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Attack on transmission tower behind massive blackout in Pakistan
pennenergy.com ^
| January 26, 2015
Posted on 06/25/2015 1:30:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The outages began early Sunday morning. Authorities gave no estimate for how many people the blackout affected, though electricity went out in nearly every major city in this country of 180 million people.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Water and Power, Zafaryab Khan, said a militant attack on a transmission tower in the southwestern Baluchistan province cause the blackout. Khan said that caused a power surge that eventually affected wide swaths of the power distribution system.
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: baluchistan; islam; liberty; molonlabe; pakistan
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:30:29 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Happens here all the time.
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:31:09 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
To: BenLurkin
Redundancy is a good thing.
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:32:12 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
(Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
To: AppyPappy
How do you blackout America?
PRACTICE, Practice, practice....
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:35:51 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: BenLurkin
Mad Mo’ dint habe no freaking ‘lectricity and he got along just fine.
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:36:52 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: BenLurkin
Nothing good comes out of Pakistan
Seriously - the USA needs to implement a total travel ban with that country.
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:41:02 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: PGR88
I say we send Bammy back to Poke-e-stahn.
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posted on
06/25/2015 1:44:07 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
To: BenLurkin
Coming to America. And soon.
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posted on
06/25/2015 2:10:20 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
To: PGR88
Except for illegal immigrants from Pawkeestawn.
We need as many of those as we can get.
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posted on
06/25/2015 2:11:45 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
To: BenLurkin
The good new is, nobody is going to freeze to death on Hell’s front porch.
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posted on
06/25/2015 2:37:05 PM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/25/2015 3:03:58 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
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