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May Day blackout: Activists shut down Chicago and Los Angeles… “No school, no work, no shopping” protest paralyzes major US hubs today

Labor unions and community groups demand end to Iran war and ICE operations… Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU lead massive economic disruption efforts… Police on high alert as “unlikely marchers” join elderly in street demonstrations… Thousands in US to join ‘no school, no work, no shopping’ May Day protest in economic blackout “Walkouts, marches and …

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Trump says he could destroy Iran’s electric grid in one hour but did not. Iran threatens the region could face a blackout within 30 minutes if Iran’s power grid is destroyed by the US.

Trump on Iran: We could take apart their electric capacity within one hour, and it would take them 25 years to rebuild it. pic.twitter.com/LOMGwTs9Zj — Clash Report (@clashreport) March 12, 2026 Iran's Larijani: Donald Trump said: "I could cut off Iran's electricity within an hour, but I didn't do that." However, had he proceeded with …

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Iran launches new wave of missiles. Tel Aviv plunged into total blackout chaos. Revolutionary Guard declares ‘full obedience’ to new Ayatollah.

🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱 MASSIVE BREAKING NEWS: TEL AVIV PLUNGED INTO TOTAL BLACKOUT CHAOS! The Iranian Army unleashes HELL on Israel's core power plants OBLITERATED, energy hubs DEMOLISHED, oil refineries in FLAMES! pic.twitter.com/lUQutumHNP — Gerhardt vd Merwe (@realgerhardtvdm) March 8, 2026 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard announced the launch of a new barrage of liquid- and solid-fuel missiles, including Khorramshahr, …

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Iraq’s Electricity Ministry says a nationwide blackout has hit the entire national power grid.

Details from the ministry: A spokesperson stated that the power network has “completely shut down,” and the blackout has struck all Iraqi governorates (provinces). Technical teams are actively working to determine the cause, but no official explanation has been provided yet.… pic.twitter.com/97UCNw3R2x — Popeezy_NG (@Popeikue) March 4, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, confirmed. Iraq’s Electricity Ministry announced …

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How to Survive a Winter Blackout When the Power Grid is Dead

The power grid just died. Your furnace is silent. The temperature is plummeting. This is how you survive. When a winter blackout hits your city, you have hours—not days—before hypothermia becomes a real threat. This isn’t a prepper fantasy. This is a practical, science-based survival guide for the most dangerous urban emergency: a city-wide power …

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There’s an internet blackout in Iran. How are videos and images getting out?

Iranian authorities have implemented a near-total shutdown of the internet in a crackdown on widespread anti-government protests, but a sliver of the population is keeping in touch with the outside world by satellite. Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, is playing an outsize — and in the eyes of overseas activists, crucial …

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Berlin blackout hits tens of thousands, authorities warned months ago

So the government ignored months of warnings and now people are freezing because leftist extremists struck again. BERLIN OUTAGE: The Consequence of Ignoring Leftist Extremism. The German authorities knew for months that the capital’s power network was at risk of an attack by left-wing activists, because plans were laid out in a pamphlet published in August. …

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The strongest solar flare of 2025 races toward Earth, NOAA issues a G4 severe storm alert, and 11 U.S. states brace for grid failure, satellite chaos, and possible nationwide blackout.

Warnings have been issued for portions of the United States’ electric power grid amid a forecasted severe geomagnetic storm. The Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued the forecast on Tuesday, saying a geomagnetic storm at a strength of category G4 would cause issues with electrical grids for …

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More and more sites are being blocked across the EU, the blackout expands from propaganda bans to sweeping censorship of news, platforms, and speech

The walls are closing in, and most people are too busy scrolling to see it happen. All across Europe the internet is being reshaped, not by new ideas or better technology, but by censorship that no longer asks for permission. What started as a narrow strike against Russian media has turned into a wide net …

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EU flight hit by GPS blackout von der Leyen forced to rely on analog navigation while Brussels ignores systemic Russian and Belarusian interference

The plane went blind. Not figuratively. Not a glitch in the narrative. Ursula von der Leyen’s Dassault Falcon 900LX circled over Bulgaria for an hour, stripped of GPS, stripped of certainty. “We can indeed confirm that there was GPS jamming,” said EU spokesperson Arianna Podestà. “We have received information from the Bulgarian authority that they …

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China’s New Blackout Bomb

In 1999, Serbian radar crews were preparing for another wave of NATO strikes. But there were no explosions. In the middle of the night, substations across Belgrade began to fail in sequence. Power stations lost control. Air defense grids went offline. By morning, 70 percent of the country’s electricity was gone, leaving millions in the …

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Jennifer Griffin says Pentagon under total information blackout with zero leaks in rare show of operational secrecy after 18 years covering defense

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin: “18 years since I've been at the Pentagon, I've never seen such operational security. There was nobody speaking about this….There was a complete lockdown, almost a blackout of information…There were no leaks.” pic.twitter.com/sAqE7wWGKb — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 22, 2025

The blackout portfolio begins with gold in hand

People don’t understand gold. They nod like they do, quote the price, maybe reference inflation or the Fed. But when the lights go out, that’s when the truth surfaces. Imagine this. You hear the warnings. A massive storm is on the way. One of those that downs trees, floods roads, rips through power lines. It’s …

