The American Civil Liberties Union made the first legal challenge to the USA Patriot Act July 30, claiming that section 215 of the law violates citizens and residents rights to privacy, due process, and free speech by allowing the FBI to search library, business, and bookstore records in terrorist investigations without publicly disclosing that it has done so. Ordinary Americans should not have to worry that the FBI is rifling through their medical records, seizing their personal papers, or forcing charities and advocacy groups to divulge membership lists, said ACLU Associate Legal Director Ann Beeson.
Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock said in a written statement that section 215 has a narrow scope that scrupulously respects First Amendment rights, requires a court order to obtain any business records, and is subject to congressional reporting and oversight on a regular basis, the Washington Post reported July 30.
Competitors, vendors, investigators, business intelligence consultants, colleagues vying for positions, overbearing bosses, suspicious partners, the press, labor negotiators, government agencies. The list is long.
Why would I be a target?
Money and Power are the top two reasons behind illegal surveillance. If anything you say or write could increase someone else's wealth or influence, you are a target.
Is snooping common?
Yes. The news is full of stories about stolen information. In fact, many news stories themselves begin with leaks.
Can I protect myself?
Yes. Espionage is preventable. If you know the vulnerabilities, you can take the proper security precautions. Some spy tricks are obvious, if you stop to think about it. Some are clever abuses of the new technology we live with every day. All are devastating.
US-bound passengers are facing the risk of their personal data, including credit card number and religious affiliation, being transferred to the US authorities without their knowledge. Airlines have been forced to adopt these policies following a new EU directive that also applies to Austria, although this is a clear violation of existing data protection legislation.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle has confirmed that it will hold a news conference Friday to discuss developments in the MSBlast worm investigation.
U.S. Attorney John McKay and representatives from the FBI are expected to detail progress made in their investigation into the MSBlast computer virus at 1:30 p.m. PT, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington.
On the 78th floor of the World Trade Center, Anthony Savas waited vainly for help in a stranded elevator. Fifty-six stories below, a woman used wet tissues to keep out the smoke as Gene Raggio climbed to her aid. And outside the doomed twin towers, Ed Strauss waited for two co-workers. These final glimpses of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, along with the first frightening peek behind the scenes of the nation's worst terrorist attack, emerged Thursday from 2,000 pages of transcripts released by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the trade center's owner.
20 years ago, a Boeing 747 was shot out of the sky by a Soviet fighter jet, a U.S. Congressman on-board. Dr. Lawrence Patton McDonald was also simultaneously Chairman of the John Birch Society.
Rense.com has issued an incendiary retrospective of evidentiary articles and documents of the assassination of McDonald, the State Department cover-up of the investigation and a document which, perhaps, led to the decision to "take McDonald out." We urge you to visit Rense.com and enlighten yourself of this long-buried tragedy.
NEW YORK (FDI) After being abducted multiple times and abused by local police for his practice of Falun Gong, a 56-year-old farmer from Heilongjiang Province was subjected to forced-feeding with boiling water. Emaciated and unable to stand on his own, he died in a Chinese prison on August 8, 2003.
An emerging whodunit in Central Oregon hovers amid the smoke draping the east side of the Cascade Range.
Can it be pure coincidence, locals are asking, that two wildfires sprang up in view of the spot where President Bush planned to promote his plan to thin forests for wildfire prevention?
And that they both appeared just as his plans emerged?
"I think everyone in the community here is wondering that," said Judy Wattier, who works at the KOA Campground just east of Sisters, where business is in the doldrums because of the blazes that have covered almost 40,000 acres in the nearby Deschutes National Forest. "Everyone I've mentioned it to can talk about it for hours." [more]
"Bush posing with the environment is like Ted Bundy posing with pretty women." --Geov Parrish
The facts on the ground. I'm a journalist, reporting the evidence, not an environmentalist pressing an agenda. The Earth is sending us a message and you don't have to be an environmentalist to read it. The Arctic ice is melting. The Arctic winds are balmy. The Arctic Ocean is rising. Scientists say that in the year 2002 -- the second-hottest on record -- they saw the Arctic ice coverage shrink more than at any time since they started measuring it. Every credible scientific study in the world says human activity is creating global warming. In the face of this evidence, the government in Washington has declared war on nature. They have placed religious and political dogma over the facts. [more]
From the Charlotte Observer Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, reportedly plans to introduce legislation in September to further expand federal police powers.
