• World's fastest broadband connection went live down under — Nokia demos 100 gigabit internet line in Australia in record-breaking attempt but doesn't say when it will go on sale

    Australian broadband provider nbn delivered 100 gigabit speeds using Nokia’s Lightspan MF fiber platform.

  • Canada is at risk of another round of devastating wildfires like the blazes that choked America last summer – as warm, dry winter gives way to hot spring season ahead

    The Canadian federal government has warned the country could face another wildfire season because of unusually warm weather.The word of caution was provided by Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan on Parliament Hill Wednesday, on the heels of an uncharacteristically warm winter.He said that more dry, hot weather is expected this spring and summer, putting much of the country at heightened risk.Widespread drought and a forecast of above-normal temperatures will also play a factor, he...

  • Wentworth Woodhouse calls on 100 Big House Heroes to raise £100,000

    The Big House Heroes campaign is the latest major fundraising bid to be launched by the charity regenerating the dilapidated stately home known to Rotherham folk as ‘The Big House’. Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust is searching for 100 fundraisers to go above and beyond, and raise £1,000 each by November. Heroes can choose any type of fundraising mission - from staging a fun-filled event to undertaking a physical challenge - and community groups and businesses can also sign up to become a...

  • How America’s Military-Industrial Complex Wins All of Its Wars Against America’s Taxpayers

    Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) As has been documented by such authorities on U.S. military spending as Winslow T. Wheeler, Robert Higgs, and others, America spends each year around $1.5 trillion for its military but hides at least around $800 billion of it (so as for the U.S. not to be publicly recognized as spending […]

  • Letters: This is America

    I read the letter to The Madera Tribune (April 3) by Chuck Wieland and the reply (April 10) by John Wright. I appreciated the comments by Wieland about Trump, the Republican party and the colorful language.“Let’s not be silently complicit in transforming America into a Bizarro World. Or Amerika.” Wright wrote that regarding Wieland’s comments, he was “stunned, disgusted and disappointed.” I feel that I have to inform Wright that not everyone in Madera County is a MAGA Trumper. That anyone who...

  • HOW CORRUPT IS AMERICA?

    Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) By overwhelming margins, the American people believe that their Government is corrupt, and the polling shows that the margins who believe this have soared from over 80% in 1976, to over 90% today. The American people overwhelmingly distrust their top ‘elected’ officials. Skepticism of the U.S. Government’s legitimacy is very […]

  • The Streets of America

    Joe Biden and the Democrats are perplexed. They look at the numbers and think the economy is going well and cannot figure out why the President’s approval rating is so low. Yet they are looking at the economy from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a street far removed from all the other streets in the United States. More

  • Drying out and heating up into the workweek

    It is a cool and foggy start to the day for some parts of the state with a Dense Fog Advisory in effect for portions of eastern New Mexico. Sunshine will be abundant across western New Mexico today with a few clouds hanging around for some portions of southern and eastern New Mexico today. Drier []

  • Is 100 the New 70?

    Eating well, exercising, getting plenty of sleep and managing chronic stress can help make you a SuperAger. Funding that long life requires longevity literacy.

  • Why BBM is pro-America

    Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.’s pivot to America will soon yield dividends – in terms of investments in critical areas, jobs and job training, solid infrastructure, energy independence, digital connectivity, microchip production, agribusiness, mass transport and logistics hubs.

  • The Fundamental Unraveling Of America

    The Fundamental Unraveling Of America Authored by Albin Sadar via American Greatness, By now, it must be overwhelmingly apparent to every American citizen that what candidate Barack Obama promised on the campaign trail back in 2008 has come to pass. Obama touted a “fundamental transformation of America” if elected president and, once elected, he proceeded to accomplish that one huge goal. It can certainly be argued that the country experienced a slow boiling of the frog during...

  • America Is Addicted to War

    William Astore The genocide happening in Gaza today may foreshadow one possible future for this planet.