Podcast guest K. Barrett Bilali has recently published articles on ChatGPT’s crisis and AI in (Moroccan) art and music.
An American “MomOf4” drew a quarter-million views with her YouTube video “Why I Moved to Morocco.” Apparently, moving to Morocco is becoming a thing. The other Kevin Barrett, who moved to Morocco before I did, joined me on the Truth Jihad podcast to explain why, and to express his potential willingness to serve as a consultant for those considering such a move. (To contact him, subscribe to his Substack and reply to his welcoming email.)
God is currently showering blessings on Morocco in the form of rain and snow, which the country badly needs after seven years of drought, and also in the form of soccer victories, most recently last night’s thrilling Arab Cup final against Jordan. Next week Morocco starts hosting the Africa Cup, in which its team is the top seed, using infrastructure developed in preparation for hosting the World Cup in 2030, when it will be rolling out the world’s biggest stadium, the Hassan II stadium in Casablanca. Since it overperformed in the last World Cup by reaching the semifinals, Morocco has become a soccer powerhouse, recently winning the U20 World Cup and putting in strong performances in various other categories.
But infrastructure development in Morocco isn’t limited to stadiums. Transportation and communications are also getting big upgrades. The Buraq high-speed train linking Tangier and Casablanca ranks among the top ten of world’s fastest trains, with more high-speed rail under development, and Tangier Med is the biggest port in Africa. Having diplomatically won an international consensus that the Moroccan Sahara is indeed Moroccan, the government is also building the Dakhla Atlantic Port , a $1.2 billion deepwater project scheduled to open in two to three years. It will connect landlocked Sahel countries (Mali, Chad, Niger) to global markets and serve as a hub for renewable energy, fishing, and industry.
Internet connectivity has exploded as well. If you need fast, reliable internet, Morocco is your best bet in Africa. Here in Eastern Morocco, which generally trails Western Morocco in infrastructure, people are excited about the Medusa fiber optic cable that will link Nador to Marseille, France. There is also quite a bit of buzz about a big AI project in Berkane, the closest real city to my Mediterranean vacation town of Saidia.
Like the Chinese, Moroccans are blessed with the impression that their country is growing, developing, and generally moving in the right direction. That’s a marked contrast to the perception among Americans, especially the better- informed among them, that the USA’s glory days are behind it, and that Trump is not only failing to make America great again, but rivaling Caligula as a mad emperor overseeing societal collapse.
Living in a developing, improving, optimistic country is one benefit of Moroccan residency. But there are more tangible ones as well. The cost of living is among the world’s lowest. The food is arguably the world’s best, as is the weather. The people are generally kind, welcoming, and helpful—sometimes a bit too helpful, truth be told. (If you don’t understand how being overly helpful can actually sometimes be unhelpful, you’ve never been to Morocco.)* And the culture and history are uncommonly rich: Greco-Roman civilization and its Arab-Islamic upgrade form an unbroken legacy stretching back thousands of years, and today’s political Morocco (al-Maghreb al-Aqsa) traces itself back the founding of the Idrisid dynasty in 788. You can get by speaking French almost anywhere, Spanish works in the north, and English is increasingly common among the younger, wealthier, and better-educated segments of the population. If, like me, you’re ambitious enough to want to master Arabic, untold linguistic, cultural, and spiritual riches will open before you like a treasure house opening to a magic password. And if you’re even more ambitious than me, you can study the various varieties of Amazigh (Berber) as well.
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K. Barrett Bilali: What I try to do is promote English and develop audiences here in Morocco that are English-centered or anglophone and create a space where they can communicate and expand.
Kevin Barrett: That’s interesting, because my friends and co-conspirators here in Saidia, on the other side of Morocco from you, just created a brand new English language “Saidia City in English” page on Facebook.
And yeah, Morocco is getting into English language because it’s the global language. Even though the American empire is crumbling. English isn’t.
And that leads us to Morocco. We’ll get back to your recent posts on AI later. But first, comment a little bit about Morocco as a kind of a happening place. Everybody’s heard that Morocco is doing really well in soccer. They reached the semifinals in the last World Cup. They’re going to host the 2030 World Cup. They’re now heading into the finals in the Arab Cup soccer (which they won). And they’re going to host the Africa Cup, which is this huge—it’s like the semi-Super Bowl of soccer for this part of the world. So anyway, it’s Morocco is on a world soccer map.
Yeah, it’s on the world soccer map and that’s all well and good. But I’ve been here years and I’ve seen tremendous growth in this country. And I think sometimes that the people don’t really appreciate how much they have, as an African nation. A little aside here: The influence of English is so powerful now that the Buraq, which is the high-speed train for Morocco—it’s the only one in Africa, I believe, and in fact, America doesn’t have one—but Morocco has a beautiful high speed train. It goes from Casablanca to Tangier in about two hours and 30 minutes, I think. And it’s an amazing high speed system. When I first got on it—I was almost the first one to take it back several years ago. It was not very well attended then. No one really went on it. But now it’s packed. Sometimes I can’t even get a ticket. I have to buy it ahead of time so I can be on it.
And at first they used to say the announcements in Arabic and French. Now they say the announcements in Arabic and English, because English is taking over. You can see it in the media. The young people, they prefer English over French. And despite the fact that France has its claws into the society, into the education system, into the economy of Morocco, the younger people are preferring English. And it’s a beautiful thing to see. And the younger people, because they have chosen English, are usually more technologically savvy. They have higher disposable incomes, the English speakers, and their families. And they’re more apt to engage in reading and writing and things that are of English. I believe English is a beautiful language for reading and writing, and that’s why everybody chooses it. And economically, this country…
Zee French would not aghree weeth you that zee Engleesh is better than zee French for reading and writing.
Yes. Well, the French, sadly, are losing it. I don’t know if they’re losing it on their own behalf. Well, they’re losing it because of their actions. They’re certainly losing it in Africa between Burkina Faso and other African nations like Niger and Mali. They’ve left the the confines of the French system and mindset. Even Benin just last week had a coup d’etat in which the French are slowly being pushed out.
But what’s happening here in Morocco to make it more stable and more developed is that Morocco is becoming a hub of those countries and a neutral kind of geopolitical power. They have good relations with every nation. As long as any nation accepts the formerly Western Sahara as the integral part of Morocco, they have good relations. If not…well, Moroccan diplomacy plays different games to make sure that that happens. Because that’s the most important thing here.
