Iran’s Cyberwar Is Coming for the Home Front: Power and Water Plants Under Attack

FreeBeacon.com:

The latest phase of the Iran war has already hit the home front—even in countries that are not fighting. This week, news broke that Iranian hackers shut down a British power plant for several days last month at the same time water plants in 12 American states faced significant cyberattacks. The entry into the British plant, which was relatively unsophisticated, was nonetheless the most successful known attack of its kind. 

 

The power plant seems to have been a relatively minor one, so little damage was done. Power utilities in this country are often as small as British ones, and the distributed nature of the grid has previously afforded Americans some extra degree of protection. But that advantage may soon come to an end. 

 

Governments have long known about the threat of cyberattacks to critical infrastructure, the systems that control vital functions like the electrical grid, water treatment, health care, and transportation services. Warnings about an "electronic Pearl Harbor" or the newer variant, "cyber Pearl Harbor," have abounded since the first infrastructure was connected to the Web. Mitigating that danger is very difficult: An attacker may only need to find one vulnerability, and people invariably make mistakes in designing or employing systems. Small utility companies, moreover, tend to not have the resources to get top-line protection.

So while the lackadaisical and biased MSM debates whether Trump has truly “won” the war in Iran, independent media is warning about a far more serious threat: Iran’s use of cyberattacks, the potential destruction of critical infrastructure across America, and its efforts to enlist China’s help in retaliating against the United States. Yet another reason not to trust the liberal media.

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CBS Throw Jab at Stephen Colbert for Losing $40 Million Per Year

Mediaite.com:

This was about as subtle as a football being chucked directly into your groin. 

 

CBS took a shot at Stephen Colbert — without calling him out by name — for losing a ton of money each year in a statement that championed his late night replacement. 

 

“We’re proud to partner with Byron Allen on a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost prohibitive to continue,” the network said in a statement. “With this ‘time buy’ model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing.”

It's amazing how many liberals refuse to accept the consequences of turning off half the country to become a Democrat propaganda outfit, especially after Trump not only won the electoral vote, but the popular vote as well in 2024. CBS is in the business of making money, but Colbert didn't care. So instead of being funny and non-partisan when it cmme to politics, for the past decade he became one of Trump's most ardent critics without a clue when it comes to the fact that Democrats are just as unpopular as the President is.

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Zohran Mamdani’s City-Run Grocery Plan Draws Pushback from Local Bodegas, Supermarkets

TheHill.com:

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s (D) plan to open a city-owned grocery store in East Harlem is drawing pushback from critics who question its feasibility and warn of its economic impact on local businesses. At a rally Sunday marking his first 100 days as mayor, the democratic socialist announced the location of the first of five city-owned grocery stores — one in each of New York City’s boroughs — that he plans to open in the next couple years. 

 

Mamdani identified La Marqueta, a marketplace in East Harlem, as the site for Manhattan’s store, which he said he hopes to open by 2029. The sites for the other four stores have not yet been announced, but Mamdani said he hopes to open the first city-owned store in late 2027, with all five operating by the end of his first term. 

 

In making the announcement, Mamdani took an early step toward fulfilling a key campaign promise aimed at addressing the city’s affordability crisis by offering lower-cost groceries. “When corporations control every part of the food supply chain, prices go up, basic necessities become luxuries and workers and customers both lose,” Mamdani said. “A public option allows us to intervene where the market has failed.”

Not only is this city-run grocery store bad for local grocery stores and supermarkets, but it's also a scam when you note that it won't open till 2030, will cost taxpayers $30M (quadruple what it costs to open a normal store) and will only have discounted prices for a select few foods. Mamdani also plans to remove existing subsidies from current NYC grocery stores, which will drive up the competitor's prices. But let all the Mamdani shills out there tell it...socialism works!!!

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Rand Paul Offers Trump and GOP an Affordable Healthcare Plan

Newsweek.com:

Obamacare costs the taxpayers billions of dollars and costs every individual thousands of dollars a year in increased premiums. As conservatives, including myself, warned in the debate over Obamacare, subsidizing insurance simply increases demand and therefore increases the price of health insurance. 

 

Where once there existed the choice of a higher deductible plan with lower premiums, now Obamacare plans offer high deductibles and high premiums. Any semblance of a functioning individual health insurance market has been eliminated, as government health insurance or employers are the only real source of coverage for nearly all Americans. 

 

My health care plan, called the Health Marketplace and Savings Accounts For All Act, which I will introduce this week, does two things and costs the taxpayers nothing. First, my plan legalizes the ability for any group to purchase insurance collectively and operate across state lines. My plan would make it legal for Costco, Sam’s Club, or Amazon to bargain for their millions of members as a single entity, thereby driving prices down. These collectives could be bigger than any corporation in America and have the size and leverage to drive health premiums down. In fact, once these co-ops are legalized, the individual market likely melts away, and everyone in America would gain the benefits that normally accrue to the group market.

Considering the fact that GOP, in light of all their criticism of Obamacare over the years, still have no healthcare plan of their own, it'd make a lot of sense for Trump to take this plan to the voters and see what they think. Senator Paul says his proposal will improve healthcare and lower costs, so in an age where everyone is taking about affordability, what's Trump's gotta lose here?

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Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs With Robots

Fox56News.com:

Amazon is hoping robots can help it avoid hiring more than half a million U.S. workers, according to The New York Times.

The e-commerce giant’s automation team projects that the company won’t have to hire over 160,000 U.S. workers it would otherwise need by 2027, the Times reported, citing interviews and internal strategy documents. The shift would reportedly save Amazon roughly 30 cents on every item it picks, packs and delivers.

By 2033, automation could eliminate the need for more than 600,000 additional hires, even as the company expects to sell twice as many products, the Times said. The leaked documents reportedly show Amazon’s robotics team aims to automate 75% of the company’s operations, and the online retailer has already begun preparing PR strategies to manage potential backlash.

This plan exposes the dark side of automation. As while efficiency and profits soar, human livelihoods face extinction. As the shift threatens not only warehouse jobs, but also the economic stability of countless families, proving that corporate convenience often comes with a devastating social cost.

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