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MELBOURNE PATRIOT CAUGHT TAKING BRISBANE COMMIE HELP
Pro-Labor 'Patriot' Andrew Landeryou's rather nasty Melbourne-based, scandal-happy, but sometimes-well-informed political blog The Other Cheek, needed to make a crude distortion of Juanita Wheeler for a story about a hotly-contested Queensland Greens preselection. So he turned to the photo above, taken by me. It's under Creative Commons, so you're free to use it, but you're supposed to give credit, and Landeryou didn't.
We're not surprised known patriot Landeryou didn't credit the photo as he should have. The patriot would be unlikely to give any credit to Let's Take Over, the far-left blog that's a big part of this photostream.
And he's already bankrupt, so you can't sue even if you could prove money damage, which you couldn't, so it would be a waste of time. And the whole idea of Creative Commons is to spread your work, so I guess I should just write a witty comment or something.
But we are surprised that a right-winger(1) like Landeryou would have to turn to a commie photostream like this one. Maybe I should take more photos of politicians and spread the word that they are here.
(1) "he's so right-wing, he votes Labor" - David Williamson once said in a play about someone else entirely
The photo is from the story 'How Pakistan Tortured my Brother', where Les Thomas spoke. He's brother of Jack Thomas ('Jihad Jack'), who says he was tortured while under arrest by political police in Pakistan.
The story features photos of the rally and march, acerbic yet progressive commentary, audio recordings of the speeches (including the good one by Les Thomas) and maps of the route of the march.
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Discussion: Where Public Holidays Come From and Why That's Important, at Larvatus Prodeo.
There's a good discussion going on at Larvatus Prodeo about a recent essay at Online Opinion, called "The Postmodern Left" by Niall Lucy and Steve Mickler, authors of The War On Democracy.
The general tone of the discussion started off harsh, in part because of a very unsatisfactory performance IMAO by some pro-postmodernist people in this long discussion a month or so ago. The essay by Lucy and Mickler is not very clearly written and provides no clear 'call to action'.
However, Adam Gall turned the discussion in a useful direction when he explained, better and more clearly than Lucy and Mickler themselves, why he liked their work.
There was some discussion of class politics and how you would best make it popular, and Adam Gall seems to want to make some T-Shirts that prod people into understanding that even things like public holidays are only won because organised workers are powerful enough to win them. Or at least along those lines.
Worth a read. If you'd like to try a simple way to get all new stories from Let's Take Over (and many other sites) sent to one place, click here for info on the Let's Take Over 'news feed' (sometimes called an 'RSS feed' or 'XML') If you have a fast connection, use this feed instead - it takes longer, but you can read the full stories in your newsreader
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2nd Test - can twitterfeeds and twitter send this blog to your mobile?
Once again, what it says above. First one seemed to work, mostly :) If you'd like to try a simple way to get all new stories from Let's Take Over (and many other sites) sent to one place, click here for info on the Let's Take Over 'news feed' (sometimes called an 'RSS feed' or 'XML') If you have a fast connection, use this feed instead - it takes longer, but you can read the full stories in your newsreader
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Twitter might actually be useful?
I might have found a way for you to get notifications of new stories from Let's Take Over sent to your mobile phone, via Twitter.
This is really just a test post to see if this story does get sent to my phone.
Hope it works.
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Jill Filipovic Googlebomb - For Great Justice!
This is a crosspost to effect a Googlebomb, correcting an injustice against feminist blogger Jill Filipovic.
See this post by tigtog at Larvatus Prodeo for more info.
Jill Filipovic, who blogs at Feministe and Ms. JD, is a NYU law student who has been the subject of cyber-obsession on a discussion board allegedly populated by law students. The discussions regarding Jill Filipovic (and many other female law students) are sexist and sexual in nature, rating the women's physical attractiveness and fantasising about sexual contact, both consensual and non-consensual. Neither Jill Filipovic or any other of these women contributed, or gave their permission to be discussed, to the discussion board in question.
Jill Filopovic's name and class routines etc have been regularly posted to this board, and at least one of the pseudonymous board-members claims to be Jill Filipovic's classmate. Photos that Jill Filipovic posted (with full rights reserved) to an interent photo-storing and sharing site have also been posted to the sleazy discussion board without her permission. This is a horrendous invasion of Jill Filipovic's privacy, a violation of copyright law, and calls the ethics and character of the alleged law-students participating in these discussions on the discussion board into question.
A major side-effect of an already nasty situation is that the sexist, objectifying cyber-obsession threads come up on the first page of internet search results on Jill Filipovic's name. To an inexperienced user of the internet, it may even look as if Jill Filipovic and other female law students chose to compete in these Hot or Not rating competitions, instead of having their pictures posted without permission.
This post is an attempt to balance those internet results to point to the significant writings of Jill Filipovic instead, using the Googlebomb tactic and also linking this post to social networking sites (eg. del.ici.ous, Stumbleupon). Please feel free to copy any or all of what I've written here to your own blog in order to help change the top-ranked search engine results for Jill Filipovic. If you don't have your own blog then please at least link to one of Jill's this post[s] listed below at your preferred social networking site and give it the tag "Filipovic" (as well as any others you think appropriate).
I have linked to these sites in this post:
Jill Filipovic's bio page at Feministe
Jill Filipovic's blog posts at the Ms. JD blog
Jill Filipovic's article about these scummy lawschool sleazebags at Feministe
Jill Filipovic's article at Ms. JD: When Law Student's Attack
If any of the other female law students stalked by the same sleazy site wish to copy this text with names altered, you hereby have my full permission to do so. All other rights reserved. (C) 2007 tigtog
NB - this post has been reproduced as per request in tigtog's article at Larvatus Prodeo.
Should you wish to reproduce it under the terms of that request, you can find a raw HTML version of this post here. This means you can cut and paste the raw HTML into your blogging software, instead of having to add each link by hand.
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Flash: Senator Santo Santoro announces resignation from the Australian Senate
Flash: Senator Santo Santoro announced in the last 20 minutes that he is resigning from the Senate, effective at the end of the current two-week sitting.
He had already resigned as Minister for Aging last week after a scandal where he did not disclose share trading to the Prime Minister or the Senate.
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Greens branch official Sam Clifford approves of police arresting peaceful protesters at Queensland University of Technology
Sam Clifford, who posts on livejournal as ronaldraygun is the Membership Secretary of the North Brisbane branch of the Queensland Greens.
He's argued here that it's perfectly OK for police to be called to arrest members of the group Students for Social Justice, who were protesting the detention of David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay.
For the record, I disagree with SfSJ. Hicks is being held perfectly legally as a prisoner of war, as authorised by the Third Geneva Convention. (The kangaroo court that the USA proposes to try him in is another matter).
I also think Hicks should give his parole and be released, but should also be watched by the security services. He took up arms with a reactionary, malignant group - the Taliban.
But the hypocrisy of this Green is incredible. He thinks that 'permits' and 'rules' are more important than free speech. SfSJ have the right to state their opinion, without the self-important busybodies who run the QUT Student Union censoring them and calling the police. If you'd like to try a simple way to get all new stories from Let's Take Over (and many other sites) sent to one place, click here for info on the Let's Take Over 'news feed' (sometimes called an 'RSS feed' or 'XML') If you have a fast connection, use this feed instead - it takes longer, but you can read the full stories in your newsreader
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