2023 is the year I realized Christmas Vacation is directly referencing the Bhopal disaster where Union Carbide exposed a half a million people to toxic gas in the worst industrial accident in human history.
On a fateful night of 2nd Dec, 1984 and the early morning of 3rd Dec, 1984 deadly MIC gas leaked from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal. Biting cold weather of December night of Central India, allowed the gas to descend near the ground like an envelop of death.
Unsuspecting, unaware and clueless mostly poor citizens that lived in the vicinity of the factory, by the railway tracks and near the…
The Railway Men, Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 - #Netflix Series Review
The Railway Men, Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 – #Netflix Series Review
Released on November 18, 2023 on @Netflix, “The Railway Men: Untold Story of Bhopal 1984” is inspired by real life events of lethal gas leak disaster at Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India in 1984 where nearly 15,000 people are estimated to have died, about 50% of the deaths occurred within days following the tragedy and…
look ma the most evil tech company in the world that has made “we’re evil” their company policy to the extent they’ve named themselves after a fantasy villain’s surveillance tools is supporting their clients the only democracy in the middle east <3
Aerial view looking northeast of Midtown Manhattan in late September, 1970 with many new office skyscrapers.
The 102-story Empire State Building (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931) with the 40-story 1250 Broadway Tower (Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1969) are on center, foreground with the 77-story Chrysler Building (William Van Allen, 1930) are visible at backgroud. The Park Avenue’s modern skyscrapers corridor, with Pan Am Building (Walter Gropius-Emery Roth & Sons-Pietro Belluschi, 1963) are visible at background, at left. The United Nations’ Secretariat Building (Wallace K. Harrison, 1950) are at background, at right. The building under construction that can be seen just behind Empire State is the 45-story 600 Third Avenue Building (Emery Roth & Sons, 1971). The steel skeleton that be begun to rises up at extreme left, on foreground, is the future W.R. Grace Building (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1972) under construction.