Scenes from the Blue

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TODAY'S PAPER
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T H E D A I L Y P L A N E T
6th November 2006



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NO LIGHT ON DARK THURSDAY
By Perry White



Two months following the world-wide phenomena known as Dark Thursday and the Pentagon is no closer to explaining what occurred on that fateful day when the world experienced the catastrophic failure of power grids not in the continental United States but also across the rest of the globe. Wide spread speculation to explain the blackouts range from terrorist detonation of nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere, solar flares and the more improbable alien invasion reported by the Daily Inquisitor. However, despite all this wild and unsubstantiated theories, no real explanation has been offered by any government on Earth to shed light on the world wide blackout that led to the complete breakdown of civil government.

While the authorities are not eager to provide any answers regarding the cause of Dark Thursday, the resulting chaos has left an indelible mark on the body politic. In Washington DC, Senator Knight has been championing the improvement of emergency services, reminding the House of uncomfortable parallels between the Katrina Fiasco and Dark Thursday. It was no surprise that Congress has approved an additional 500 million dollars to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to bolster police and fire services in the hopes that there will be no repeat of the rioting and looting that took place during the disaster. In London, the British Parliament has also approved similar funding and there are reports of the same initiatives in Moscow, Tel Aviv and Beijing.

Commercial America is also reaching deep into their pockets with companies such as Lexcorp, Queen Industries and Wayne Enterprises offering millions in donations as well as construction and engineering resources to aid in the rebuilding. Queen Industries is preparing to make available the schematics for its satellite construction to both the Pentagon and NASA, seeing that those were the only satellites to function during the disaster.

"Some aspects of our satellite construction will remain a trade secret of course," quotes CEO, Oliver Queen, "but our methods of EMP shielding will be of use to prevent future phenomena like Dark Thursday from crippling our communications grid."

For now, the effects of Dark Thursday has invoked a spirit of unity, not seen since 9/11 and while government bodies, corporate rivals and the general public seemed polarized into rebuilding what's lost, the unspoken truth about what happened that day still lingers in the minds of many Americans.

How can we prevent Dark Thursday from happening again, if no one is talking about what did?



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CAT'S TAILS

By Catherine Grant



Dahlings, are you just as stunned as I?

It's been weeks since notorious playboy Lex Luthor, CEO of Luthorcorp decided to go farming for lady love in the Iowa cornfields and came up with fellow meteor disaster survivor Lana Lang. You remember her right? The little princess who lost both her parents during that famous meteor shower? Seems like a match made in heaven since little Lexy lost that glorious red hair in the same disaster. Anyway chums, it look like it might indeed be true love since Miss Lang has moved into the Luthor Mansion.

Kudos to you darling, hope you do better than the last woman to prowl around those halls. Meow Cat!

Meanwhile, Oliver Queen continues to tempt fate by dating Daily Inquisitor reporter Lois Lane. Ollie, dahling, if you're going to get your own press agent, let your PR people handle it! Miss Lane's last article involved either alien invasions or the Green Arrow Bandit (oh gag on that name!). Of course Miss Lane is no stranger to the limelight, having cut her teeth in the fame game as to die for cause she's so nice Martha Kent's assistant. Talk about going above the call of duty to muster those campaign funds?

Speaking of the Senator, do I smell romance in the air? Lionel Luthor does seems to be paying a great deal of attention to the Widow Kent. The duo have been seen at numerous soirées around town and one has to wonder if the relationship is strictly professional.

Not that I'm one to talk dahlings but if there's smoke, then there has to be hanky panky...

And what is it about Metropolis these days? Rumour has it that newly crowned Prince of Gotham City, Bruce Wayne may be on his way to Metropolis. Well ladies, get thee to those salons right away, little Bruce has grown right up and does he look like the cream in this Cat's bowl!

Well that's it for now, I'm off to cover Milan where my friend Binny and I are going to torture the models by throwing donuts at them. Ta ta!




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