Neither do the other 7-8 Dems just like them
How will Joe Biden GOVERN? General Biden Administration F**kery Thread
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He's doing nothing by not getting his party in line. They maybe going different routes but the destination is the same.
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
I bet they'd care about being exposed...
I'm sure the cowards wouldI bet they'd care about being exposed...
AquaCityBoy
Veteran
I bet they'd care about being exposed...
They already got exposed with the minimum wage vote.
It's just that Manchin and Sinema got all the attention for it, but I'm willing to bet every other Dem that voted no are the same ones who go
when Manchin provides them cover.
This is what I like to see
Biden (and other Dems for that matter) need to be publicly shaming them on the regular. Sinema is going to be primaried anyway at the rate she's going, and Manchin's seat is probably gone after he retires regardless.
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
1/5 of beef production wiped out in cyber attack on major meat supplier
they're going to have to make companies protect their systems apparently
they're going to have to make companies protect their systems apparently
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Its insane how Biden's perceptions OFFLINE and ONLINE are different.
He's KILLING it offline.
Just insane.
He's KILLING it offline.
Just insane.
Hence why DC needs to be a stateThis is what I like to see
Biden (and other Dems for that matter) need to be publicly shaming them on the regular. Sinema is going to be primaried anyway at the rate she's going, and Manchin's seat is probably gone after he retires regardless.
Piff Perkins
Veteran
Biden getting tired of the bullshyt. If you can't get 10 republicans to support an investigation into an attack that nearly took their lives, you're not getting 10 republicans to do anything else of merit. It's time to act. I'd hold off on reconciliation just to see what the Supreme Court does with Obamacare btw...if they shytcan it (unlikely) then you simply pass another healthcare bill ASAP. Assuming the law lives, it'll be time to use reconciliation for infrastructure and raise taxes. You can add some of the republicans' ideas to the bill. I like the idea of spending more on actual bridges/roads/etc, which republicans advocate. Well lets do it...alongside everything else.
And then you change the rules to AT LEAST require a speaking filibuster. Those voting laws need to be passed. You can't allow republicans to do what they always do: hand wring over the overt (Trump) while protecting the covert (voter restriction laws being passed in multiple states).
Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS
Meat Buyers Scramble After Cyberattack Hobbles JBS
Major meat-processing plants in U.S. are affected, raising pressure on supplies
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Updated June 1, 2021 6:10 pm ET
Employees exit from the JBS beef production facility in Greeley, Colo., on Tuesday.
Photo: Michael Ciaglo/Bloomberg News
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“The White House is engaging directly with the Russian government on this matter and delivering the message that responsible states do not harbor ransomware criminals,” Ms. Jean-Pierre said.
JBS had no immediate comment on the White House’s description of the attack.
The attack against JBS is the latest in a growing number to hit a range of businesses and institutions, including hospitals, the oil industry and local water supplies.
At JBS, the attack halted operations at meat plants that are among the largest in the U.S., according to worker representatives and notices shared with JBS employees. JBS facilities in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Nebraska and Texas were among those affected. Representatives for JBS had no immediate comment on plant operations.
JBS operations in Australia and Canada were affected as well as operations in the U.S., according to the company and individual plants’ social-media posts.
The attack ratcheted up pressure on a food-supply chain already under strainfrom labor shortages, production constraints and high transportation costs.
Meat-market analysts said plant closures resulting from the JBS hack could soon lead to higher consumer prices, which have climbed for many cuts this year because of high demand and a tight labor market. “Even one day of disruption will significantly impact the beef market and wholesale beef prices,” wrote analysts for Steiner Consulting Group, which researches the meat industry.
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Suzanne Rajczi, chief executive of New York-based restaurant supplier Ginsberg’s Foods, said she was looking for a new source for chicken she usually buys from a West Virginia plant operated by Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. PPC -0.25% , which is majority-owned by JBS.
