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DECEMBER, 2009

Some of my favourite lines of poetry by Wendell Berry



How much poison are you willing
to eat for the success of the free
market and global trade? Please
name your preferred poisons.

For the sake of goodness, how much
evil are you willing to do?
Fill in the following blanks
with the names of your favorite
evils and acts of hatred.

What sacrifices are you prepared
to make for culture and civilization?
Please list the monuments, shrines,
and works of art you would
most willingly destroy.


In the name of patriotism and
the flag, how much of our beloved
land are you willing to desecrate?
List in the following spaces
the mountains, rivers, towns, farms
you could most readily do without.

State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes,
the energy sources, the kinds of security,
for which you would kill a child.
Name, please, the children whom
you would be willing to kill.



posted by ALIDAR  December 02, 2009 16:31  General  comments (0)



FEBRUARY, 2010

in Aleppo Citadel on Friday



 

Yes! With some coffee, a double shot to be honest. Sunny but chilly. A taste of ecstasy! 



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JANUARY, 2010

Michael Heart





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DECEMBER, 2009

Jeremy Harmer in Aleppo



 

In one of Aleppo's restaurants with Jeremy Harmer.



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Jeremy Harmer, in Aleppo



 

This is when Jeremy Harmer came to Aleppo for the conference at Aleppo University



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JANUARY, 2009

What's happening to the world?



Gaza!!
What's happening to the world today?
Probably this question should be asked to myself rather than the world. An objective eye will definelty tell us the answer. THE WORLD IS EITHER ASLEEP OR BEING LIED ON.
Gaza is a place where a crime is being committed 24/7. Think about it as a human and have a look at what is happening. Well, you don't think there is a problem with the war on Gaza, then imagine you live there with those people. Imagine a fighter is up there in the sky waiting for any moving object to be targeted. Imagine that the pilot never knows that you are there in person but believes that you probably belong to the poepl who live there. 
If it were me, I belong to them!!


posted by ALIDAR  January 15, 2009 1:03  General  comments (0)



DECEMBER, 2008

Funny cartoon



Truth in Blogging


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JULY, 2008

Rodovan Karadzic (Disguise Expert)



In fact, I read this on the BBC News website. This is a report by one whose wife was once treated by the alternative medicine guy; Rodovan or Dragan Dabic.
 
Here it is

Nick Medic is a Bosnian whose wife was treated by Radovan Karadzic in his guise as alternative health practitioner Dragan Dabic.

Mr Medic spoke to the BBC's World Today programme about his shock at discovering the bio-energy healer was actually a top fugitive wanted for war crimes.


My mother told me that she had met this dashing, very interesting, charismatic man, he has a very eccentric bearing, an eccentric way of dressing but in a positive sense, an original sort of appearance. He came from America, where he practised psychiatry, he decided to come back and spend his retirement in the old country.

She was introduced to him ...


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APRIL, 2008

What my family name means


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The following article is taken from Wikipedia. It has information about the word Darweesh, or Dervish in English.
 
The word Dervish, especially in European languages, refers to members of Sufi Muslim ascetic religious Tarika, known for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars.
The term comes from the Persian word Darvīsh [1] (درویش), which usually refers to a mendicant ascetic. This latter word is also used to refer to an unflappable or ascetic temperament (as in the Urdu phrase darwaishana thabiyath for an ascetic temperament); that is, for an attitude that is indifferent to material possessions and the like.
As Sufi practitioners, dervishes were known as a source of wisdom, medicine, poetry, enlightenment, and witticisms. For example, Mollah Nasr-ad-Din (Mulla Nasrudin, Hoja Nasrudin) had become a legend in the Near East and the Indian subcontinent, not only among the Muslims.
Religious practice
Many dervishes are mendicant ascetics who have taken the vow of ...

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