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Heat wave in Brazil forces power cuts; to recover fragile system rates could increase by 60%

Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:27 UTC
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Rolling blackouts swept across parts of Brazil as the grid operator ordered select power cuts to avoid a larger crisis, drawing attention to a fragile electric system that is buckling under the strains of record-breaking heat and dryness. Read full article

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  • 313toBioBio

    Notice that the Luciferian regime can't keep the Luz going. It's a false light. a darkness.

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Oh, it's priceless.

    DumbAss Dilma thinks she can alter the laws of physics to keep the luz going!

    Doesn't happen like this in European countries unless there is MAJOR physical damage to the gris.

    You would think Brazil would know how hot it gets, wouldn't you?

    OF COURSE THEY KNOW: the generators are being robbed by Dilma, that's THE problem.

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 05:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    Just a bunch of excuses......a decade ago, energy specialists from the private sector warned that the shit would hit the fan....Lulasshole and Dilmasshole were just too busy stealing and trying to convert Brazil into a Bolivarian (failed) State, and paid no heed......It's gonna be a hot, shitty summer, but the twats who voted for the PT, deserve every day of discomfort.

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • brucey-babe

    Someone remind me when the next Olympics are on.

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 09:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    No electricity means no water in 3rd world countries.

    :)

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 5 yankeeboy

    It means no water in the 1st world ones either, you just don't have serious outages otherwise you would know!

    :o)

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 313toBioBio

    A famous demon posessed witch Madonna released a song Ghost town on Dec. 19th. Whether it was Pope John Paul II condemning her, or her Santiago Concert ruined by a winter storm..during the summer. Everything with this act is for a reason. I am waiting for the power outages and chaos in the nations that her MDNA tour touched. She gave a Paris speech on peace and love, now there's hatred and bombings. She got on her knees and prayed that Obama would win. Argentina is in Ruins. Venezuela can't keep the lights on. Will Bachelet? no. Is the third world war something internal in South America? Yes.

    Jan 20th, 2015 - 11:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Are they taking lessons from the Maduro Regime?
    The Scarcity is so bad in Vnzla that taking photos of empty shelves in supermarkets is now illegal.
    Then the queues, (las colas) got so bad that people have been queuing overnight.
    So they banned queues. Honestly! I was there when it happened! Some of my younger cousins was in 'la cola' overnight when the military arrived and forced people to stop queuing AT GUN-POINT!
    I had arrived to supply water and snacks for them.
    They were threatened with tear gas or imprisonment. For queueing for scarce supplies! Overnight!
    Welcome to the Socialist Paradise of the Bolivarian Revolution.
    ~
    What next? A ban on Hunger?
    ~
    Argentina/Brazil, take this as a warning........!

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 02:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    Sounds like North Korea to me.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 06:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @8,9
    If the Military took over here, it would be to get rid of the shit that is already installed in power.....and, during the military regime, from 1964 to 1985, we never went through anything close to what's happening in VZ....things worked fine, except for the a.holes who thought they could topple the government.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    @ 10 Jack Bauer

    And in true SA fashion one of the arseholes is now the President on her second term: just like in Uruguay; but at least we have the safety of no second term.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @11 ChrisR
    You are right....the fat B has 4 more years...unless she is impeached...still waiting to see the name of the 40 politicians from mainly the PT and the PMDB (the latter guaranteeing the government's majority in Congress), in the Petrobras scandal..
    Many politicians, without having been named - yet - are already squirming in their seats and transferring illegally gained assets to relatives.....won't help much, as the Federal Police are checking all transfers made during 2014, before things started to stink. Hopefully, our Congress too, will ban re-election of a President.

    Jan 21st, 2015 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ilsen

    Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and I hope it shines brightly into every nook and cranny of those bastards.

    Jan 22nd, 2015 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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