Pilgrim’s canceled a fresh chicken delivery to Ginsberg’s on Tuesday as a result of the attack, Ms. Rajczi said. She said Pilgrim’s told her it was trying to add back production lines in coming days but couldn’t say if or when her deliveries would resume.
“There’s a lot of frenzied buying going on right now,” said Ms. Rajczi. “The whole fresh-commodity supply chain has been stretched to the max.”
For JBS, which processes nearly one-quarter of U.S. beef and about one-fifth of the nation’s pork, the attack illustrates a new threat for an industry that was among the hardest hit by Covid-19. As the pandemic arrived in the U.S., tens of thousands of plant workers were infected, according to labor-union estimates, forcing shutdowns last spring that backed up livestock on farms. Meatpackers spent hundreds of millions of dollars to temporarily boost wages, install temperature scanners and place partitions between work stations.
The attack demonstrates the growing and potentially costly risk to corporate operations posed by such incursions. Such attacks can also affect daily life in the U.S. A cyberattack on fuel supplier Colonial Pipeline Co. last month shut down the fuel supplier’s main fuel conduit for the U.S. East Coast, prompting a run on regional gas stations and helping to push gasoline prices to their highest levels in 6½ years. Since the Colonial attack, lawmakers have warned that criminal ransomware gangs are increasingly targeting U.S. infrastructure and businesses, snarling day-to-day operations.
JBS said the cyberattack didn’t affect its backup servers, and that the company was working with technology specialists to restore its systems. As of Monday, JBS said there was no sign that customer, supplier or employee data was compromised. JBS said the attack could delay business with meat buyers, cattle feedlots and other suppliers.
At a JBS beef plant in Souderton, Pa., which the company estimates is the largest beef plant east of Chicago, workers were told no slaughtering or processing would take place Tuesday, according to Wendell Young, president of the local United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents JBS plant employees.
“The goal is to reopen tomorrow, but until they notify us later today, we don’t know about that,” Mr. Young said.
In Greeley, Colo., where JBS runs another major beef-packing plant, shifts were canceled because of the cyberattack, a spokeswoman for the local UFCW chapter said. The JBS beef plant in Cactus, Texas, also canceled Tuesday operations, with the exception of maintenance and some other functions, according to a notice posted to the plant’s Facebook page.
The JBS pork plant in Ottumwa, Iowa, told employees that Tuesday slaughtering and bacon-slicing shifts were suspended, according to a separate Facebook notice. In Worthington, Minn., where JBS runs another pork plant, cutting, trimming and deboning shifts were suspended Tuesday, according to a notice posted to that plant’s Facebook page.
‘Even one day of disruption will significantly impact the beef market and wholesale beef prices.’
— Steiner Consulting Group analysts
Live cattle-futures trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange fell on Tuesday, with the most-active cattle contract closing down Tuesday by 1.9% to nearly $1.17 a pound. The primary factor driving the contract down was the hack, livestock traders said, raising the risk that some plants would be unable to purchase livestock.
“Cattle were backed up going into this week with packers simply not killing enough to allow feedlots to get current,” said Dennis Smith, a commodities broker with Archer Financial Services Inc. “So, the industry had a problem going into the crisis.”
JBS said the attack targeted some of its information technology and that the company has since suspended the use of affected servers.
While attacks on IT systems can wreak havoc, cybersecurity experts have said hackers can cause even greater damage if they reach operational technology used to keep factories or other industrial facilities running.
—Tarini Parti, Jesse Newman and David Uberti contributed to this article.
U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia
U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia
June 1, 20216:14 PM EDT
Brazil’s JBS SA (JBSS3.SA) told the U.S. government that a ransomware attack on the company that has disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization likely based in Russia, the White House said on Tuesday.
JBS is the world’s largest meatpacker and the cyberattack caused its Australian operations to shut down on Monday and has stopped livestock slaughter at its plants in several U.S. states.
The attack follows one last month by a group with ties to Russia on Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, that crippled fuel deliveryfor several days in the U.S. Southeast.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States has contacted Russia's government about the matter and that the FBI is investigating.
