When I hear this, my first thought is that a few trees falling in a storm could not disable a huge country like Brazil.
Paraguay blames Brazil and the dam for the power failure at a time when both countries are thinking about complexities and additional strains on Brazils' infrastructure building up to the future. "President da Silva announced that Brazil has committed to spending more than $14 billion to prepare for the upcoming 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics," according to Suite101.com at http://paraguay.suite101.com/article.cfm/itaipu-dam-paraguay-and-brazil-opympics-2016
No one wants to use the "S" word though many in the media are using the word "hackers." The Daily Mail (with the great photographs) says, "The blackouts came two days after CBS's "60 Minutes' Reported that several past Brazilian power outages (2005 and 2007) were caused by computer hackers." The CBS program aired Nov. 8, while the 2009 outage was Nov. 10.
According to wired.com, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/brazil/ "Reports that hacker-extortionists triggered at least one blackout outside the U.S. first surfaced last year, based on comments made by CIA's chief cyber security officer, Tom Donahue." Read several "updates" on this story, at wired.com. One says Brazilian government regulators believe the 2007 outage was not the result of hacker activity but rather a utility company's negligent maintenance of high voltage insulators on two transmission lines "traced to sooty insulators." Is that as absurd as the squirrel story.
So which is worse, hackers, negligent maintenance, dam/power plant malfunction or trees on the wires? All of these choices, especially the downed trees and wires, can be prevented by Peter Sumaruck's power production system technology.
The really significant thing is that Brazil already possesses Peter Sumaruck's technology.
But as far as we know, publicly, it is only being used for military purposes. See opednews.com, third page, http://www.opednews.com/articles/3/Highlights-of-the-Advanced-by-Charlotte-Wilson-091217-512.html "Todd (conference moderator) asks Pete about his technology in Brazil. Pete gave his energy system to one of his military buddies who sold it to Brazil. Pete has stayed in this country (US) because he does not want his tech used for weapons (tech now also in Japan), but says that once it is out of his hands, "they do as they want.'"
"His tech has been applied to power a laser weapon which is lightweight and can be carried on a soldier's back. It was tested on a drone plane which when hit lost all electrical power and crashed. Todd says, "I guess we know when a plane falls out of the sky, we really can't tell why.' Pete replies, "Any tech can be used the wrong way.'"
Pete would have practically given away his technology to our government but they are slaves to commingled corporate and political hegemony. It is factions of our government that are responsible for various attempts on Pete's life.
Brazil could go the other way - they could do the right thing. Think of the pristine rain forests, decimated to make way for biofuel corn production. "In Brazil itself, environmentalists have pointed to biofuel production as one of the key reasons for the steady deforestation of the Amazon basin," guardian.co.uk.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/09/biofuels-brazil-copenhagen-summit Brazil does not need biofuel since they have Pete's technology. Brazil can use this technology to benefit her people - and power its infrastructure. There is still time for Brazil to do this before the Olympics in 2016 so the lights will not go out - again.
Even if it takes Brazil longer to accomplish this changeover, the fact remains, Brazil is more technologically advanced than the United States. Come on, wake up, America. This is deplorable. The United States is sorely behind in technology. This is a sad comment on the times we live in.
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It should be noted - in that CBS "60 Minutes" program of November 8, I don't see mention of the cyber attack in San Jose/Silicon Valley CA where fiber optic cables were intentionally cut on April 9, 2009. This attack caused a day out of the work week (how many millions of dollars did that cost?) and took down 50,000 land lines; it was officially designated an act of sabotage. This incident has been hushed. A reward was posted for the arrest of the perpetrators but nothing has been heard about this since - "All's Quiet on the Western Front."
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