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An Open-Source Search Engine Takes Shape
Brian Piccolo, senior technologist at Boston-based Internet consultancy Pixel Bridge, predicts Nutch will be successful, but only on a small scale. "Even if Nutch achieves a small percentage of the total Web searches, it will require a huge investment in hardware and bandwidth to seriously compete on a grand scale," Piccolo told TechNewsWorld....
Posted: Wed, Sep 24, 2003 4:48am PDT
Journalist claims proof of WMD lies
Aussie investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them....
Posted: Wed, Sep 24, 2003 4:21am PDT
10th US plane comes down in Colombia
The death of yet another US pilot in Colombia brings the number of US personnel killed recently in the Colombian conflict to 18. It is still unconfirmed whether the latest aircraft crashed by accident or was shot down....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 8:25pm PDT
African Reburial Rite Planned in NYC
With ceremonial honors that they could not have imagined in life, more than 400 slaves and free blacks will be reinterred next month in the Manhattan graveyard where their bones previously lay unknown for 200 years or more....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 4:27pm PDT
Poor Americans continue to multiply under Bush as Republicans continue to ignore trend
A new federal report due out Sept. 26 will show U.S. poverty increasing even more. And still Republicans like Bush and Kelsey "Frazier" Grammer continue to ignore the problem....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 3:59pm PDT
Venezuela Won't Recognize Iraq Delegation at upcoming meeting of OPEC ministers
good to hear someone is taking a stand....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 3:45pm PDT
Danish capital loses power
East Coast, London, now Copenhagen? A long range power transmission line between Denmark and Sweden was "affected."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 11:23am PDT
CFL ALERT: DO NOT FUND THE SETTLEMENTS
CONTACT THE STATE DEPARTMENT AND ASK THEM TO DEDUCT COSTS OF ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS FROM ISRAELI WELFARE PACKAGE....
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 10:10am PDT
The school of the Americas-Hip Hop
The School of the Americas(in georgia, u.s.a)...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2003 5:06am PDT
Join Howard Zinn, Zack de la Rocha, and others in support of Sherman Austin!
Information on a public statement of support for imprisoned webmaster Sherman Austin....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 11:21pm PDT
Jennifer Loewenstein: Resistance And Collaboration.
Since when, I have to ask myself, has it been acceptable for only one side of a conflict to have weapons? Since when has "self-defense" been defined as the actions of a military superpower against the very people it oppresses and seeks to destroy? How long will we rail against the use of violence by those who are subjected to it repeatedly and in every conceivable form every day of their lives? The struggle for Palestine has gone far beyond a quarrel over land and property rights: M...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 11:10pm PDT
Bomb Attack on Presidential Palace in Venezuela
There are no reports of injuries following an explosion across the street from the presidential palace in Venezuela early Friday morning...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 10:26pm PDT
Bush sez don't confuce me with facts
Bush said he insulates himself from the "opinions" that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 9:49pm PDT
Zionism Unmasked: Violent Racism
There is no word for this latest piece by Dave Kersting but BRILLIANT. I'm sure you'll all agree when you read it. (This could be called the "anti-Left-Zionist Manifesto.")...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 5:19pm PDT
Who the hell is Booz, Allen, and Hamilton ?!?
A company with strong ties to the atrocity of September 11, 2001 is also implicated in the intense digital harrasment experienced in the past couple of years by anti-war activists....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 9:42am PDT
CIA planned to bring down Chavez's plane
Venezuelan Military Intelligence says overwhelming evidence the CIA planned to bring down Chavez Frias' airplane en route to United Nations in New York...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 9:36am PDT
Bush covers up climate research
White House officials play down its own scientists' evidence of global warming...
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 6:44am PDT
Charley Reese: Quagmire Or Expensive Mud
An American officer came to the home of an Iraqi family. American soldiers had killed the family's young son by mistake.
"How much compensation would you accept?" the officer asked.
"Ten dead Americans," the father replied....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 1:46am PDT
FBI searches computers at Caltech library in SUV arson probe
FBI agents seeking a self-proclaimed arsonist searched computers at the California Institute of Technology for clues into fires set at four Southern California car dealerships....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2003 1:25am PDT