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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
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.
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'
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
Tuesday 16 June 2009
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.
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.)
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.)
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.
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!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')
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