With that, Morocco is offering the South, the Saharan provinces, Dakhla and these areas down there, which were part of the Western Sahara, more security, more development. There’s investors coming into the South. There’s infrastructure being built. There’s desalination plants. There’s so much going on here that is positive for the populace and for the rest of Africa.vBecause in King Mohammed VI created what was called the Atlantic Initiative. And this initiative is connecting Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania—countries locked out of the French system with no oceanic border—to the sea. He is opening up Morocco and the south, Dakhla, and building a huge port there so that products from Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso can come and reach the Atlantic and go to America, China, and so on.
As I said, I see a lot of economic development, a lot of social development, too, even if it’s not at the same pace. There’s still a lot of problems in the society here in terms of employment, in terms of quality of life and different things. But I see…Morocco as being a hinge and a connecting point between Africa, Europe, the Khaliji in the Gulf, and the Americas. And they’re doing really well to keep it that way.
Yeah, it’s a relatively competently administered country, for sure. And you mentioned that it’s adopting English, and that especially the upwardly mobile, educated and younger segment of the Moroccan public is increasingly getting into English. And that actually leads to wondering whether you and I may not be the last Americans and native English speakers to come and spend time and maybe settle in Morocco. A lot of people these days are not too happy with the way things are going in the US. Whether it’s Muslims who say “hey, I’d really rather be in a majority Muslim country,” or whether it’s people up in the northern states in the United States who are shivering in the winter and saying “man, I could be enjoying nice weather and my spending power would be a lot higher, I could survive on my pension,” this sort of thing. So I wonder if there’ll be more native English speakers, Americans, coming here.
I think so. I have a little business I’m doing with my English. But if I could expand it to open up a travel agency. And it’s possible because providing English services is what I do. So a tourist agency would be an amazing thing for Anglophones, maybe Muslims, coming to a country where Islam and Halal meat and everything is available. They would be able to come here and live very well. If they wanted to go to McDonald’s, they could do that. Burger King, KFC, if that’s your thing, it’s all here. In addition, you have security, stability, lower prices, and a lot of other perks.
I’ll give you an example. I have a friend who I’ve just met. So I guess it’s an acquaintance, but I call her a friend. She… And her aunt and uncle met me, and they wanted to find a place to live in Rabat, in the capital here. And part of the reason is that one lives in Ghana, in Accra, and she’s just tired of the electricity going off. Sadly those countries down there don’t have the stability, the infrastructure. Ghana Gambia, Cameroon…I have a friend down there, and the electricity is off all the time. The water systems, the traffic system…it’s just not working down there for a lot of African-Americans, specifically.
And so she’s coming up here and she may be bringing people with her because there is stability here in Rabat and in Morocco, all over the country, especially in the bigger cities. There’s security, there’s stability, there’s development.
It’s not as easy to make money here. And it’s not the same kind of money you can make in America for sure.
But if you’re on retirement or if you want to sell your house and want to build something or buy something over here and be on the Atlantic coast, or, like you are, on the Mediterranean coast, you can do very well here. And so there’s a potential for a business opportunity to attract Anglophones to Morocco.
*Here is an example of a Moroccan being unhelpfully overhelpful: I was running barefoot along Saidia’s 14 km Mediterranean beach when a passerby helpfully stopped me to explain that I shouldn’t be doing that. In the winter, he said, the beach cleaning crews don’t come out in force, so there is a chance that a buried object might injure your foot. That had actually once happened to someone he knew. I thanked him and told him I would be careful. He told me I should be running on the sloping wet sand close to the water, where it was safer. I thanked him again with the various Moroccan ways of thanking people (barakAllahu fik = may God bless you for it, Allah yarham walidik = God bless your parents, shukran bizzaf = thank you very much, etc. etc.) and managed to extricate myself, and continue my run, politely starting off on the sloping wet sand as he advised…and then, when he was well behind me, returning to the flat, slightly more dangerous sand that I had run on many dozens of times without incident. Had I tried to explain to him that running on the flat sand was reasonably safe since I kept a close eye out for hazards, that my joints didn’t like running on sloping sand, and that the health benefits of running where I was able to comfortably run outweighed the very small risk of incurring a cut on my foot, he probably wouldn’t have understood, because helpful Moroccans always think the type of help they’re offering is the last word, even though it often isn’t.
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What are the odds? Two Kevin Barretts in Morrocco?
Ok Morocco has nice weather, is modernizing its infrastructure, one can communicate more in English rather than having to learn French. But other questions are not answered. What is the safety factor for Westerners moving to Morocco? What is the intensity of enforcing the sharia system for those who do not intend to adopt Islam? These go unanswered.
The answer is in the demographics, 99% Muslim, makes it a hard no for any non-Muslim.
Also, why does no one question the way that so-called Islamic lands are 99% Muslim? Anyone would have to be insane to believe that all of those people actually would choose to be a Muslim if they had the freedom to not. Whatever else they would choose, no way they all would choose Islam, maybe a high percentage, who knows, but 99%? No way.
Can I proselytize (Morocco is too Muslim and needs diversity)? What if I bring 10,000 of my friends and demand equal rights? Can I get gibs in Morocco like Moroccans demand and get in Europe?
Morocco is great — if you’re into ass-raping young boys.
https://ecpat.org/story/morocco-boys/
I don’t think Sam Kinison ever said “Move to where the drought is!”
As far as football goes, a U.S. team has won every Super Bowl.
Why all the bold? Purpose? Overall, too fucking long. Go with Christ brah.
Mohammedanism is little more than the flip side of the coin tat also features Talmudism on one side. It is the creation of significantly gnosticized Talmudists to ensnare the children of Ishmael into perpetual waves of destruction that always serve Talmudism.
Kevin Barrett can never grasp that because his entire heart always has been filled with the unitarian form of WASP (Anglo-Zionist) religion.
And considering that WASP empire is Anglo-Zionism, and all Anglophone Protestantism is philo-Semitic, shouldn’t we discern that English is inherently a bad thing? Is it not a linguistic bearer of things Jiudaizing, things Zionist? Absolutely it is!
Morocco is an ethnostate. Which means that if a large number of white (and Christian) people opt to move there, it will be looked at askance. That said, Morocco is the future and the USA is the dead past. The USA is decrepit, stagnating, and decomposing.
‘The [Moroccan] people are generally kind, welcoming, and helpful—sometimes a bit too helpful, truth be told.’ — Dr Kevin Barrett
I don’t doubt this at all. But at the same time, Morocco has an unshakable reputation as a haven of beggars, hustlers and tricksters, who regard their swindles and cons as admirable shakedowns of naive foreign tourists.