"The White House has offered assistance to JBS and our team at the Department of Agriculture have spoken to their leadership several times in the last day," Jean-Pierre said.
"JBS notified the administration that the ransom demand came from a criminal organization likely based in Russia. The White House is engaging directly with the Russian government on this matter and delivering the message that responsible states do not harbor ransomware criminals," Jean-Pierre added.
JBS sells beef and pork under the Swift brand, with retailers like Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) carrying its pork loins and tenderloins. JBS also owns most of chicken processor Pilgrim's Pride Co (PPC.O), which sells organic chicken under the Just Bare brand.
If the outages continue, American consumers could see higher meat prices during summer grilling season and meat exports could be disrupted at a time of strong demand from China.
The disruption has already had an impact, industry analysts said. U.S. meatpackers slaughtered 94,000 cattle on Tuesday, down 22% from a week earlier and 18% from a year earlier, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Pork processors slaughtered 390,000 hogs, down 20% from a week ago and 7% from a year ago.
Prices for choice cuts of U.S. beef shipped to wholesale buyers in large boxes jumped $3.59 to $334.56 per hundred pounds, the USDA said. Prices for select cuts climbed $5.55 to $306.45 per hundred pounds.
The USDA, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies are closely monitoring the meat and poultry supply, a White House official said. The agencies are also working with agricultural processors to ensure products move efficiently and that no price manipulation occurs as a result of the cyberattack, the official said.
AFFECTED SYSTEMS SUSPENDED
A general view of the JBS USA Worthington pork plant, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Worthington, Minnesota, U.S., October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan
JBS said it suspended all affected systems and notified authorities. It said its backup servers were not affected. A company representative in Sao Paulo said there was no impact on Brazilian operations.
The company said Sunday's cyberattack affected its North American and Australian IT systems and "resolution of the incident will take time, which may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers."
JBS, with North American operations headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, controls about 20% of the slaughtering capacity for U.S. cattle and hogs, according to industry estimates.
"The supply chains, logistics, and transportation that keep our society moving are especially vulnerable to ransomware, where attacks on choke points can have outsized effects and encourage hasty payments," said threat researcher John Hultquist with security company FireEye.
U.S. beef and pork prices are already rising as China increases imports, animal feed costs rise and slaughterhouses face a dearth of workers. Any further impact on consumers will depend on how long production is down, market analysts said.
"If it goes on a week or longer, you've got a major problem," said Dennis Smith, broker for Archer Financial Services in Chicago.
Two kill and fabrication shifts were canceled at JBS's beef plant in Greeley after the cyberattack, representatives of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 said in an email. JBS Beef in Cactus, Texas, also said on Facebook it would not run on Tuesday.
The UFCW urged JBS to ensure workers receive their contractually guaranteed pay during the shutdowns.
JBS Canada said in a Facebook post that shifts had been canceled at its plant in Brooks, Alberta, on Monday and one shift so far had been canceled on Tuesday.
The United States Cattlemen's Association, a beef industry group, said on Twitter that it had reports of JBS redirecting livestock haulers who arrived at plants with animals ready for slaughter.
Last year, cattle and hogs backed up on U.S. farms and some animals were euthanized when meat plants were shut during coronavirus outbreaks among workers.
A JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, said only workers in maintenance and shipping were scheduled to work on Tuesday.
Over the past few years, ransomware has evolved from one of many cybersecurity threats to a pressing national security issue. A number of gangs, many of them Russian-speakers, develop the software that encrypts files and then demand payment in cryptocurrency for keys that allow the owners to decipher and use them again.
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U.S. says ransomware attack on meatpacker JBS likely from Russia
June 1, 20216:14 PM EDT
Brazil’s JBS SA (JBSS3.SA) told the U.S. government that a ransomware attack on the company that has disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization likely based in Russia, the White House said on Tuesday.
