(CNN)President-elect Joe Biden declared Monday, hours after the Electoral College made his victory over President Donald Trump official, that "the rule of law, our Constitution and the will of the people prevailed" over Trump's efforts to undo the results of the election.
"The flame of democracy was lit in this nation a long time ago. And we now know nothing, not even a pandemic or an abuse of power, can extinguish that flame," Biden said.
In a speech Monday night in Delaware, Biden launched the most direct and detailed defense of his victory yet -- and the harshest condemnation of Trump's flailing efforts to change reality.
He catalogued the failures of Trump's campaign and his allies in state and federal courts and state legislatures, and recounts that have not substantially changed vote tallies. He called efforts by Trump and his supporters to use the courts to overturn the election result "so extreme we've never seen it before."
"Thankfully, a unanimous Supreme Court immediately and completely rejected this effort," Biden said.
Biden's speech came after the Electoral College had cast 306 votes for Biden and 232 for Trump, cementing Biden's win. The Electoral College votes will now be sent to Congress to be counted formally next month. Though some House Republicans have indicated they will object to the results in key states, they can do little more than delay the process during a joint session of Congress on January 6. Then, Biden will be inaugurated at noon on January 20.
Biden declared it time to "turn the page, to unite, to heal."
"In this battle for the soul of America, democracy prevailed," Biden said. "We the people voted. Faith in our institutions held. The integrity of our elections remains intact. And so, now it is time to turn the page. To unite. To heal."
But he also unleashed on Trump and Republicans who have attempted to thwart the democratic process in a way he had not before.
Lawsuits from Trump and his allies were rejected resoundingly in state and federal courts. "And yet, none of this could stop baseless claims about the legitimacy of the results," Biden said.
His harshest words were directed at Trump and his Republican allies -- including 17 state attorneys general and 126 members of Congress who backed a baseless Texas lawsuit seeking to undo other states' election results.
"This legal maneuver was an effort by elected officials and one group of states to try to get the Supreme Court to wipe out the votes of more than 20 million Americans in other states and to hand the presidency to a candidate who lost the Electoral College, lost the popular vote and lost each and every one of the states whose votes they were trying to reverse. It's a position so extreme, we've never seen it before," he said.
The President-elect, who paused throughout his remarks several times to either cough or clear his throat, called it "a position that refused to respect the will of the people, refused respect the rule of law and refused to honor our Constitution."
He also condemned attacks by Trump and his supporters, who have sought to throw out legitimately cast ballots, on state and local elections officials.
"It is my sincere hope we never again see anyone subjected to the kinds of threats and abuse we saw in this election. It's simply unconscionable," Biden said.
He sought to move past Trump's denials of reality, pointing to record-breaking voter turnout that he said "should be celebrated, not attacked."
The President-elect noted more than 81 million votes being cast in favor of himself and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, the most in history and 7 million more than Trump and Vice President Mike Pence received.
Biden also noted that he won by the same electoral vote count that Trump received in 2016, saying that it was a "clear victory" then and now.
The President-elect also laid out the work that will dominate the early days of his administration: the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, including distributing vaccines and slowing its spread as those vaccines become available, and rebuilding an economy battered by the
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/14/politics/joe-biden-speech-electoral-college/index.html
Britain has become the first nation to begin a mass inoculation campaign using a fully tested vaccine, kicking off a global effort to fight Covid-19. Doctors, nurses, certain people aged 80 or over and nursing home workers will be among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
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Britain’s National Health Service delivered its first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, opening a mass vaccination campaign with little precedent in modern medicine and making Britons the first people in the world to receive a clinically authorized, fully tested vaccine.
At 6:31 a.m. Tuesday, Margaret Keenan, 90, a former jewelry shop assistant, rolled up the sleeve of her “Merry Christmas” T-shirt to receive the first shot, and her image quickly became an emblem of the remarkable race to produce a vaccine and the global effort to end a pandemic that has killed 1.5 million people worldwide.
“I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19,” said Ms. Keenan, who lives in Coventry, in central England. “It means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the new year after being on my own for most of the year.”
British regulators leapt ahead of their American counterparts last week to authorize a coronavirus vaccine, upsetting the White House and setting off a spirited debate about whether Britain had moved too hastily, or if the United States was wasting valuable time as the virus was killing about 1,500 Americans a day.
