Million Yippie March: ” Do they know that there will be enormous demonstrations against the Naked Emperor? Sure they do. They want them. And they want to crush them. The protesters will become substitutes for authentic uncaptured terrible terrorists. And the Republicans will show by their immense and limitless cruelty, that they not only take care of business on Wall Street.

They want us to come. And we must oblige. But in the time we have before the Republican Convention we must develop tactics that will leave them in the dust of their own mediocre confusion. We must resuscitate the great laughing spirit of Yippie.

Intense harsh but shockingly clever and hilarious protest against the Emperor Bush that will make America laugh at him and see him in an unprogrammed state of his actual evil. Attack us then, you humorless Elephants of the GOP. And America will see you and him, in the unforgiving light of harsh truth. New York needs a cosmic joke. So does America. So let’s start asking just what trick the Yippies have up their sleeves”

Official denies nuclear arms found in Iraq:”The daily al-Sabah newspaper Wednesday had quoted sources as saying three missiles armed with nuclear warheads were discovered in a trench near the city of Tikrit, the hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. A U.S. military spokesman in Tikrit told United Press International that the report was untrue.” (UPI)

“In England they call it, rather elegantly, ‘throwing shapes.’ One American practitioner says he thinks of it as ‘selling a move.’ But to most people who have seen it up close as a rock concert, it is simply that nutty face that the guitar player makes: a contorted grimace, sometimes involving liberal amounts of tongue, that suggests either ecstasy or accidental electrocution….

Now both men and women — professionals, nonprofessionals and air guitarists alike — are being given a chance to put their best swoon-inducing faces on display. As a way to promote a video-on-demand guitar instruction show on cable television called “Guitar Xpress,” the company that owns the service, Rainbow Media Holdings, recently came up with the idea of holding a national “guitar face” contest.” (New York Times)

“Kofi Annan spoke yesterday of ‘gross and systematic’ human-rights violations in Darfur, and urged the Sudanese government to take immediate action to disarm Arab-backed militias, warning that the international community might step in if it does not act.

Stopping short of setting a deadline for international intervention, the United Nations secretary general and his special representative in Darfur, Jan Pronk, made clear they want to see a speedy restoration of security in the vast region.” (The Scotsman)

“Tony Blair has asked Downing Street and Foreign Office officials to draw up plans for possible military intervention in Sudan, where more than a million refugees are at risk from famine and disease.

Despite a heavy commitment of British armed forces in Iraq and other troublespots, the prime minister has had discussions with advisers for on-the-ground involvement of troops.” (Guardian.UK)

“John F. Kerry and the major Democratic Party committees have collectively outraised their Republican counterparts this year, blunting one of the GOP’s biggest and longest-standing political advantages, new Federal Election Commission reports show.” (Yahoo! News)

“US singer Linda Ronstadt was booed off the stage and kicked out of a Las Vegas casino after praising polemical filmmaker Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11, the casino said….

The incident marked the latest backlash against liberal US entertainers who criticise Bush and follows comedienne’s Whoopi Goldberg’s sacking last week by a diet products company following her raunchy rant at the conservative president at a Democratic fundraising concert.” (Yahoo! News)