The Hatch bill, entitled the Victory Act (Vital Interdiction of Criminal Terrorist Organizations Act), is seen by some to be a substitute for the so-called Patriot Act II -- the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 -- which was leaked and caused a furor in Congress as well as among liberal and conservative civil liberties groups. A draft copy of the Victory Act has been posted on the Web (www.libertythink.com).
It turns out that Theodore Kaczynski, a.k.a. the Unabomber, was a volunteer in mind-control experiments sponsored by the CIA at Harvard in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Michael Mello, author of the recently published book, "The United States of America vs. Theodore John Kaczynski," notes that at some point in his Harvard years -- 1958 to 1962 -- Kaczynski agreed to be the subject of "a psychological experiment." Mello identifies the chief researcher for these only as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, working for the CIA's predecessor organization, the Office of Strategic Services. In fact, the man experimenting on the young Kaczynski was Dr. Henry Murray, who died in 1988. Murray became preoccupied by psychoanalysis in the 1920s, drawn to it through a fascination with Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," which he gave to Sigmund Freud, who duly made the excited diagnosis that the whale was a father figure. After spending the 1930s developing personality theory, Murray was recruited to the OSS at the start of the war, applying his theories to the selection of agents and also presumably to interrogation.
For many Americans, the 1950s were a docile decade. In U.S. history books, the period is mostly portrayed as a mellow, orderly one, especially in light of the social upheavals that followed in the 1960s. But for the CIA, the "I Like Ike" years were packed with adventure and action, much of it conducted outside of the public's view. Few programs were sheltered with more secrecy than the Agency's mind control experiments, identified together with the code-name MKULTRA.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, summoned to a judicial inquiry on Thursday, denied aides hyped intelligence reports to justify invading Iraq as the death of another British soldier there underlined the cost of the war.
Blair told the inquiry into the suicide of a scientist at the center of a vicious row between the government and the BBC over the Iraq war that if a BBC report that spy agency data had been "sexed up" had been true he would have resigned.
Rushkoff, a New York-based journalist, goes west to Berkeley for a look inside Cyberiathe emerging countercultural terrain of computer hackers, "smart" drugs, house music, and a range of alternate "cyberpunk" lifestyles and anarchic philosophies.
This largely sympathetic report from the latest frontier will undoubtedly strike many older readers as outrageous, but others (especially those with clear memories of the 60's) may find much of the rhetoric familiar, even nostalgic. In fact, many of the ingredients hark back to the Berkeley scene of nearly three decades ago: the text is full of references to acid trips, pagan rituals, and Grateful Dead concerts, and even Timothy Leary puts in an appearance at a virtual reality demonstration. The most significant new element in the mix is the computer especially when used to connect with other computer users around the world. Leary advised dropouts to "find the others," and computer networks like the WELL have made it easier than ever for Cyberians to locate those of similar beliefs.
Rushkoff interviews authors, drug dealers, musicians, and hackers; watches two electronic outlaws stealing ATM codes; joins a role-playing game in which he acts the part of a thief; and talks to eco-terrorists and cultists about their beliefs. While some readers might wish the author had kept his nonsense detector more finely tuned, much of the book's value lies in Rushkoff's ability to resist patronizing his subjects. A provocative, wide-ranging survey of the current state of the interface between the longings of youth and the wild potentials of computer technology. Kirkus Review
I notice you have a link to my article about the 9/11 bungled sting and the hijacker's airline ticket being bought from the OU library computer terminal.
The eBay ad read "BlackBerry RIM sold AS IS!" So Eugene Sacks (not his real name), a Seattle computer consultant who always wanted one of the pager-size devices to check his e-mail, sent in a bid. For just $15.50, he bought the wireless device with 4 MB of memory.
The BlackBerry didn't come with a cable, synching station, software or a manual. But it did come with something even more valuable: a trove of corporate data.
