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Power Cut Shuts Down Iraq Oil Exports

celerystick — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:26:31 -0800

Power Cut Shuts Down Iraq Oil Exports ASRA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's oil exports were shut down Monday by a power cut that darkened parts of central and southern Iraq, including the country's only functioning oil export terminals, Iraqi and foreign oil officials said.

London Power Cuts

andyHollister — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 01:45:31 -0800

Anyone smell a conspiracy? London and the South East gets hit by a massive power cut in a similar way to New York and the surrounding areas. Complaints from authorities in both cities of "under-investment in the National Grid " and talk of "antiquated infrastructure" strangely mirror each other and it's odd that these two extremely rare events have happened so close together. Was this a deliberate test of our emergency infrastructures, terrorism or just plain coincidence?

Blogging a darkened Cleveland

mrbula — Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:19:49 -0800

BLACKOUT BLOG - Cleveland.com decides a weblog is the best way to cope with their servers getting knocked out in yesterday's power outage.

Welcome to the Blackout History Project

asparagus_berlin — Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:57:14 -0800

Welcome to the Blackout History Project. With all the hub-bub today, josh m. marshall of talkingpointsmemo posted a link to an associates history of two other nyc blackouts. marshall says:

The Blackout History Project

take it easy nyers and anyone else blacked out.