Month: September 2021

Throw Away Chinese Smartphones Over Security, Censorship Concerns, Lithuania Says

Lithuania discouraged consumers on Tuesday from using Chinese mobile devices—found to come with built-in censorship capabilities undermining freedom of speech and personal data security. It comes after a Sept. 21 government report showing flagship phones sold in Europe by Chinese phone maker Xiaomi have built-in and remotely controlled techniques to detect and block sensitive terms without the user’s permission….


Lithuania Calls to Quit Chinese Smartphones Over Security and Censorship Concerns

Lithuania discouraged consumers on Tuesday from using Chinese mobile devices—found to come with built-in censorship capabilities undermining freedom of speech and personal data security. It comes after a Sept. 21 government report showing flagship phones sold in Europe by Chinese phone maker Xiaomi have built-in and remotely controlled techniques to detect and block sensitive terms without the user’s permission….


EU Energy Ministers Meet to Discuss Power Price Surge

Energy ministers from European Union countries will on Wednesday (September 22) discuss the soaring price of gas and electricity across Europe, as some governments draw up measures to protect their consumers. Benchmark European power prices have rocketed this year, more than trebling in Spain and elsewhere, partly because gas prices have been driven up by…


Outsource Non-Core Policing Tasks to ‘Rethink’ Instead of ‘Defund’ Police: Montreal Think Tank

Amid rising crime rates and calls from some to “defund the police” a new paper suggests an alternative solution to help manage the swelling costs of policing: outsource non-core police tasks to licensed security professionals. Supplementing the police force with security personnel could save millions of dollars while lowering crime rates by allowing police to…


1st Federal Gang Trial Since 2016 Opens in Chicago

CHICAGO—Labar Spann, sitting in a wheelchair next to his attorney, listened as Assistant U.S. Attorney Kavitha Babu accused him of being the leader of the notorious Four Corner Hustlers street gang that for decades reigned on the West Side of Chicago. “You will enter a world that you otherwise would not have access to, a…


Canada’s Failure to Heed Multiple Warnings Seen as Reason for AUKUS Snub

Over the years, foreign policy and defence professionals have been urging Canada to toughen its approach to China, better align itself with U.S. objectives, and get more involved in the Indo-Pacific


Mark Milley’s Perception Warfare Deserves a Leavenworth Long Course

Commentary Beltway raconteur Bob Woodward has a track record for sensationalizing gossip in order to create buzz and sell books. In American high schools and the Washington Beltway—is there a difference?—“buzz” is a term for manipulating emotional and social responses to achieve a goal. Woodward? He wants to sell books and demonstrate he matters, years…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Sept. 22)

The border crisis continues in Del Rio, Texas. Thousands of illegal Haitian immigrants are reportedly being released in the U.S., instead of being sent back to Haiti. We have an update on vaccine mandates. A hospital system in North Carolina fired non-compliant employees. And a health care group in Alabama paused their vaccine mandate for…


Clarence Thomas and the Declaration of Independence

Commentary Last week, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas arrived at the University of Notre Dame to speak about the Declaration of Independence. Speaking invitations like this that Thomas accepts are few and far between. Anyone who cares about our country and listens to this address will wish that he would agree to speak more….


Recycling old Turbine Blades Poses Problems for Harnessing Wind Energy

After pictures of old wind turbine blades being buried in a landfill began to circulate online last year, the wind power industry moved to emphasize its commitment to sustainability, with Siemens Gamesa recently unveiling a new recyclable blade for offshore installations—but critics have questioned the industry’s sincerity, as well as its willingness to bear the…