Posted on 07/06/2007 7:41:06 PM PDT by keepitreal
This Saturday’s Live Earth event continues to gain participants. While rumors still swirl about additional musicians, three artists have been confirmed. Yusuf (Formerly Cat Stevens) will appear in Hamburg while rapper/actor Xzibit has signed on for Tokyo and electronica artist Kenna will perform in the US.
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He had some great stuff before he denounced music and became a follower of Allah..
Whatcha wanna bet he starts making bully pulpit statements on stage about how muslims are being “misunderstood”? Looks like I may have to buy a new TV Monday.
This entire thing is nonsense, and I would be more than happy to start a boycott of anyone associated with it.
I agree,I liked some of his music,but I won’t even bother with it nowadays !!!
“Mr Islam doesn’t speak with women except his wife. Least of all if they don’t wear a headscarf. Things like that only happen via an intermediary.”
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/yusuf%20islam%20ignores%20bare-headed%20women_1026111
But how much does he get paid to sing to the same women???
Ya know, that’s the problem with working for a living. I have no idea who Xzibit is or electronica artist Kenna.
I’m just hoping that it doesn’t rain here tomorrow, so I can cut my lawn,
Sheesh!
So, this gains exactly what for the planet? Will the 800 years of warming (way before pollution) stop? Will Al Gore’s gigantic environmental footprint decrease? Will they leave the arenas as clean as they found them? Why do I feel like this is political posturing gone out of control? Global warming is a fallacy. What the heck is wrong with people that they’d believe some greasy loonie toon like Gore instead of NASA scientists?
Here’s a clip of Cat Stevens (34 years ago) singing “Morning Has Broken”
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1TWd3skb-Rw
I have no idea who Xzibit is or electronica artist Kenna.
They must be BIG if they are playing algore’s concert!
Here’s a bio of Exhibit, er Xzibit:
West Coast heavyweight Xzibit expanded his following with a series of increasingly superstar-laced albums beginning in the late ‘90s, ultimately aligning himself with Cali kingpin Dr. Dre at the decade’s end. Years before, Xzibit began as a member of the Likwit Crew, a loose collective of West Coast rappers including tha Alkaholiks and King T.
Wow, I’m impressed!
I’m sure you are aware that the DMB is involved with this farce.
Get ready to sleep folks!
Catty is disgusting psychotic fool...before and after submittting to Satan.
Colmes was loudly defending ol’ Cat/Yusef on H&C. It always cracks me up when Colmes, supposedly Jewish, defends Muslim terrorists and their supporteds.
This is as good as it gets for Al Gore. Pretty soon this whole swindle will implode, and Mr. Alpha Male (snicker!) with it.
(Why Cat Stevens was kept out) US accuses British charity of ‘financing terrorism’
Telegraph UK ^ | (Filed: 13/02/2005) | sdfBy Daniel Foggo and Philip Sherwell in Washington
Posted on 02/13/2005 3:51:56 PM PST by dennisw
A British charity has been accused by the American government of financing Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
The Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), which is based in Birmingham and provides aid for orphanages and water wells in countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, has been designated by the United States treasury as being part of a network of “terrorist” charities that have allegedly “provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to Osama bin Laden”.
The Telegraph has also discovered that Yusuf Islam, the singer formerly known as Cat Stevens who was refused entry to America last September because his name was on a security watch list, has previously donated thousands of pounds to the Birmingham charity.
The reason for his exclusion has never been publicly revealed, but last night American officials indicated that the entertainer’s funding of the ISRA was one of the reasons for him being banned. Mr Islam has always denied financing terrorism.
British security services are now investigating the finances of the charity, which last year reported an income of £479,000, and are under pressure from the Americans to freeze the charity’s bank accounts.
The concern about the British charity’s activities is disclosed in documents published by the US Treasury’s office of public affairs. It states that a charity called the Islamic African Relief Agency (IARA), which has its headquarters in the Sudan “was co-founded and financed by Osama bin Laden and is the precursor organisation of al-Qaeda”. It says that this charity is linked with, or has interchangeable names, with a number of other charities, including the ISRA in Britain.......
