"Guy Fawkes & More From London" feature in Turks & Caicos Weekly News (edition 14-20 Nov 2009), page 33. About: the bonfire at Battersea Park 7 Nov 2009, history of Guy Fawkes, what's on in London this season. Reading tip: Click the 'View Fullscreen' icon (bottom right of the article) to enlarge the text so you can read it properly.

1. November 14 - 20, 2009 TURKS AND CAICOS WEEKLY NEWS 33
World News
Guy Fawkes and more from London
By Lou TayLor
THE SEASONS are all mixed up and
the world’s a small place. Or so it
seems, as I look at what’s happening
in London this autumn.
Like many nations, we celebrate
Halloween (from the Celtic All-
Hallows-Even) a festival of darkness
and death. The clocks have gone
back and the long, dark, cold nights
are here to welcome those lost
People eat by candlelight at a restaurant at the Copabana beach spirits that may return to haunt. Yet
in Rio de Janeiro during a blackout Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009. the shops have been stocked with
Christmas merchandise since the end
of summer.
Brazil seeks cause There’s deep snow coverage
at Battersea Power Station on the
of massive blackout
southern bank of the River Thames
for Freeze, the second annual
snowboard, ski and music festival.
SAO PAULO (AFP) – Brazil on It said that the National Electric And at the London Film Festival,
Wednesday sought to uncover the Grid Operator “is seeking the causes the preview of We Live In Public Londoners mark tradition by celebrating Guy Fawkes Night
cause of a massive and mysterious of the blackout,” adding: “Any (released in the States in October)
blackout overnight, amid concerns diagnostic at this time is purely explores the impact of the internet expert in gunpowder explosives and guilty of treason and sentenced to be
of energy supply stability for the speculative.” on our lives. It contains footage a Roman Catholic from York in the hanged, drawn and quartered along
2016 Olympic host nation. The head of the Itaipu facility, of an art experiment from the late north of England. Having enlisted in with his comrades, at the very place
The outage, which hit at 10:15 pm Jorge Miguel Samek, told Globo 1990s in which Josh Harris used the Spanish army in the 1590s during they plotted to blow up.
Tuesday (0015 GMT Wednesday) he also believed a storm was likely web surveillance cameras to stream the Wars of Religion in Europe, he’s Weak from torture but ever the
and lasted four to six hours, behind the cut in power from the his every movement. Provoking learnt his skills from the Spanish. hero, Fawkes declines the hanging
plunged nearly half the country into second-biggest hydro-electric plant questions of our usage of the web as Renting a cellar under the House of choosing instead to jump from the
darkness. in the world. it evolves, one thing’s for sure – the Lords in Westminster Palace (later to ladder up to the gallows. Breaking
An estimated 50 million people -- An energy ministry spokesman told web has made the world a small, or at be called the Houses of Parliament), his neck, he takes his own life.
more than a quarter of Brazil’s 190- AFP three of the plant’s transmission least immediately accessible, place. the revolutionaries secretly stash * * * * *
million-strong population -- were lines failed during the emergency. Amid these international away 36 barrels of gunpowder over In commemoration of the foiled
affected, mainly in the major cities Despite Furnas’s statement, celebrations and activities, something several months. This will be enough explosion, neighbourhoods all
in the southern part of the country, the ministry’s secretary, Marcio truly British is happening: the 404th to blow up all of Westminster Palace over the UK and some parts of the
including Sao Paulo and Rio de Zimmerman, speculated that an anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, and everyone in it! Commonwealth light bonfires on
Janeiro. unspecified “adverse meteorological the attempt to blow up the Houses By warning a fellow Catholic who November 5 and burn an effigy of
Off-duty police were called up as condition” set off a “domino effect” of Parliament and assassinate the will be at the state opening, word of Guy Fawkes (a ‘guy’). To make the
thousands were trapped in immobile through the grid. monarch, King James I, and most the planned explosion leaks out and guy, children stuff old clothes with
elevators and subway trains. Itaipu has an output of 14,000 of the British aristocracy at the state reaches the king. During the night, padding like newspaper that burns
Cars were forced to nose through megawatts, which supplies 20 opening of Parliament in 1605. early November 5 1605, the King’s easily, adding a paper-maché balloon
intersections made dangerous by percent of the energy needs of Brazil, * * * * * men search the cellar, finding not head. Firework displays remind
suddenly extinguished traffic lights. Latin America’s most economically In this Stuart period, Britain – like only the gunpowder buried under us of the gunpowder stash and the
Some cafes closed out of fear of a active nation. All of that was off-line much of Europe – is divided between firewood and coal but also Guy monarch’s escape.
