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Man discovers passage to Egypt’s Great Pyramid ā under his house
Marco Di Lauro/Stringer/Getty Images Sometimes, breaking the law has its perks. An Egyptian citizen, identified as “Nagy” by Arabic news siteAhram.org, was illegally digging in his backyard when he found a tunnel leading to the Pyramid of Khufu. The pyramid, nicknamed the Great Pyramid, is the oldest and largest of the three Giza Pyramids. Nagy, […]
Extreme Heat Knocks Out Internet In Australia
An anonymous reader writes with news that offensive weathercaused internet connectivity problems for users in Perth, Western Australia on Monday. But it wasnāt raging storms or lightning that caused this outage ā it was extreme heat. Monday was the 6th hottest day on record for Perth, peaking around 44.4 C (111.9 F). Thousands of iiNet […]
Canada Heavy Oil Drops Below $35 As Rig Count Hits Record Low For January
Think Texas and Pennsylvania have a problem with plunging oil prices, don’t look North. West Canada Select (Heavy) crude oil prices have collapsed to below $35 per barrel (the lowest since Feb 2009). This is a 60% plunge in the last 6 months and has left the industry stunned. While US rig counts have […]
The Latest Russian Fighter Jet Blows America’s Away
Russian Sukhoi Su-30 Fighter Jet Outgunned by the Su-30 family of aircraft and suffering critical design flaws, the American F-35 is staring down the barrel of obsolescence ā and punching a gaping hole in western air defenses This article is an excellent read to understand how Russia’s technological level is best in its class in […]
Russia’s “Startling” Proposal To Europe: Dump The US, Join The Eurasian Economic Union
Slowly but surely Europe is figuring out that as a result of the western economic and financial blockade of Russian, it is Europe itself that is suffering the most. And while Germany was first to acknowledge this late in 2014 when its economy swooned and is now on the verge of a recession, now others […]
UK SITE BLOCKING GIVES BOOST TO PIRATE LINKING SITES
BY ANDYĀ ON JANUARY 2, 2015 What happens when movie and TV show companies have sites blocked at the ISP level in the UK? A leaked report commission by the studios shows that on the one hand direct traffic to pirate sites seriously reduced. But on the other, usage of unblocked linking-only sites increased by more […]
Here’s a scene from Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s acclaimed documentary on Edward Snowden
Here’s a scene from Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s acclaimed documentary on Edward Snowden, showing Snowden packing his bags to leave Hong Kong, showing the book on his nightstand: my novel Homeland. Thanks to Poitras and her helper, Maria, for this clip. http://craphound.com/littlebrother/
ARCHEOLOGISTS DISCOVER MYTHICAL TOMB OF OSIRIS, GOD OF THE DEAD, IN EGYPT
SOURCE: ANCIENT ORIGINS A Spanish-Italian archaeological team, in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, has made an incredible discovery in the necropolis of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank at Thebes, Egypt ā an enormous ancient reproduction of the mythical Tomb of Osiris as described by Egyptian legend, complete with multiple shafts and […]
MORTALLY WOUNDED PIRATE BAY ENTERS 2015 IN UNCERTAINTY
BY ANDYĀ ON DECEMBER 31, 2014Ā C: 253 NEWS A huge police raid in 2006 failed to permanently take down The Pirate Bay yet what appeared to be a more discreet attack in early December has done much more damage and gathered more headlines. We take a look back on one of the torrent scene’s most significant […]