After popping a battery into the BlackBerry's back panel, Sacks discovered a few things the previous owner wouldn't have wanted him to see -- more than 200 internal company e-mails from financial services firm Morgan Stanley and a database of more than 1,000 names, job titles (from vice presidents to managing directors), e-mail addresses and phone numbers (some of them home numbers) for Morgan Stanley executives worldwide.
Still stinging from failed attempts to introduce radio tags to consumers, retailers and their suppliers are now adding features to the technology to make it appear essential to the safety of the nation's food supply.
As recently as last week, retailers and consumer packaged-goods companies have had to quietly dump efforts to implant radio-frequency identification technology into products or store shelves. The tiny radio transmitters let the companies precisely track the numbers and whereabouts of their inventory and consumers' purchasing preferences, which worries many privacy advocates.
Call it Superman meets the Terminator meets Predator meets Universal Soldier. A futuristic battle suit being designed by Dow Corning, the U.S. Army and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would, among other advantages, give soldiers the ability to leap tall walls with a single bound, blend in to various backgrounds with the push of a button and repel bullets.
The Future Warriors project, as it has been dubbed, is headquartered at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at MIT. The program, which involves work by Dow Corning, Du Pont and Raytheon, aims at replacing the outdated battle dress uniforms with new garb replete with features aimed at dramatically boosting soldiers' odds on the battle field.
The military says soldiers should be wearing the new suits by 2025, and some of the advancements will be in use by 2010.
In the end, Friday's two-hour discussion of whether computers should be the sole tabulators of Georgia voters' ballots came down to a challenge.
Roxanne Jekot, a 51-year-old computer program developer from Cumming, said she and a few expert friends could crack Georgia's $54 million touch-screen voting system in a matter of minutes.
Here is the song that was removed from the re-airing of a Saturday Night Live show from March. Most likely, NBC's owner, the $80B GE corporation, didn't like the truth being told on its own network.
In the Netherlands a company named Campina was being blackmailed by a suspect hiding his tracks using www.anonymizer.com. The dutch police worked together with the FBI and anonymizer.com to track the blackmailer. www.anonymizer.com handed over account information of the suspect to the FBI without a warrant. The lawyer of the suspect plans to sue www.anonymizer.com for breaking their own privacy policy:
1. SURFOLA.com will not give out your name, residence address, or e-mail address to any third parties without your permission, for any reason, at any time, ever.
THE Automobile Association yesterday applauded plans being considered by the government that could put an electronic traffic policeman in every car within a few years. A microchip embedded in each car's chassis would identify it to roadside sensors, enabling a range of motoring offences like speeding, jumping traffic lights or illegal parking to be logged. Stolen cars, or cars being driven without road tax, MoT certificates, or insurance also could be picked up. In many cases, the first indication for the owner that they had been collared would be a penalty ticket arriving through the post. An AA spokesman said: 'The advantages of such a system would outweigh the disadvantages. We have a lot of problems in this country with people who default on insurance, MoT testing, and car tax. 'However, if these systems are going to be used to raise money through road-tolling then we would expect tax to be proportionately eased in other areas, like fuel or road tax.'
The story of Sally Baron, a Stoughton woman whose obituary asked that memorial funds go toward the removal of President Bush, was catching hold across the country as her family held memorial services Friday.
Dozens of people from around the United States have written to The Capital Times saying they will make donations to various organizations in her name, and the request was aired on national TV Thursday night.
Baron "has become a sort of poster girl for all of us who despise George Bush," wrote Nancy Tonies of Appleton.
Baron raised six children, one of whom died of leukemia at age 21, in the timber and mining country of Iron County. Her husband was crushed and nearly killed in a 1969 mining accident and died seven years ago, shortly before Baron moved to Stoughton.
Her family described how their mother - a waitress, cook and factory assembly worker - was furious with Bush for what she saw as a stolen election and dishonest statements. Baron's favorite nickname for Bush, which she used to shout at the TV, was "whistle ass."
The Tampa Police Department in Florida this week ditched a controversial facial-recognition system, saying it had not helped them catch even one criminal.
