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Israel’s Electrical Grid Taken Down In Huge Cyber Attack

Israel’s electrical grid was almost taken down in what authorities have said was the largest cyber attack the country has experienced.  The Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water Yuval Steinitz told a conference in Tel Aviv: “Yesterday we identified one of the largest cyber attacks that we have experienced“. Jpost.com reports: Steinitz said that attack was dealt with by his ministry and the National Cyber Bureau and that it was under control.

Sprint Fires 2500: 8% Of Its Entire Workforce

Anyone who dares to question Obama's grand renaissance is supposedly peddling fiction. Meanwhile, in today's latest mass layoff event (which, oddly enough, has become a daily thing during the "recovery") some 2,500 Sprint workers  - 8% of the company's 31,000 total employees - have already received, or are about to be "peddled" pink slips.

According to the Kansas City Star, "layoffs and cutbacks at Sprint Corp. have claimed at least 2,500 jobs and struck six customer care centers, company officials confirmed.

Society Are Rejecting New Music En Masse For First Time In History

For the first time ever in the history of music sales, older record sales have exceeded the sales of newer releases, as the public en masse reject modern music.  Older music outsold current releases by 4.3 million, according to a 2015 report compiled by Nielsen. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: To give some perspective, only a decade ago current music sales dominated catalogue music by over 150 million albums. The new data comes from a 2015 year-end report by Nielsen, the data company that operates SoundScan music sales statistics that in turn informs the Billboard charts.

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