Re Portal to Match foreign workers with urgent jobs

My letter in Straits Times 22 Oct 2015

Forum on line.

I am glad to see that there is a silver lining for migrant workers, with a portal to help them look for jobs ("Portal to match foreign workers with urgent jobs"; Oct 14).

Migrant workers here do not have job security as they can be sent back at the whim of their employers even if they have not broken any rules.

It is very important for them to have job security.

Employers should be obliged to either pay them compensation or transfer them to another employer.

Some time back, I met a construction worker who was being sent back after six months, as his employer had gone bankrupt.

I wrote to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) only to be told that it had given him a pass and he should continue to look for a job.

The worker told me that the temporary pass given by the MOM was not good enough.

It should also be the responsibility of the MOM and the foreign workers' organisations to help such workers find jobs.

It is important to work with the embassies of these workers' home countries to ensure the workers are not taken advantage of.

There should be registered agents in their home countries that have fixed service fees so that the workers are not overcharged.

Employers that continue to break rules and house their workers under dangerous and inhumane conditions should have stiffer penalties imposed on them.

Workers should also not live in fear of having their employment permits cancelled for making legitimate complaints.

We must also consider if these workers' salaries are enough for them to sustain a balanced diet for themselves.

Many workers have also died in fires ("Take action before more die in dorm fires"; April 7) as well as during their work ("Foreign worker dies after fall at worksite"; Sept 23).

I hope that proper compensation has been paid to the families of the workers.

Singapore has become a First World country but we need to do more for the migrant workers and the poor here.

Shamim Moledina (Ms)

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Could the Charlie Hedbo be a french 9/11

Those are the signs of a false-flag: The killings inside the Magazine building did occur, as well as the killings at the end. What was fabricated was the “gunfight” outside in the street, before the terrorists “escaped”. The US alternative medias were quick to tell that the “gunfight” was staged, with disaster actors (no blood of the downed policeman who was “shot in the head”, without a drop of blood, or again the obvious use of blank shots). This staged scene of a “gunfight” was inserted with the real scenes, in order to DRAMATIZE the event. This addition of a dramatization, is a PROOF that the attack was done by more than the terrorists who are now dead.
The French news media have shown the staged “gunfight”, while blurring the images when the policeman was being “shot in the head”, justifying this blurring of the image for protecting the public from seeing too much horror.
The French will therefore never know what the American know.
Also the “dead policeman” who “got shot in the head” remains unknown. His photo i.d. is not shown, while the photo i.d. of all the other victims are shown.The justification for this omission by the French media is not told, and no one of the controlled media has raise this issue. Cover-up of a false-flag? Yes!
The French public had been conditioned a day before the attack, by the highly publicize launching of the latest book from the most read author named Michel Houelbeck. The book, titled “Soumission”, is precisely about the French problem with Islam, and its submission to Islam, being the inevitable outcome. This subject raised could have been a conditioning to the reading public, since the attack by Islamist was to occur on the next day, against a weekly newspaper. This detail is not known in the US, and is in France presented, if ever talked about, as a “coincidence”. False-flag sign?Yes!
The French government acted within the hour of the attack, in a coordinated effort of appeasement, while promising to be strong against the “terrorists”, and not against Islamist, while the medias began inviting Muslims to explain that Islam is a “religion of peace”. I hear those lines already by mid-September 2001. Could the Charlie-Hebdo be a French 911? It looks like it! The MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE POLICE CHIEF INVESTIGATING CHARLIE-HEBDO REMINDS ALSO OF THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF INVESTIGATORS OF 911. If it looks like; if it follows the identical gov/media pattern as a false-flags; if collateral damages such as death of investigators of a false flag, then it is a false flag.
Finally the French government admits errors from having ignored warnings from the US government. It is therefore expected that both the French and the US, will work more closely in the future. Aren’t those two nations already colonies to Zion?
What is the purpose to fool the public? The first is to create fear. The second is either to manufacture a defeatist opinion towards Islam or a public longing for the NWO promises of peace. The third is to steam-up strong public emotions towards whatever direction the Zionists want. The last reason presented by the alternative medias is to mask the latest sex scandal of Bill Clinton and Crown Prince Andrew, but this last reason is small theater. The important reason is truly the next to come

