How much does it cost when an airliner crashes? And why did we just find out the Newark control tower was disrupted the same day the Spain blackout?

Photo above - Russia's Disneyland, May 2025 - Putin built a replica Reichstag at some Moscow amusement park just so entertainers could re-enact the battle of Berlin at the end of World War 2. This is another attempt to make a connection between today's "Ukranian nazis" and Russia's war against Nazi's in Germany.

Why can’t our officials come clean on stuff? It took a week for them to admit that LAST MONDAY (April 28th) the Newark Airport traffic control tower went offline for several minutes, and disruptions continued for hours afterwards. This of course is the same day all of Spain and Portugal endured the largest electric blackout in history.

Spain is telling anyone who will listen that solar and wind power caused the outage. Too much of it. Because the public will believe anything. Spanish officials ruled out hacking/terrorism in the first 5 minutes of the outage, while thousands of commuters were still stuck in trains and grounded at airports.

So now let’s loop back to the Newark Airport outage - same day. Nobody is claiming it was caused by too much sunlight. In fact, they didn’t say anything for days. It wasn’t until United Airlines started permanently cancelling flights, and air traffic controllers kept squawking that media reports appeared. The problem is now attributed to the “failure of a critical piece of telecommunications gear.”

Uh huh . . . yeah . . . that’s what I’d attack too, if I was a Russian hacker trying to intimidate the west. I’d also go after the patchwork of poorly engineered and protected European electric grid.

Wait . . . it gets worse. The UK also had “unexpected electrical frequency shifts” leading to its own power outage just hours before Spain went dark. Same symptoms. I hope these guys are talking to each other. They might also want to share notes on the Heathrow Airport electrical transformer which blew up a couple of weeks before that.

Some (Russian trolls) will object. They will claim it's unfair to blame Russia for all these events. China has this capability, and probably North Korea, Israel, and the USA too. But Russia – for 3 years – has been threatening to bomb NATO, nuke various cities, and make ordinary people around the world suffer. Let's see the trolls try to deny that.

Putin is ramping up to celebrate “Victory Day” later this week. Commemorating when Soviet troops entered Berlin, hoisted their flag, and subjected German civilians to 50 years of hunger and oppression. As part of the celebration, Russia has built a full-size mockup of the Reichstag at some Moscow amusement park. Putin will take center stage to drive home the point that the war in Ukraine is against "nazi fascism", just like in World War 2. Because some people will believe anything.

Is it so hard to believe that the guy who went to the trouble to build a fake German parliament at an amusement park could also be behind undersea internet cable cutting and grid hacking? These events are causing billions in damages. All from a couple of guys at keyboards in some Moscow basement.

This problem has been building for a long time. And now we again have the wrong team in Washington to fix it. Instead, we are being told that all we have to fear is fear itself, and if we give in to fear, the terrorists have won. That’s BS . . . if someone with a PC can turn off our power and cause commercial airliners to crash, we have plenty to worry about.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Inside the multi-day meltdown at Newark airport

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