Inferno Tears through 35-Storey Skyscraper near the World's Tallest Building
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I have just seen this, it's dreadful, I would have thought they would have had sprinkler systems installed and other safety precautions to stop this happening 
because it must be a relatively new building and isn't it a luxury development, or an I just making assumptions about Dubai
Heres the link B
It seems it was limited damage to the cladding and facade luckily , they must have reacted fast to put it out otherwise it could have been a towering inferno reality
telmel So pleased to hear that as looking at the photos, I thought no one could survive that
Considering the people who probably built it were slaves I don't feel bad for the building burning, except any innocent victims.
PhilipMarc Thank you for sharing this, I hadn't seen it, although I had heard about the terrible conditions for those building the world cup football stadium
beccatavender You're welcome.
Nestlé is also guilty of slavery, but most people don't care because their chocolate is so delicious. Or just don't know or care to.
The masses believe slavery is dead and while there's some truth to that, a lot still happens without a lot of us knowing.
PhilipMarc More people in slavery now than any other time but admittedly as a percentage of the world population its much lower its just there are so many people now on the planet. It's higher in Islamic countries typically (although not always) and common across Africa. Nestle are a vile company who rarely put morality in front of a profit.
I used to get Felix and some Purina brand biscuits for my cat. I still get the biscuits occasionally but my cat isn't keen on Felix nowadays. Luckily a lot of Nestle brands are quite premium like Haagan Dazs so I wouldn't buy them anyway. I prefer Celebrations to Quality Street. It's difficult to make moral shopping choices and be aware which brands are linked to which major companies but its probably more important than voting in an election as its choices you are making everyday. Most people are vile though, you see huge sales of cosmetics and many of those companies are doing horrific unbelievable torture to animals just to cater for people's vanity. That's on a different scale of suffering and most people don't care or those companies would be out of business. Nestle is the classic formula of making products as cheaply as possible (wide use of slavery) but charging as much as possible at retail and then using that huge margin to aggressively takeover brands around the world where people have accepted paying a premium for them to increase their portfolio of companies and brands.
I can't understand why some people would even consider going to Dubai form their holidays. Cheap labour has built its so-called amenities.
To be honest I think if I stepped off a plane in Dubai in peak summer I'd burst into flames myself. I keep seeing Dubai listed amongst international cities and their temperatures and Dubai's are so ridiculously high. You wonder how many more decades the city will be viable with global warming. There will be an exodus away from hotter countries in the world. That's why border controls are so important in this country as we are already so extremely over-populated. Much higher than China for example I can't remember if its 50% over them or twice as much but we have an extremely high population density and makes us much more reliant on imported food and that may dry up with global warming with a lot more crop failures due to extreme weather and other factors. We should be around 30-40 million population.
BonzoBanana Not all women in Dubai have to wear scarfs around their heads, but most do (I assume) and that must get really hot and unbearable for them.
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