Is there anything, short of seeing the church parking lot and the collection plate stand empty, that will arouse "men of God" to demand that politicians respect human life and honor Jesus' call for peace?

John Lipsky, IMF deputy managing director, said "inflation concerns have resurfaced after years of quiescence" due to soaring energy and food prices. Mr Lipsky said global growth was slowing but headline inflation was "accelerating."

The ambassador said Iran's proposal would address western concerns that the rapidly developing nuclear project could be used to make weapons, but insisted his country would not surrender the right to enrich uranium.

"You're looking at a lot of ice out there," says Leech Lake resort owner Roy Huddle. One day from the fishing opener, Huddle is still missing his lake.

Sen. Obama, D-Ill., picked up two superdelegates this morning giving him a new metric to tout in addition to his current commanding leads in pledged delegates, popular votes, states won, and money raised.

But the scarier stuff is what your phone can do when you aren't even using it.

But Chong says agents seized 10,000 DVDs of his documentary.

In late 2006, convinced that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for America, he decided to start an anti-Obama operation. He combed the public record on Obama. He used a couple of allies and informants -- half-jokingly dubbing his group "The Crusaders" -- to learn about Obama's background, especially his Africa connection and how he came to be the editor of the Harvard Law Review.

He assembled a dossier on Obama, including allegations that Obama attended a madrassa, or Islamic religious school, in his youth in Indonesia.

And now it turns out that the Burger King Corporation, home of the Whopper, hired a private security firm to spy on the Student/Farmworker Alliance, a group of idealistic college students trying to improve the lives of migrants in Florida.

... So for nearly four more years, this innocent man was beaten, starved, tortured, subjected to endless persecution in the form of interrogations designed to elicit perjured self-incriminating testimony. On September 30, 2004 -- two years after his innocence had been established -- Kurnaz was brought before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal staffed with officers who had access to the exculpatory 2002 memoranda. That august panel designated Kurnaz an "enemy combatant" on the basis of "evidence" it didn't deign to share with the detainee or his assigned military lawyer, who was utterly inert during the proceedings.

Defiant or delusional?

The entire Washington power structure has lined up to support this hideous project: military aggression, murder, destruction and rampant atrocity. Somalia -- already one of the world's most fragile and ravaged nations -- is being battered into utter destruction before our eyes....and in our names.

If the law passes, as is expected, it could spark a major showdown with Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movement should do well in the elections but who has refused to disarm his Mehdi Army militia despite an order from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to do so.

An outbreak of large-scale battles would draw in more American troops at a time when U.S. force levels are being cut. Heavy clashes in Baghdad and the Shi'ite south could put an end to any more major U.S. drawdowns until a new U.S. president has taken office in Washington in 2009.

According to Silverstein, the neo-cons want Olmert to fail, Netanyahu to take over, followed by war with Syria. "The neo-cons would rather have a war that bled an ally than a peace that rewarded their foes. It's called cutting off your friend's nose to spite his face," he says.

The fighting so far in Sadr City has been fierce - street to street, and house to house.

There were heavy casualties on both sides of the conflict, according to villagers, but casualty figures were difficult to obtain because of the fierce fighting.

The scandal also could cast a shadow over a visit here next week by President George W. Bush to participate in the anniversary commemorations. Bush and Olmert are expected to discuss the state of peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

Georgia, run by Mikheil Saakashvili, the reformist pro-Western president, rejects the charge and accuses Russia of annexing the territory.

This is an old intelligence trick called "Poisoning the well", the intentional promotion of lies to blend with an embarrassing truth to discredit it. The government shills are trying to conceal real news stories such as the Israeli Spy Ring and its connections to the attacks on the World Trade Towers. So, we get hoax stories poured onto the net by government propagandists, to be used by the media to attack the credibility of anyone who dares doubt the official story.

Counterfeit currency attributed to North Korea raises deep concern due to its extremely high quality. Dubbed supernotes, their production process closely matches that of the genuine article, and the engraving is so fine it rivals that of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing.2

The hard drive was onboard when the shuttle disintegrated 39 miles up, while travelling at a speed of 12,500mph.

The drive was found and 99 per cent of the data has now been recovered and processed by Ontrack Data Recovery in Minneapolis.

The bottles contain diesel or gasoline diluted with kerosene, which the government subsidizes to provide low-cost cooking fuel for the nation's 600 million poor. Kiosks sell the mixture for as much as 10 percent less than gas stations do.