It’s Tuesday and as promised – more bs. this is still about musicrap. After Watching This I’m not sure if these Pirates have gone too far; This is Reeeealllly Bad Mr Bean

Now imagine you are sitting at the bus stop waiting for your coach and watching a lil  Mr. Bean music vid on your celly; and all of a sudden these guys pull up and WHAM ! you get a fast 50. cal to the keyboard.  somehow I think this may help keep people in Somalia from making bs ringtones.

Today alot of people don’t use video ringtones; and or play videos on their phones. However alot of people who are in more techno challenged societies utilize whatever method they can; to enjoy as much of the rest of the world as possible. somefolks however think that’s not such a great idea. to prove their point I submit the video below from Current Tevee – Supernews and Weird Al Yankovic.  if this does’t make you want to slap somebodys celly, then you are tone dead.

I know I don’t want the Al Qaeda Censors rating my ringtone

How About You ?

4:46pm UK, Wednesday November 04, 2009

Huw Borland, Sky News Online

Hardline al Shabaab insurgents who seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu have banned “corrupt” musical ringtones.

A Somali militant talks on his phone in Rabdure district, west of Mogadishu

Sacdiyo Sheeq, 25, used to love listening to Bollywood movie songs on her mobile telephone in the failed Horn of Africa state.

But she told reporters: “Al Shabaab wants our ringtones to be only a Muslim cleric reading the Hadith or Koranic verse.

“I used to listen to my favourite Indian songs on my cell phone, but now I have just thrown that memory away.”

Al Shabaab, which America says is al Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia, wants to topple the country’s UN-backed government and impose its own strict version of Sharia law.

The heavily-armed group controls much of the south and parts of the capital Mogadishu.

Courts run by its clerics have ordered executions, floggings and amputations in recent months.

Al Shabaab has also banned movies, dancing at wedding ceremonies and playing or watching football in the areas under its control.
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“We do not tolerate anything that may corrupt the people,” al Shabaab’s spokesman in Kismayu, Sheikh Hassan Yaqub, said.

“We don’t allow anything that goes against our religion, especially music and sexy videos.”

Ali Mahamud Yusuf, 19, fled his home in Kismayu after he was whipped in public last week by al Shabaab gunmen who had caught him listening to music and watching videos on his phone.

He said: “I am still suffering from the 25 lashes. They accused me of rejecting religion. I don’t want to tell you where I am now for security reasons. I am scared.”

Fighting has killed 19,000 Somalis since the start of 2007.

While some civilians credit the insurgents with restoring a semblance of order in various areas, al Shabaab’s strict rules have alienated many Somalis who are traditionally moderate Muslims.

Somali Terrorists Ban Musical Ringtones [Terrorism]

By Danny Allen on Terrorists

Seriously, how messed up is this. Al Shabaab insurgents in Somalia (Al Qaeda’s proxy in the region) are going around flogging teenagers for listening to music and watching videos on their phones. Not to mention the senseless killings and amputations.

Fighting has killed almost 20,000 Somalis since 2007, and though some semblance of order has been restored, the imposed Sharia law has banned even regular moderate muslims from dancing at weddings, or even playing and watching soccer. If you’re having a bad day today, take a moment and remember just how good you actually do have it. [Reuters]

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WOW American Idol style drama in China over A Chinese Mixed Race Contestant, in 2009 ?

Co’mon be forreal China ?

we thought that after the problems leading up to the olympics you’d have this pretty well resolved. yet you stand here mighty powerhouse of ethnicity and show us your Mean Face.

her talent alone is enough to preclude this type of littleminded drama; yet here again we stand looking at the relics of american racism, manifested imperically – in 2009.

Personally speaking as a Blackwoman, I am proud to have Lou Jing as a Sister. regardless of what chinese racism says.  she is beautiful and apparently quite talented.  the bloggers hatred is ugly and wasteful. it’s just so out of touch with world views.

this is why china needs to open up it’s internet and it’s media to foreign resource availability. there are people who look like this girl born in Africa of African Parents.  why is it so difficult for the chinese to accept her ?

yet the chinese rush into africa and ship the africans’ inferior second rate goods; and a load of political lies.  no one in china is unaware of their world presence and how they appear to others. it’s shameful that this is what china looks like in 2009; to the rest of the world.  you are no better than the usa.

This girl is Chinese, and African;  CHINA  Be Proud She’s Chinese

Shame On You China, yet again

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HALF-BLACK TV CONTESTANT RILES CHINESE:
Blogs, online posts filled with hate toward mixed-race singer.

*A racial firestorm has surfaced in China over a half-black, half-Chinese girl who recently appeared on the Shanghai-based reality TV show akin to “American Idol.”

Lou Jing, 20, is the daughter of a Chinese mother and an African-American father who left the country before she was born.

Her selection as one of five finalists on DragonTV’s “Let’s Go! Oriental Angel” has provoked an explosion of abuse on the Internet, a rare debate on racism in the media, and a bout of self-examination in a country where skin color is a notoriously sensitive subject, reports UK’s The Guardian.

The report continues:

Dragon TV initially had doubts about allowing Lou to perform, but then realized that her presence would do much to attract publicity for the show. But few executives can have expected the fury contained in many of the blogs and online posts that accompanied her performances. The Internet is the only place in China where the public can express views with near-freedom – although they are rapidly cut off by an army of state censors if they stray into territory that attracts official disapproval. The huge online interest in Lou clearly does not fall into this category.

“Ugh. Yellow people and black people mixed together is very gross,” was one representative post. And Lou’s critics are incensed not only by her color but also because she is apparently the product of an extramarital relationship. Another blogger wrote: “Numb! This b*tch still has the audacity to appear on television! I don’t know what to say! One cannot be shameless to this kind of level!”

Lou admitted to Neteast News that the level of hostility had come as a shock. “The whole thing was a big bomb to my family and me and it caused great harm,” she said. “I wish netizens could tolerate my particular parentage and let it go as soon as possible.”

She has stressed that she is a true Shanghainese, an assertion underlined by her accent. There has been no official response to the racism, but public figures have been quick to join what has become an impassioned debate on the Chinese and race. Media commentator and author Hung Huang wrote on her blog: “In the same year that Americans welcome Obama to the White House, we can’t even accept this girl with a different skin color.”

The China Daily newspaper also published a sterling defense of the young theatre student, written by one of its top columnists. “There are two factors at work here,” wrote Raymond Zhou. “Lou Jing is not a pure-blood Chinese and anyone who marries a foreigner is deemed a ‘traitor’ to his or her race. More relevant, Lou’s father is black.”

Zhou concluded: “It is high time we introduced some sensitivity training on races and ethnicities if we are going to latch on to the orbit of globalization. People should realize that if you have a right to discriminate against another race you have automatically given others the right to discriminate against you.”

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