In this, Morocco reminds me of Argentina, with which I’m somewhat more familiar:
Experienced residents of both countries can largely avoid the omnipresent scams. But low-trust societies have deep-set problems. It is the major factor that worries me about Morocco, an otherwise highly attractive country that may be the best place to live in Africa.
Sam Kinison was the last great offensive comedian. Head and shoulders above his contemporary Andrew Dice Clay.
Most Unz readers have no clue who you’re talking about.
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We’re both American writers and book lovers, both converts to Islam, both fluent French speakers, and both skeptical of official stories (though I’m a lot more outspoken about it). When I moved to Morocco and realized Kevin “Bilali” Barrett was already there it did seem uncanny.
And speaking of Moroccan Barretts, the most popular “US-Morocco” video channel for a Moroccan audience is hosted by a guy from Oklahoma named Barrett Shelley who speaks excellent Moroccan Arabic and does comedy and commentary with his Moroccan wife. https://www.youtube.com/@barrettinarabic1
Kevin, I want to just ask you a procedural question that should be given to all dissident media. I would genuinly like your comments, it has to do with Morroco. It is in fact, the biggest most important question of Morocco.
1. Mossad is your mortal enemy.
2. Mossad has your address in Morocco.
3. Mossad has assets in your city.
4. Mossad could ensure you get inoperable tumors 6 months from now, essentially for free, with no blowback and no chance for martyrdom.
5. Mossad could have done this any time for the past decade.
6. Mossad would face little issues operating in Morocco, no?
In your mind what is stopping Mossad from eliminating their 200th biggest media threat, given the simplicity of the task? All it would take would be 1 wrong handshake.
You don’t seriously think Morocco counter intelligence could thwart Mossad do you?
Every member of Unz.com should be required to answer this. Of all of them I want to hear yours most.
As always Kevin, may Allah bless you, and good luck and health to you and yours. Merry Christmas, etc.
Very simple answer: I fear Allah, not Mossad.
By the way, am I really only Israel’s 200th biggest media threat? I guess I’ll have to work harder ; – )
Moroccans ARE HIGHLY criminal in Europe. Old migrants AND recent migrants.
50% of all moroccans in Netherlands are criminals.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/mohadesa-najumi/dutch-racism_b_9659886.html
https://kern.pundicity.com/10785/moroccan-crime-netherlands
MOST european cocaine is traficked by MOROCCANS, with the accompanying violence and murder.
They are literally called the MOCRO mafia.
80% of all criminal searches in germany are Moroccans and other arabs
https://www.achrichten.com
Morocco is a fully Zionist state. The dictator of Morocco has a Jew as his most important advisor. So, maybe Fake Christians (evangelicals) are correct: If you and your vassal state worship the Jews and their genocidal state, Israel, then the Christian god/Satan (same entity) will bless you.
Hard pass.
On 17 December 2018, the bodies of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, a 24-year-old Danish woman, and Maren Ueland, a 28-year-old Norwegian woman, were found decapitated in the foothills of Mount Toubkal near to the village of Imlil in Morocco.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Louisa_Vesterager_Jespersen_and_Maren_Ueland
“last night’s thrilling Arab Cup Final against Jordan”
watching soccer is more boring than watching paint dry.
and watching sandniggers play soccer is adding disgust to boredom.
If you “feel comfortable” it’s a false sense of security. Moroccans are rapists and criminals. When the regime collapses, every White will be at the mercy of the mob.
It would be important to spend time in Morocco, or consult nonMuslims who actually live there.
The YT channel “Momof4 vlog” is about a brave, resourceful American lady who moved (with her two younger children) to Morocco after her husband passed away in the USA unexpectedly. She reported no intimidation or problems from not being Muslim.
The alcohol-serving bars and nightclubs in Moroccan cities are not consistent with strict enforcement of sharia law, obviously. On the other hand, it’s punishable to prosyletise Muslims or publicly criticize islam, and that is a terrible restriction on liberty.
Our family is not Muslim, yet we do not rule out living in a Muslim country. Depends which country. Could probably live in many cities in Turkey and perhaps spend part of the year in Morocco. Albania is a pretty easy move for nonMuslims, though it is apparently much less actually muslim in practice than Morocco or, say, the eastern parts of Turkey.
“Morocco is great — if you’re into ass-raping young boys”
Lindsey Graham: “I’m getting on the first plane.”
For normal Western people, Morocco is good if you want to go there for 2 weeks during the height of winter, see whatever cultural sites, and maybe go to some spots designated for Westerners where you can have a drink and chill. No to re-locate as a Westerner (unless you want to re-invent yourself and become a Muslim).
Blacks mulattos and Muslims No thanks. At least in America it’s possible to move far away from the ofes and Muslims. Of all the Muslim countries in the world Morocco
Is the blackest. Including the royal family
Ofe obsolete farm equipment.
There is no Sharia law in Morocco. If you really want to feel such law, go no further than the Jewish settler colony where Talmudic jurisprudence and laws are applied and are meant and implemented to treat non-Jews as lesser of humans.
It is called football you miserable red neck. If football was boring, then it would not be the most popular sport on earth. Now go play gay ball, oops, i meant that boring shit, baseball.
For many centuries the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire was regarded as decrepit, stagnating, and decomposing yet it persisted and remained very powerful for most of those centuries.
Do you also take a “hard pass” on the USA because these nonMuslim Americans decapitated their own children?
https://www.kptv.com/2025/11/19/parents-convicted-decapitating-2-their-children-forcing-other-kids-view-bodies/#
Do you take a “hard pass” on living in the USA because this white nonMuslim decapitated and dismembered numerous strangers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Kemper
Or should we take a hard pass on living in the usa because a nonMuslim American decapitated this poor person:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2025/08/25/decapitated-body-found-waffle-house-nashville-tennessee/85817097007/#
Really, Americans mocking other countries for being too homosexualized or pederastic?
Don’t understand the need to call them that name, but yeah, I vastly prefer baseball and hockey over soccer. How many 1-0 games and exaggerated falls to get a yellow card can a guy watch?
Nonetheless, attending or even watching a big game that matters to the people you’re with, can be a great time; we have attended a Xolos game in Tijuana with Mexican friends (our neighbors) and it was a GREAT time even though I wouldn’t want to go regularly.
