Thursday, 18 June 2009

Patti Smith - People Have The Power



The true Goddess!

What took you so long?

I e-mailed Nico @ HuffPo 5 hours ago about iranfax.org and now he puts it up! watch out for hamradio (Middle East) wavelengths emailed to him a couple of minutes ago! love MonaXXX

Updates (keep refreshing page#2)

If you have Tor setup I urge you to post your own bridge link on your blog and help get the word out that there are ways around internet filters. You can download Tor and the Vidalia bundle below.

Download Tor
Download Tor in Farsi

Update:
If Tor gets taken out please try http://iran.sharearchy.com/ for information on getting around the Ayatollah’s Iran Curtain.


Hillary goes GREEN!






What is a President without a Country?

Due to Military neutrality, and State Police cooperation with people, everything will be transferred to the Rev. Guards tmr.

big ques is what the paramilitary volunteer 'basij' do. theyre in effect outside the law givng govt plausible deniability

Tomorrow at 10 am ANJ/Basij crowd gather in front of Judiciary to call for arrest of Faeze and Mehdi Hashemi for their role in the unrest

Praying is enough. U are the best friends anyone could hope for. I'm glad to have had the pleasure of talking to any of u.

eyewitness:in the past rally, a friend was beaten up by the force group and was left with a broken head and injured eyes

Victory-peace-signs I hope Reza is OK where ever he is. nobody knows where Intel took him to. they should already called his familiy.

Yes, and Doctors in some hospitals are standing in front doors preventing basij from interring

the rumor about Hezbolah & Hamas helping Basij, until today I never believed it but I saw them today with my own eyes

they wear black riot police outfit, brown skin and shouting to people in Arabic & hit everybody they see

State Police Force comfirms the plain-clothes and black-masked militia are from Palestine and Lebanon, and have diff. orders.

Hamed from Tabriz confirmed 2 killed in Tabriz's engineering university. thing really getting awful for all students around the country

RT:some of the students arrested have not been released yet after 3 day, no word from them :((

Mousavi's wife Zahra Rahnavard today joined injured students at Tehran University

Mousavi & Khatami have delivered joint letter to Ministry of Justice demanding release of protestors

Iranian state TV just broadcast footage of the ongoing protest at Haft-e-Tir Sq. This is a break through!! VIVA Iran VIVA Mousavi!!Soccer-green

eyewitness, latest slogan: "Take the websites and our cell phones, we don't give our country to you!"

Please Vote for google to change its logo for one day http://bit.ly/134Xwo

IMPORTANT #youtube announcement regarding making an exception 4 Iranian violent videos & keeping them in the public forum

BBC is the crappiest network I've ever seen ... they just revealed every trick the nation can use for communication in such tough times!!

Foreign Media in Iran is now officially under "OFFICE ARREST", BUT I'm Iranian, so I take off my Journo Hat & walk the streets as an Iranian

Now 2 people we've intvwd in last wk have been arrested

I have a bad feeling in my gut that the protests are weakening, and the gov is going to win this. Please don't let it happen.

tired, worried. what will happen? will all this sacrifice change anything?

Tweets
@DailyDish


(So how is Fitzroy today?)

HAM RADIO FREQUENCIES FOR IRAN




Anonymous Iran

ALL FOREIGN JOURNALISTS ORDERED TO LEAVE IRAN

ALL CELL PHONE SERVICE SHUT DOWN IN IRAN

"As we look ahead to what is likely to be another dramatic day of protest in Iran, it is worth noting what The Guardian's Ian Black said in an audio interview this morning, after he returned from Tehran. Asked "who's leading the protesters," Mr. Black said that "it is in effect rather amorphous and leaderless." He said that many of the rallies seemed to be "pretty much happening spontaneously without anyone organizing them." As the Iranian government continues to try to stop the protests by arresting reformist political leaders and intellectuals, the opposition's ability to keep mobilizing seemingly spontaneous rallies could be crucial to its success."
Nico Pitney
(11-59AM)



CONFIRMED FAKE TWEETERS
* http://twitter.com/Persian_Guy (Using fake RT to spread disinfo)
* http://twitter.com/serv_ (posing fake RTs; disinfo)
* http://twitter.com/TruePersian1 (Was preaching violence & destruction in all caps; now updates are protected)
* http://twitter.com/twitrevolution (Suggesting violence towards police and blocking of roads; such actions are likely arrestable. Either provocateur or someone really violent)

