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Mohamed

roninpoet

About Me

I can often be found wearing pants.

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1980s CIA Propoganda manuals used to support its terrorist campaign in Nicaragua

My Interests

Allah, Kenpo, Martial Arts, Goats, Stories, Music Boxes, People, Guitar, Hiten Misurugi Ryu, diners/cafes, snow, Fhqwhgads, Finding new uses for gaffer tape, FF VI, FF VII, Epic bathroom stall comments, wandering

I'd like to meet:

Cambodia, Mali, China, Thailand, and Latin America

Music:

Old Crow Medicine Show, Arcade Fire, Smashing Pumpkins, Native Deen, Bella Lea/Ambulette, Bob Dylan, George Strait, Alabama, Nobuo Uematsu, Regina Spektor, Paco de Lucia, the Pogues, Garth Brooks, Stan Getz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sami Yusef, Chopin, Ehab Tawfeeq, George Gershwin, Norah Jones, Keren Ann, Everybody to the Limit, Katie Melua, Rilo Kiley, Ariel Kill Him, Verdi, Ella Fitzgerald, Sade, Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam, Eagles, Dresden Dolls, Decemberists, Alabama, Beatles, GnR, Tim McGraw, Johnny Cash, Roxette, MBV, the Shins, Rachel Yamagata, Fiona Apple, Mazzy Star

Movies:

L'Avventura, Born into Brothels, Rana's Wedding, Princess Mononoke, Pan's Labyrinth, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Amelie, Memento, PootieTang, Seven Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Deer Hunter, Oh! What a Lovely War, Howard the Duck, Rebel Without a Cause, All The Pretty Horses, El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Heathers, The Unforgiven, Il Postino, Bridge to Terabithia, A River Runs Through It, Gadjo Dilo, Once Upon a Time in China

Books:

The Quran, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, Sahih Bukhari, The Tanakh, The Bible, food labels, bathroom stall poetry and philosophy, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Blood Meridian, Laa Tahzan, Don't Be Sad, Children of the Alley, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, Book of Tea, My Antonia, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Bridge to Terabithia, Treasure Island, Dubliners, A Pale View of Hills, Sheikh Spear, Rafael de la Ghetto

Heroes:



My Blog

On Iranian relations

-From an interview with Noam Chomsky"When Iran was ruled by the tyrant installed by a US-UK military coup, the United States - including Rumsfeld, Cheney, Kissinger, Wolfowitz and others - strongly su...
Posted by Mohamed on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:15:00 PST

Condemned to desolation

On the brink of starvation, Gazans wonder if the world is blind as well as deaf.Hundreds of desperate parents swarmed lists of coupon numbers tacked to the walls of the UNRWA relief centre in the Beac...
Posted by Mohamed on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:06:00 PST

If it's wrong for one group to commit terrorism, it's wrong for all groups to commit terrorism

As overdue as the ceasefire between Hizbollah and Israel was, the conflict and especially the ceasefire resolution has diverted attention away from the destruction of any hopes of a Palestinian state,...
Posted by Mohamed on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:56:00 PST

Palestinians: the New Native Americans

The Inherent Struggle for Freedom and JusticeBy Ramzy Baroud - Jan 14, 2003Few can be as blunt regarding the legacy of the United States toward the native people of this land as the 26th President of ...
Posted by Mohamed on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:13:00 PST

NYTimes: U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis

NYT: U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis By DAVID S. CLOUD and HELENE COOPERPublished: July 22, 2006 WASHINGTON, July 21 The Bush administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bo...
Posted by Mohamed on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:57:00 PST

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