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Comment by SiNeh~ on December 3, 2009 at 1:05am

India's "death factory" leaves toxic legacy 25 years on

Local activists shout slogans during a torch rally to mark the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster in Bhopal

It was seen as a symbol of the new emerging India -- a factory that would not only generate thousands of jobs, but manufacture cheap pesticides for millions of farmers.

But the Union Carbide plant in the central city of Bhopal left a more potent legacy when it accidentally released toxic gases into the air, killing thousands of people and causing many more to suffer in the world's most deadly industrial disaster.

A quarter of a century on, the derelict factory stands abandoned, but behind its locked iron gates lies what environmentalists say is "a disaster within a disaster" -- a highly polluted site which, according to a new study, is slowly poisoning the drinking water for thousands of Indians.

Bhopal has long cast a shadow over India and how it handles the challenges of a 1.1 billion, largely poor population, improve health and safety regulations, and a fast-growing economy.

"Our findings suggest that the entire site is highly contaminated," said Sunita Narain, director of the Delhi-based think-tank, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which in October tested the toxicity levels of ground water and soil samples in and outside the plant.

"The factory site in Bhopal is leading to chronic toxicity, which is a continuous tiny exposure leading to poisoning of our bodies."

In the early hours of December 3, 1984, around 40 metric tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas leaked into the atmosphere and was carried by the wind to the surrounding slums.

The government says around 3,500 died as a result of the disaster. Activists however calculate that 25,000 people died in the immediate aftermath and the years that followed.

"BOTCHED" CLEAN-UP

Activists and health workers say a further 100,000 people who were exposed to the gas continue to suffer today.

Sicknesses range from cancer, blindness, respiratory difficulties immune and neurological disorders, female reproductive disorders as well as birth defects among children born to affected women. But activists and lawyers representing the affected populations from the nearby slums say the tragedy of this disaster is that it continues unabated.

"After the disaster, Union Carbide did this botched site remediation and created a massive landfill," said Rajan Sharma, a New York-based lawyer, who is demanding that U.S. company Dow Chemical clean up the site and purify the water supply.

"There are thousands of tonnes of toxic chemical waste which have been not been properly disposed inside and just outside the factory site, which have been seeping into the ground for years."

Around 340 metric tonnes of chemical waste are stored in a warehouse inside the plant and needs to be disposed of.

Dow Chemical, which now owns Union Carbide, denies any responsibility saying it bought the company a decade after Union Carbide had settled its liabilities to the Indian government in 1989 by paying $470 million (281 million pounds) for the victims.

"Any efforts by activists and non-governmental organisations to try to attach responsibility or liability for the site clean-up to Union Carbide and Dow are misdirected," Tomm F. Sprick, Director of Union Carbide Information Centre, told Reuters by email.

"Regarding any site contamination ... we have no first-hand knowledge of what chemicals, if any, may remain at the site and what impact, if any, they may be having on area groundwater."

Sprick added that the Indian government took control of the site in 1998 and assumed all accountability, including clean-up activities, for the site.

NO EVIDENCE OF POLLUTION?

Authorities also have for years refuted claims that the water is contaminated, saying that various studies commissioned by the government have found no evidence of pollution.

However, the CSE report contradicts the government's findings, saying samples taken from around the factory site were found to contain chlorinated benzene compounds and organochlorine pesticides 561 times the national standard.

Samples taken as far as 3 km (1.9 miles) away from the plant were found to have toxic chemicals 38.6 times more than the standard. The report said there could be no other source of these toxins than Union Carbide.

Babulal Gaur, state minister responsible for relief and rehabilitation after the disaster denied this.

"There is no pollution and even if there was, it got drained away by the monsoons years ago," he told Reuters.

As dawn breaks over the slums of Jai Prakash Nagar, located directly opposite the plant, women brave the cool winter air to gather water at the communal taps with their buckets.

"You can smell it ... this water is poison and I hate giving it to my children to drink, but we are poor and have no choice," said 55-year-old Savitri, whose husband and son died a year after the disaster due to respiratory problems.

(Editing by Paul de Bendern and Bill Tarrant)

Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20091203/tts-uk-india-bhopal-anniversary-ca02f96.html

Comment by SiNeh~ on November 27, 2009 at 4:09am

There they go, just another "mishap" after Obama received the "PEACE-NOBEL-PRIZE" in my opinion.