Aug. 24 - International computer chip giant Intel has recently made the strategic decision that Israel will serve as one of its research hubs, alongside the U.S., Britain and Spain, Ha'aretz reported. Senior executives at Intel Israel called the decision substantial for the future of the Israeli branch's operation. According to the executives, this will strengthen Israel's standing in competition with India, China and Russia, for the development and manufacture of future Intel product lines. Former Intel Israel communications division chief Yossi Levy has been appointed to lead Israel's research activity.
"This is a major change for global Intel. Israel has advantages in MEMS and nanotechnology that are very interesting to Intel," Intel vice president and research director David Tennenhouse explained last week during a visit to Israel.
America is slowly becoming something of a prison whether many choose to realize it or pass it off as a conspiracy theory. The following article is an attempt to place the entire topic in perspective to give an understanding to why some may feel this country is becoming something of a police state. Included in the write-up is information on the USA PATRIOT act, and statistics that should not be taken lightly, coming from an everyday citizens perspective.
The University of Oklahoma is in Norman, where I reside. In the fall of 2001, I was talking to an OU library employee who told me that she was present when an FBI agent was interviewing her colleague. The agent was interested in the fact that the OU library computer terminal had been used for an online purchase of an airline ticket for a 9/11 hijacker who was on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania.
She also told me that he had not been a hijacker. He was a white American male...
Then again, the FBI also confirmed that Pakistan's Chief Spy General Mahmoud Ahmad, who was at a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill on the morning of 9-11, hosted by Senator Bob Graham and Rep. Porter Goss, (the chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees), was the "money-man" behind the 9-11 hijackers.
I would assume sometime after it was discovered that over 25% of the hijackers were trained at secure US military facilities, the FBI was told to stop investigating. (Again.)
In the "free world," Satan has found the liberal media makes for an effective tool for guiding and controlling society.
The liberal media is not only the devil's best device for corrupting human society; it's his most diabolical device. The finger of blame is rarely ever pointed at the liberal media for society's ills. This is because the press is in charge of fixing the blame. (via)
"Ordinary wasps and hornets are bad enough, but it turns out that wasps are building radioactive nests in a nuclear power plant in Hanford, Washington. And regular hornets are dive bombing people's ears, attracted by the perfume behind them."
After protests against the trial of RFID tags by Gillette at a Tesco store in Cambridge (pics), increasing press coverage, a boycott, and the growing mobilisation of campaigners against the intrusive use of the technology, Gillette have withdrawn their trial. RFID (Radio Frequency ID) tags are small tags containing a microchip which can be 'read' by radio sensors over short distances.
Anti-fascist researcher Dave Emory (spelled E-M-O-R-Y) goes into all the hidden truths and details about evil men and their trade practices. SPECIAL NOTE: All of Dave's archives will be restored soon. We suffered a computer breakdown, but all the Dave Emory archives were backed up. Please allow until August 28th for the archives to reappear. They could be back before that. Check this page for updates.
Note: Some audio files are still there. Besides, you haven't listened to all of these yet, have you?
Corporations are the dominant force in modern life, surpassing even church and state. The largest are richer than entire nations, and courts have given these entities more rights than people. To many Americans, corporate power seems out of control. Download the book for free at: http://www.gangsofamerica.com
If you detect the devil's hand in current events, you may be closer to the truth than you think.
A woman who was raised in the Illuminati cult describes a powerful secret organization comprising one per cent of the U.S. population that has infiltrated all social institutions and is covertly preparing a military takeover. Her revelations cast the "war on terror" and "homeland security" in their true light.
"Svali" is the pseudonym of the woman, age 45, who was a mind "programmer" for the cult until 1996. She was the sixth head trainer in the San Diego branch and had 30 trainers reporting to her. She has risked her life to warn humanity of the Illuminati's covert power and agenda.
As stated in previous stories, the Saudi Royal Family have been in the midst of a bitter divorce from the Bush White House Gang. To evade prior knowledge charges of treason against themselves, the Bushies have been falsely blaming the Saudis for 9-11.
As a reprisal, on the afternoon of Thursday, August 14, 2003, the Saudis were set to begin the wire transfer, out of the U.S., of a 98 Billion Dollar portion, of their upwards of One Trillion Dollars of deposits in U.S. money center banks, mainly in New York.