President Trump planned on Tuesday to issue an executive order proclaiming that other nations will not get U.S. supplies of its vaccine until Americans have been inoculated, a directive that appeared to have no real teeth but nevertheless was indicative of the heated race to secure the first shipments of doses.
For the people receiving vaccinations in Britain, among them doctors and nurses who have fortified the country’s ailing National Health Service this year, the shots were an early glimpse at post-pandemic life.
“Today is a great day for medical science, and the future,” Chris Whitty, Britain’s chief medical officer, said on Tuesday.
The first 800,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for Britain were transported in recent days from a manufacturing plant in Belgium to government warehouses in Britain, and then to hospitals.
Fifty hospitals will be administering the shots until the government can refine a plan for delivering them at nursing homes and doctor’s offices. The vaccine must be transported at South Pole-like temperatures before it can be stored for five days in a normal refrigerator, Pfizer has said. First to receive the vaccine will be doctors and nurses, certain people aged 80 and over, and nursing home workers.
Some doctors and nurses have received invitations in recent days to sign up for appointments, with the first shots intended for those at the highest risk of severe illness. The government has indicated that people aged 80 and over who already have visits with doctors scheduled for this week, or who are being discharged from certain hospitals, will also be among the first to receive shots.
Nursing home residents, who were supposed to be the government’s top priority, will be vaccinated in the coming weeks, once health officials start distributing doses beyond hospitals.
Hundreds of people are still dying in Britain each day from the virus, and the country has made allowances for travel over the Christmas period that scientists fear will seed another uptick in infections.
“It is amazing to see the vaccine, but we can’t afford to relax now,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain said on Tuesday morning as he visited a London hospital. Trying to calm a recipient’s nerves about needles, he suggested, “I always try to think of something else — recite some poetry.”
Ms. Keenan, the first vaccine recipient, showed no such nerves. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, said on Twitter that watching Ms. Keenan receive the shot gave her “a bit of a lump in the throat.”
“Feels like such a milestone moment after a tough year for everyone,” Ms. Sturgeon added.
Administering Ms. Keenan’s shot was May Parsons, a nurse who is originally from the Philippines and has worked for the National Health Service for 24 years.
“The last few months have been tough for all of us working in the N.H.S.,” she said, “but now it feels like there is light at the end of the tunnel.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/08/world/covid-19-coronavirus
در فهرست بزرگترین هکهای انجامشده در سال ۲۰۲۰، اطلاعات جالبی دربارهی انواع روشهای سودجویان
برای حمله به مکانهای مختلف ذکر شده است.
تفاوتی نمیکند امنیت را به کدام زبان بنویسید؛ چراکه این واژه برای بسیاری از افراد سراسر جهان معنی ثابتی دارد. در بعضی از لغتنامهها، امنیت را مصونیت از خطر و آرامشخاطر معنی کردهاند؛ اما آیا همهی مردم جهان چنین حسی دارند؟ جواب منفی است؛ زیرا چه در دنیای واقعی و چه مجازی، همیشه افرادی هستند که پایهایترین حق افراد را زیر پا میگذارند. هکرها در دنیای مجازی امنیت کاربران را بهخطر میاندازند و با گذشتن از آن، اعمال شومشان را انجام میدهند.
در ابتدای سال، هنگامیکه کرونا تازه وارد کشورهای بیشتری شده بود، بعضی از هکرها اعلام کردند به مناطق خاصی، مانند پایگاه اطلاعات دادههای بیمارستان و مکانهای مشابه حمله نمیکنند؛ اما این قول نیز فقط مدت کوتاهی پابرجا ماند. حتی کرونا نیز موفق نشده است فعالیت این سودجویان را کُندتر کند و امسال نیز مانند گذشته، کاربران بسیاری در سراسر جهان قربانی آنان شدهاند.
باتوجهبه اختلال اقتصادی همهگیر و فاجعهبار، ممکن است امنیت سایبری امسال دورازذهن افراد بسیاری باشد. همچنین آمار روزانهی افراد فوتشده براثر بیماری کرونا نشاندهندهی این است که افراد کمتری به حریم و امنیت شخصی خود اهمیت میدهند و این مسئله دیگر چندان در اولویت کاربران فضای مجازی قرار ندارد. بااینحال، مطمئنا مهاجمان سایبری امسال نیز به کسی استراحت ندادهاند. افشای دادهها، نفوذ به شبکه، سرقت و فروش انبوه اطلاعات، سرقت هویت و شیوع باجافزارها در سال ۲۰۲۰ مانند سالهای پیش اتفاق افتاده است و بازار زیرزمینی هکرها اصلا به توقف فکر نمیکند.
