Wild West fiction has convinced us that cowboys spent a good chunk of their time dueling. Author and historian Robert DeArmond wrote: “Gunfights are sudden, impromptu affairs, and gunfighters took every advantage available.” But did historians get it wrong? Recent research shows that even conservative estimates say that the Old West was about as murderous as today’s most violent cities. History Dose explains.
The Russian search engine, Yandex, is making some strides against Google. Of course, Yandex remains most popular in Russia. But as Google has began censoring more search results and kicking conservatives off YouTube, more Americans and Westerners are beginning to try out Yandex. Here’s a report on some of its new features.
While President Obama attempts to deflect the barrage of foreign policy critics from his own party, his administration is now confronted with the growing problem of American Jihadis. Amy Holmes, host of “The Hot List” on The Blaze.com, shares some incredible stories of Westerners leaving home to join Muslim Jihads abroad.
Fraudsters in West Africa show Vice how they use internet scams to steal thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims all over the globe.
While Nigeria’s 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what’s going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes of convincing one poor sap they’re the treasurer of the Ivory Coast, Ghana’s scammers decided to stack the odds in their favor the old-fashioned way—witchcraft.
Taking a page from cyberpunk, traditional West African Juju priests adapted their services to the needs of the information age and started leading down-on-their-luck internet scammers through strange and costly rituals designed to increase their powers of persuasion and make their emails irresistible to greedy Americans. And so “Sakawa” was born.
