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Somebody just hacked Europe's refrigerators.
Not the banks, not the nukes, the fridges, guys.
Supermarket freezers in Belgium, Sweden,
Ireland, Estonia, and Luxembourg
cooked themselves from the inside.
Now, before that, more than 500 stores in Emmanuel Macron's France,
some of them caught fire.
Yeah, seriously, guys, a refrigerator on fire.
This is not a cyber attack.
This is a cry for help.
And here's the twist, folks.
Six grocery stores on American military bases.
It's the same thing. Now, quick question, folks.
Why does your refrigerator need Wi-Fi?
It holds mayonnaise. It does not need to check its own
email. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth rolls out Fortress.
200 bases running on their own power
for 90 days. Top brass protected inside Cheyenne Mountain,
Colorado, the world's most heavily armed
Thank you.
At Fort Bragg, North Carolina,
the army practices mass battlefield burials so no fallen soldier gets
left behind. Missile defenses guard President Trump's Mar-a-Lago
in Florida, and 33 countries
tell their citizens to stock up on food, water, and cash.
Keir Starmer's Britain tells families
three days. America's Pentagon plans for 90.
One country is serious, the other is handing out
Meanwhile, Iran's regime brags about
a surprise weapon aimed at undersea cables and
data centers.
Benjamin Netanyahu wants to strike yesterday,
President Donald Trump is holding the reins,
and while everybody stares at the Middle East,
Ursula von der Leyen's Europe is quietly
Quietly building digital IDs and programmable money.
Gavin Newsom's California already proved
that the grid can fail without any hackers.
And Big Tech? Well, Big Tech
is plugging power-hungry data centers into Texas and Virginia.
This was never just about Iran. It was about your wallet from day one.
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I want to go back to that whole freezer aisle situation, right?
Now, picture a grocery store in Belgium.
Early morning, lights humming, the manager walks in, coffee in hand.
The ice cream is soup.
The milk cartons are sweating like they just ran a marathon.
The freezer thermostat reads like a sauna.
What happened to the Breyers and Ben and Jerry's?
Seriously, guys.
Now, repeat that in Sweden, Ireland, Estonia, Luxembourg.
Haagen-Dazs is finished.
In Macron's France, some freezers
didn't just warm up, they caught fire.
Macron's response?
Probably a strongly worded croissant.
Dozens of supermarkets across Europe have reported issues
with their freezers and refrigerators
on Monday that were apparently caused by cyber attacks.
Temperatures of fridges and freezers turned up overnight,
spoiling hundreds of thousands
of euros worth of food.
Supermarkets were affected in Belgium, Estonia, Netherlands,
Luxembourg, Ireland as well as this supermarket in Sweden.
An organization that has hacked into our temperature control system,
which we have on both cold and freezing temperatures,
has been manipulated with settings and so on.
It's crazy. I don't see what's wrong with it. It's a form of terrorism.
The incidents follow a similar incident last month
in which control of refrigeration systems
across France was taken over remotely.
The CEO of refrigeration installer Subcobel told Belgian media
the incident happened when
the unit's evaporators were switched to defrost mode.
He added a software update alone is not enough
to address the vulnerability, with physical
modifications required instead.
We have suffered a cyber attack from our software.
Unfortunately, this unit raised temperatures to 80°C,
which made some of the furniture melt.
We are sorry.
Today, we have a total loss of operation
in terms of fresh and frozen goods.
We would like to apologize to our clientele.
We would never have been able to see this today
in our rural, Intermarché area.
But that's it.
As for the cost, you don't have to read about it in our shop today,
because we have to tell you that we are doing a huge business,
and it concerns six shops in the Manche,
that I just took this morning.
I'm sorry to interrupt you,
but we will open our shop as soon as possible,
to be able to welcome you,
and welcome you at the level of the costs.
Then, six stores on American military bases went down the same way.
Nobody claimed it.
No ransom note.
No villain speech.
Just spoiled food and silence.
This is what practice looks like, guys.
So how did they get in?
The fridges were online.
President Donald Trump has warned
for years about foreign tech sneaking into American
networks.
The experts rolled their eyes.
Now your fridge in Ohio, your doorbell in Arizona,
your thermostat in Michigan, they're
They're all online, all doors.
