Global anger of the have nots against the haves is getting rather ridiculous. Last week, Carla Bruni Sarkozy, wife of France’s President, flew out to Morocco ahead of her husband with their infant daughter to spend the holidays. Of course for security and other reasons (she was there accompanied by 10 body guards) she has to stay in areas known to be safe and more easily defended. She is ensconced in a luxury residence just outside the fabled Marrakesh.
The sight of a multi-millionaire political wife holidaying in a luxury gated villa is exactly what gives Arab countries a bad name,’ said Jamal Dhabi, a Moroccan political analyst.
There is widespread anger at our countries being viewed as playgrounds for the super rich, while the vast majority of the population has nothing.
There is widespread anger at our countries being viewed as playgrounds for the super rich, while the vast majority of the population has nothing.’
It is unclear who is funding the latest holiday, though King Mohammed has a long history of offering free hospitality to French politicians, including former president Jacques Chirac, who retains a villa near Marrakesh.
It was Mr Sarkozy who, a year ago, instructed colleagues to ‘spend their holidays in France’ because of the embarrassment they were causing by accepting hospitality from Arab dictators.
Attractive holiday: France’s First Lady today celebrated her 44th birthday in Marrakesh along with her two-month-old daughter, Giulia, and at least 10 security guards
At the time, Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his family had enjoyed a luxury free holiday in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt, while Foreign Secretary Michele Alliot-Marie had done the same thing in Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali’s Egypt.
Both Mubarak and Ben Ali were later deposed during the Arab Spring revolutions, but many people accused France’s political class of having legitimised their despotic regimes.
The ruling monarchy in Morocco, a former French protectorate, is frequently criticised for keeping the vast majority of the population in poverty, and for human rights abuses.
King Mohammed VI survived the Arab Spring demonstrations, but only by promising constitutional reforms, and there are still many who want him to step down.
Despite this, he considers himself a ‘close friend’ of the Sarkozys, and had them to stay during last year’s Christmas holidays.
Such lavish trips were thought to have become a thing of the past since the Arab Spring, however, but Ms Bruni is clearly intent on enjoying Morocco’s winter sun.
Also in Marrakesh at the same time as Ms Bruni is Jean-Francois Cope, general secretary of the UMP.
‘Carla should be ashamed of herself,’ said pro-democracy activist Laila Mansouri. ‘Morocco is an Arab country with huge social problems – all she does is legitimise them.
‘Carla even tried to keep her trip to Morocco a secret. That might work for a country like France where there are strict privacy laws to protect the rich, but it won’t over here.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078097/Carla-Bruni-jets-multimillion-pound-Moroccan-pad-angering-Arab-pro-democracy-campaigners.html#ixzz1hgqIT5BM
- Capitalists are to stay home but send money?
- The Arabs only want oil money?
- They don’t want rich people to visit the countries either as guests or on their own?
- Were we supposed to have avoided these countries until they got their political, economic and religious policies worked through to the satisfaction of unknown individuals?
- If the rich come to play and leave money in the country, that means they are ultimately responsible for the fact that it never makes it to poor people?
- They no longer want our foreign aid?
- Will they continue to order armaments from us?
- Tourism is a dead industry in the Arab world? It makes sense to have hotel workers unemployed and to join the poor?
It is so hard these days to know just what an Islamist or so-called Pro-democracy demonstrator wants from us because the demonstrations are clearly aimed at us directly or indirectly albeit with a garbled message save one: Yankee go home and we will meet you back there and bomb you into nothingness in your “HOMELAND.”
Who could not be on pins and needles wondering how short of world chaos this will all turn out. Remember, to survive in this:
- If you have anything, hide it.
- And hide a good education, too. Remember to dump verb agreement.
- Limit world vacations to Disney World or Disneyland. What a man of vision Walt Disney was to know the world would one day be closed to us.
- Give to the government, your religious affiliate (just to keep them going), and to any/all poor people you come across to the greatest extent possible to let the world know capitalists (that includes you middle class) have learned a valuable lesson: Work hard for money; share it with everyone as your reward. That is the lesson of value to the poor.
A friend came across a wooden treadmill used by pioneers to capture animal power to churn butter, etc. Start building. You don’t honestly believe that we will be left with electricity or potable water after the revolutionaries and corporate conglomerates get through with us? We will need animals to power our TVs too so we won’t miss a night of news in which we have again been chastised.
DarcsFalcon
December 27, 2011
There you are! I was getting worried!
I hope you had a wonderful and bountiful Christmas, Sam. Lots of good friends and good food. 🙂 Keeping you in my prayers dearheart, be safe, warm, and well.
*hugs*
samhenry
December 27, 2011
I’ll always give you a heads up if you have to really but really worry. Now I will not be renting upstairs this summer so do plan a visit..
LisaInTX
December 27, 2011
Merry Christmas SamHenry
samhenry
December 27, 2011
Means so much to hear from my dear old friend out there on the range. I hope you and all of your stock and family are doing well. I sent you some snow – did you get it? LOL. All the best all the time. SH
incaunipocrit
December 27, 2011
Reblogged this on Basil Wheel.
samhenry
December 29, 2011
Thank you very much!
James Crawford
December 27, 2011
The Arab Spring activists are angry because they have came to the sudden realization that the one weapon that they were confident would allow them to triumph over the infidels, the Muslim womb, is closing. The recently released book “How Civilizations Die”, documents that the demographic implosion that has already consigned Japan, Russia and most of Europe to oblivion has been progressing at an astonishing rate in almost all, Muslim countries. Iran which seems so threatening has suffered the most abrupt and profound decrease in fertility ever documented. The correllelation between increased literacy and decreased fertility suggests that once Muslim women can read the label on a condom package, they are no longer willing to pump out an endless supply of suicide bombers. Even worse for the. islamacist, the massive investments in education by the more progressive Muslim nations such as Egypt, Tunesia and Morocco have failed to produce graduates that can compete with their peers in other countries. Radical Islam will soon join the Soviet Union on the ash heap of history.
samhenry
December 29, 2011
Thanks for this, JC. Hope your Christmastide is progressing nicely.
bydesign001
December 27, 2011
Merry Christmas SH. Pray that you had a peaceful and blessed holiday.
James Crawford
December 27, 2011
Just a quick link on Morocco’s imploding demographics.
James Crawford
December 27, 2011
And like an idiot I forgot to post the link!
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=mo&v=31
blackwatertown
January 3, 2012
Interesting stuff.
roblorinov
December 31, 2011
Am going to buy oxen and hook them up for animal power SH lol. Seriously, it is frightening to think of what will be left once the global corporatists are done with us all. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and to everyone here.
samhenry
December 31, 2011
To RL – hats off for being a wonderful blogger and friend to one who is not communicating as she would wish. Happy New Year.