The transfering was blocked by a massive black-out U.S./Canada, hard-hitting New York and transit recipient point, Toronto. This was apparently orchestrated by a U.S. power firm owned by the British Aristocracy, to whom the Bush Crime family are shackled as stooges and scapegoats.
The occupant and resident of the White House had few options. Find an excuse to declare U.S. Bank Holiday (the banks being already insolvent)? Or, divide Saudi Arabia, non-oil West for Saudi Royals and religious sites, and oil-rich East, as U.S. occupied Military Zone?
As a stop-gap measure, George W. Bush secretly and unlawfully grabbed huge portions of the U.S. Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, thus endangering sickly and senior citizens now and in the future. For what? To bribe the Saudis not to re-schedule their flight capital out of the U.S. At least, not for now.
The Bushies ordered that the Saudi Royals have their One Trillion Dollars in U.S. deposits sweetened. How? By off-the-books higher interest additions, by awarding of hush-money, some of its disguised as financial instruments, such as debentures or heavy portions plundered unlawfully of supposed U.S.Government-backed mortgage pools, namely, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae. Thus, darkening the financial horizon of common Americans and their home ownership.
Part of this stolen goods is also being used, to fool suckers, by temporarily pumping up the U.S. Stock Markets, to give the false image of an impending so-called "economic recovery", when none is at hand.
And, BIG MEDIA and BIG OIL continue their "Song of the Rotten Liars".
The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International Currency Review, the London-based journal, of mounting a joint ultra-secret operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of the money is not known.
The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise one's comings and goings across the Internet, has been back-doored by court order. The service is currently logging access attempts to a particular, and unnamed, Web site and reporting the IP addys of those who attempt to contact it to the German police.
We know this because the JAP operators immediately warned users that their IP traffic might be going straight to Big Brother, right? Wrong. After taking the service down for a few days with the explanation that the interruption was 'due to a hardware failure', the operators then required users to install an 'upgraded version' (ie. a back-doored version) of the app to continue using the service.
The father of the White House press secretary claims in his upcoming book, 'Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.,' that former President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Barr McClellan, father of White House press secretary Scott McClellan and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Mark McClellan, is preparing for a Sept. 30 release of a 480-page book by Hannover House that offers photographs, copies of letters, insider interviews and details of fingerprints as proof that Edward A. Clark, the powerful head of Johnson's private and business legal team and a former ambassador to Australia, led the plan and cover-up for the 1963 assassination in Dallas.
British scientists have devised a snake-like robot spy which uses Darwin's principle of evolution to keep moving even if it gets damaged by hostile fire, New Scientist reports. The 'snakebot', still only a lab prototype, is designed to be dropped out of helicopters and creep around a battlefield, using optical, audio and other sensors to build up a picture of enemy activity.
In an article spoofing the idiocies of some of the board games being produced at the time, we created several new ones that jumped from reality into satirical fantasy. One was called "Draft Dodger" and, as part of our point of departure, ended with the winner earning the title of "Official Draft Dodger"...and instructing him to send his name to J. Edgar Hoover for his "Official Draft Dodger Card." I mean, who in heck would ever expect any MAD reader to actually do that?! But obviously, many did...much to the consternation of Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI.
When Bill Gaines and I returned from our lunch and learned from John Putnam, our Art Director, that two deadly serious FBI Agents had actually visited our offices and expressed Mr. Hoover's anger and objection to being included in our "Draft Dodger Game", we were appalled and frightened...not about Mr. Hoover's fury!...but because some of our readers might have gotten themselves into trouble by admitting to him that they were Draft Dodgers! After our initial concerns had passed and we learned more about the FBI Agents' visit...and what they had requested us to do...it became clearly apparent that Mr. Hoover was more interested in the use of his name in MAD, and the sullying of his reputation by it, than in any thoughtless reader action... we rolled on the floor, laughing.
LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq weapons expert David Kelly eerily predicted his death six months ago, telling a British diplomat that if Baghdad was attacked he would be found "dead in the woods," the inquiry into his death revealed on Thursday.
A mandate which will force local agencies that receive federal funds to register and track homeless people has been called too invasive by privacy and community activists.
