Jupiter Punungwe
Again I am going to repeat what has frustrated me very much in our so called developed world, I have followed this cruise ship on a minor detail and it so frustrated me to confirm the argument I have held all along, we as human beings have developed ourselves so much in self-destruct but we have done absolutely nothing in saving our own lives. How can a society be able to command a drone from wherever to go and blow up school children in whatever country classroom, really take this long to save these people? And it was not a big deal but to tow a ship to safety !!!!! Which brings a different question, how did we license this cruise to take this kind of people, they were almost 5,000 people when we established absolutely no means of saving their lives if that may day ever shows up on our shores? And I have been on these ships they were made super but can you imagine if it loses power and it cannot move? You lose clean water, you lose the elevator services, you lose the supply of clean air to breath and you lose the toilet services. You remain with a 5,000 people stuck together and society cannot pull you out for a full week? Kindly explain that. And we claim how we are developed !!!!!!! I could not help but wonder if this was a Russian ship or a Korean ship or a Iranian ship my God CNN would have pulled Gupta to pile up all nonsense of how un developed they are and how un educated they are and how they should have never held such a huge ship, when I have just listened to a woman that was shitting in a bag for a week, these poor fellows lost food for crying out loud yet they were in American waters? What if they got stuck in African waters just off the Somali coast? And we must thank God that we have not yet got a huge disaster for this society is not going to save our lives at all, and Katrina is still like yesterday, do not think this happened for Katrina were blacks, even if they were whites we simply have no means to save lives. Poor people do not go to cruises so at minimum this service should have been built to save lives at a speed so required. We as society have developed ourselves into murdering each other, The British will fly in a whole bunch of killers, The French will send them the Americans will send them, these days even Canadians will send them, for this is what we do best, murder school children, but if we ever get a disaster as the one in Chernobyl we will perish a half of United States and Canada. Read this, up to today Japanese are dying of the reactor pollution we simply do not talk about it. And understand me, I know this is a huge ship, I am not standing up here to question why it was not towed faster, but cant we take food supply on it and take the garbage off? Jesus just how far off the coast were they? And that is the answer which will scare you, for it will come from a true American scientist mumbling something like the ships were never manufactured to be boarded, and the helies were not built to land on them. Well and did the brains only end on building them this massively? The answer is no the ships were manufactured to carry that many people and we manufactured an F18 which can blow it up in smithereens with its 5,000 people just in case we know Konny is on board. My God the last cruise ship I sat on I think we had some 14 floors give and take, it is a true mobile high rise, and it has no means to save lives !!!!!! But let me tell you some good news on our development as a society, for days we have been warned on how an asteroid is going to pass near earth, it actually passed so close to earth yesterday at 2 20pm my time, we knew exactly how fast it will go, we knew how close it would be to earth, and we had the probability of understanding if it would damage the international station, and we prepared it to move if so required. We checked all our communication satellites and moved them to safety so that our net our radio and television stations do not get off air. And we stood in public to beat up our chest on how good we are on what happens in the sky, Then a critical thinker like EM stands up and poses only one question, if we are that good on space issues, just how come we never saw this one Dash cam videos <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Omh7_I8vI> Blast wave blows out windows and doors <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kvHl5Qcnzc> Factory brick wall knocked down by boom <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ2XXa5oFhw> Meteor crater <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZT3qyzUsGg> ? 500 people injured for this thing went through and we simply had no firkin clue that it is on its way and we never prepared ourselves. Reports say that when President Obama was informed about it he said Say what? Yea exactly. Do we really know what is going on into space out there? And I am answering you that we simply dont, and one of those days we are going to wake up with half the city gone and we will blame Iran Konny and Al-Qaida when it is actually an Asteroid we simply would not predict for instead of investing in saving lives we have invested into how can we best blow up each other in a second to a point of nations like United States declaring themselves bankrupt. 5000 people have been on this ship for a week and we simply could not take them off let alone resupply, for we did not have the technology let alone a know how in 2013, and we bleat how a developed society we are. Go figure !!!!! Be worried and very worried for if your block ever gets attacked with a disease, this society will rather blow all of you up than holding a cure for they simply do not have it. EM On the 49th Thé Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko" From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jupiter Punungwe Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:45 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: [zimsite] At last the rich had a chance to sample how it is like to live in Kibera http://www.salon.com/2013/02/15/cruise_from_hell_dont_pity_carnivals_passeng ers/ ================================================= <http://www.salon.com/2013/02/15/cruise_from_hell_dont_pity_carnivals_passen gers/> Cruise from hell: Dont pity Carnivals passengers! It wasn't fun on the Triumph. But its workers, usually not protected by U.S. labor law, deserve our sympathy BY <http://www.salon.com/writer/josh_eidelson/> JOSH EIDELSON TOPICS: <http://www.salon.com/topic/carnival_cruise> CARNIVAL CRUISE, <http://www.salon.com/topic/cruise_from_hell> CRUISE FROM HELL, <http://www.salon.com/topic/cnn> CNN, <http://www.salon.com/topic/media_criticism> MEDIA CRITICISM, <http://www.salon.com/topic/editors_picks> EDITOR'S PICKS, <http://www.salon.com/category/business/> BUSINESS NEWS, <http://www.salon.com/category/news/> NEWS <http://media.salon.com/2013/02/RTR3DTDA-1280x960.jpg> The Carnival Triumph cruise ship is towed toward the dock as spectators watch at the port of Mobile, Ala. (Credit: Reuters) This week, Americans imaginations or at least CNNs programming were <http://www.salon.com/2013/02/15/must_see_morning_clip_jon_stewart_mocks_the _medias_obsession_with_the_cruise_ship_crisis/> captured by reports from Carnivals cruise from hell. Sewage-soaked cabins. Hoarded food. Plastic bags used as toilets. The passengers escaped the ship late Thursday, five days after an engine fire disabled the vessel. But, amid the <http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/15/stranded-carnival-cruise-expected-to-d ock-in-alabama-after-four-days-with/> scenes of bathrobe-clad passengers kissing American soil, theres been comparatively little attention to the crew that was stuck with them and kept on serving them. Though they likely suffered most, the cruise workers misery lacks the allure of irony: Theyre not accustomed to vacationing in luxury. Indeed, thanks to the efforts of Carnival and company, they cant even count on the basic labor standards available under U.S. law. For the workers, it had to be doubly horrible compared to the passengers, said Ross Klein, the author of Paradise Lost at Sea: Rethinking Cruise Vacations. Klein, a sociologist and cruise expert at Newfoundlands Memorial University, noted that workers are stuck dealing with passengers human mess as well as their frayed nerves and the short tempers. Despite the stench of human waste, some workers may not have had the freedom, or the opportunity, to go above deck. In addition, Klein told Salon, my guess is on this cruise there were no gratuities, so they ended up working for free. When Carnival announced that each passenger would receive $500 on top of a refund, said Klein, I didnt hear them saying theyre giving $500 to each crew member for their valiant efforts In what appeared to be deplorable conditions, the workers had to keep on doing their work, and [they were] very likely being subjected to conditions that were a threat to their health, [and] also probably working considerably more than their mandatory 11-hour workday. Carnival did not respond to a noon request for comment. As that 11-hour workday suggests, cruise labor is no picnic to begin with. According to Klein, workers often share small rooms with no windows. Theyre restricted from entering passenger areas, and some only rarely get to see daylight. Sexual assault rates outpace those on U.S. shores. While some companies, including Carnival, give customers bills that include an optional suggested tip, if one worker has a number of passengers decreasing tips, theyre going to be punished for that. Klein added that tips sometimes end up in managements pockets rather than workers. The international law governing cruise workers allows them to be worked up to 77 hours a week for as little as $600 a month. As Klein notes, that comes to less than $2 an hour. But in reality, he said, a worker whos slated as supposedly working 11 hours is very likely working 13 or 14, and may go 10 or 12 months without a day off. Isnt that illegal? Sort of. Because Carnival and other top cruise lines operating in the U.S. fly the flags of other countries, they arent bound by most American labor laws (there are exceptions, including workplace injury cases). And while international convention sets bare minimums like the $600 per month wage, Klein says, the enforcement of them depends on the country that regulates the ship. Klein added that Carnival, the industry leader, is also the leader in knowing how to keep your costs of worker treatment to a minimum. Heres how: Carnival is technically registered in Panama, a country whose laws Klein charges have been changed to satisfy Carnivals needs and interests. Because Carnival means a fair amount of money to their national treasury. Effectively, for cruise workers, says Klein, there arent any real labor regulations. (He noted that one lawsuit that was brought against Carnival in the U.S. ended with a settlement requiring future such disputes be pursued through an arbitration system, effectively requiring potential worker plaintiffs to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in transportation and legal fees.) Association with Panama has paid other dividends for Carnival as well: In 2011, the New York Times David Leonhardt <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/business/economy/02leonhardt.html?_r=0> reported that, while Carnival depends on assistance from U.S. agencies like the Coast Guard, over a five-year period, its total corporate tax payments equaled just 1.1 percent of its $11.3 billion in profit. So Carnival trades on the New York Stock Exchange, its corporate offices are in Miami but it pays no taxes because its a Panamanian corporation, said Klein. Its a great deal. Since the 1980s, there have been unsuccessful efforts in the U.S. Congress to force improvements in the labor standards of companies like Carnival. Klein says neither party has shown sufficient willingness to defy the industry, given the money they spend on lobbying and the money they spend on indirect benefits to members of Congress. Like cruises. Carnivals workers have shown more courage. As The Guardian <http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/01/arcadia-cruise-ship-indian-c rew?newsfeed=true> reported, in 2010 about 150 Indian workers held an hour-long predinner demonstration in protest of low wages and tips. Following the end of that cruise, they received letters from Carnival UKs chief financial officer pledging to increase basic pay. But the workers who protested wouldnt reap the benefit the same letter informed them that they would not be brought back for future cruises because their industrial action is not something Carnival UK is prepared to tolerate. British labor law did not apply. Meanwhile, the Seamens Church Institute, an affiliate of the Episcopal Church, charges that the cruise industry is increasing the risk of future emergencies by lobbying to narrow the definition of seafarers, a category of workers with certain rights and responsibilities (including health care and training) under international convention. Douglas Stevenson, who directs the institutes Center for Seafarers Rights, told Salon that such a move that excluded hotel staff or hairdressers from the category would allow management to cut corners on training them. If you have a perception that theyre not seafarers, and you dont treat them as seafarers he said, I think that does increase the safety risk. -- ========================================= One minister one car is as important as one man one vote. "...those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful." Cicero, 45 BC Discuss Zimbabwe. 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