I was in Morocco for six weeks straight and in Argentina twice for about two to three months each. There is no comparison between the two countries: Argentina is a genuine pleasure to visit, a large, attractive, country full of vivacious men and women, while Morocco is a scamming, cheating, overall desert shit hole where the Muslim feels free to rob, cheat, and steal from the supposedly “inferior infidel” (check with what the Quran has to say about it).
There’s a reason that when the main Moroccan Airline handed out a questioner to passengers returning from Morocco to Europe as the whether they’d return for a second visit, 95% of the respondents said “no.” That’s 19 tourists out of 20 who, after their first shitty visit to shitty Morocco, decided that one visit to Morocco in a lifetime was one visit too many.
I never went back to Morocco. I wouldn’t visit that Muslim dump even if I was given a free ticket, while I’d return to Argentina in a heartbeat on my own dime.
Check out the YT channel Raising Wildflowers. This adventurous young white American couple moved to Albania, with their daughter, and has enjoyed the experience thus far:
Pros and Cons after 3 Months in Albania
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Grocery Shopping in Albania
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Q and A about Albania
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We’re Not Coming Back to America
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Of course, let’s see how they feel after a year or two in Albania, if they stay. But why not root for them. Pray that they stay safe and healthy, have another child if God wills it, increase their online income, and make friends and acquaintances among the local people in Albania.
And for people who can afford to do so, why not have the courage — and the fairness — to visit some of these places, including Muslim countries, to find out for ourselves rather than relying on prejudice, assumptions, guesses, and propaganda by people who lack experience on the ground in those places?
If Morocco is prospering, God bless them.
Maybe muslims can go there instead of colonizing the west.
A land of sandniggers and niggers. Yeah, Whites should move there for a better life.
“odd” only begins to describe it.
If you travel to run away from yourself,
who could blame you?
Would be good to see that survey.
Wondering whether you were in Morocco fairly recently?
Did you learn some basic French or Arabic before going, or at least some Spanish for use in the north? If you didn’t know or learn rudiments of any of those three languages for the Morocco trip(s), did you find the language barrier made you feel unwelcome, too inconvenienced, or unable to get things done?
Right now it seems that international tourist visits to Morocco are booming, including those from western countries. Perhaps many are first-time visitors who will be horrified, as you say you were, and they won’t return. Perhaps not.
https://northafricapost.com/89522-morocco-welcomes-11-6-million-tourists-by-end-of-july-up-16-year-on-year.html
I’m pretty sure that my wife and i would also prefer living in Argentina, or in Mexico, or in Turkey for that matter, rather than Morocco, but we will hopefully spend time in Argentina and Morocco, and more time in Mexico, and see how the experiences go.
Maybe Fatmericans can die and go to hell rather than continue attacking, invading, bombing, threatening, and impoverishing peoples thousands of miles from their borders.
It hasn’t been Moroccans intentionally mass murdering helpless women and children by bombing, execution, and deliberate starvation, nor destroying every school, hospital, or refugee camp in all of Gaza. That would be USA USA USA! and “israel.”
As of course you are aware Morocco is Israel´s Israel – the place Israeli criminals
go when they do not want to be extradited 😖
Actually one of the nice things about Morocco is that marriage and family is still everybody’s ideal, while sexual deviance is viewed as shameful and (like drugs including alcohol) you have to go looking for it to find it…though I suppose if you’re a tourist it might occasionally come looking for you. But if you’re established here, it won’t.
Eastern Morocco, where I live, is extremely socially conservative. But even Western Morocco, corrupted by the hordes of tourists, is vastly better than the USA or Europe.
A painful chapter in Italian history of WWII.
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Argentina is thousand times better than Morocco.
Mossad isn’t omnipotent. It’s a powerful myth invented by a jewish marketing department.
which is an absolute religious feudal backwards monrchy and total colony in the hands of israel and amerikkka the population prostituted to haves and tourists pederasts pierre bergé yves saintlaurent in paradise in marrakecck one of the world capitals of this dirty degenerate sicck perverts vice
“Here’s Why They Should Move to Morocco”
The place sounds absolutely fantastic and welcoming. Now all we need is for all the Chinese, Jews, Indians and Islamatards in western countries to move there and everybody can just get along happily being themselves.
I’ve also heard the argument the Constantinople(Istanbul) was the center of Roman power, and not Rome.
Yea, but the simplicity of removing Berret could probobly be accomplished safetly by any larger police department, let alone a world class intel agency.
One handshake or open window and you discover stage 4 cancer next year. Omnipotence is not required, only some plane tickets.
I hear good things – good weather and scenery. I’m from Colorado(it only has scenery, the rest is shit), and on my ninth year in Northern Thailand. Kevin should do a mini-series with the acronym HTGTFO… ;^)
Compared to countries in Africa or even places like Haiti, Morocco is the Blackest? You got to be joking.
I wasn’t “horrified,” I was angered/disgusted by the two-facedness of the Moroccans. I’m not a shopper and Morocco revolves around ripping off tourists whom they constantly push/coerce into buying their trinkets and shit. It was hashish, more than anything else, that the punks tried to push on me at the train and bus stations. When I told them “no,” or to “fuck off” they, of course, pulled the race card.
I spoke Spanish but that didn’t help much. I travelled with a backpack and sleeping bag, I’m used to roughing it. I don’t mind roughing it. It’s the lying and cheating, the constant attempts to rip me off that made me despise so many Moroccans (even when buying third-world-style doughnuts, the Moroccans would get five for the same price that I got four [and that happened for days] before I discover it and called them out on it. Moroccans proved themselves to be, overall, conniving, shameless, assholes.
Argentina was wonderful: safe, exciting, affordable, and full of beautiful women; Mexico, where I lived off and on for about 18 months was pretty good too, especially down in the Yucatan, but the violence is getting out of control; Turkey, where I was for over a month, was better than Morocco but the Muslim BS, their ingrained attitude that Muslims can freely cheat/rob/steal from us infidels, has led me to never return a second time to Turkey nor any of the handful of other Muslim counrties I have visited.
LOL
You must have realized by now: “Wherever you go, there you are.”
I’m LOL-ing the humor of the joke, of what Morocco is “great” for. Not that Morocco is full of Moroccan pederasts sodomizing little boys.
But what scenery!
I was up in the San Juan Mountains, the Lizard Head Pass/Ouray/Silverton area last September/October, and, because of the beauty of the scenery (Aspens in full color) along with all the wild animals: moose, beaver, etc., couldn’t force myself to leave. I stuck around Colorado for weeks longer than I had planned. Why go chasing after natural fall beauty when you’re already in it.
