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Turkmenistan bans recorded music (Dictatorships in Central Asia)
BBC News ^
| Tuesday, 23 August 2005
Posted on 08/27/2005 4:02:13 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:02:23 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
To: Valin; AdmSmith; GermanBusiness; Calpernia; Howlin; nuconvert; sionnsar
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:04:48 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: F14 Pilot
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:06:42 PM PDT
by
frankiep
To: F14 Pilot
Is it baboonery militant or baboonery triumphant? Sometimes it is hard to tell.
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:07:31 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: F14 Pilot
This guy is great. Imagine a string quartet on the elevator or the doctor's office.
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:07:37 PM PDT
by
fat city
("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
To: F14 Pilot
And now all Turkmenis must wear their underwear
on the outside of their clothers so the inspectors
can check that they are clean!
Hasn't the world had enough of these egotistical
know-it-all maniacs?
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:09:24 PM PDT
by
StormEye
To: fat city
Full employment or musicians at last!
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:09:25 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: F14 Pilot
Meet the second roneriest man in Asia...
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:11:32 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Idiots and the Internet don't mix, no matter how hard Michael Moore tries.)
To: WestVirginiaRebel
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:13:24 PM PDT
by
F14 Pilot
(Democracy is a process not a product)
To: tet68
The musicians' union must be making big donations to his "campaign".
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:27:48 PM PDT
by
fat city
("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
To: frankiep
can we ban rap "music"?I sure wish we could.
It should be classified under "noise pollution," not music. It doesn't even have melody. All it has is rhythm, talking, screaming, shouting and cursing. It requires ABSOLUTELY no talent.
Horrible noise. Kids love it. THAT should tell ya how terrible it is. They admire talentless people. They LOVE only the screaming, shouting and cursing because it's what they really want to do.
NOW with rap-crap, their screaming, shouting and cursing has rhythm and is called "art" and "music."
What a slap in the face to Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsy, Bach, Handel and other producers of MUSIC.
To: F14 Pilot
And thus ends the grand Turkmenistan musical tradition of "sampling".
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:32:49 PM PDT
by
fat city
("The nation that controls magnetism controls the world.")
To: tet68
The whole point is, of course, employment of musicians. Turkmenistan joins a long list of American cities and towns that have enacted the exact same rules regarding music played in public~!!!
They are doing everything they can to become more like us.
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:42:41 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again?)
To: F14 Pilot
Photo of 'Turkmenbashi' who remains back in the USSR.
![](http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20050826/capt.sge.cfv81.260805154743.photo00.photo.default-278x382.jpg)
He has already banned opera and ballet, describing them as "unnecessary".
Time for some exercise & reality for this schlub.
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:49:11 PM PDT
by
M. Espinola
(Freedom is never free)
To: F14 Pilot
"this guy is a dictator"
It goes beyond your run of the mill dictator. If I recall correctly, he has decreed a new calendar which includes two new months, one for himself and the other for his mother.
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posted on
08/27/2005 4:57:30 PM PDT
by
Stirner
To: F14 Pilot
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posted on
08/27/2005 5:01:40 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: F14 Pilot
In a decree, Mr Niyazov said there was a need to protect Turkmen culture from "negative influences". Hmmmmm... Sounds a lot like Canada, doesn't it?
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posted on
08/27/2005 5:08:41 PM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: F14 Pilot
This is one of the "stans" I never really noticed. Looking it up on a map, I see it is bordered by Iran, Afghanistan, Khazakstan, and Uzbekhistan. It is also mostly Muslim.
I had a friend just adopt some kids from Khazakstan, she said it is the most backwards place with no commodities for the people. Even their clothes and shoes fall apart.
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posted on
08/27/2005 5:14:14 PM PDT
by
I still care
(America is not the problem - it is the solution..)
To: F14 Pilot
bans recorded music Well, that's one way to deal with the RIAA.
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posted on
08/27/2005 5:18:56 PM PDT
by
Nick Danger
(www.vvlf.org)
To: starfish923
It requires ABSOLUTELY no talent. I'm not a rap fan, but I have come to the conclusion that the above statement is not true. There are rap artists with a lot of talent, but it is talent with words not music. Especially impressive are those who do "freestyle" rap, in which they must come up with witty responses to others on the spur of the moment. Those who excel at this are showing a lot of mental agility.
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