Tag: cyber warfare

Is JBS Hack a Russian Ransomeware Attack, or Something More?

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 4 Comments

When the news broke yesterday that the meat giant JBS (sometimes known by its previous name Swift) had been hit with a ransomeware attack that shut down meat processing in one of the largest meat processors in the world, my first thought was that if they have financial trouble I don’t care.

For over a decade I have reported, at my other blog Refugee Resettlement Watch, how Big Meat and Big Poultry are changing America’s heartland by being one of the largest drivers of the US Refugee Resettlement Program.

The work is dirty, wages low and turnover high so they need a never-ending supply of migrant laborers of all stripes including large numbers of Somali ‘refugees.’

This is a photo I took of JBS US headquarters in Greeley, CO when I drove around the country in 2016 to see how refugee resettlement was changing the character of American towns.  President Trump shocked JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods and others when he slowed the flow of refugees to the US.  See many posts on the topic at RRW.  https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/?s=JBS+Trump

 

Think about it!  A Brazilian-owned company is changing the demographic make-up of the United States!  And, when you buy their meat, you support changing America by changing the people.

And if that isn’t bad enough, since wages are so low, you also fund the social safety net that refugee workers are permitted to tap into.

Did you know that Smithfield Foods is owned by the Chinese?

Is that meat you enjoy worth it?  If you can’t live without beef, pork and chicken, I recommend finding a local source!

 

 

Here is the superficial story about what is going on, from Yahoo News:

JBS: Cyber-attack hits world’s largest meat supplier

 

The world’s largest meat processing company has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack.

Computer networks at JBS were hacked, temporarily shutting down some operations in Australia, Canada and the US, with thousands of workers affected.

The company believes the ransomware attack originated from a criminal group likely based in Russia, the White House said.

The attack could lead to shortages of meat or raise prices for consumers.

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~JBS is the world’s largest meat supplier with more than 150 plants in 15 countries

~It was founded in Brazil in 1953 as a slaughtering business by rancher José Batista Sobrinho

~The company now has more than 150,000 employees worldwide

~Its customers include supermarkets and fast food outlet McDonald’s

~In the US, JBS processes nearly one quarter of the country’s beef and one-fifth of its pork

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JBS’s five biggest beef plants are in the US, and the shutdowns have halted a fifth of meat production there, according to Bloomberg.

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Last month, fuel delivery in the south east of the US was crippled for several days after a ransomware attack targeted the Colonial Pipeline. Investigators say that attack was also linked to a group with ties to Russia.

Colonial Pipeline has confirmed it paid a $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom to the cyber-criminal gang responsible.

So that is the story for mainstream media consumption—Russian bad boys, just being bad boys—but is something else happening?

Knowing of my interest in meatpacking and  my interest in being prepared (or attempting to being better prepared!), Leo Hohmann directed me to this discussion yesterday at Ice Age Farmer.

It was just posted yesterday and is up to 37,000 views already:

Cyberpandemic Meets Food Supply

Watch it and consider the possibilities presented.  You shouldn’t be surprised as we have just experienced the Chinese Virus ‘crisis’ and how globalists have used it to disrupt the entire globe.

Is the food supply next?

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney: Do Not Be Confused! This is Treason!

~ Ann Corcoran ~ 14 Comments

“These are not just fraudulent acts, they are treasonous acts, because it means changing the government!”

“When you coordinate six to ten states, using cyber warfare, to change the outcome of the election in favor of whoever you want, these are treasonous acts,” McInerney said in a Nov. 29 interview with Brannon Howse of Worldview Weekend TV.

In what might arguably be the best, most valuable, work in a body of unparalleled work from our friend Leo Hohmann comes this report of what the respected general has advised the President to do to put down the coup against the government being waged with a new type of warfare unanticipated by our founding fathers.

And, he tells us what we must do now because the way the Socialist/Communist conspirators could win is by continuing to sow the seeds of chaos/confusion and thus paralyze us into inaction.   You already know the feeling!

From Leohohmann.com

Decorated 3-star general calls on Trump to ‘honor your oath of office’ and protect America from ‘treasonous’ enemies within

McInerney lays out strategy to defeat deep-state coup plotters

Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney [U.S. Air Force Retired] said in a no-holds-barred interview that he doesn’t believe the courts are likely to come through for President Trump.

McInerney spent many years as a contributor to the “now flipped” Fox News which fired him in 2018 for making derogatory remarks about John McCain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McInerney

Despite massive amounts of evidence of widespread irregularities, many judges appear either unable or unwilling to sort through allegations of rigged voting machines and dozens of affidavits from eyewitnesses to ballot stuffing, denial of Republican poll watchers from observing the process, evidence of more votes cast in hundreds of precincts than were registered to vote, and a host of other irregularities.

The general placed the burden squarely on President Trump to use the emergency powers at his disposal and put down what he described as a coup d’état in progress.

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McInerney said that after listening to President Trump talk with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo on Sunday morning, he was concerned that the president “sounded kind of down.”

“What startled me was, he kept talking about fraudulent votes, and then I heard Rudy Giuliani talking about fraudulent votes. It’s not fraudulent votes. The American people must understand, we are talking about treason.”

The oath must be fulfilled

McInerney said President Trump must be compelled by his supporters to “honor his oath of office” and employ the tools available to him to quash the insurrection that he believes is in progress.

Keep reading as he makes his case!  And, then see what he says to answer those of us who might not be sure of what we are seeing….

If America doesn’t “wake up” and realize what’s happening it will soon be too late, he said.

This is corroborated by people who in earlier decades lived through the socialist revolutions that took over Cuba, Venezuela, China, Germany, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia.

When asked “how did this happen” and “did you see it coming,” almost to a person, they will tell you that, yes, they saw it and they knew their country was heading in a bad direction. But, at the end, confusion reigned as events transpired so fast that the people felt paralyzed and unable to stop the fall of their government.

What to do first!  After all, there are 70 plus million of us!

McInerney is recommending that people email or tweet to the president a message asking him to invoke the Insurrection Act and the September 2018 executive order, declare a national emergency and suspend the meeting of the Electoral College on Dec. 14 until a full investigation by military tribunals can be conducted into the many election irregularities that, if found to be true, would constitute a blatant act of treason against the republic.

You can email the White House by going to Whitehouse.gov/contact,and the president’s Twitter handle is @RealDonaldTrump.

“It’s important for every America citizen to understand that you are now facing, for the first time, hybrid modern warfare, where the enemy is unseen, it’s stealthy. Be aware America, be afraid, be concerned, rise up. We cannot let this election, these treasonous acts, this coup d’état, to stand.”

Do just what the Left does, take control of the language. This is much worse than the usual lying, cheating and fraud. Use the words: modern warfare, coup d’état and treason.

Continue reading for more steps you can take in the days, weeks, months ahead.

Go here to watch the entire interview.