ر سال جاری، اکثر شغلها و کارهای مختلف بهشیوهی آنلاین و دورکاری انجام میشوند. همین موضوع باعث افزایش آسیبپذیری بیشتر کاربران در دنیای فناوری شده است؛ زیرا اکنون زمان بیشتری در فضای مجازی هستند و اطلاعات بیشتری از آنان در این فضا وجود دارد. تحقیقات نشان میدهد کارمندان دورکار ۲۰ درصد از حوادث امنیتی مجازی را تشکیل میدهند. اکنون در دورهای هستیم که باجافزارها در حال افزایش هستند و بسیاری هنوز نمیدانند ۱۲۳۴۵۶ رمزعبور مناسبی برای حساب کاربریشان نیست. گفتنی است بسیاری از شرکتها و سازمانها نیز هنوز مسائل منطقی امنیتی را رعایت نکردهاند و آسیبپذیریها خطری دائمی برای شبکههای شرکتی هستند؛ درنتیجه، در سال جاری انواع حملات سایبری را شاهد بودهایم. در این مطلب، به بدترین حملات سایبری در سال ۲۰۲۰ اشاره خواهیم کرد.
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Rudolph W. Giuliani, who is promoting baseless claims of widespread election fraud, talked about a pardon with President Trump as recently as last week.
A pardon for Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, is certain to prompt accusations that Mr. Trump has used his power to obstruct investigations and insulate himself and his allies.
President Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant pre-emptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani, and talked with Mr. Giuliani about pardoning him as recently as last week, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Mr. Trump has told others that he is concerned that a Biden Justice Department might seek retribution against the president by targeting the oldest three of his five children — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump — as well as Ms. Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner, a White House senior adviser.
Donald Trump Jr. had been under investigation by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, for contacts that the younger Mr. Trump had had with Russians offering damaging information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign, but he was never charged. Mr. Kushner provided false information to federal authorities about his contacts with foreigners for his security clearance, but was given one anyway by the president.
The nature of Mr. Trump’s concern about any potential criminal exposure of Eric Trump or Ivanka Trump is unclear, although an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney into the Trump Organization has expanded to include tax write-offs on millions of dollars in consulting fees by the company, some of which appear to have gone to Ms. Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-pardon.html
A roaring recovery is in sight, but a lot depends on what Congress does next for the winter economy. A roaring recovery is in sight, but a lot depends on what Congress does next for the winter economy.
months ago, the end is in sight.
The development of vaccines that appear to be safe, effective and ready for wide distribution in the months ahead means it’s now possible to envision a post-Covid economy by summer.
There is a distinct possibility that the economy could roar back to full health quickly as soon as public health conditions allow. But for that to happen, the United States will need to make it through what might be a cold, dark winter in which damage could be done to the tissue of the economy that prevents that rapid healing.
With many service businesses having already depleted cash reserves and the government aid they received earlier in the year, another wave of failures looms. And that imperils not only individual shops and restaurants, but also the commercial landlords they pay rent to, and the state and local governments relying on their tax dollars.
The challenge is to keep everything going long enough to prevent irreparable damage to the ecosystem on which a huge share of American economic activity is built — office buildings filled with workers, hotels and airplanes that are full, vibrant street retail, and the public services that maintain it all — when so many individual elements of the ecosystem are under severe strain.
Boka Restaurant Group in Chicago had 2,000 employees working at 20 restaurants before the pandemic, and in the immediate aftermath of shutdowns in March furloughed more than 1,800 of them, said Kevin Boehm, a co-founder of the group.But as the weather warmed and Chicago allowed extensive outdoor dining, the company’s restaurants were able to claw back. By midsummer, sales were down only 35 percent to 40 percent compared with normal. A refundable loan through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program helped meet rent and payroll obligations.
Now, the federal loan is long gone, the weather has turned cold again, and a new wave of Covid-19 infections has put a pall on indoor dining. Sales are down 90 percent from normal levels.
“I’ve spent the last two days sitting in a room with employees who are being furloughed or having a salary reduction,” Mr. Boehm said in mid-November. “This is happening right now. One of our restaurants is one of the highest grossing in America, and last night we did $900 of sales. On a normal night, that restaurant would have done $50,000.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/upshot/economic-boom-possible-covid.html