Let's Take Over: 2007

One Hundred Thousand Brave Burmese March for Freedom, While Troops Start to Crack Down and Amateurs Outwit the Censors - photos and videos

NOTE: Further updates here at Last Superpower.

Tuesday, September 25th, Yangon (Rangoon) - the Associated Press reports:

Five truckloads of soldiers were seen heading downtown in Myanmar's largest city Tuesday soon after tens of thousands of people led by Buddhist monks defied orders to stay off the streets and marched in another peaceful anti-government protest.

Monks have taken over leadership of anti-government protests that began over a month ago, leading marches for the past eight days that are the largest anti-government protests since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed by the military.

The soldiers' movements in Yangon followed announcements by the junta earlier in the day warning monks not to take part in the demonstrations and the public to stay at home or risk arrest.

Two army divisions were either already in or moving toward Yangon from outlying areas, including the 22nd, which took part in the suppression of the 1988 uprising, according to diplomats and ethnic guerrillas.

From YouTube user dennisbier09 - march on Monday September 24th.

AFP reports on bloggers getting around censorship and getting photos of the protests onto the Internet.

The article mentions The Mandalay Gazette (based in California), which publishes 4 pictures of the march here.
The Gazette also provide this picture showing the protest outside Aung Sun Suu Kyi's house

Also mentioned is the Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma, which has a photo album here.

The BBC is publishing accounts from people inside Burma here.

Flickr user racoles has 12 photos of the protests, including this one below:

From YouTube user dennisbier09 - march on Monday September 24th (Part 2).

Wed Sep 26th - Deutsche Presse-Agentur reports, via monstersandcritics.com:

Yangon - Myanmar troops used batons and tear gas Wednesday to keep tens of thousands of marching monks and their layman followers out of Yangon's holiest shrines in a standoff between rifles and rust-coloured robes that is expected to end in bloodshed.

Barricaded police and soldiers beat monks and laymen back from the east gate of the Shwedagon Pagoda with batons and tear gas twice Wednesday afternoon, leaving dozens injured.
There were unconfirmed reports of two monks dying in the melee.
At least 30 monks and 50 civilians were taken away in military vehicles to an unknown destination.
Monks have used the Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon's most revered temple, as a launch pad for their peaceful marches for the past nine days.
The show of force, however, failed to stop the monks from marching elsewhere.

This Google Map shows the layout of Yangon, with the important Shwedagon and Sule Pagodas marked.

NOTE: Further updates here at Last Superpower.

Andrew Johns: STFU Australia - None of your business

The personal troubles of Andrew Johns are none of Australia's business.

Shut the f**k up. Unless you are family, or a close friend or very close colleague, it's got nothing to do with you.

I'm tired of your self-righteous posturing over the fallen "role-model".

Find your own path in life, and teach your kids that as well. In particular, learn well that people you admire might not be all you think. Deal with it.

Two final thoughts.

1) This story broke after Johns was stopped by a "routine" police stop-and-search operation at Kings Cross station after the Notting Hill Carnival. Given that the Carnival is a major event of London's Carribbean community, is this a case of Johns being caught up in a racial-profiling operation?

2) How was this made public? Was it from someone in the police?

Debt Relief - not helping Africa, says Ghanaian film

Last Superpower points to two articles from spiked online magazine saying that debt relief is not helping Africa to develop the industry it needs to be rich.

One article is by Ghanaian film-maker and teacher, De Roy Kwesi Andrew, called "You hate being affluent? Then swap with us", where he argues that industrial development is exactly what Africa needs, and that the debt-relief/Live8 approach is grossly inadequate.

Andrew's article is about a lecture tour he did in the UK, promoting the film "Damned by Debt Relief". A short version of the film, placed on YouTube by YouTuber worldwrite (the producers) is below:

FLASH: US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales resigns

Via the BBC breaking news twitter account, and the Houston Chronicle, comes the breaking news that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned.

Mr Gonzales has spent many months dogged by controversy over the sacking of 8 US Attorneys.

"From Here 2Ipernity" - Flickr Censorship2

For more information, see the Flickr group "Against Censorship at Flickr" and the Against Censorship at Flickr wiki.

