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Blame blackouts on cats

With too little electricity, blackouts are common.

Electricity blackouts have already become a regular thing.

During the dry winter, blackouts were fairly common.

After that there will be no more blackouts.

Yazan argues that the anti SOPA blackouts were quite effective.

Citizens are demanding explanation about the recurring blackouts in recent months.

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Habrahabr user rubyrabbit made a complete log of the major news website blackouts.

Throughout protests, blackouts, threats, they have managed to pull though and keep writing.

In Bangladesh people are suffering badly because of heat wave and frequent rolling blackouts.

But West Europeans remember their own traumas, including electricity grid failures and widespread blackouts.

Spontaneous protests eruptedin several large cities in response to the power blackouts last summer.

Image from Urban VoiceHere are some reactions on Twitter about the blackouts in Cambodia

Ivorian citizens have created a cartoon character named Délestron (délestage means blackouts in french).

Rolling blackouts are common and citizens often stand in long line to obtain products.

And still a third group got a message about being good citizens, preventing blackouts.

In recent years, there have been electricity blackouts in Italy, Switzerland, Canada and the United States.

Energy was a major concern as some countries had to cope with power shortage and rolling blackouts.

Suu Kyi is referring to the power blackouts which hit several key cities of Myanmar last week.

Government has declared a national power crisis and the country could face blackouts for 16 hours per day.

Some governments have reacted to recent events with political repression, information blackouts, or a combination of authoritarian measures.

Spontaneous protests against Myanmar s power blackouts received news coverage in May 2012 because the government seldom permits anti government activities.

Electricity shortages have intensified on Yar Adua s watch, producing blackouts in many areas of the country and darkening the foreign investment climate.

The demand is much bigger than supply so many countries use load shedding (planned rolling blackouts) to manage the electricity distribution.

And load shedding (rolling electricity blackouts) due to power crisis in several countries have made the lives of millions of people unbearable.

When implementing forced blackouts in the region, for example, there were few major traffic accidents, even though traffic lights had stopped working.

As have the corporate and policy failures, such as the Enron bankruptcy and the 2003 electric power blackouts in North America and Europe.

Urban Voice, a Phnom Penh based crowdsourcing initiative, has mapped the blackouts which have become frequent in the city and other parts of Cambodia.

Losing Richard 23 due to creative differences, the group's remaining two members were augmented by a rapidly changing set of musicians centered on Chris Connelly (Finitribe, later solo work, Murder Inc., and The Damage Manual), Paul Barker (The Blackouts, Ministry, later Pink Anvil, U.S.S.A., and Flowering Blight), and Bill Rieflin (The Blackouts, Ministry, later playing with R.E.M.

Electric power blackouts, a prolonged drought, inflation, and shortages are making life increasingly difficult for ordinary Venezuelans, and Chávez s standing in opinion polls is dropping.

From what I hear, however, liberalisation in Spain has led to a number of broken connections, with blackouts occurring in Madrid and in other areas.

Although there were no blackouts due to supply demand issues, extreme weather conditions in both the winter and summer did lead to some emergency measures being taken.

For example, our over centralized grid is very vulnerable to cascading and potentially economy shattering blackouts caused by bad space weather or other natural disasters or a terrorist attack.

People across the country are cussing bitterly about the almost nationwide blackouts which Guyanese are suffering on a daily basis Imran Khan thinks that there is serious economics behind it all.

If the government was really interested and worried about the country's development, it would implant energy networks where they are missing networks that would benefit those regions that are experiencing blackouts.

In the past, there were challenges with access to power due to an energy crisis, but currently, Ghanaians have access to power and do not experience rolling blackouts as depicted by CNN.

A more formal grouping of transmission system operators, reporting to the EU energy regulators and to the Commission, could build on the work already started in the wake of the 2003 blackouts.

While the official Israeli stance has been coming out with claims that Hamas is staging the blackouts (not the first time Israel raises this issue), the situation on the ground in Gaza is dire.

Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a blackout of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support.

As a mechanic during the 2002 blackouts in Brazil, he figured out a way to light his workshop and be able to continue working he explains all about the light and the impact it is having in his community in this 2008 video

Tajikistan, the poorest state to emerge from the former Soviet Union, suffers blackouts during winter due to the declining capacity of its domestic energy infrastructure, yet hosts strong potential for renewable energy with over 200 sunny days during the average year and significant hydro resources.

During their worldwide KeepItOn campaign against internet blackouts, SMEX warned that in times of political unrest, an internet shutdown could lead to an increase in violence and acts of repression while making it nearly impossible to reach essential services and connect with loved ones.