March 20! Worldwide antiwar demos

BBC World News home page, lead story

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Australia, beginning a day of protests around the world to mark the first anniversary of the Iraq war.

Rallies are expected later in Britain, Italy and Spain - whose governments supported the US-led invasion of Iraq. More than 250 demonstrations are being organised across the United States.

I’ll be at the Hollywood rally and march early, helping set up, and will post photos to my camblog as the day progresses.

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Oh heck, let’s bomb London too

A former White House anti-terrorism advisor says the Bush administration considered bombing Iraq in retaliation after Sept. 11, 2001 even though it was clear al Qaeda had carried out the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

“Why do they hate, oh why do they hate us???”

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Coke screws up water!

The Coca-Cola Co said on Friday it had recalled its entire Dasani range of bottled water from the British market after levels of bromate, a potentially harmful chemical, were found to exceed legal standards.

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Oo-kay….

Chomsky backs ‘Bush-lite’ Kerry

Noam Chomsky, the political theorist and leftwing guru, yesterday gave his reluctant endorsement to the Democratic party’s presidential contender, John Kerry, calling him “Bush-lite”, but a “fraction” better than his rival.

<Chomsky> said there were “small differences” between Senator Kerry and the Republican president. But, in an interview on the Guardian’s politics website, he added that those small differences “can translate into large outcomes”.

Kerry is orders of magnitude less extreme on domestic social issues. But on the war(s), I’m not sure there is much difference. We shall see.

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Fur once, I’m at a loss for a snappy title

A San Diego computer programmer who has spent £100,000 on tattoos and plastic surgery to turn himself into a ‘tiger’ wants a fur graft.

Dennis Smith is tattooed from head to toe with orange and black stripes and his teeth have been filed to needle point. He has also had latex whiskers implanted and surgery to his lips so he has a permanent snarl. He now wants a surgeon to graft tiger fur on to his skin, like a perma-wig.

However, he arguably is still not quite as strange as this…

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