Almost to the Game
An article on New York Times talks about the current terrorist threat in China as days getting closer to the Olympic opening in Beijing. The main factors for the threat are: Turkestan Islamic Party, Falun Gong, Al Qaeda and unstable individuals (although I am not clear what does “unstable individual” refer to).
It is also said in the article that Chinese official had missiles take aims at the sky above the Olympic stadium. There was some talk show on TV when we were having lunch yesterday. The host commented on the missiles that if there was attack, we can shoot it down with the missiles; and if it rained, we can also stop the rain with the missiles.
Last night, my friend were telling me some political jokes that were circulating through cell text messaging. The joke involves current Chinese president and Mao. He showed me story on his phone and tried to forward it to my phone. Strange thing happened. My phone received the message but in blank saying “Missing Text”. We realize these kind of text messages might be censored now in China because of certain keywords. The one my firend received were back in May. We tried to send the joke a few more times and also tried someone else’ phone, but never succeeded.