive for 1993 & 9/11 Attacks

Friday, November 13, 2009

H1N1

YES They Did! Swine Flu (H1N1) Shots for Obama Girls

About the video, "Everything Is OK" by FlyingPigsOK: This stupid video is another example of the misinformation being spread here on Youtube. For example, it claims Obama hasn't had his children vaccinated against the swine flu. It was uploaded Nov 11th, yet two weeks before this video was uploaded, on Oct 27th, the white house website posted this information: "Malia and Sasha were both vaccinated for H1N1 last week, after the vaccine became available to Washington, DC schoolchildren." - Posted on the White House Blog on October 27, 2009

SEE LINKS:

Vaccinations-first-family

Family-Portait

http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1FLU/ http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/public/vaccination_qa_pub.htm http://flu.gov/myths/index.html

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm

SEVERAL blog posts about vaccines:

About the biased and poorly framed article that appeared in the Atlantic about vaccines:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/10/when_methodolatry_strikes_over_h1n1_influenza.php One more rebuttal to Brownlee and Lenzer's disingenuous Atlantic article: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/11/one_more_rebuttal_to_brownlee_and_lenzer.php Other blog posts about vaccination at this blog: http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/medicine/antivaccination_lunacy/ http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/medicine/antivaccination_lunacy/index.php?page=2 http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/medicine/antivaccination_lunacy/index.php?page=3

http://www.who.int/vaccine_safety/topics/thiomersal/statement_jul2006/en/

Note to those questioning the White House's Oct. 27th statement: The idea isn't to discount every single thing you hear from the White House, there has to be LOGIC. When I say specific things the WH says aren't true, I use something to reference it by, I had REASONS - I pointed to things and judged what was said against that. When I claim a WH statement is a lie, I show why it is a lie, I just don't claim it it is a lie. Do you see the difference? What specifically is it you are referencing for you to make a conclusion that the White House's Oct. 27th statement is false?

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Is This the Best We Can Do?

See video: Is This the Best We Can Do? asks Kucinich about Health Insurance for Health Care. "Government of the people or government by the corporations?" Oct 29, 2009 US House Speech

Is this the best we can do? Mandating private insurance? Forcing people to buy private insurance policies or pay a penalty, guaranteeing at least $50 billion dollars in new business for the insurance companies?

Is this the best we can do? Government negotiates rates which will drive up insurance costs, but the government won't negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies which will drive up pharmaceutical costs.

Is this the best we can do? Only 3% of Americans will go to a new public plan, while currently 33% of Americans are either uninsured or underinsured?

Is this the best we can do? Eliminating the state single payer option, while forcing most people to have to buy private insurance.

If this is the best we can do, then our best isn't good enough and we have to ask some hard questions about our political system, such as: Health Care or Insurance Care? Government of the people or government by the corporations?" - One minute speech on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) talking on Oct 29, 2009 about the latest House health care plan.