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Did A Hole In The Earth’s Rapidly Weakening Magnetic Field Cause The Electrical Blackout In Spain And Portugal?

by Michael Without the Earth’s magnetic field, our way of life could not exist.  In fact, without it life on our planet could not exist at all.  The magnetosphere is essentially a shield that protects us from the charged particles from the Sun that are constantly bombarding us.  Unfortunately, that protective shield is steadily getting …

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Europe inches from disaster with near blackout. Spain, Portugal, France blackout blamed on “green energy”

This is truly bananas: all of Europe appears to have been seconds away a continent-wide blackout. The grid frequency across continental Europe plunged to 49.85 hertz — just a hair above the red-line collapse threshold. The normal operating frequency for Europe’s power grid is 50.00 Hz, kept with an extremely tight margin of ±0.1 Hz. …

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‘Energy-Limited Resources’: Huge Swaths Of America Face Blackout Risks If Winter Is Bitter, Grid Watchdog Warns

Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid watchdog. Nearly all residents of the Northeast, Texas and Midwest could face energy shortfalls in the event of a colder-than-usual winter, the …

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And Darkness Fell – GPS Blackout Now In Israel And Lebanon…

Total GPS Outages and Major Disruptions are being reported in several Locations across both Lebanon and Israel. https://t.co/p2gohzzbo7 — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 30, 2024 GPS interference reported in Israel. While this event isn't new, there was a significant spike reported prior to the Iranian attack in April. We may be seeing something similar here in …

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Media Blackout on Pinocchio Joe’s Inappropriate Kissing, Touching Questioned in Video

The media has always turned a blind eye to this Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/xBbyzcOARd — MAZE (@mazemoore) July 11, 2024 (Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A newly released compilation video of President Joe Biden’s seemingly inappropriate touching, kissing and hugging has emerged on Twitter, raising questions about the legacy media’s blackout on the topic. The video, originally …

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Widespread Blackout Hits Multiple Balkan Countries…Plus Vietnam and Ecuador

Balkan Peninsula Power Outage: On Friday, a massive power outage affected the Balkan Peninsula, impacting Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia, and parts of Albania. The cause of the blackout remains unclear, and efforts are underway to determine the exact issue. Montenegro experienced the most significant impact, with nearly the entire country losing power due to a network …

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Ecuador experiences a nationwide blackout, affects 18 million people.

Ecuador experienced a nationwide blackout due to a failure in the transmission line, causing massive disruptions across the country. Authorities, including public works and acting energy minister Roberto Luque, are working swiftly to restore electricity and identify the cascade disconnection’s root cause. The outage left the nation of approximately 18 million people in the dark, and it’s being addressed …

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MEDIA BLACKOUT: Russian forces claim significant gains in Donetsk and Maryinka; media blackout raises concerns for Ukraine.

Acknowledging a potential Ukrainian surrender, Russian forces reportedly advance, taking significant territories. Concerns heighten amid media blackout. NEW: Ukrainian surrender may be imminent, Russian Defense Minister is now reporting military forces have taken most of Donetsk and all of Maryinka. MEDIA BLACKOUT. This is a devastating development for Ukraine if Shoigu’s claims are accurate. pic.twitter.com/Lz2zL6keUG …

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Nationwide Blackout Sri Lanka

BREAKING: *Blackout* Sri Lanka is experiencing a nationwide power outage due to a system failure. Internet disruptions reported pic.twitter.com/XJeXhQ9kXE — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 9, 2023 ⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show a decline in internet connectivity across Sri Lanka as the country suffers a widespread power outage; the incident, caused by a 'system failure' per authorities, …

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Media Blackout: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You This Week

Media Blackout: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You This Week (11/19/23) #10 – Pilot warns of airline industry disaster due to COVID-19 vaccines. #9 – Senator Ron Johnson presents the most censored chart in congressional history. #8 – Yale study reveals the most common… pic.twitter.com/nAG0VES51H — The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) November …

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LEAKED LETTER: Maui County Officials Enforce Media Blackout – FEMA Told Nonprofit Group to Stop Posting Wildfire Images and Videos

EXCLUSIVE 🚨 | A person wishing to stay anonymous has sent me this email by FEMA sent to their nonprofit who is headed to Maui to help with disaster relief. They say they are being asked to STOP posting any images or videos while on the ground effective immediately. pic.twitter.com/hdZy5ubwvv — Anthony (@anthonycabassa) August 21, …

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Yesterday, Reddit’s CEO Spez Responded To The Blackout Protests With A Secret Internal Memo Telling Staff The Company Will Not Back Down And Plans To “Wait Out” Disaffected Users and Mods. Many Believe A Conspiracy Related To An Expected Reddit Stock IPO Is Driving That Irrational Behavior.

by AssuredlyAThrowAway On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced a policy change that will kill essentially every third-party Reddit app now operating, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader, leaving Reddit’s official mobile app as the only usable option; an app widely regarded as poor quality, not handicap-accessible, and very difficult to use for moderation. In …

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