But I tend to agree with you: The entire USA, including Colorado, is turning more and more into a Walmart Nation: fat, brown, tattooed, ignorant, losers-on-welfare; I see it has gotten worse (as you say, “shit”) with each and every yearly visit to the USA over the last 15 years. The White, self-reliant, pull-your-own-weight America that I remember of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s is long gone.
In Islam..girls are for having babies and boys are for fun..well moohamhead had his rear end nobbed by the Al-Zutt..so if it’s good for enough for old Mo then its good enough for the muzzies!
William S. Burroughs and other writers, artists, misfits and eccentrics put Morocco on the map for Westerners in Tangier through their literature and art back in the 1940-1950s. Tangier being a bizarre kind of “international zone”, a magnet for the damned like flies to dead flesh.
And so I would wager that it is through these influences that Morocco first came to the attention of our own Mr. Barret. But then again, who knows?
The “international zone” is now gone and has been since 1956. It all belongs to Morocco now. But I wish it were back. I’d only go there then.
“Mossad isn’t omnipotent”
that’s true. Only the Pancreator is omnipotent. But:
Mossad does manage to kill anyone and everyone they want, whenever and wherever…..
…..and usually get away with it.
Turns out most of the world is just gypsies. Clotheslines, remittances, obnoxious folk music, gold jewelry, cousins, holidays.
Why would any Western man or women want to live with muslim shit? Also all muslims should be purged out of the West since the muslim crap always wants to go live in the West…
That’s because nobody especially in positions of power kill these kikes back. I would if they kill one of our own kind. That’s natural law at work and I would be justified…
So true. And that’s the way the owners and so-called managers of this now defunct country want it…And now you have a lot of global South shit living in our global North countries…
It is truly insane that the West is allowing Islam to spread within our borders.
America needs to start working seriously on how to manage a ban of Islam altogether, or perhaps even just Sharia, within the framework of the First Amendment and other American laws. This either happens, or America simply will not survive as a free nation with equal rights as it was created.
Silly Americans think they can just hold up the Constitution with their pinky finger in the air and proclaim that they have free speech and can say whatever they want about Islam, but then a Muslim kills them, so much for free speech. And any kid born in a Muslim family doesn’t even have freedom of religion since they would be killed if they “chose” to leave Islam.
Naive Americans need to wake up and understand Sharia creep, it only grows.
Morocco’s first goal in the Arab Cup Final was spectacular. However, the game started with a countdown to the kickoff, and it was in English. Why not Arabic? I remember this from the last Arab Cup, too.
‘Turns out most of the world is just gypsies. Clotheslines, remittances, obnoxious folk music, gold jewelry, cousins, holidays.’ — Marshall Lentini
Impressive economy of words. And impressive cynicism.
Reminds me of Nabokov, writing in the voice of Humbert Humbert:
“My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three.”
LOL
Don’t get me started on the begging/scamming Eastern European gypsies I see on a daily bases in Brussels, or the scamming/begging “Portuguese” gypsies I so often see in Portugal.
All I got to say is “Thank God!” most of the world isn’t gypsy.
P.S. Back in the early 60’s, when JFK was Americas president, we had a female German Shepard named Gypsy, she was afraid of black people. Unfortunately she was hit and immediately killed by a sugar beet truck in El Centro, California
Backpackers from the west dress like pigs, smell like pigs and act like pigs, they deserve the contempt they get when they travel through the third world. Americans and Europeans used to dress well and got respect whenever they traveled. If you want respect, act and dress the part or you will be treated with contempt.
Nothing more annoying than Youtube videos made by Americans that have moved to other countries, Americans are generally loud and annoying and want to tell the world how happy, sad or emotional they are and they go to these countries comparing them to their own sad country. Americans need to learn to shut up and the rest of the world will have more respect for them.
English is The Superior language worldwide, far greater than the trash language of the Koran, Arabic.
Some do, but I didn’t. The Moroccans weren’t any cleaner or better dressed than I was.
Wow, words of wisdom from Joe Paluka.
I acted and dressed fine, but that’s not how you get a Muslim’s respect. You get a Muslim’s respect by letting him know, in no uncertain terms, that you will kick his Muslim ass if he fucks with you. I had to demonstrate that more than a few times in 35%-Muslim Brussels, decades after my trip to Morocco. I had more fist fights in Brussels with Moroccan-Muslims in ten years than I had in the previous 26 years of living in rough-and-tumble Alaska.
You sound like you’ve never been anywhere, that you don’t know jack shit about hardcore world travel; you sound like you’re talking out of your fat, know-nothing, go-no-where, American ass.
Agree
And don’t forget all those welfare-for life Turks, their sons often turnout criminal.
Not to nitpick, but your sentence would be much more accurate if you had written: “80% of all criminal searches in Germany are Moroccans and other MUSLIMS.” As for Brussels, a 35%-Muslim city packed with Moroccans, your 80% criminal number for Moroccans would be about right. In Brussels Moroccans are the cause of almost all the violence and criminality. As productive, own-weight-pulling, contributors to society, most Moroccan immigrants are pure shit. Yet here they are in Brussels, pumping out all the brand-spanking-new babies who are immediately supported by Western welfare for life.
The center will not hold. The day of reckoning will come to Brussels much sooner than in other large cities in the West. There will, no doubt, be blood. But I figure that day won’t come before April, and by then we’ll be gone from Brussels for good. Thank God.
From your lips to Allah’s ears …
Aloha Snackbar!
Outside of science fiction the term is Pantokrator, idiot.
Morocco used to be renowned for quality hashish back in the 1970’s. You didn’t mention this in your travelog. Is this still true?
The New Testament nowhere states that Jehovah, God of the Jews, is actually the Christian God. Seems there is simply the assumption that it is the same, ordinally referred to as Lord it was later in the 1600s changed to Jehovah, hmm. Muslims however do seem to recognize their God Allah as being the same as Jehovah, as such they also presumably recognize Jews as God’s chosen and themselves as unimportant extras.
Most of the problems between Judaism and Islam seem to stem from Israel and land ownership, rather than religion. Of course western culture has been long described as Judeo-Christian, this despite no written teachings that they actually worship the same God, Christianity side steps this by instead worshipping Jesus who was in fact a prophet, as he regarded all, including himself, as a son of God. The original “a son of God” was later retranslated the “the son of God” changing it from plural to singular.