Love~, SiNeh~


The Obama administration has announced it wont sign an international convention banning land mines. This is the first time the Obama administration has publicly disclosed its position on the Mine Ban Treaty, which bans the use, stockpiling, production or transfer of antipersonnel mines. We speak to Stephen Goose of Human Rights Watchs arms division and a co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which received the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

Shared at : http://www.ipeace.me/profiles/blog/show?id=2217368%3ABlogPost%3A2120492&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_post

By Krys~

Comment by SiNeh~ on November 24, 2009 at 2:53am

Confirmation: Europe's New President is a Jesuit- Video Interview with David Icke on the EU

This Article is in my opinion a must read from anyone which want to know what is going on on the world-politic stage and what the cabals are up to do soon. We may cannot prevent it, but can shed light on those dark intentions.

Love~, Light~, Peace~
SiNeh~


Article is to find at:

http://fepetopia.ning.com/forum/topics/confirmation-europes-new

Comment by SiNeh~ on November 4, 2009 at 7:57am

Just How Closely is the Obama Administration Tied to the Illuminati?

Facts or Fiction? You Decide!

There's some interesting new research being done on the Obama Administration and its ties to the Illuminati. This ebook we came across goes so far as to claim that Obama is "one of the most dangerous US presidents ever to hold office". They have a lot of research to back up what they believe, so we thought it'd be worth taking a look at. If you're interested in hearing what they have to say, and judging for yourself what is fact and what is fiction, you can find this controversial ebook here.

Comment by Lea Anna Cooper on October 6, 2009 at 7:24pm

Does anyone still think about 9/11 and flight 93? Would you believe a great piece of evidence that it never crashed? Are you sure? Well...have a look at the best 'smoking gun evidence' that I've found yet. Watch carefully...and then...wake up.

Comment by Lea Anna Cooper on October 6, 2009 at 7:05pm

ALEX JONES catches CNN lying during gulf war. He calls them Corporate Media Whores. He's right...it's all glitz with actors who pose as journalists, reading from teleprompters.

Comment by Lea Anna Cooper on October 6, 2009 at 5:21pm

TRAILER for the NEW ALEX JONES DOCUMENTARY "FALL OF THE REPUBLIC. Thanks to Alex, I woke up two years ago, and I've been hit in the face with truth ever since. This is gonna be a GREAT documentary. All his stuff is excellent and based on truth, not hearsay.

Comment by Lea Anna Cooper on October 6, 2009 at 11:13am

The most informative and valuable series you'll ever see. Duncan O'Finioan, a product of Cyberdyme and the C I A black ops, along with the elite demand for a Private Army, children are being stolen to create super-human capabilities in strength and a pure 'killer force.' The sooner the word is out, the better as they plan on using them against Americans. There are 10 of these, from Project Camelot. If you've never believed the Terminator movie was a reality, I sure hope you can believe it now. There is such a place called Cyberdyne, advanced technology. Google it...it's all over the net. Listen to how they created people with multiple personalities and how these men were part of Project Talent. Duncan O'Finioan was the Ultimate Warrior... brainwashed, conditioned and controlled as part of a highly classified MK-ULTRA program called PROJECT TALENT. From a thousand others trained as child warriors in 1966, he is now, he believes, only one of 20 left alive to tell the story.In his powerful and compelling testimony for the camera one of the most extraordinary we have ever heard Duncan describes:

• His mission to terminate the very drunk, future President of the United States...George W. Bush

• His dizzying enhanced physical and psychic abilities... including the abilities to hurl someone across the room with his mind, and walk through a solid wall

• How he and 11 other children were flown to Cambodia to deliver a targeted death blow to all the surrounding Khmer Rouge troops... using only the combined power of their minds
• How his right arm is hardwired and is capable of astonishing speed and strength
• His struggle to regain his memory, aided by a car accident which led to the discovery of a cranial implant uncovered by an MRI machine... deactivating the implant and causing the MRI machine to catch fire
• His role as a programmed assassin, targeting Americans under the command of an undisclosed agency
• The selection, torture, and brutal training process that he endured... and which children are undergoing to this day And more
Twenty years later, Duncan (who is of mixed Cherokee and Irish blood) comes forward to tell the truth about the Ultimate Warrior project: how he was chosen, groomed and tortured into becoming the perfect fighting machine, combining physical superiority with the extraordinary mental abilities of a psychic spy. Fearless, principled, and determined to regain control over his life, Duncan OFinioan tells his story in detail.

Comment by SiNeh~ on October 2, 2009 at 9:24am

Comment by SiNeh~ on September 28, 2009 at 9:53pm

Thanks Lea~
Yes, to that one I resonate well :-)
Love you too beloved Sister.

SiNeh~

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