nocturnal crime wave. overnight. Protestants and Catholics. Under Fawkes making his escape. The rhyme ‘remember, remember
Power was mostly returned before The blackout occurred two nights Britain’s Protestant rule, Catholics Arrested and tortured for several the fifth of November / the gunpowder
dawn, though several areas remained after the US television network face oppression, and the Gunpowder days, Fawkes is imprisoned in treason and plot / I know of no
without energy, including nearly a CBS broadcast a report in which Plot orchestrated by Robert Catesby the Tower of London. In his trial, reason / why the gunpowder treason
quarter of the state of Minas Gerais, unidentified former US national seeks to change this. January 31 1606, at Westminster Hall / should ever be forgot’ continues to
according to Globo television news. security officials claimed massive The explosion and assassination (the grand entrance to the Houses be part of the tradition, in this, the
Blame for the emergency was power outages in Brazil in 2005 and will be carried out by Guy Fawkes, an of Parliament) Fawkes is found 404th anniversary year.
levelled at the Itaipu hydro-electric 2007 were caused by cyber hackers
station that straddles the border attacking control systems.
between Brazil and Paraguay and Although Brazilian media were
supplies both countries with much of
their energy needs.
skeptical of that assessment, the US
channel said those incidents should
Silent DC sniper mastermind Muhammad executed
Brazilian Energy Minister serve as a wake-up call to the United JARRATT, Va. – Sniper John Allen why he methodically hunted people
Edson Lobao said the problem States, which could see its own power Muhammad refused to utter any last going about their daily chores, why
originated there, possibly because supplies hit by computer sabotage. words as he was executed, taking to he chose his victims, including a
a storm shorted out one of its five Brazil’s energy ministry was the grave answers about why and how middle schooler on his way to class,
transmission lines. expected to hold an urgent meeting he plotted the killings of 10 people and how many victims there were.
Paraguay, which gets 90 percent later Wednesday, with all the country’s that terrorized the Washington, D.C., Muhammad stepped into Virginia’s
of its power from the huge plant, was grid operators, to determine the exact area for three weeks in October death chamber and within seconds
left in the dark for 15 minutes during causes of the outage and what can be 2002. was lying on a gurney, tapping his
the outage. down to prevent a repetition. The 48-year-old died by injection left foot, his arms spread wide with
But Furnas, Brazil’s state-owned Authorities are especially at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday as relatives of a needle dug into each.
electricity company responsible for concerned about the damage that the victims watched from behind “Mr. Muhammad, do you have
the affected area, said in a statement might be done to Brazil’s reputation glass, separated from the rest of the 27 any last words?” the warden asked.
on Wednesday that it found no ahead of Rio hosting the 2016 witnesses at Greensville Correctional John Muhammad died by lethal Muhammad, looking calm and stoic,
problem with the facility’s lines. Olympic Games and the 2014 Center, south of Richmond. injection on Tuesday for a said nothing.
“Furnas’s transmission lines that football World Cup. Muhammad was executed for sniper killing spree in 2002. Meyers’ brother, Bob Meyers,
link the Itaipu plant to the national The city, which is already killing Dean Harold Meyers, who said watching the execution was
interlinked grid are operating struggling with rampant crime, was was shot in the head at a Manassas He never testified or explained sobering and “surreal.” He said
normally and no damage has the worst-affected by the power gas station during the spree across why he masterminded the shootings other witnesses expressed a range of
been identified in its circuits and cut, according to electricity grid Maryland, Virginia and Washington, with the help of a teenage accomplice. feelings, including some who were
transmission towers,” it said. officials. D.C. That left questions unanswered about overcome with emotion.