Trolls and SPAM

* http://twitter.com/louis_friend (Tweets are obviously fake, includes obscene links such as the infamous Goatse pics)
* http://twitter.com/jamal1986 (all links are to infamous Goatse pic) NEW!
* http://twitter.com/falseprophetakb (Nazi symbolism; claims Mohammad is a “false prophet” hence the username, and name is “HowardStern”)
* http://twitter.com/IRFORREAL (fake url for unrelated site)
* http://twitter.com/ohaitere (Alternating between a false report of Mousavi death and SPAM about iPhones)
* http://twitter.com/jfcrow (few tweets, all appear to be random keywords)
* http://twitter.com/Karmuk (Retweeting same message over and over)
* http://twitter.com/mikehiavelli (Same tweets over and over)
* http://twitter.com/globalmeeting (Same tweets over and over)

Suspected

* http://twitter.com/FreeMediaNews (Some tweets are fake reports)
* http://twitter.com/IRElec (Using entrapment techniques that are well known)
* http://twitter.com/lisamforeman (Possibly fake Guardian.co.uk account)
* http://twitter.com/AJE_Producer (Possibly fake Al’ Jazerra Account)

To Watch

* http://twitter.com/amoo_miki (Was following many people with no updates; only just started posting)
* http://twitter.com/AnonymousInIran (Was an Anonymous Posting Proxy with ANYONE able to post through it; now banned in Iran)
* http://twitter.com/rccccr (was following users with Iran election tweets, still no posts)
* http://twitter.com/BrothersinAbrah (a single hashtag post only)
* http://twitter.com/_SuperGreen_ (No updates so far)
* http://twitter.com/ghb78 (Following seems to be random, followers likely auto-refollow)

Suspended or removed:

* http://twitter.com/IranisFree (Had link to a website that crashes IE)
* http://twitter.com/am12976
* http://twitter.com/iranianfree2k9
* http://twitter.com/rWhZEV (Fake Iran Election headlines)

Conspiracy Theories (Not necessarily purposeful disinfo)

* http://twitter.com/persiantiki
* http://twitter.com/chartingstocks (Writing fake articles on the Iranian Election Twitters)
* http://twitter.com/obamaspy



Graphic footage

Hilary Clinton defends twitter users

#Persian_Guy @twitter confirmed mole

Reports of Basij going into hospitals and beating up injured patients


Interesting summary
Disturbing the amount of times now I have read about the Palestinian Hamas fighters who are allegedly in Tehran. Even though Hamas Palestinians are Sunni and Iranian's are mostly Shi'ite, this is possibly payback for all the money that Iran has given to Hamas in the past.
NB: NOT CONFIRMED.

Real time

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars" - Kahlil Gibran

What appear to be twitter accounts run by anti democracy forces

Updates (keep refreshing page)

Seems to have gone quiet and I certainly need some (beauty) sleep!
(5-19AM)





Famed film director, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, on behalf of Mousavi's campaign, was on BBC just now, He accused Ahamdinejad of giving up Iran's rights in Caspian Sea and other areas in the last 4 years and now is enjoying Russia's firm backing. Then he called it a Russian Coup! He said he has information that high ranking Russian advisers are teaching Ahmadinejad's thugs as to how to oppress the opposition effectively. This is Mohsen Makhmablf, not just any director. Already Iranians are gathering in front of Russian consulate in Toronto.
@ Daily Dish
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(4-59AM)


WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is disputing an allegation by the Iranian government that the United States is meddling excessively in its internal affairs.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley responded to the allegation by telling reporters that the U.S. is withholding judgment about whether last week's presidential election was conducted fairly. He said the U.S. is not interfering in Iranian internal affairs.

Crowley acknowledged that the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. interests in Tehran, was summoned by government officials to hear the Iranian complaint.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press.

This Could Save Lives!
(4-20AM)

"There were also unconfirmed reports that Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran's interior ministry, was killed yesterday in a suspicious car accident in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked evidence that the elections were rigged to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19m votes, and should therefore be president."
Full story at 'FP' here.






REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
(3-39AM)

A state television channel in Iran says the government summoned the Swiss ambassador, who represents U.S. interests in Iran, to complain about American interference. The two countries broke off diplomatic relations after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. An English-language state-run channel quoted the government as calling Western interference "intolerable."
The Guardian




PHOTOGRAPHS

This keeps popping up again and again.
Look at the number of votes NOT the percentages!

Old methods can still work!
http://iranfax.org/

Over half a million people are taking part in a march in Iran now.
Many are wearing black in mourning for those killed in earlier protests. Protesters want to go to Tehran University later to mourn the killing on Sunday of students in a dormitory. Reuters says that "tens of thousands" of people are protesting. One street leading to the square was packed for several kilometres, witnesses said. Most of the protesters were silent and making victory signs. Some are holding pictures of those killed. The authorities say the rally is banned.
The Guardian blog.

