And as it has been pointed out by Nico Pitney it is incredibly brave of them to wear them in the first place as these are well known people.Thursday, 18 June 2009
Iranian footballers forced to remove their wristbands for the start of the second half
And as it has been pointed out by Nico Pitney it is incredibly brave of them to wear them in the first place as these are well known people.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Ladies & gentlemen - these are the rules of engagement!
17 Jun 2009
The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through twitter.
1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will block it in Iran. If you are creating new proxies for the Iranian bloggers, DM them to @stopAhmadi or @iran09 and they will distributed them discretely to bloggers in Iran.
2. Hashtags, the only two legitimate hashtags being used by bloggers in Iran are #iranelection and #gr88, other hashtag ideas run the risk of diluting the conversation.
3. Keep you bull$hit filter up! Security forces are now setting up twitter accounts to spread disinformation by posing as Iranian protesters. Please don’t retweet impetuously, try to confirm information with reliable sources before retweeting. The legitimate sources are not hard to find and follow.
4. Help cover the bloggers: change your twitter settings so that your location is TEHRAN and your time zone is GMT +3.30. Security forces are hunting for bloggers using location and timezone searches. If we all become ‘Iranians’ it becomes much harder to find them.
5. Don’t blow their cover! If you discover a genuine source, please don’t publicise their name or location on a website. These bloggers are in REAL danger. Spread the word discretely through your own networks but don’t signpost them to the security forces. People are dying there, for real, please keep that in mind.
6. Denial of Service attacks. If you don’t know what you are doing, stay out of this game. Only target those sites the legitimate Iranian bloggers are designating. Be aware that these attacks can have detrimental effects to the network the protesters are relying on. Keep monitoring their traffic to note when you should turn the taps on or off.
How to turn your avatar green to show solidarity with Iran
1. Go to picnik.com
2. Upload pic
3. Click 'create' tab
4. Click 'effects'
5. Select 'night vision'
6. Save
2. Upload pic
3. Click 'create' tab
4. Click 'effects'
5. Select 'night vision'
6. Save
Extraordinary scenes!
The long-standing Middle East correspondent for 'The Independent',Robert Fisk, is defying the government crackdown on foreign media reporting in Iran. As he explains, he has been travelling around the streets of Tehran all day and most of the night and things are far from quiet:
"I've just been witnessing a confrontation, in dusk and into the night, between about 15,000 supporters of Ahmadinejad - supposedly the president of Iran - who are desperate to down the supporters of Mr Mousavi, who thinks he should be the president of Iran. There were about 10,000 Mousavi men and women on the streets, with approximately 500 Iranian special forces, trying to keep them apart. It was interesting that the special forces - who normally take the side of Ahmadinejad's Basij militia - were there with clubs and sticks in their camouflage trousers and their purity white shirts and on this occasion the Iranian military kept them away from Mousavi's men and women. In fact at one point, Mousavi's supporters were shouting 'thank you, thank you' to the soldiers. One woman went up to the special forces men, who normally are very brutal with Mr Mousavi's supporters, and said 'can you protect us from the Basij?' He said 'with God's help'.
It was quite extraordinary because it looked as if the military authorities in Tehran have either taken a decision not to go on supporting the very brutal militia - which is always associated with the presidency here - or individual soldiers have made up their own mind that they're tired of being associated with the kind of brutality that left seven dead yesterday - buried, by the way secretly by the police - and indeed the seven or eight students who were killed on the university campus 24 hours earlier.
Quite a lot of policeman are beginning to smile towards the demonstrators of Mr Mousavi, who are insisting there must be a new election because Mr Ahmadinejad wasn't really elected. Quite an extraordinary scene."
The use of the available technology
There was a post an hour or so ago at Nico Pitney's blog about this.
Interesting as I had been talking about the very same thing with my eldest son earlier today.
In Europe at the time of the Tienanmen Square Massacre, one magazine in each of numerous European countries such as 'The Face' in the UK and 'Actuel' in France also printed information about the massacre and supplied a very large number of Chinese fax machine numbers with the intention that their readers should flood China with faxes.
Heady days and making sure that your boss didn't catch you made work more fun!
'By any means necessary' indeed!
Humbling also that this little blog had a WAY bigger amount of hits yesterday, quite a number from within Iran!
Interesting as I had been talking about the very same thing with my eldest son earlier today.
In Europe at the time of the Tienanmen Square Massacre, one magazine in each of numerous European countries such as 'The Face' in the UK and 'Actuel' in France also printed information about the massacre and supplied a very large number of Chinese fax machine numbers with the intention that their readers should flood China with faxes.
Heady days and making sure that your boss didn't catch you made work more fun!
'By any means necessary' indeed!
Humbling also that this little blog had a WAY bigger amount of hits yesterday, quite a number from within Iran!
“How Soccer Explains the World”…except Iran?
"Wednesday is the last qualifying game for the Iranian national soccer team for the World Cup. If they lose they don't qualify. This revolt is different from '99 and '04 in that it's not primarily student based. It's worth noting that if Iran loses to the good South Korea team, there is a whole another spark of frustration."
Tweet at Nico Pitney's 'Huffington Post' blog here.
"Some people say that football is a matter of life and death.
It's not, it is much more important than that!"
Bill Shankly
Tweet at Nico Pitney's 'Huffington Post' blog here.
"Some people say that football is a matter of life and death.
It's not, it is much more important than that!"
Bill Shankly
All tweeters everywhere
for all followers outside iran pls follow my next tweet - v\important
pls everyone change your location on tweeter to IRAN inc timezone GMT+3.30 hrs.
From NY Times blog The Lede
From NY Times blog The Lede
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