And big tech forgot the locks.
We've just learned that the Pentagon is treating
a mysterious series of refrigeration malfunctions
as a potential suspected cyber attack.
This was a rash of rogue refrigerator behavior
that hit a series of U.S. military bases in August
and that we have now learned is being investigated as a potential hack.
These bases were across the United States,
so there was one in Arizona, there were others
all across the country.
These were Air Force bases, these were Army bases,
these were Naval bases, and there doesn't
seem to have been much rhyme or reason to the targeting,
except that their commissary
refrigerators all started malfunctioning in very mysterious ways.
This is the second time in about three months
that a spate of refrigerator outages is being
tied to malicious cyber behavior.
In early October, more than 300 supermarkets across France were hit.
by refrigerator outages
that not only left refrigerators non-functional but actually
also heated the food inside by kicking in the defrost cycle.
That left tens of millions of euros worth of food spoiled.
We don't know if there's a link,
but the incidents do seem fairly parallel.
People may wonder,
how is it that freezers or cold storage are being hacked, right?
You don't think of a freezer as something that can be hacked.
Well, what's happened is over the past years, even a decade,
is that a lot of the control panels, the digital control panels
that used to be serviced by an in-person technician
have been hooked up to the Internet.
And that brings a lot of instant noodles.
That means that...
Freezers and refrigerators can be serviced remotely,
but it also brings a lot of risks.
It means, for example, that malicious hackers
can get into the fridges and freezers
and maybe tamper with them.
So now, here's how America answers.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth isn't waiting around.
The plan is called FORTRESS,
Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources,
Energy, Supply, and Survivability.
Now, try saying that three times fast.
I struggled just saying it once.
About 200 bases, 90 days, no grid,
giant batteries, portable nuclear reactors,
warehouses of ammo, fuel, and medicine,
factories ready to flip to wartime production,
and the top commanders?
Under 2,000 feet of solid granite in Colorado. Picture it.
A town in Texas goes black, and right across the fence,
the base glows like Christmas.
This is President Donald Trump's peace
through strength, poured in concrete.
An enemy can cut the lights.
It cannot cut America's military.
Now, to be fair, it'll take years.
And it's built with China in mind, not just Iran.
But here's a question for you guys, not the Pentagon, you.
If the power went out tonight, how many days would your kitchen last?
For decades, we built the most powerful military
in the world, and then we quietly
We made it, and regrettably, made it dependent,
dependent on foreign mines for rare earths,
on overseas factories for microchips,
on foreign supply chains for weapons, and on a civilian
power grid to keep the lights on at our bases.
Well, that ends today with my third announcement.
Today at My Direction, we are launching Fortress America,
a national insurance policy for the
American homeland.
Fortress stands for Federal Operations for Resilience,
Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability.
And here's what Fortress calls for.
Every major military installation in America is going
to generate its own power, independent of the civilian grid.
If an adversary takes down the grid by cyber attack,
by sabotage, or by any means, our bases stay lit.
Our aircraft keep flying. Our command centers never go dark.
We're bringing our critical supply chains home.
The rare earths, the specialty metals,
the semiconductors, the propellants,
mined in America, refined in America,
built in America by American workers.
You got a friend whose fridge texts them when they're out of eggs?
Send them this video right now, guys,
before their fridge sends it to somebody else.
October 20th, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Yes, Fort Bragg folks, Pete Hegseth put the name back.
Joe Biden's renaming commission is still recovering from that.
The army rolls out bulldozers. Long, straight trenches.
Soldiers with clipboards. It's called
Operation Dragon Covenant.
The official term is Mass Temporary Interment. Practicing
how to bury fallen soldiers on the battlefield with honor
so they can be brought home later.
The army hasn't needed that since Korea.
Now, cable news saw the word burial and lost its mind.
Doomsday graphics. Ominous music.
Scary. Like a guy in a nice suit whispering
nightmare scenario. Calm down, CNN.
A ready military isn't a scary military.
It's a military that leaves nobody behind.
The scary one is the military that never practiced.
President Trump has never been a fan
of renaming old Confederate sites in the United States.
In fact, during his first term,
he vetoed legislation that would have renamed military bases.
But Congress ultimately overrode that veto
and renamed many military installations around the country.
Well, now President Trump has returned.