In the most specific allegations of rigging yet to emerge, the centrist Ayandeh website – which stayed neutral during the campaign – reported that 26 provinces across the country showed participation figures so high they were either hitherto unheard of in democratic elections or in excess of the number of registered electors.

Taft, a town in the central province of Yazd, had a turnout of 141%, the site said, quoting an unnamed "political expert". Kouhrang, in Chahar Mahaal Bakhtiari province, recorded a 132% turnout while Chadegan, in Isfahan province, had 120%.
Robert Tait in 'The Guardian' reports here.
(1-42AM)
Maybe that Moscow trip was not just window-dressing.

The video appears to be from today.

South Korea 1 VS 1 Iran

محمد رضا شجريان

In response to Ahmadinejad’s earlier speech calling the supporters of Mousavi “brushwood and thorns,” Iran’s most famous classical musician has ordered that Iranian government television/radio never play his music again. Mohammad Reza Shajarian told BBC Persian in an interview:
“Don’t broadcast my voice on Seda va Sima [IRIB Music channel] ever again: my voice is like brushwood and thorns, and it will forever remain brushwood and thorns!”


From 'NIAC' here.

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

Why Twitter is the medium


You can actually see when the Iranian authorities cut off the access to the internet here.

US options re: Iran

Very interesting analysis from 'The Middle East Strategy at Harvard' blog here.

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.

Watch THIS girl!

Frightening...

More food for thought

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

Breaking News indeed - lucky there is nothing happening in the world at the moment!

New Protests planned

Full story from the 'BBC' here.

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."

Full story at the 'ABC' here.

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!

Pirate Bay becomes 'The Persian Bay' in solidarity

“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

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

Iran's most senior Ayatollah, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri says:


In the name of God

People of Iran

These last days, we have witnessed the lively efforts of you, brothers and sisters, old and young alike, from every social category, for the 10th presidential elections.

Our youth, hoping to see their rightful will fulfilled, came on the scene and waited patiently. This was the greatest occasion for the government’s officials to bond with their people.

However, unfortunately, they used it in the worst way possible. Declaring results that no one in their right mind can believe, and despite all the evidence of crafted results, and contrary to the people’s protestations, in front of the eyes of the same nation who carried the weight of a revolution and 8 years of war, in front of the eyes of local and foreign reporters, attacked the children of the people with astonishing violence. And now they are attempting a purge, arresting intellectuals, political opponents and Scientists.

Now, based on my religious duties, I will remind you:

1- A legitimate state must respect all points of view. It may not oppress critical views. I fear that this will lead to the loss of people’s faith in Islam.

2- Given the current circumstances, I expect the government to take all measures to restore people’s confidence. Otherwise, as I have already said, a government not respecting the people’s vote has no religious or political legitimacy.

3- I invite everyone, especially the youth, to continue reclaiming their dues calmly, and not to allow those who want to associate this movement with chaos succeed.

4- I ask the police and army personnel not to “sell their religion”, and be aware that receiving orders will not excuse them before God. Recognize the protesting youth as your children. Today, censorship and cutting telecommunication lines can not hide the truth.

I pray for the greatness of the Iranian people.

(Here)

Various tweets


twitter is making tehran look like a warzone. chill out people! report what's happening. not what you wish happened.

militia in streets of tehran all night trying to scare ppl

new (conflicting/replacement?) event at 4 pm 2day: peaceful march from inqilab to azadi circle.

5:15am, we're ready to go checking out university & Dorms. masood suggested karoubi's party HQ will be a good & safe place to get some news

conflicting reports from Rasht of many dead and all night street fighting

this near vanak, hotbed of much activity during past 4 days. would be 1st i've heard police arresting anti-mousavi thugs.

last night thousands stayed in streets between Parkway and Vanak sq until after 2am

unconfirmed - several Generals have been arested

Peace--protesters-male only baseej militia and Etellaat folowing orders - they cannot contain country without Army

in azadi sq the killing was by baseej ONLY - military did not react

situation in Ahwaz critical - many many dead in past 48 hrs - hundreds arrested and beaten

38 wounded by shotguns were admitted to Rasool hospital yesterday. among them 10 were killed.

more than 30 were killed in gunshots yesterday whose corpses were removed by Intelligent police from Imam hospital

I'm good and safe for now. just my leg wounded a little bit, I don't think I can run fast any time soon

i was debating an ahmadinejad supporter who said this was a velvet revolution attempt. funny i see it's dominant idea online.