As such one might also ponder why the Jewish Old Testament is included in the Christian Bible at all? By the late 4th century, the Catholic Church officially recognized the canon of the Bible, which included the Old Testament, it took 400 years to decide include it. And then there’s the Schofield Bible…
Always loved that line. Huge compliment – thank you.
I debated whether to add: boiled dough, alcoholism.
Correct regarding standing up for yourself. But this can go sideways real fast, man.
Couple months ago I suddenly found myself in life-or-death after punching out a very “off” Azeri dude who wouldn’t leave me alone, and who then grabbed some bricks to lob at my head, admist a crowd of grannies and kids at a bus stop. It was run or escalate, and I was trying to get home and not cop a court date, so I ran. This is the one day I decide to take the bus.
And this isn’t even a Muslim country, just a Muslim hood. Imagine how this goes under Islamic law. Again: I get the temptation to go to these exotic countries, most are better than America in many ways, but they will turn on a nigga faster than you can say the shahada.
Probably going to stick with Russia, at this point. I’ve criticized it heavily in the past, having lived there in some bad circumstances. But then you see other parts of the world. For all its flaws, Russia is still Europe in many places: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g298532-d14775459-Reviews-Krasnodar_Park-Krasnodar_Krasnodar_Krai_Southern_District.html
I also agree with Joe Paluka though. Put yourself in the goofy knock-off “trainers” of the average tribal male in these ghettoes throughout Eurasia and the Maghreb: and these dipshit blond backpackers show up with their huge Osprey bags, spandex shorts and Lowe hiking boots, all goggle-eyed about this dump they just landed in, phones on a selfie stick, hyperventilating for a YouTube video. Totally absurd. Then you read about how they got ___ and you’re like, well hey.
Fixed it for you.
From your experience studying Arabic, which features of the language do you not like?
Why would any Moroccan want to patronize any of these garbage restaurant chains?
They’re all on the BDS list.
Not sure I’d be mocking people for saying “God is Great”, but have fun.
Wonder of wonders! You, asking a reasonable question. The short answer is: Cannabis appears to have been quasi-decriminalized here, and there are vast fields under legal cultivation, as described in my article from a few months back: https://alandalustribune.substack.com/p/chefchaouen-and-the-beauty-of-defensive
It is the Arab Supremacist language of the Koran, supposedly the only way the Koran can truly be understood is in the original Arabic. Allah was too stupid to translate his grand vision in a way that all languages would be able to understand it. Or maybe Gabriel screwed up dictating it to Muhammad.
Luckily for the world, the Bible in English is a beautiful masterpiece, a miracle for all time. Always something more to learn. Reading the Koran actually makes you dumber, and in many cases extremely hate-filled and violent.
Wasn’t that Afghanistan?
I was going to post about this incident yesterday when the thread was young but I didn’t want to poop in the professor’s muharram basket.
Anyone with an IQ above 85 would move finitely out of the west–it IS the world’s genocidal, colonialistic, imperialistic shit hole-just ask the failipinos
Marshall mentions “punching-out” an Azeri, you change his words to “flapping with all my might;” this looks like a textbook case of pure projection to me.
Cowards don’t know what bravery or courage is, what it feels like. Of course you’ve got to pick your fights, you can’t take on the world. But knowing when and where – and against whom – to throw solid, connecting, punches works wonders in changing the dynamic of a shitty situation and in boosting your self-esteem.
You apparently have no idea how shitty/violent young, male, Muslim punks tend to be. Lucky you.
This “creole cunning” is the Code of Ethics of the Jews.
There is only one wrong, immoral act in the Jewish Code of Ethics and that is to disrupt, expose, shine a light upon another man’s grift.
Jews presume that everyone is running a scam as their way of doing the business of life. To live is to formulate a scheme by which others can be taken advantage of. Everyman has the right to invent a ploy by which he will live and die. We all do it, according to them.
especially @ 7:55.
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“the first rule…which is that you never open your mouth till you know what the shot is”.
Another movie about and by Jews tells the same story: House of Games. Where nothing is as it seems and the ultimate goal is to deceive the rube, the Mark, the Gentile woman. Only when she pulls a gun and shoots him is she “guilty”. She has violated the “rules of the Game” which are that one never violates the fundamental Rule.
Now Jews are well aware of this. They call it (derisively) their being “Mercurial”, in honor of He whom they call “the God of Thieves”. They openly admire his cunning, his trickery.
So, for example, to expose the lies of the Holocaust is to violate the Rule. It destroys another man’s grift. That’s a no-no and must be punished, hence the charge of “antisemitism”.
The right to film-flam the sucker born every minute is inviolate. To expose a man’s fraud takes away his livelihood and that means he can’t put food on the table for his poor children or buy his wife and lover trinkets. How could one be so mean as to advocate and do that?
Agree. I’ve had a knife pulled on me by a punk gypsy kid after the punches started flying between me and his accomplice. The blade was only 3-inches long but it instantly became the focus of my attention. I didn’t want that thin, sharp, blade plunged into my kidney.
Good luck with that, especially with learning to read, write, and speak the language.
His insinuation was that I, because I had traveled with a backpack and sleeping bag, carried myself like a bum and was worthy of contempt. Joe P. doesn’t know me from Adam, “F” him and and his insulting insinuations. He’s wrong.
I was doing my hardcore traveling – over 110 countries – long before all that you mentioned above kicked in. When I arrived in a new place I couldn’t wait to drop my pack and blend in. But I agree with you: These insensitive A-hole “travelers” might need a little “tuning up” with the cold hard slap of reality. I shed no tears for ignoramuses getting, within reason, what they deserve for their inconsiderate or flat-out shameful/rude/obnoxious behavior in foreign lands.
With me in my travels in Morocco it was the opposite.: I wasn’t the A-hole, it was the Moroccans who were the bald-faced liars, the connivers, the thieves, the in-your-face harassers. When they decided to play the threat card, to get physically threatening, it was my clear readiness to fist fight that cooled these A-hole Muslim’s jets.
I don’t like the lack of capital letters, because sometimes when I run across a name, I think it’s an ordinary word. Also, Arabic doesn’t have the wealth of important works that ancient Greek has or the enticing literary works from the 19th century that Russian has. And finally, “Arabic” refers to a number of languages that come from classical Arabic, but which have drifted enough from each other that they are hard for a speaker of one to understand people using another. For example, some Palestinians told me they couldn’t understand Arabic speakers from Sudan. Theoretically, Modern Standard is supposed to bridge this gap, though in practice it seems that everyone uses English.
