Let’s get something straight about the Russian invasion into the USA,

Microsoft, no different than any other American company, is not the issue. Every American company should be safe from a foreign country’s malicious intent.

Our military should be safe from such international crimes, but, right now they are not. The problem here is about the open relationship Trump has with Russia which is malicious against the safety and security of the American people. I fully expect this is a profound attempt by Russia to secure Trump’s election.

That said, the security of this country by Homeland Security failed. It completely failed Microsoft. Homeland security is supposed to issue breaches in cyber space. Homeland Security is supposed to report such breaches and attacks daily to the country. It didn’t do that.

Microsoft, as a security company, has been battling cyber attacks since there was a Microsoft. Microsoft knows its clients and prepared software to undermine vicious attacks on their consumers. Microsoft does not have the assets and capacity of any sovereign country.

The USA government and military is supposed to have all the cutting edge and high security methods to protect the country. Homeland Security cannot expect any company to do what it can do. Homeland Security is supposed to LEAD. That did not happen.

I don’t care the reasons Homeland Security was not leading so much as the fact that it wasn’t. The US is supposed to protect its secrets. It can’t do that if nothing but private companies with contracts are solely responsible for the country’s national cyber security which then compromises national security.

Understand this. The Russians are still looking for 30,000 Clinton emails that was wiped from the server of a Secretary of State. 

So while they are looking for those emails why not go as far as they can to exploit information from anyone or any company in the USA. Why not write emails and plant them supposedly on secure sites?

Homeland Security failed. It failed to protect the country. Microsoft was a target in which it never got any help from the agency that is supposed to be state of the art in cyber security.

Microsoft will not be scapegoated for a failed and quite possibly disarmed government.

Why is Edward Snowden, a whistleblower, still in Russia? 

The states Attorney General need to begin legal actions against the White House.

The problem with the distribution of the Pfizer vaccine is a distraction from the Russian invasion into the USA cyberspace.

Then Jared Kushner could have determined the vaccine in storage is theirs.

Why is Pfizer talking to the federal government? The Governors are MORE CAPABLE to provide CONTINUITY of distribution, especially when it comes to the second dose. If the Governors don't have access to the distribution of the first dose, how can they provide continuity to the second dose?

The Trump administration made it clear how they see the treatment of COVID-19; they want everyone infected. What do they care if the vaccines have continuity to the people of this country?

A court decision has to be expedited and Pfizer and Moderna need to be in the courtroom AS WELL AS THE STATES' SECRETARIES OF HHS (For some reason the Governors believe they can move forward because they are the chief executive. The state's HHS Secretary should be a co-signator to any court proceedings regarding SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. The states' Secretary of HHS is where the power lies.) When the judges decide this all the parties must be involved to make certain that CONTINUITY of dose distribution is a high priority.

This is the third outrage of the week. First, we find out there was absolutely no oversight to SARS-CoV-2 by Congress or the White House, then the Russians are rampaging through the cyberspace of the country, and now the national security of the USA is again assaulted in TAMPERING WITH VACCINE DISTRIBUTION. Who is trying to kill Americans, because, it sure sounds like someone is?

The court actions with the companies present should not be punitive, however, state fines for the high level of negligence by the PEOPLE directly involved in these decisions of distribution should be levied. If that requires a second filing then make it a second filing and fine the USA federal government OFFICIALS in the line of decision making according to the state's standards.

Fines of individuals will work today and in the future. Why? Because they love money more than human life.

December 17, 2020
By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun and Josh Dawsey

Officials in multiple states (click here) said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was at fault.

The reduction prompted concern in health departments across the country about whether Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine accelerator program, could distribute doses quickly enough to meet the target of delivering first shots to 20 million people by year’s end.

A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal plans, said the revised estimates were the result of states’ requesting an expedited timeline for locking in their allocations for the following week; notification of how many doses they could order each week was consequently advanced from Friday to Tuesday. Since Pfizer is producing doses daily, the official said, fewer doses were available Tuesday than will be available on Friday....

I think this addition to the President's Cabinet is long over due.

I am thrilled by this nomination. I am certain she will do a magnificent job. I fully expect the new Secretary Deb Haaland to review the misuse of public lands and the rights of future generations to those lands.

I fully expect her to review tribal treaties and make them stronger in recognizing the health and well being of the Native American people. All too often Native Americans are viewed as autonomous in their decision-making and their lives. They are a sovereign nation within the USA and due to that fact, their ability to care for their people is hampered by boundaries and assets. They can protect the land they love while they are also expecting the same treatment of human rights from the USA federal government.

December 17, 2020

“A voice like mine has never been a Cabinet secretary (click here) or at the head of the Department of Interior. I’m incredibly honored to accept President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination for Secretary of the Interior. As our country faces the impacts of climate change and environmental injustice, the Interior has a role and I will be a partner in addressing these challenges by protecting our public lands and moving our country towards a clean energy future.

“It’s profound to think about the history of this country’s policies to exterminate Native Americans and the resilience of our ancestors that gave me a place here today. This historic moment will not go by without the acknowledgment of the many people who have believed in me over the years and have had the confidence in me for this position. I’m forever grateful and will do everything I can to be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land. I am honored and ready to serve."

Put the government OFFLINE!

AI is here and if anyone believes Russia and China and who knows who else doesn't have it is a fool. Apple still manufactures it's iPhone in China. Does anyone actually think Apples' use of AI is a mystery to the Chinese government? 

The USA military has operated offline for a long time before some expensive defense contracts were signed. National security is at risk. The military needs to return to a safe military standard and take everything OFF THE WEB to begin. Closed systems without accessing the world wide web can be maintained until they are proven to be unsafe as well.

The horse has left the barn. There is no recapturing that level of security. It was nice while it lasted, but, the day of cybersecurity in the USA military is over and it needs to secure the country without all the bells and whistles.

Elon Musk said some time ago there needs to be governance over AI. When is that going to happen? Where is the United Nations Treaty the USA is so eager to sign? Then there is the problem of enforcing such a treaty and the consequences when it is violated.

Stop investing in a USA military that is more vulnerable rather than less. End the contracts, they have failed the USA military, hence, the American people. No more money and the American people deserve a refund. Undelivered goods are undelivered goods. 

The cyber-world is untrustworthy. There is no real security for the F-35. There just isn't. If each jet could operate as a self-contained system for the pilot that would be something that is trustworthy. But, I have had a computer unplugged and attacked through microwaves because of an online assessment I wrote. They tried to excite it enough to make their way into the permanent hard drive. But, it didn't work after five tries. I know what they can do.

December 16, 2020

By David E. Sanger, Nicole Perlroth and Julian E. Barnes

Washington - Over the past few years, (click here) the United States government has spent tens of billions of dollars on cyberoffensive abilities, building a giant war room at Fort Meade, Md., for United States Cyber Command, while installing defensive sensors all around the country — a system named Einstein to give it an air of genius — to deter the nation’s enemies from picking its networks clean, again.

It now is clear that the broad Russian espionage attack on the United States government and private companies, underway since spring and detected by the private sector only a few weeks ago, ranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.

Einstein missed it — because the Russian hackers brilliantly designed their attack to avoid setting it off. The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security were looking elsewhere, understandably focused on protecting the 2020 election....

Americans are a great people.

Jack Arends is not alone in his view of the 2020 presidential elections. Trump would like to think he was blameless for an administration that treated people as chattels that were disposable. Americans were objectified by Trump. He believed they were weak in character and maliible to any despotic directions. He was wrong about everything, but, mostly about the will of the American people.