JBS is the world’s largest meatpacker and the cyberattack caused its Australian operations to shut down on Monday and has stopped livestock slaughter at its plants in several U.S. states.
The attack follows one last month by a group with ties to Russia on Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States, that crippled fuel deliveryfor several days in the U.S. Southeast.
White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said the United States has contacted Russia's government about the matter and that the FBI is investigating.
"The White House has offered assistance to JBS and our team at the Department of Agriculture have spoken to their leadership several times in the last day," Jean-Pierre said.
"JBS notified the administration that the ransom demand came from a criminal organization likely based in Russia. The White House is engaging directly with the Russian government on this matter and delivering the message that responsible states do not harbor ransomware criminals," Jean-Pierre added.
JBS sells beef and pork under the Swift brand, with retailers like Costco Wholesale Corp (COST.O) carrying its pork loins and tenderloins. JBS also owns most of chicken processor Pilgrim's Pride Co (PPC.O), which sells organic chicken under the Just Bare brand.
If the outages continue, American consumers could see higher meat prices during summer grilling season and meat exports could be disrupted at a time of strong demand from China.
The disruption has already had an impact, industry analysts said. U.S. meatpackers slaughtered 94,000 cattle on Tuesday, down 22% from a week earlier and 18% from a year earlier, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Pork processors slaughtered 390,000 hogs, down 20% from a week ago and 7% from a year ago.
Prices for choice cuts of U.S. beef shipped to wholesale buyers in large boxes jumped $3.59 to $334.56 per hundred pounds, the USDA said. Prices for select cuts climbed $5.55 to $306.45 per hundred pounds.
The USDA, Department of Homeland Security and other agencies are closely monitoring the meat and poultry supply, a White House official said. The agencies are also working with agricultural processors to ensure products move efficiently and that no price manipulation occurs as a result of the cyberattack, the official said.
AFFECTED SYSTEMS SUSPENDED
A general view of the JBS USA Worthington pork plant, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Worthington, Minnesota, U.S., October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan
JBS said it suspended all affected systems and notified authorities. It said its backup servers were not affected. A company representative in Sao Paulo said there was no impact on Brazilian operations.
The company said Sunday's cyberattack affected its North American and Australian IT systems and "resolution of the incident will take time, which may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers."
JBS, with North American operations headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, controls about 20% of the slaughtering capacity for U.S. cattle and hogs, according to industry estimates.
"The supply chains, logistics, and transportation that keep our society moving are especially vulnerable to ransomware, where attacks on choke points can have outsized effects and encourage hasty payments," said threat researcher John Hultquist with security company FireEye.
U.S. beef and pork prices are already rising as China increases imports, animal feed costs rise and slaughterhouses face a dearth of workers. Any further impact on consumers will depend on how long production is down, market analysts said.
"If it goes on a week or longer, you've got a major problem," said Dennis Smith, broker for Archer Financial Services in Chicago.
Two kill and fabrication shifts were canceled at JBS's beef plant in Greeley after the cyberattack, representatives of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 said in an email. JBS Beef in Cactus, Texas, also said on Facebook it would not run on Tuesday.
The UFCW urged JBS to ensure workers receive their contractually guaranteed pay during the shutdowns.
JBS Canada said in a Facebook post that shifts had been canceled at its plant in Brooks, Alberta, on Monday and one shift so far had been canceled on Tuesday.
The United States Cattlemen's Association, a beef industry group, said on Twitter that it had reports of JBS redirecting livestock haulers who arrived at plants with animals ready for slaughter.
Last year, cattle and hogs backed up on U.S. farms and some animals were euthanized when meat plants were shut during coronavirus outbreaks among workers.
A JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, said only workers in maintenance and shipping were scheduled to work on Tuesday.
Over the past few years, ransomware has evolved from one of many cybersecurity threats to a pressing national security issue. A number of gangs, many of them Russian-speakers, develop the software that encrypts files and then demand payment in cryptocurrency for keys that allow the owners to decipher and use them again.
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