Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Hope they are back on for you, my dear followers.

"60 million Brazilians left in dark; Weather blamed for massive outage" by Bradley Brooks, Associated Press | November 12, 2009


People ate by candlelight at Copacabana Beach in Rio De Janeiro yesterday after storms short-circuited transformers, plunging much of the country into darkness. (Bradley Brooks/ Associated Press)

RIO DE JANEIRO - Heavy rain, lightning, and strong winds caused blackouts that left 60 million people in the dark, officials said yesterday as they scrambled to restore confidence in the country’s infrastructure before soccer’s 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics....

Who cares about the globalist games five-plus years from now?

There are PEOPLE SUFFERING NOW!!!

Is that the only reason it made the agenda-pushing paper?

Still sore about Chicago are they?

The blackout cut electricity to 18 of Brazil’s 26 states and left them without power for up to four hours Tuesday night. The federal district that includes the national capital of Brasilia was spared. About 7 million people also lost water service in Sao Paulo. All of neighboring Paraguay briefly lost power as well. In Brazil’s largest cities of Rio and Sao Paulo, people were trapped in elevators, stranded on commuter trains, or stuck in sweltering apartments during unusually hot spring temperatures that have hit the 90s in recent days.

Must be global warming, right?

“I wonder how this could have happened and am worried about what it does to Brazil’s image, especially with the World Cup and Olympics coming up,’’ said Wesley Aragao, a 24-year-old sailor who waited out the blackout at his parents’ house in northern Rio. “Nobody likes to be left in the dark.’’

I wouldn't be worrying about "image!"

Worry about REALITY! He IS RIGHT about the DARK -- which is why AmeriKa's newspapers are so frustrating.

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Another place where it is dark much of the time, but not due to storms:

A Palestinian boy lights a candle near the grave of the late leader Yasser Arafat during a vigil marking the anniversary of his death, in the West Bank city of Ramallah November 10, 2009. The Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers of detaining dozens of its members on Tuesday to stop them marking the 5th anniversary of the death of Arafat.

This photograph appeared in my printed Boston Globe -- but without an accompanying article. The web reader would never have known it existed.