Month: September 2021

Germany Sees No Sign of Fuel Shortage Like in Britain

BERLIN—Germany does not see any sign that it could face the same kind of fuel shortages suffered in Britain, a spokesperson for the economy ministry said on Wednesday. “We do not see any shortages in Germany,” the spokesperson told a government news conference. “The supply situation is good, security is high.” Britain has been gripped…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (Sept. 29)

Democrats are in a high stakes stare-down, negotiating and hoping to make progress on major issues that are central to the Biden agenda and the nation’s economy. What do progressives and moderates disagree about? Travel chaos is expected. A union representing thousands of pilots warns the vaccine mandate could upset the holiday travel season. That’s…


We Need Each Other: An Economic Perspective

Commentary Poets, songwriters, psychologists, romantics et al., have expounded on the human need for love, companionship, friendship, closeness, and so on. True. But one of the most important ways in which human beings need each other is rarely pondered and infrequently written or talked about: our economic need for each other. We need each other…


UK Motorists Urged to Stop Panic Buying as Drivers Unable to Work Amid Fuel Crisis

Ministers on Wednesday continued to urge motorists to return to normal fuelling habits. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the level of fuel at forecourts is stabilising amid calls to give essential workers priority access. A taxi trade body boss said that at least a quarter of his members couldn’t work on Tuesday, and one local…


Musk Says Biden’s EV Policy ‘Controlled by Unions’: Code Conference

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration was not the friendliest and its electric vehicle policy appeared to be controlled by labor unions. Speaking at a tech conference in California, Musk was critical of a White House summit on electric vehicles in August to which automakers other than…


Schumer Announces Stopgap to Fund Government Through December

On the Senate floor Wednesday morning, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that Democrats are crafting a stopgap bill to fund the government through December to avert a shutdown on Friday. Schumer said that the bill will extend government funding to Dec. 3, and will provide “long-sought” emergency relief to areas affected by Hurricane Ida…


Chinese Universities Step Up Political Indoctrination Among Students

Various universities in China’s northern Heilongjiang Province are closely monitoring their students’ progress in observing and upholding Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s political ideology, according to leaked government documents recently obtained by The Epoch Times. One China analyst describes the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) objective of indoctrinating students across the country as “brainwashing.” “Xi Jinping Thought,” dubbed…


Feds Intend to Launch Facial Recognition System for Canadian Passport Holders: Report

Canada will set up a facial recognition system within the next two years that will include the faces of 25 million Canadian passport holders compiled into a database, according to a federal agency notice, despite little evidence of identity fraud in Canada. “The department must have facial recognition system support capabilities in place no later than…


Texas Acquires COVID-19 Monoclonal Antibodies, Bypassing Biden HHS Limits: Governor

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced his state has obtained its own supply of monoclonal antibodies, a type of treatment for COVID-19, in a move that bypasses the Biden administration’s limits. “Texas has obtained its own separate allocation of these monoclonal antibody treatments working around the limitations that President Biden has put on us so…


Metamorphosis: The Birth of a Dream

What is your dream? Do you know at what stage it is? What do you need to do next? In the past several years of my earth life, I have seen many of my dreams come to pass, and there are many more on the horizon. They are all at different stages of development and…