State Tv just aired 2 election specialist(!) talking about it's impossible for election to be fraud cause we're talking about 10M difference

Iranians continue to receive pre-recorded messages from the gorvernment. They state that they are part of the protests.

DEATH TOLL IN IRAN 24!

students are fightng with basiji in..amir abad i believe

AFAIK students have evacuated U of Tehran dorms!

special forces burst in my friends home & arrested injured who sought shelter there says thre is blood on stairs

ignore all instructions from new twitters or twitters with no history of accurate posts

RT from Iran - our lives are in real danger now - we are the eyes - they need to stop usPeace--protesters-female

Lots of fake Mousavi sites created 4 counter intel. WARNING THESE ARE FAKE: www.mirhoseyn.ir www.mirhoseyn.com SPREAD

Lots of counter intelligence from Shahrzadmo & ppl seem to be working for intelligence min., be careful ppl dont trust all

In ans. to some q's, we're not confined to our hotel, but barred from working outside, filming

Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, the moment you post iranian government will se it and block it. instead DM.

Kayhan News, the ultra right state-run newspaper, is taken down by a series of DDoS attacks.

large demo today outside tehran tv-radio headquerters - Karroubi attended

i'm glad #iranelection protests are getting more pointedly peaceful.

there was hope in parliament speaker's angry questioning of interior minister 2day.

From Andrew Sullivan's 'The Daily Dish'

The Church Of Latter Day Can - Book Two (Beyond Can 1977-1984)

Just discovered this amazing blog which has just posted this mix of Can member's early solo work.
Having a look around the rest of the blog has unearthed a veritable treasure chest of other interesting posts. A lot of post-punk mixes etc.
Excellent work and well worth book-marking.
Check it out:
MUSICOPHILIA

The Guardian Tehran live blog update

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

الله أكبر

This Revolution Brought to You By Twitter and You Tube



(BIG thanx Fucoid!)

'Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online'
(NY Times)

Live blog

8.45am:
Mousavi has written to the Iranian people encouraging them to carry on protesting, according to al-Jazeera.

"My repeated suggestion as your servant is that you continue your civil and legal opposition all around the country, in a calm manner and observing anti-conflict fundaments," its translation of the letter says.

'The Guardian' live blog.

Iran to hold election recount

Story at the 'BBC' here.

UPDATE - Poll result in Iran declared 'provisional' by the Guardian Council

"I certainly get the impression from the authorities that the wind is really changing here.The Guardian Council has now said it was only a provisional result and has called in all three losing candidates to speak to them this morning. Bizarrely, all the communications seem to be working - suddenly international phone calls are working. The BBC satellite is not being blocked.At the same time, Mr Ahmadinejad has gone off to a regional summit in Russia, apparently oblivious to everything..."
Jon Leyne 'BBC'

Full story here.

However "the demonstrations called by supporters of both President Ahmadinejad and Mr Mousavi are due to take place in Vali Asr Square in central Tehran" (later today.)

SUPPORT IRANIAN DEMOCRACY



BONUS:Audio
"Persian Love" by Holger Czukay

www.tehranlive.org

vatanam vatanam vatnam,,,, baraye azadi dar vatanam va nejate vatanam

The internet & Iran

Story at the 'BBC' here.

Uprising turns bloody

Iran updates


Spank!!! # 4

('The Naughty Flirt' 1931)
'Mogodonia' via 'Wicked Knickers'
via 'Shadowplay'

Thatcher's role in changing music!

Story from the 'BBC' here.

How to laser-tag/graffiti


See here and here.
All you will need is:
1x fast laptop (PC or Mac) that can connect to an external monitor. It helps if the laptop has a dedicated graphics card, so a Macbook Pro would be preferable to a Macbook for this reason (though macbooks seem to run it just fine!).
1x video camera that you can connect to your laptop. Video cameras that have manual controls tend to be a lot better at tracking the laser than ones that automatically adjust the image depending on how bright it is.
1x projector. Anything over 2000 lumens should be good. 1x laser pointer between 5mW and 80mW in power.
ENJOY!
Thanx to Soundbringer!

NOW!


"You love your President! Let him love you back!"


The Big O vibrator!

(Thanx HerrB)

It is written


Jajouka/Joujouka




“Listen to this music, the primordial sounds of a 4,000-year-old rock ‘n’ roll band . . . listen with your whole body, let the music penetrate you and move you, and you will connect with the oldest music on earth.”
William S. Burroughs

(Use the search engine on the right to find more about Jajouka/Joujouka on 'Exile')

JaJouka by TimN (ink, pencil, collage, screenprint and lots more coffee!)


Smoking # 21 by TimN (ink, pencil, felt tip, wax and coffee!)

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