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[Air Force Brat]

I thought so also. My ex-wife won a trip to Singapore for two in 2003. It seemed peaceful to me..rather pleasant in fact. I had previously been there via the USN in '75,'81 & '91.

Just what is the real underlying cause of this violence?

I continue to maintain that the "victim mentality" drives much of the worlds discontent and class warfare, and the feeling that every one owes you. Greed on any level seems to seeth into a sense of hatred for others, it seems that corporate America also has a sense of entitlement, politicians have a sense of entitlement, seniors have a sense of entitlement, and Utes have a sense of entitlement, the baby boomers have to be the bad guys since we continue to try to work and save a little for our retirement. I think one of the most disturbing images I have seen is "Hosni Mubarak" brought into an Egyptian courtroom in a medieval torture cage, if he's a murderer, give him a last cigarette and a blindfold and stand him up against a wall. brat

 

[bd popeye]

I posted the photos in this link at mp.net and they were deleted..

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Another member posted two thumbnails of the same event and they are still standing. This is not the first time this has happened to me over there.

I should just stay away from that forum.

 

[AssassinsMace]

A country as rich as Singapore and preaches to others about good governance shouldn't be treating anyone like crap especially when it comes to wages. They treat and pay Malaysian and Indonesian workers better because they fear historical tension. They can take a tip from Racism 101 and get Malaysians and Indonesians pitted against Indian and Mainland Chinese to keep the lowers in check while the government sits back and lets the problem take care of itself.

 

[broadsword]

I thought so also. My ex-wife won a trip to Singapore for two in 2003. It seemed peaceful to me..rather pleasant in fact. I had previously been there via the USN in '75,'81 & '91.

Just what is the real underlying cause of this violence?

It has a low crime rate. The only country with a lower homicide rate than Singapore is Hong Kong. Nowadays, foreign workers make up a disproportionate percentage of the crime rate.

Little India, as its name suggests, teems with South Asians particularly in the evenings when foreign workers have finished their jobs. They work mainly in construction. Because of congestion of people, they like to walk along the side of roads near to vehicular traffic. Like a boss. My co-workers have voiced their worries driving there. In this case, someone of their race was killed by a bus in an accident. Public lynching of the driver, who was not their kind and overwhelmingly outnumbered, followed and then the riot. The driver was injured.

This is the kind of riot waged by the lower strata of society as seen in some third world countries. That is where those rioters came from. But it is exceedingly uncivilized because they were rioting over an accident, not against the authorities over unresolved grievances which would make for more reasonable justification. And they are doing it in another country. The local menial workers, whose ascendants came from there, living in a more civil society, would not resort to such barbaric behavior.

 

[broadsword]

I thought so also. My ex-wife won a trip to Singapore for two in 2003. It seemed peaceful to me..rather pleasant in fact. I had previously been there via the USN in '75,'81 & '91.

About a year ago, an elderly black couple asked me for direction to a shopping mall located in the tourist belt. They told me they were from Brooklyn. I was pleasantly surprised because of the distance and the region here supposedly had that much to offer for attractions. The Caribbean is my dream and New Orleans with those "beads" dangle close by.

 

[Jeff Head]

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I spent about 6 weeks in India back in the late 1990s. True story:

As I was getting ready to go over there and work in Bombay (Mumbai), Madras (Chennai), Bangalore and New Delhi, I was asking one of my co-workers about renting a car. He told me...no, you don't want to do that. He was very emphatic about it. I had worked in various places all over the world and almost always got my own car. But, he got my VP to say no, and the companies I was visiting supplied a driver. My friend told me that driving over there was dangerous because of what might happen to you if you are involved in an accident.

I just sluffed it off...like, "Oh, sure."

Well, I had been there almost two weeks in Mumbai when we came on an accident. A truck driver had hit a man on a bike and I presumed he was dead because there was a crumpled bike with a person covered in a blanket next to it. As we edged past, my dirve said, excitedly..."We have got to get the hell out of here."

As we were going by, a mob of maybe 200-300 people had turned the truck over and were literally pulling the driver out of the truck.

I asked my driver what was going on and he told me, "The mob is going to kill that guy."

I asked him where the police were. He told me they would show up in an hour or so and clean up the mess and take away the bodies.

I never had any desire to drive in India again after that, and I thanked my friend when I got back.

 

[broadsword]

That's common in some third world civilizations. Videos of mob lynchings have been posted on the net. Stoning and necklacing are used as punishment for theft. Recently, two Europeans were killed this way in Mozambique because the local people believed they were trying to kidnap children.

 

[B.I.B.]

Nowhere as bad as that by any stretch of the imagination,but in Auckland .N.z. At the moment there's a bit of a boisterous protest by people from the same region striking over poor pay of $4 An hour after costs as contracted taxi drivers.They are currently protesting at the airport. Any international arrival would be worried about they have landed into.
I think there are several parties at fault here and not just the aggrieved taxi drivers.
I can't fathom out why we are letting people in with limited work skills in that all they can do do is drive taxis of which we have far too many.

Summer has started and we always have a shortage of fruit pickers for a season that can last up to 16weeks. I went fruit picking when I was at uni and I banked over $1400 a week after taxes and paying for lodgings and keep.With the current payment of $45 to $55 a bin picked, I think I would be banking 2000gs a week based on the hours I worked which wason a average of 11 hrs a day for 6 days a week.

These orchards provide lodgings and also accommodate family groups and now it's the summer break for school and uni students and many should take advantage of the situation, I would imagine a family group of four fairly people would be quite capable of banking $6000 A week after keep and taxes were deducted.

 

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New US spy satellite features world-devouring octopus... Niceee... LOL

President Obama is out to put the public's mind at ease about new revelations on intelligence-gathering, but the Office for the Director of National Intelligence can't quite seem to get with the program of calming everyone down.

Over the weekend, the ODNI was pumping up the launch of a new surveillance satellite launched by the National Reconnaissance Office. The satellite was launched late Thursday night, and ODNI's Twitter feed posted photos and video of the launch over the following days.

Unmistakable was the new NRO logo that goes with this satellite: "Nothing is Beyond Our Reach," it says, featuring an octopus with its arms wrapped around the globe.

It's the kind of picture that you might think up if you were devising an emblem for a villain in a superhero movie.