And it's clear his team wants some of the old names back.
I direct the Army to change the name of Fort Liberty,
North Carolina to Fort Bragg.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth making
the announcement on social media
while on a plane en route to Europe Monday night.
Fort Bragg, for years,
was named after Confederate Commander Braxton Bragg.
That is, until it was changed
to Fort Liberty during the Biden administration.
But Hegseth isn't renaming Fort Liberty
in honor of the old Confederate leader.
Instead, he is renaming it after
a World War II hero with the same last name.
This time, Fort Bragg will be named after Roland Bragg,
a World War II paratrooper who earned the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Fort Bragg wasn't the only military installation
renamed in recent years.
Fort Lee in Virginia was redesignated Fort Gregg Adams,
and it's possible that other recently renamed bases
get renamed again under the Trump administration.
During the Biden administration,
nine major military installations were renamed
because of their ties to the Confederacy.
Of course, there's a cost to all of this,
and Scripps News has been tracking that over the years.
In 2023,
It was estimated to cost taxpayers $40 million
to make all these name changes,
including the purchasing of new signs.
So back in July, Secretary Hegseth declared a military emergency.
The threat?
Chemical, biological, radiological,
or nuclear attack on American troops.
Not exactly a maybe-bring-an-umbrella type of warning.
So RFK Jr.'s HHS opened a fast lane,
because the old Washington Way moves at the speed
of a DMV line on a Friday afternoon.
You'll never get anything done that way.
Next in line, a painkiller wafer from a company out of Singapore.
It melts under the tongue.
No needle, no IV.
Picture a medic kneeling in the dirt.
Smoke, noise, a wounded soldier, one small wafer.
Kind of like a lifesaver.
Relief, fast.
Under the old system, the soldier waits about seven years
for a committee to finish his lunch.
This team said no.
33 countries just told their citizens the same thing.
Food, water, cash.
33. Of all the numbers, guys,
I'm just going to leave it right there. 33.
So Keir Starmer's Britain launched a campaign called Be Ready.
The advice? Three days of
supplies. The campaign? Three years long.
Three years to explain three days. That's
British efficiency. Friedrich Merz's Germany says 10 days.
Japan has earthquakes.
Sweden and Finland have Russia right next door.
And here at home, no nanny campaign. Because
President Donald Trump trusts Americans.
He's pushed disaster power out of Washington and back
to the states. Florida and Louisiana, they don't need a pamphlet.
They've handled more hurricanes
than Keir Starmer had press conferences.
Meanwhile, British shoppers, they bought so
many flashlights. Sales jumped up 284%.
Now somewhere in London, a man now owns 11 torches
and one can of beans.
Now Iran's regime wants in on the fun.
They say if the war restarts, they've got a surprise
weapon. The targets?
Undersea internet cables, data centers, AI facilities across the Gulf.
Now picture a cable on the ocean floor,
thinner than a garden hose, carrying your paycheck,
your bank, and every cat video ever made.
Cut it and your Venmo turns into a rock.
November 1st, hackers hijacked Ukraine's official air raid app.
Zelensky's people got fake radiation
and chemical alerts on their phones.
Now if we add the refrigerators,
it kind of looks like a rehearsal, doesn't it?
One quick warning folks,
that clip that's going around of strikes on three nuclear sites,
that's old footage, somebody's farming for your clicks with reruns.
Just a quick heads up.
Now forget hackers just for a second,
the biggest threat to your power grid might actually
There will actually be a building with no windows.
AI data centers. Some of them use
as much electricity as an entire city. Just so that
a chatbot can write your nephew's book report.
In Loudoun County, Virginia, they call it data
center alley. Down in Texas,
big tech is lining up to plug into Greg Abbott's grid like it's a
Black Friday sale at Best Buy.
Now, add years of Barack Obama and Joe Biden shutting down power
plants. Less power coming in, way more power going out.
Guess who gets the bill?
Well, I tell you, it's not Silicon Valley.
This is why President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary
Chris Wright are going all in. Build more power.
More power. Bring back nuclear. And President
Trump's message to big tech? Build your own power plant.
Your computers. Your electricity. Not
grandma's. So now the man that's holding the reins.
According to the Financial Times, Benjamin
Netanyahu had a multi-day strike ready for the weekend of October 10th.