Beating flickr's censorship

NOTE: This is a cross-post of my article from the group "Against Censorship At Flickr". I have cross-posted it here so it is out of the reach of flickr and Yahoo employees (just in case).

First of all, read what Cornelio (cgc0202) has said. His two threads are here, and here.

Cornelio uses figures from Yahoo's reports to show that even if every single pro member of this group refuses to renew, that will NOT affect Yahoo much - they have revenues of over US $6 BILLION a year, and they have over US $ 1.5 BILLION of cash on hand.

However, as Cornelio also points out, Internet giants can fall.

It seems to me that we need people to commit to a long-term campaign of spreading doubt about flickr.

The reason I originally joined flickr is that when I finally got regular Internet access at home (about 1 1/4 years ago), flickr was the site that kept being mentioned as the place to store and share photos. It was the 'market leader', so to speak, the site that first came to people's minds.

So the first obvious thing is that flickr needs to be criticised whenever there is a chance to do so. Say you see an article on Digg that links to a discussion on flickr. You could put a comment on Digg and on the story that Digg links to saying "Flickr has some good features, but ever since they starteed censoring users, I have not trusted them - I moved my account to X".

Or, if you like flickr and want to stay, you could say "flickr has some good features, and I am still there, but you might want to be careful and make sure they don't censor you".

You could link back to this group so that people can see more.

So, we need people who are ready to start watching parts of the Internet. Any volunteers? You could watch digg, or create a Google Alert, or anything like that.

Do you have a blog, or do you comment regularly on a blog where you might be able to raise this issue. Please speak up and say what you are willing to do.

I am willing to create a simple blogger/blogspot website that can be a discussion place for these ideas. We have to assume that this group might be closed down by flickr.

Someone has already created a story on Digg that links to this group. If you are willing to help in a campaign, please go to Digg and digg the story. If you are not a member of Digg, then join.

This will be a useful way to see how many people are willing to spend a few minutes helping a campaign. At the moment, the story has 37 diggs. With 10 000 people in this group, if the story can't get at least a few hundred diggs then I would think we don't have enough serious people to put up a fight.

SOLIDARITY AND DISCIPLINE

Solidarity and discipline will be crucial. To me, 'solidarity' means that we unite around a publicity campaign to create doubt about flickr, and we do NOT attack other members of the campaign for their decision to either leave flickr or stay.

I plan to scale back my flickr presence a LOT, and will not renew my pro account. If you agree not to call me a 'Rat', then I will agree not to attack you for making a different decision to me.

'Discipline' means that we do not do stupid, counter-productive things like flooding groups or going off on crazy rants. Anyone who does will be helping flickr and yahoo, and should not be trusted.

Anyone who says 'but it's the fault of the German laws' should, the first time, be pointed to the reasons as to why this is incorrect. On the second time, they should be treated as someone in the pay of flickr or yahoo, and not trusted.

Please speak up now and say what you are prepared to do to help.

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Censorship @flickr makes people angry

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T.I.S.M's "Morrison Hostel" - cover version by me

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Brisbane Thugs - two bullies ruin bus ride

Nasty incident on the West End (Brisbane) bus tonight, when the bus couldn't get out of the bus stop because a car was parked inside the bus zone. I didn't see the start of it because I was sitting up the back, but the driver appeared to be talking to someone who refused to move the car. When the driver asked loudly if there had been 'any witnesses' to an threat by someone I walked up to the front of the bus, just beside the driver, with my camera out.

I tried to take a photo of the people who appeared to be hassling the driver, but one of them threatened to 'shove the camera up your arse', so this story is text only (I'm in no condition to fight aggressive testosterone-ridden thirtysomethings).

One of the thugs claimed he was a lawyer, and also tried to pretend that I had committed some offence by breaching his privacy in trying to take his photo. (A complete lie, which I'm sure he knows if he really is a lawyer). I decided to wait until the cops came, partly because every other passenger had bailed out long before. I wanted the driver to have some backup for his side of the story, and I wanted to let him know I was on his side.