What I like: its triliterate grammatical structure so that most vocabulary is based on a system of three consonants that have a basic meaning. One can often tell what a word means simply by knowing the meaning of the three consonants. So k-t-b relates to writing:
kataba: he wrote
kaatib: writer
kitaab: book
maktab: desk (a place to write)
Of course, there are always odd words that don’t fit, like katiba, which means squadron.
Also, I like the letter q. It’s fun to say, especially in words like daqeeqah, where you have two of them. Yeah, I know, that makes me weird.
Strictly speaking, it means “God is greater.”
You say “Arabic doesn’t have the wealth of important works that ancient Greek has.” That might be true if you define important as “early and seminal” but not if you broaden your definition. There is a lot more fascinating and important stuff from the 1500 years that Arabic has been a leading literary language (THE leading literary language for roughly half that period) than any of us will ever get a chance to read.
But they do talk about fights never happened except in the “I could have should have would have” alternate universe.
It’s the same with actual English speakers and “English speakers” from the Sudan.
Not specifically Sudanese, but Boko Haram? They couldn’t get it together to say “Books Haram” or “Books Forbidden” or “Kita(a?)bun Haram”? Fuck those guys.
In the 2000’s too.
I gave up drugs back in the late 1970’s. so lack experience in anything related in modern times. I used to like hash but it wasn’t always easy to get and was more expensive than weed.
I do wonder these days why I continually hear about marijuana variations sold through “dispensaries” in legal states but I never see any mention of hashish. Is hashish still a thing in the USA? Is it being made and sold in the pot stores?
I don’t do drugs at all. What I know about this is from Italian cops and some guys who came from Morocco with a bag of that stuff.
I think most of your problems in Morocco were caused by not wanting to pay after you hired other men for sex. If you hire a prostitute you usually negotiate the price beforehand, you don’t decide your not going to pay if his derriere wasn’t to your liking.
Me too. In every detail. Once, for helping a guy take pictures of his ceramics for his application to grad school, he rewarded me with some opiated hash. It was glorious. Walking on the sidewalk, my feet penetrated about a foot into the concrete before my step firmed up.
Speaking of low-trust societies, I just came across this graphic, showing survey results as to whether most adults trust others or not:
https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/Social-Trust_Most-and-Least_03-w.jpg?itok=u_P1fvM5
Sweden ranks highest, with an 83/17% split on whether people can be trusted or not. Within the high income countries, the US is much lower at 55/44.
In the middle income country rankings, Argentina and South Africa — two classic low-trust societies — score at 28/71 and 27/72 respectively.
Morocco is not shown, but I would expect it to fall close to the median of the middle income countries, at 27/72.
Not saying I wouldn’t live in a low-trust society. But it definitely affects the quality of life, in regard to the caution that must be exercised in routine transactions that wouldn’t be risky in a high-trust society.
Stirred up some insecurity there? Sry babygirl.
“But they do talk about fights never happened except in the “I could have should have would have” alternate universe.”
Except I actually said I ran. In real life, the other guy doesn’t always go down, and there are legal consequences if they do. Not going to risk it all on some shmuck at a bus stop. Whatever though man, think what you like.
I have this movie (Glengarry Glen Ross) on disc and watch this scene when I need to laugh out loud. These few minutes are priceless. Equally fine is the scene with Alec Baldwin “Get them to sign on the line which is dotted!”
And by some sort of irony, I saw these articles published last year who mentioned then a bunch of mosques in Iran closed. https://cbn.com/news/world/irans-jesus-revolution-mosques-close-1-million-muslims-accept-christ
https://allarab.news/50000-mosques-have-closed-in-iran-are-iranians-seek-truth-outside-of-islam/
It’s always the same with Muslims, they have to go back 500 years to find anything (which, in turn, has surely been embellished over the centuries) that’s worth a fuck that they did to better the world.
Question: Name one great book, theory, or invention a Muslim* has written or created in the last 250 years that has improved man’s life on earth.
*[As for the very few Muslims who have won a Nobel prize for the Sciences, they’re the type of Muslim most other Muslims would murder for heresy.]
Once again, Joe Paluka projects.
But you got a point about the degenerate Moroccan fags of Morocco, and just like the money/hash “hustlers,” these scuzzballs seemed to be everywhere. I was amazed during my six-week visit as to how thoroughly fucked up Morocco was, and that was back in 1984, it’s bound to be much, much, worse now.
For the record: After visiting Morocco in the summer of ’84, I went on to visit scores of other countries; in all the 100-plus countries I’ve visited in my lifetime Morocco was, by far, the worst. Kevin Barrett must know in his heart of hearts that if he wasn’t Muslim, and/or married to a Moroccan woman, he’d be nothing more than a walkin’-talkin’ dollar mine, only good for money extraction (he’s too old for man-on-man sex), in the eyes of the vast majority of Moroccan males whom he lives among – Kevin is kidding himself if he thinks otherwise.
All that said: The “Belgian” Moroccans are even bigger assholes in Brussels than they are in Morocco.
Chefchaouen! It means “Between the horns” (as in mountain peaks) in Berber. That town was the one halfway nice place I visited in Morocco in 1984. And after a few days, after the local hash dealers realized that I wasn’t going to by any of their hash, it was also pretty much hassle free – though the donut lady ripped me off with a smile on her face until I caught on (after catching her out I never went back), and when I gave the two local Muslim guys working at my hotel my bottle of whiskey “to try” on their own they ended up drinking nearly half the bottle.
My strongest memory from my time in Chefchaouen was seeing, while out hiking, and old woman (probably only in her fifties or sixties) who walked completely hunched over, with her fingers almost touching the ground, the results, I imagined of her living her life as a human pack mule. I felt for her.
A strong good memory of Chefchaouen was that I could drink the free, fresh, clean and clear flowing water from the many small stone fountains (a metal spigot from which the water continuously poured into a tiny stone sink before draining into a narrow stone channel where it continued to run down hill and out of town) scattered throughout the mountain village. Chefchaouen is the one place I visited twice, at the beginning and at the end, during my one trip to Morocco.
The “white” guy claims to be part both American Indian and black! He claims to feel unsafe in the USA because of racism which, according to him, is rampant in America. The dude is as white, if not whiter, than I am.
Then this couple went on about January 6th, the supposed Insurrection, and that they needed to quickly leave the USA because of it, before the totalitarian dictatorship kicked in, they probably imagined. They also talked about being worried about getting shot while shopping for food in the USA. Unbelievable.
