Month: December 2020

Hackers Access Personal, Banking Info of TransLink Employees in Ransomware Attack

Hackers accessed the personal and banking information of TransLink employees during a cyberattack that targeted the company’s IT infrastructure earlier this month. The hackers “accessed and may have copied files from a restricted network drive,” according to an internal email by Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) to their employees. CMBC is the transit service company…


Lessons on Healthy Alignment With Winter

We’ve just passed winter solstice, with many people celebrating the passing of the shortest day and light slowly returning to our world in incrementally longer days. There’s an element of triumph associated with the solstice—we made it through the darkest days of the year. What’s often missed is that these cold, dark days are an important…


Australia Allows Chinese Purchase of Gold Miner While Canada Says ‘No’

China’s second-largest state-owned gold mining company Shandong Gold has won a bidding war to gain control of Australian gold miner Cardinal Resources. This comes after Five Eyes’ partner Canada blocked Shandong from acquiring a local mine in the strategically important Arctic Circle. Over a seven-month period, the state-owned Shandong Gold vied mainly with Russian firm…


The Discomfort of Happiness

I recently finished the first draft of a new book I’m writing. Almost every moment spent writing this book, like the previous ones I’ve written, has been tedious and arduous. It wasn’t enjoyable. But completing the draft made me happy. The same goes for every race I’ve run. Every challenging project I’ve completed. Every difficult…


How a Stint With COVID Changed My Perspective

I was stricken with COVID last month. You probably expect me to now explain how awful it was, how I laid around in bed, suffering in agony, and was nearly carted off to the hospital. But that would be a lie. The real story? I had some congestion, did lots of sneezing, and was quite…


First Australian Coin of 2021 Honours Air Force

The Royal Australian Mint is honouring 100 years of the nation’s air force by featuring images of its planes on the first coin pressed in 2021. The first coin struck in 2021 will commemorate the centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force. The Royal Australian Mint unveiled the theme on Friday, as excited coin collectors…


NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Dec. 31)

President Donald Trump and the First Lady are back in Washington a day early, Georgia moves one step closer to a ballot audit in one key county, and more Republicans say they will challenge the election results on January 6th.


Trump Should Declassify How the Chinese Communist Party Interfered in Our Election

Politicians tackle debts and deficits, politicians deal with planning and zoning, politicians struggle with their civil service. Statesmen, or stateswomen, however, are the politicians who take hold, grasp and define the seminal moments of our times. They map out the course of history through surgical words and key actions. These words and actions stand to…


Costa Mesa Bar Owner Charged with Illegally Operating During COVID-19 Pandemic

SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—The owner of a Costa Mesa bar has been charged with illegally operating during curfew hours for nonessential businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Dec. 31. Roland Michael Barrera—who owns the Westend bar—is set to be arraigned June 22 on a misdemeanor count of violating and…


Perdue Reiterates His Support for President Trump’s Stimulus Package

Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) reiterated his support on Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s revisions to the pandemic stimulus bill, including an increase in direct payments, a repeal of Section 230, and the establishment of an election commission. “We’re standing with the president on all the issues out there that we see in front of us, the $2,000…