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Bhopal Disaster Revisited [updated]
On December 3, 1984, a chemical plant run by Union Carbide and located in Bhopal, India
released about 40 tons of a toxic gas which was an intermediate chemical used in creating pesticides. (That is, the plant was in the business of creating chemicals deadly to life.) Safety at the plant had not been a concern of management; numerous safety systems were offline or non-functional. The gas cloud drifted over the city and killed thousands of people, and inflicted permanent injury to hundreds of thousands more. It was the worst industrial accident to date. Today, the site remains a contaminated wasteland, unusable and never cleaned up. The survivors have been minimally compensated, but as time passes, enough of them have died that compensation may now be in the works. Update: 12/03 15:51 GMT by M : Whoops, just kidding, the Reuters story linked there is wrong; the BBC was apparently hoaxed into putting a Dow spokesman on TV who wasn't actually a Dow spokesman. Dow has no plans to clean up the facility and no plans to compensate the survivors. Hope this clears things up.
Union Carbide!
Curb CO2 emissions: Kill yourself today!
And the Bhopal disaster was a result of corporate greed, a bunch of greedy assholes got together and decided to play with the lives of thousands of people so that they could line their pockets with cash.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
we could get Union Carbide to open facilities in Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.....
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
The Bush administration has emasculated environmental laws, and government oversight of industry.
Check out Robert F. Kennedy's book Crimes Against Nature for a shocking appraisal of the current administration. Another book summary.
They pervert science to meet the needs of the big business/polluters.
The end result is that we are at risk. Rates of childhood asthma are way up, carcinogens in the air and water are increasing. They do this under the guise of small government, and deregulation. But, what it really amounts to is a ticket for their big contributors to bypass any responsibility to the people and the environment.. essentially a backdoor tax on you and me - someone eventually needs to deal with the problems they create. Either in cleaning up the messes, cleaning polluted resources like water and air, or paying medical costs resulting from their contaminants. That financial burden gets passed to the tax payers, since Bush/Cheney have given industry a free pass, rolled back regulations, eliminated oversight, and killed any enforcements.
If you think the way they came in and dismissed the problems with Microsoft was bad, you should look into what they did with companies the Clinton administration was prosecuting for environmental issues. They are ten times more egregious.. Companies that cause billions in damage in environmental accidents get most charges dropped, and fines of less than $10,000.
> When you hear shit like "the terrorists hate our freedom," think of Bhopal. Around 3k people died on 9/11. In Bhopal, the lasting death toll is somewhere around 15,000. I wonder if Anderson would have been allowed to settle if 15,000 Americans had died.
:)
Wait a second - you actually believe what they force feed the American people? This is an unfair government, and there has always been a double-standard. The Americans that voted Bush fully support this (not that Kerry would've done anything different as far as American imperial doctrine, but at least his voters can envision a better, or "more humane" to use today's fake terms that don't mean anything, future).
All people are created equal, as long as they are rich white Americans. This is a perfect example of who these people are, they didn't give two shits about human life, none whatsoever, zero, zip, zilch - trading human life for dollars. Much like we trade animal life (cattle, etc.), but with our own species. We should be proud - I know God is!
This, my friends, is why the rest of the world can't stand us. We are unfair, we will shoot you in the back if it serves our purposes, we will kill you, we will destroy your country (not just Iraq - think Nicaragua, East Timor, list is long), sometimes commit genocide. We are the greatest military force in the history of mankind with the collective responsibility of a 10 year old. And as a people, we're so ignorant that dirt knows more about what's going on than the average American. But hey, the average American knows who won American Idol, or what Britney Spears' diet is. Go figure!
Alright, alright - I'll go have my coffee now..
Must-not-watch TV!
Try the other side.
9/11 was the single largest failure of US security agencies in history. It happened two years into an administration where the topic of terrorism was pretty much ignored.
NOT ONE PERSON WAS HELD RESPONSIBLE. NOBODY LOST THEIR JOBS. Nobody, not one, nada, zippo, zilch.
Why? If we held the president responsible for falling asleep on the jobs the homosexuals would be able to get married and they would be teaching that evolution in shcools that's why.
evil is as evil does