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FOR SEVERAL HOURS last night, Lady Liberty didn’t shine so brightly.
The famed Statue of Liberty was temporarily in the dark after what a spokesman calls an “unplanned outage”.
The 46 metre-high colossal copper statue was plunged into darkness except for its crown and torch, which continued to glow faintly.
WCBS-TV says the statue was dark except for the crown and torch. The lights returned shortly before midnight.
The outage sparked conversation on Twitter in the US that perhaps it was done deliberately for today’s A Day Without Women protest being held in the country.
Women in the US have been advised not to work in order to highlight social, economic, cultural and political contributions made by women.
Today also marks International Women’s Day across the world.
However, a spokesperson for the National Park Service said that the outage probably was related to a project for a new emergency backup generator in the area.
He said the official cause will be determined later today when crews return to work on the project.
The Statue of Liberty is situated on Liberty Island in the Upper New York Bay of the Hudson River.
It was gifted by the France to the US in 1886.
With reporting from AP
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Didn’t get far into the article before I got the general gist. Doxxing is perfectly acceptable to one side and not the other…guess which side.
@Briscoe Sundara: It is inconceivable that whoever wrote that dross cannot see how bad it is. There’s a paragraph there near the start that try’s to justify Far Left Vs Far Right Doxxing….. Ultimately it says……..
Far Left Doxxing….. Gooooood, because they’re harassing people on the far right….!!!
Far Right Doxxing….. Baaad… because they’re harassing people on the far left….!!!
Can we not all agree…. that you’ll all nuts…. The Nazi’s\racists on the far right and the loons on the far left like the author.
You would need a Pint after reading that carry on.
@Gerard: well this is awkward, didn’t really take long to find one Irish account. https://mobile.twitter.com/antifa_drone
@An Breasláin Nua: where, specifically, are the people on the left approving of doxxing in any significant number?
On the other hand, the far right approval is right here…
My comment linking an example of an Irish far left account openly doxxing people on Twitter was removed… The bias here is very concerning.
I think the cut and paste nature of right wing politics from the UK is the main reason it remains on the fringes here. It is extremely sympathetic to imperialism and loyalism, a deal breaker as this is at odds with the views of the vast majority of Irish people who would otherwise agree with others elements e.g. anti abortion.
“the far-right in Ireland is effectively a “copy and paste” groups in the US and Europe. ”
Very well described! It’s so pathetic how many of them don’t even understand the very basics of Irish politics.
One of their favourite mantras when they found themselves with a brown taoiseach was to claim he was “unelected” because they could only equate leadership with american style presidential contests.
The liberal consensus is creating opposition which it has labelled ‘Far – Right’.
The leaders might be opportunists looking for a cause and they are finding support from men who are reacting to being vilified, shouted down and discriminated against.
However the ‘liberal consensus is also well populated by opportunists and as they say “it takes one to know one”.
There is an economic concept, called the law of diminishing returns in play here. When you have got more than you ever asked for don’t start coming up with new “asks” and historical grievances as supporting facts.
The Catholic Church might have been a focal point for earlier generations but it doesn’t have the moral authority that it used to.
This was meant to be a response to Ned Gerblansky’s post above.
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