While we were waiting for other people (security guards etc) to arrive, the thugs smugly opened the bonnet of the car and pushed it forward a few metres. The driver had already called for backup so he had to stay and explain. I think the thugs were going to try to claim that the car had always been there and that the driver was lying. They also took some cameraphone pix of the bus.

The situation defused - the cops asked what was happening, they asked me a few questions and the usual name/address/DOB stuff, and the driver drove off.

I got off at the next stop and gave the driver my phone number - the thugs had threatened to complain about him (!) and so I said he should call me if he needed a statement to back him up.

It makes me pretty angry that these blokes - who, by the look of them, were a couple of quite successful bullies - are able to ruin things for at least five or ten people. Anyone who gave a damn wouldn't park in the bus zone (how else did a broken down car get in the bus zone near the coner of Vulture St and Boundary St if it hadn't been parked there when it was working in the first place).

Mongrels.

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More bloody train inspectors!

More bloody train inspectors!, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

So I am on the train at 2315 hrs and 6 ticket inspectors get on the train. The state government has been boasting about hiring more inspectors recently. What a lousy job, throwing poor people off trains. They do not act as security guards who make sure that trains are actually safe to ride...That would actually be useful. They just slap $150 fines on people. Any system that gave a damn about people would make public transport free to ride. But it has been a long time since helping poor people had anything to do with the Labor Party. At least they were not observant enough to realise they were being photographed...

Feeling negative

Feeling negative, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

Just playing around with sending cameraphone photos to blog via MMS and flickr.

Picture of Mike

Picture of Mike, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

This is a picture of Mike that I am sending to the internet.

Sketch effect with original photo

Sketch effect with original photo, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

This photo was not edited after shooting. Rather, the effect was laid on the shot as it was taken. This is to see how large the photo turns out when sent to flickr and blogger.

Sketch effect with original photo

My other camera is grown up

My other camera is grown up, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

It generally behaves more responsibly than the mobile phone. It takes clearer, better-defined photos, but does not have any mobile communication. The mobile is very low fi, but I can email photos directly to the internet via mms. I can also include up to 1000 characters in this part of each picture's post, and there is a Sydney number I can call to do live audio recording down the phone line that gets sent to the blog as well. I only pay my usual rates for that - 10 c per minute. And this is only just over 500 characters.

Test photoblog

Test photoblog, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

Test of photoblogging via mobile phone

Let's Take Over #1

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Flash: Test only

Alanis Morissette sings 'My Humps'

Just in case you haven't seen it yet.

MELBOURNE PATRIOT CAUGHT TAKING BRISBANE COMMIE HELP

antiwarrally062309-Juanita Wheeler, originally uploaded by Let's Take Over.

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.

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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 :)

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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.

Type the rest of your post here.

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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.

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The use of that part of this file that is my work is subject to the same conditions as the use of the original work, as defined by tigtog.

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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.

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Let's Take Over

One Hundred Thousand Brave Burmese March for Freedom, While Troops Start to Crack Down and Amateurs Outwit the Censors - photos and videos

Andrew Johns: STFU Australia - None of your business

Debt Relief - not helping Africa, says Ghanaian film

FLASH: US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales resigns

"From Here 2Ipernity" - Flickr Censorship2

Beating flickr's censorship

Censorship @flickr makes people angry

T.I.S.M's "Morrison Hostel" - cover version by me

Brisbane Thugs - two bullies ruin bus ride

More bloody train inspectors!

Feeling negative

Picture of Mike

Sketch effect with original photo

Sketch effect with original photo

My other camera is grown up

Test photoblog

Let's Take Over #1

SMS mail forwarded by SMSPup

Moblog

Moblog Test

SMS mail forwarded by SMSPup

Alanis Morissette sings 'My Humps'

MELBOURNE PATRIOT CAUGHT TAKING BRISBANE COMMIE HELP

Discussion: Where Public Holidays Come From and Why That's Important, at Larvatus Prodeo.

2nd Test - can twitterfeeds and twitter send this blog to your mobile?

Twitter might actually be useful?

Jill Filipovic Googlebomb - For Great Justice!

Flash: Senator Santo Santoro announces resignation from the Australian Senate

Greens branch official Sam Clifford approves of police arresting peaceful protesters at Queensland University of Technology

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