Bigger than the strikes
Back in February.
Now, President Trump, he said, not now.
Benjamin Netanyahu wanted fireworks.
Trump wanted a deal.
Reportedly, the phone call was pretty tense.
Now, picture Netanyahu holding
the phone about a foot away from his ear.
That's what we call peace through strength.
No new forever wars, but President Trump drew a line in the sand.
If Iran starts digging at Pickaxe Mountain,
it gets blown up immediately.
His word.
Meanwhile, Tucker Carlson says something huge is just days away.
Tucker said that before,
so let's just hope that Tucker Carlson is wrong again.
Oh, and down in Florida, yeah, near Mar-a-Lago,
NORAD parked Avenger missile defenses near
Mar-a-Lago.
Palm trees, golf carts, surface-to-air missiles.
Yeah, with the G20 coming to Miami next month,
nobody's taking any chances.
So fear is the most profitable product on television.
The algorithm knows it. Scared people keep scrolling.
Every second you scroll,
somebody's getting paid. Ask a friend
who watches different news about any of this.
Odds are, they've never heard of it.
Their feed is scaring them about something else.
Now, remember March 2020?
Grown adults wrestling over toilet paper at Costco,
kind of like it was the last helicopter out.
In 1961, JFK's government handed out 22 million
fallout shelter manuals. Then the crisis cooled off.
About 600 shelter companies went bust
and the company's bunkers got auctioned off as
garden sheds. Nothing says apocalypse quite like a lawnmower.
In 2017, Kim Jong-un fired
missiles and Americans bought survival food.
Then President Trump's strength brought Kim
The panic sold out. The peace didn't make headlines.
Economist Robert Higgs wrote about
the ratchet effect back in 1987.
Picture a ratchet wrench. Click, click, click. It only
turns one way. Every crisis, government grabs new power.
And when the crisis ends, it keeps that
power. FDR started pulling taxes straight out
of your paycheck during World War II.
They said it was temporary.
Check your pay stub. Still temporary, isn't it?
So George W. Bush declared a national emergency after 9-11.
Barack Obama kept it. Biden kept it.
The Patriot Act got renewed more times than a Netflix subscription.
Joe Biden kept the COVID
emergency rolling until 2023.
And in 2020, Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum, they warned that
a cyber attack could spread faster than COVID.
Hacked fridges? Hacked alert apps?
Coincidence? Maybe. But the playbook never changes.
Problem, reaction, solution. Click.
Now, what they're building.
Ursula von der Leyen's European Union is rolling out
digital ID wallets across Europe by the end of 2026.
Keir Starmer wanted British workers to
need a digital ID just to hold a job.
Next stop, digital money. The digital euro. China's
digital yuan. Money that can be tracked
or switched off. Picture it, folks.
Checkout line in Brussels. Phone flashes.
Transaction denied. The guy behind you pays
cash and he walks out.
America said no. In January 2025, President Trump banned a U.S.
central bank digital currency. So here's what Brussels forgot.
Digital money needs electricity.
Grid goes down. So does your wallet. Cash doesn't need Wi-Fi.
Food too. Ron DeSantis' Florida banned
lab-grown meat. Alabama did too. Real food stays on American plates.
Hype, the November 17th blackout, folks.
It comes from a 2023 Simpsons Thanksgiving episode.
So the Simpsons has run over 700 episodes.
Throw enough darts, you're going to hit something.
Real, on November 17th, FEMA
and Brandon Carr's FCC are running a nationwide emergency alert test.
A test, folks, not a prophecy.
It's funny, every network opened
with the same words, nightmare scenario.
Kind of like they all got the same memo.
Because, I don't know, maybe they probably did.
Real?
I ran.
And President Trump?
Well, President Trump's handling it with strength.
So what do you do?
Three days of food that doesn't need a fridge,
water, cash at home, a little silver and gold,
and unplug your fridge from the Wi-Fi.
I know, you're tired.
You still got to go to work on Monday.
You know, prepared people sleep a little bit better.
So here's where we are, folks.
The fear is real.
The hype is for sale.
And the folks that are building digital wallets in Brussels,
they're hoping that you stay too scared to notice.
Don't.
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Go ahead and send them this.
Seriously, guys.
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