The Worlds Silliest Empire

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Must read and share. > > This is a beautiful piece; this guy has said in his humorous article what could not have been said in a serious one. Read on for yourselves. > The World's Silliest Empire  > By Dmitry Orlov > October 06, 2015 "Information Clearing House" -  I couldn't help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World's Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness level. > > The first bit of extreme silliness surfaced when Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, the head of the United States Central Command, told a Senate panel that only a very small number of Syrian fighters trained by the United States remained in the fight—perhaps as few as five. The tab for training and equipping them was $500 million. That's $100 million per fighter, but that's OK, because it's all good as long as the military contractors are getting paid. Things got even sillier when it later turned out that even these few fighters got car-jacked by ISIS/al Qaeda in Syria (whatever they are currently calling themselves) and got their vehicles and weapons taken away from them. > > General Austin's previous role as as Lt. General Casey in Tim Burton's film Mars Attacks! It was already a very silly role, but his current role is a definite career advancement, both in terms of rank and in terms of silliness level. > >   > > The next silly moment arrived at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York, where Obama, who went on for 30 minutes instead of the allotted 15 (does Mr. Silly President know how to read a clock?) managed to use up all of this time and say absolutely nothing that made any sense to anyone. > > But it was Putin's speech that laid out the Empire's silliness for all to see when he scolded the US for making a bloody mess of the Middle East with its ham-handed interventions. The oft-repeated quote is “Do you understand what you have done?” but that's not quite right. The Russian «Вы хоть понимаете теперь, чего вы натворили? > > » can be more accurately translated as “How can you even now fail to understand what a mess you have made?” Words matter: this is not how one talks to a superpower before an assembly of the world's leaders; this is how one scolds a stupid and wayward child. In the eyes of the whole world, this made the Empire look rather silly. > > What happened next is that Russia announced the start of its bombing campaign against all manner of terrorists in Syria (and perhaps Iraq too; the Iraqi request is in Putin's in-box). What's notable about this bombing campaign is that it is entirely legal. The legitimate, elected government of Syria asked Russia for help; the campaign was approved by the Russian legislature. On the other hand, the bombing campaign that the US has been conducting in Syria is entirely illegal. There are exactly two ways to legally bomb the territory of another country: 1. an invitation from that country's government and 2. a UN Security Council resolution. The US has not obtained either of them. > > Why is this important? Because the UN, with its Security Council, was instituted to prevent war, by making it difficult for nations to engage each other militarily without all sorts of international economic and political repercussions. After World War II it was thought that wars are rather nasty and that something should be done to prevent them. But the US feels that this is rather unnecessary. When a Russian correspondent (Gayane Chichakyan from RT) asked the White House press secretary under what legal authority the US was bombing Syria, he at first pretended to not understand the question, then babbled incoherently, looking rather silly. You see, the US likes to fight wars (or rather, its military contractors like to fight wars, because that's how they make money, and they happen to own a big piece of the US government). But the US can't win any wars, and that makes its entire war effort rather silly (in a murderous sort of way). > > In spite of American recalcitrance, the UN does in fact prevent wars. Recently it prevented the US from mounting a “limited strike against the Assad regime in response to the brazen use of chemical weapons” (or so said Obama during his UN speech). This was helped by a deft bit of Russian diplomacy, in the course of which Syria voluntarily gave up its chemical weapons stockpiles. Undeterred by diplomacy, the US squeezed off a couple of cruise missiles in the general direction of Syria, but the Russians promptly shot them out of the sky, triggering a major rethink at the Pentagon and, of course, making the US look rather silly. > > But once you make a fool of yourself, why stop? Indeed, Obama shows no intention of stopping. Just about the entire audience at the UN General Assembly knew that the Syrian government's chemical attack on its own people never happened. The chemicals were provided by the Saudis and were unwittingly used by the Syrian rebels on themselves. Lying, when everybody knows that you are lying, and knows that you know that you are lying: what could possibly be sillier? > > Ok, how about continuously prattling on about “freedom and democracy”—in the Middle East, after throwing the whole region into chaos through their brain-dead interventions? The only voice of reason in the US seems to be that of Donald Trump, who recently declared that the Middle East was more stable under Saddam Hussein, Moammar Khaddafi and Bashar al Assad. Indeed it was. The fact that the only non-silly politician left in the US is Trump—that bloviating moneybag—sets a rather high bar for silliness for the country as a whole. > > Prattling on about “freedom and democracy” in the Middle East is also silly because the entire region is tribal—has been tribal for a few thousand years, and will be tribal for a few thousand more. In each locale, some tribe is on top. If the idea is to carve it up into sovereign territorial units (none of which qualifies as a nation, because each one ends up being multinational) then each territorial unit ends up being ruled by some tribe while others grumble. Blunder in and exploit their grumbling to bring about “regime change”—and the whole place invariably burns down. > > A case in point is Israel: it's got the top dog tribe—the Jews, and they can shoot or bomb anybody else with impunity. It is considered “democratic” because the Jews get to vote, which is very nice for the Jews. The Alawites in Syria get to vote too—and vote for Bashar al Assad—so why isn't that good enough? Because of American hypocrisy and double standards. > > It's like that right down the line. Saudi Arabia is owned by one tribe—the House of Saud, and everybody else is disenfranchised. Iraq used to be run by the Sunnis from Saddam Hussein's tribe, but the Americans dislodged them, and now what remains of it is ruled by the Shia from the south of the country while the Sunnis ran off and joined ISIS. This can all seem like super-simple stuff, but not for the Americans, because it runs counter to their ideology, which dictates that the world must be remade in America's image. And so they keep trying to do this (or keep pretending to be trying, because results don't matter as long as their military contractors get paid) and don't seem to care one bit that this is making them look very silly. > > And so the typical pattern has been this: the US bombs a country to smithereens, mounts a ground invasion, sets up a puppet regime and, promptly or not so promptly, pulls out. The puppet regime falls apart, and then you have either ungovernable chaos or some new, especially nasty form of dictatorship, or a little of each: a failed state, like Libya, and Yemen, and much of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. It doesn't much matter that this is the result (as long as the military contractors are getting paid) because America's motto seems to be "Look Silly and Carry On." Wreck a country—and it's on to the next bombing campaign.