In an attempt to grasp the scope of the United States' homeless problem, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is requiring local government and nonprofit organizations receiving grants for homeless programs to keep detailed files on their clientele. Data to be tracked ranges from Social Security numbers to HIV statuses to mental health histories.
Local agencies must have the so-called Homeless Management Information Systems, or HMIS, in place by 2004 or risk losing federal funds.
Exposing the Pentagon's Diabolical Schemes "We are making available to our readership below, the damning and shocking top secret 'Northwoods Project' document that has been declassified and obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Even though the project was written and approved by the Joints Chiefs of Staff and approved by the Secretary of Defense to deal with Cuba in 1962, the plan fits like a glove to what is presently occurring in the War Against Islam."
Back in the early nineties, video camcorders finally reached the saturation point necessary for one of them to happen to be in range when a bunch of overzealous white cops beat up a black man in Los Angeles. The "Rodney King Tape" spread through the mediaspace like wildfire, eventually leading to full-scale rioting in a dozen American cities. Soon after, I remember seeing an ad in Rolling Stone that showed an African-American arm holding a camcorder in the air with the caption: "The Power is in Your Hand."
That was before the Internet, before streaming video, and before wireless. The camcorder tape itself was physically carried into the newsroom. In one short decade, we've gained the ability to upload video to servers and make our images accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, no matter what the news networks might think of it.
[NOTE: This report coming on 8/19/03 from REPost, an investigative journalist with extensive travels and background in Thai and Burmese/Myannmar politics and military configurations, and is exclusive to SiaNews.com.]
I'll continue to report on Burma and Suu Kyi from time to time as you wish, but right now the girl is going nowhere in a slammer on the outskirts of Rangoon. Her unarrested minions contemplate Club Med. As you probably know, a Thai multi-starred General recently said (then denied he said) that a Burmese multi-starred General said she was getting her walking papers on August 22-24. Contrarily, some ASICJ convener from Oz [Australia] claims that Than Shwe wants to prosecute Suu Kyi for treason; the street is absolutely rife with rumorous little brown people. But, this is an entirely logical response for a man in Than Shwe's position.
If Suu Kyi gets out again, his ass is toast (now that she's signed with a Hollywood agent.) Regretably for this mild-mannered Burmese family man, except for an occasionable rubber hose, he can't touch a hair on her photogenic head. There is little other news.
Well, except for Red troops swiftly packing into their southern borderland for a little mahjong. But, if you want to see some real action in Burma: wait till they >>>pull the plug on Unocal.<<<
Than Shwe is going to go for broke. He wants the friggin XXX. You gotta hand it to the guy, he does have style. Then again he always wanted to be an actor.
"Although it is unusual to add to an existing DSM instead of waiting for the new addition, extenuating circumstances make this imperative. The current increase in incidence of this syndrome and the apparent contagion factor make the availability of clear diagnostic criteria essential. Treatment options are limited owing to the gullibility (DSM-IV Foxnewsitis 666.66) factor of the general population. Current Strategies include Exposure Methods eg 12 Step Programs such as Politicians Publicus seen daily on Fox TV, where public breast beating and baring, ranting and raving apparently bore even hard core politicians into submission. Other treatment options include therapy from Ann Coulter or promotion to Bush's closet... err, make that Cabinet. Early diagnosis is essential to prevent the rapid disintegration from human being into full blown Politician."
nomorefakenews.com: "Energy Secretary Abraham has awakened from his slumber long enough to put a $50 billion price tag on rebuilding the grid to make it thoroughly modern. the billions of dollars are going to form a gift for power utilities and construction firms that have friends in high places. To say nothing of energy traders who deal, every day, in buying and selling energy futures.
One of those friends is George Shultz,former secretary of state and, more importantly, the head of Bechtel---a giant construction firm that specializes in power facilities."
ALL of Georgia was without power today, and officials in the impoverished former Soviet republic were struggling to determine the cause of the blackout.
Electricity went off at 7 am in the entire country of 4.4 million people. Periodic blackouts are common here, but it was unusual for the whole country to be affected at once.
"We are trying to figure out what's happening,'' said Medeya Kakhadze, an aide to Fuel and Energy Minister Mamuka Nikolaishvili. "We know only that an emergency shutdown occurred.'' | Via Darkblog
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