Norfolk Southern has a whole lot of explaining to do after a train carrying polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other noxious chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, near the Pennsylvania border. We are told that after the incident occurred, local police blew up the train and its railcar contents “like a beached whale,” sending untold volumes of “megatoxins” into the sky. The Twitter account... 

Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services has funnelled nearly $200 million dollars to George Soros to help criminal migrants escape prison. The Soros-linked group, Vera Institute of Justice, helps fund lawyers for dangerous criminal illegal aliens, according to an investigation by Just the News. According to sources, Biden is looking to increase the lucrative contract to a whopping $198... 

Fires raged in the French city of Lyon amid a series of explosions and arson attacks on Thursday. Police officers came under attack as the district of La Duchère was rocked by ‘urban violence’ blamed on a near-fatal crash of a teenager riding a stolen scooter on Wednesday. The crash occurred under otherwise unclear circumstances, but ‘youths’ in the region have used it as an excuse to wage... 

According to reporters on social media, NTDC transmission lines have apparently tripped. While the authorities are trying to establish the cause of the outage, Pakistanis rushed to social media providing conspiracy theories as an explanation. A massive power outage was reported in Pakistan on Saturday, plunging the whole country into darkness with simultaneous blackouts. Pakistani Energy Minister... 

A shocking racial hate crime has killed a man who lived his life trying to help others, but the details in the case mean there will be no riots, and you probably won’t hear his name mentioned on the national news. A 55-year-old journalist and volunteer first responder was attacked from behind before being dragged into a parking lot in New Jersey. Then, his assailant stole the man’s car and used... 

Nigeria—regarded by the World Bank as an “emerging market”—has demonstrated sub-Saharan Africa’s inability to maintain an advanced Western infrastructure as its power grid collapsed for the seventh time this year, plunging the entire country into darkness. Local Nigerian media reported a total collapse of “all the nation’s power plants” and said that a “top executive of one of the... 

The so-called EMP Commission report said that this threat is very real, jeopardizes “modern civilization,” and would set back living conditions to those last seen in the 1800s. A federal EMP commission report warns that even the smallest EMP attack on our grid system would down it for about a year, if not longer. A year-long blackout would certainly be coupled with a massive death toll that would... 

A new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that a combined US-EU news blackout has been imposed just hours after French President François Hollande announced his intention, during his nations Bastille Day commemoration, to redeploy the Charles de Gaulle (R91) aircraft carrier to join the Federations battle against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terrorists... 

Germany’s foreign ministry said that it considers the blackout of Crimea by extremist groups a criminal act. The blackout in Russia’s Crimea peninsula is a criminal act that must be investigated, a German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday. The Crimean blackout began on Sunday, after Ukrainian extremist groups blew up power line pylons on the Ukrainian side of the border. The Ukrainian... 

After a powerful winter storm knocked out power for more than one million people in the Northeastern United States, hundreds of thousands remain in the dark as utility crews rush to restore electricity. Dubbed “Winter Storm Nika” by the Weather Channel, this was the second blizzard to strike the Northeast this week. Nika dropped more than a foot of snow in some areas, but it did the most damage... 

Country with largest oil reserves in the world can’t provide rudimentary service. It is said Benito Mussolini, Italy’s former socialist turned fascist, made the trains run on time. But his modern day counterpart, Nicholas Maduro, can’t keep the lights on in Venezuela. The South American country was pitched into darkness for a second time this year as a power outage struck the oil-rich country.... 

Blackout Britain – it’s only just the beginning. BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, has been headquartered in Germany since before the country formally existed. Founded in 1865 by the industrial pioneer Friedrich Engelhorn, it still occupies the vast site on the banks of the Rhine at Ludwigshafen where its first dye and soda factories were built. A third of its staff are employed... 

A gas pipeline was attacked near Damascus causing the capital and the southern part of Syria to suffer a blackout. The electricity minister blamed the blast on rebels. “A terrorist attack on a gas pipeline that feeds a power station in the south has led to a power outage in the provinces, and work to repair it is in progress,” electricity minister Emad Khamis told SANA news agency. As... 

A number of regions of Syria on Wednesday night was cut off from the Internet and international communications, Egyptian MENA agency reported. According to sources, inbound and outbound traffic from Syria fell sharply. Representatives of Renesys company, which monitors global network traffic, confirmed the fact. According to the portal, all sites registered in the local domain zone “.sy”,... 

Passengers sit on a platform for their train to arrive as they wait for electricity to be restored at a railway station in New Delhi July 31, 2012 More than ten percent of the world’s population has found itself without electricity, after three of India’s power grids failed. Blackouts have now plagued India for two consecutive days, leaving half the country without power. The string of power shortages...