Thanks for the background. You might as well have written it in hieroglyphics. Strange thing is that I’m a musician, albeit an old one (haven’t performed in a couple of years), jazz primarily, and I do try to follow pop music, yet I’ve never heard of these folks.
Guess I better stop listening to Limbaugh and tune into what is hip!
Ya know, I have this funny feeling that this “ALGORE” concert thing is going to be a big bust. Just like everything else this jabloney has ever tried.
Not being into music, the only initials I recognize are CCR. This whole Gore-run farce is DuMB.
“Morning Has Broken” was around long before Cat Stevens. It was originally written in 1931 and set to the tune of the hymn “Child in the Manger,” from 1888.
No so much as a has been as a never was...
Bill Haley and the Comets
Beach Boys
Ike and Tina Turner
Bob Dylan
Joan Baez
And of course Johnny Fogerty’s old band, Creedance Clearwater Revival
Yusuf (Formerly Cat Stevens) To Perform at Live Earth...
Who cares?
He’s performing in Hamburg? Why is that name familiar to me?
“3 detained in Hamburg over terrorism scare” http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/26/news/hamburg.php
“The Hamburg cell was, according to U.S. and German intelligence agencies, a group of radical Islamists that included students who eventually came to be key operatives in the 9/11 attacks”- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_cell
...oh...golly THANKS for reminding me it was 34 FREAKING YEARS AGO....
(breathe...breathe...)
LOL! I know. Seems like yesterday, doesn’t it? ;-)
It is all hieroglyphics. Kind of like reading vanity plates to figure out rappers names.
I’m a musician too, only classical, and do follow pop music, but haven’t heard of a few of these folks - maybe the bottom of the barrel?
Yeah, I know. Love the music, hate the politics..
Cat Stevens had a great album in ‘78. Remember the Days of the Old Schoolyard was one of the songs on it. John Russell’s sister used to listen to it all the time. Everytime I hear it, I think of Roma. It shame Cat turned into a Jihadist..
How does this character square this with Islam, as if that mattered.
How can he be performing anywhere if he is on a he’s on a terrorist watch list?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,133095,00.html
Official: Cat Stevens Has Possible Terror Ties
Excerpt:
The singer formerly known as Cat Stevens (search) is forbidden from flying into the United States because of his alleged association with possible terrorists, U.S. officials said Wednesday in explaining why a London-to-Washington flight carrying the peace activist was diverted.
The claim was disputed by the brother of the London-born singer, who changed his name to Yusuf Islam more than 25 years ago.
David Gordon (search) said his brother has condemned terrorist acts and donates money to terrorism victims. “He just wants to be an ambassador for peace,” said Gordon, who lives in Princeton, N.J., and serves as Islam’s business manager.
Oh yeah. That's entertainment!
I like old Cat Stevens myself.....young chicks in my era loved it too.
So the stand up comedian is scheduled for 8:00pm?
Not only entertaining, but soooo worthwhile:
Proceeds from ticket sales will be used to buy energy-efficient lightbulbs!
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003608411
So far in Australia they've showed a video of how to purchase a light bulb, pay for it, how to climb a latter and how to screw it in .. another video showed a bunch of cows taking a dump
I thought this was supposed to be a music concert. Guess I was wrong.
And if you love fan signs at concerts, here’s a great one from Sydney
“I love energy efficient lamp,” read one banner in the festival’s moshpit.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=277346
That’s one great moshpit!!!
Yusuf (Formerly Cat Stevens) will appear in Hamburg <<<
I see him in the news now and then, it is only here that we consider him a danger.
How nice, another terrorist supporting the goals of a democrat.
Freewheelin Franklin!
No great.....passable sophomoric tunes.
looks’ like he missed the “peace train” to me!
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