They’re clearly deluded dipshits. I hope that the other deluded dipshits in America join them in leaving the USA, hopefully for good. As they constantly said, “It’s time to go.” Good riddance.
A clip from the British 1990s TV series Absolutely Fabulous. This is the “Morocco” episode in which Edwina Monsoon, her parasitical friend Patsy and her well-educated but naive daughter Saffy decide to go to Morocco. They encounter a certain amount of sexual harassment from male locals and Edwina and Patsy spend much time unconscious after scoring hashish. Patsy, who hates Saffy, sells her to the locals, saying Saffy always wanted to get to know other cultures and this is her chance. Edwina remarks that spending the rest of her life in “painful servitude” was probably not quite what Saffy intended. Because it’s black comedy rather than tragedy, they encounter Saffy dressed as a local woman and carrying a water container on her head and they all get back to England, no doubt somewhat relieved…
But first you said this:
Which one was the lie, liar?
Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father certainly improved one man’s life. It’s tragic that he was unable to save Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16 year old son. 🙁
So the African American’s are coming:
“And so she’s coming up here and she may be bringing people with her because there is stability here in Rabat and in Morocco, all over the country, especially in the bigger cities. There’s security, there’s stability, there’s development.”
How does that work out?
Almost no books ever significantly improve anyone’s life, unfortunately, and the materialist “scientific revolution” of the past 250 years has generally made Earth a much worse and far more ignorant place. Among the writings of the past 250 that have actually improved lives, those of Sheikh al-Darqawi are notable. A good introduction is: Burckhardt, Titus, trans. Letters of a Sufi Master: The Shaykh al-ʻArabī ad-Darqāwī. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 1998.
Of the four imperial cities in Morocco, I visited two of them (Meknes, Fez) in the summer of 1977, coming from Tangier, and was fascinated by the vibrance of all the activity within the walled medina in Fez and the different forms of music being played on cassette recorders by some of the merchants. I postponed visiting the other two imperial cities, Marrakech and Rabat, as well as Casablanca, yet have not been back to Morocco since then because there were so many other interesting places I went on to visit elsewhere instead.
Since Rabat is considered to be the cleanest of these Moroccan cities, it would be the one I would be most interested in staying in for a couple of days, based on the overall architectural aesthetics and Atlantic Ocean backdrop. I am curious if any reader has been to the annual Jazz au Chellah music festival, held in early May. Since I have heard some interesting Jazz-like music played by north Africans at an outdoor Fête de la Musique performance in Lyon a few years ago, I thought it would be ideal to combine a visual and musical experience.
It is always nice to hear about “all of the people choosing Christianity” in lands subjugated by Islam, or even Communism, but it is still a tiny minority, won’t impact the overall State control. They have to operate in secret or under strict limitations, while great for the ‘individuals’ involved, for the naive in the West it is just a way to pretend the problem of Islam may somehow go away, it won’t.
I agree with the “much worse” when it comes to overall planet health: There’d be a lot more trees standing, a lot more wild animals roaming the earth, and a lot more whales and fish swimming in the sea if the white man hadn’t invented so much. The world’s population would also be about an eight or a tenth of what it is now, which would be a God send for all of earth’s creatures.
I’ve thought from time to time that if Hitler had won the war he’d have turned most of Africa into a nature preserve. The Germans were into nature and a Nazi win would have been great for the elephants.
I tend to agree with you about books; it’s the written scientific theories put into practice – for example: how to generate electricity – that change the world. In that regard, the Muslims in the last 250 years have nothing, or next to nothing, to show.
I’ll try to find the highlights of whatever Sheikh al-Darqawi has to say. My guess is that it’s no more profound than what the writings of thousands of non-Muslim intellects, philosophers, and deep thinkers have already said before him.
With me it’s that I have had so many real-life negative interaction with Muslims, blacks, and Gypsies that I cannot be swayed by smooth talk, propaganda, or insults. Personal lived experience trumps theory and the second-hand anecdotes of others every time.
The bottomline is that Muslims, blacks, and Gypsies always ruin whatever quality of life a western country had before their arrival. There is an obvious, direct, correlation; this isn’t rocket science: The more of them that come the greater the fall in the quality of life (crime, violence, abuse of welfare, pollution/litter, personal safety, etc.) for the everyone else.
The few good Muslims, blacks, and Gypsies never ever make up for the overwhelming negativity that the others inflict upon western societies. Having them around is always a losing situation for everyone but them (Western welfare for life and softness on crime is, for them, a dream come true).
LOL
“Tragic”! “Unable to save”! Obama ordered, or at least agreed upon, the targeted hit.
It’s both: He punched out the Azeri without doing the thug-nigger, all-out, head stomping/murdering routine at the end. The Azeri recovered quickly enough (the punch-out wasn’t a knock-out) to escalate the situation by picking up a brick and, like ML said, he decided at that moment that the physical/legal consequences of the encounter weren’t worth pursuing – so he ran.
Exactly, why was this so hard for him? I said this up front at the beginning. It’s even too retarded to lie about.
Whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUFQzho0brE
There’s also a tremendous amount of excellent contemporary writing coming out of the Muslim world. I had to read several hundred of the canonical “African Lit” books in grad school, and discovered that most of the best novelists, like Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Abdelrahman Munif (who isn’t African but whatever) were writing in Arabic, which also happens to have one of the greatest bodies of poetry of any world language. I’m currently rereading Munif’s Cities of Salt trilogy in Arabic, which is a masterpiece. The English translation isn’t bad but errs on the side of fidèle mais pas trop belle.
The late Sam Kinison was funny because he was RIGHT, but he had that unique *ahem* “style”.
His “move to WHERE the food is!” jibe illustrates that these “needy” people are that way b/c of factors they could change to provide for themselves, or they’re subjects of a corrupt government that profits from their misery. Sending “aid” under those conditions may sate our consciences, but typically only perpetuates their problems.
How long they’ll last in Albania will depend on how long they can stand be shaken down by the locals, especially their cops and judges.
That’s due to the idiots running Belgium into the ground. It’s really two nations that should each go their own separate ways; the Flemish “Nord” and the Walloon region, French-speaking, where the 1944 Battle of the Bulge was fought. The trouble would be that, even such an independence would be nominal, as Flanders would effectively become an economic colony of Holland, and Walloonia would be just another French department. Both “parent” countries have their own huge troubles with non-domestic, non-White immigrants.
Do you want me to hurt you akhi?
Dumplings sound so much nicer.