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In theory, the federal government is the people’s servant: Our money pays for it, and our votes populate the political seats. In return, we expect the government to perform basic functions, among which are safe, reliable transportation and disaster assistance. In fact, the federal government, although happy to use its police and judicial power to take our money and willing to engage in the pretense of free and fair elections, has disengaged entirely from the American people. Nothing shows that more clearly than the Biden administration’s disinterest in the sufferings of the people in East Palestine, Ohio, where a train...

Bhopal trial: Eight convicted over India gas disaster A court in the Indian city of Bhopal has sentenced eight people to two years each in jail over a gas plant leak that killed thousands of people in 1984. The convictions are the first since the disaster at the Union Carbide plant - the world's worst industrial accident. The eight Indians, all former plant employees, were convicted of "death by negligence". One had already died - the others are expected to appeal. Campaigners said the court verdict was "too little and too late". 'Betrayal' Forty tonnes of a toxin called methyl...

LONDON, Dec. 3 - The BBC, Britain's public service broadcaster, acknowledged Friday that it had been tricked into broadcasting an interview with a man pretending to be a spokesman for Dow Chemical, who claimed that the company had taken the blame for the disaster in Bhopal, India, in 1984. The hoax, contradicting Dow Chemical's rejection of any responsibility, came on the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe, when waves of lethal gas escaped from a chemical plant in Bhopal, in central India, killing more than 3,500 people and injuring thousands more. At the time, the plant was owned by the Union...

BBC reputation hit by Bhopal interview hoax Matt Wells and Randeep Ramesh in Delhi Saturday December 4, 2004 The Guardian The BBC's worldwide reputation for accuracy took a blow yesterday after it broadcast an interview with a hoaxer who claimed to offer a $12bn settlement to the 120,000 surviving victims of the Bhopal disaster. Hopes were raised in India when the BBC's international news channel, BBC World, interviewed a man identified as a representative of Dow Chemical, which now runs the Bhopal plant after taking over Union Carbide. He said Dow accepted full responsibility for the world's worst industrial disaster,...

My Mother received anb e-mail today with the sender listed as " Suffocating G Colleen" When she read it the only thing written in the e-mail was " Bhopal". Mom is worried because today is the anniversary of some sort of disaster in Bhopal India where a lot of people were gassed. She just called me to say that about an hoour ago there was a false alarm of it happening again and also something in Ireland. What do you think this is? Just SPAM, or something more worriesome?

BBC World said yesterday it was duped in an "elaborate deception" by a man who claimed to be a Dow Chemical Co spokesman and said the US company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster. The British news channel, after twice running the interview with a man identified as Jude Finisterra, later said the report was wrong. A spokeswoman for Dow Chemical in Switzerland also confirmed that the report was wrong. The man's identity could not be confirmed and his motives were not immediately clear. BBC officials were not readily available for comment but the broadcaster said on air it was...

Friday August 30, 11:03 AM Greenpeace tracks down US exec wanted over Bhopal deaths Greenpeace says it has tracked down a former chairman of Union Carbide who faces homicide charges in India over the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster that killed thousands. Calling on both India and the United States to begin formal extradition proceedings immediately, Greenpeace Toxics Campaigner Casey Harrell said Friday he had found Warren Anderson living in the upscale Hamptons resort district in Long Island, New York. Anderson has been the subject of an 11-year-old Indian arrest warrant for culpable homicide, but his extradition from the United States...