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FedEx goofs on 200lb marijuana delivery (1,130 diggs) Oops! Federal Express accidentally delivered 200lbs of pot to the wrong person in Baltimore, and the recipient tipped off police. Cops then posed as FedEx agents when making the drop-off to the original recipient, who was promptly busted. The sender, however, has not been identified.

As Gas Prices Soar, Elderly & Disabled Face Starvation (510 diggs) Rising fuel costs have stopped agencies from delivering meals to, or provide transportation for senior citizens.and the disabled. Regarded as superfluous "mouths" by The Rothschild Family led One World Company engineering the dollar collapse; oil pice increases; food "shortage", etc., this is all according to plan

America's Top 20 Growing And Disappearing Jobs (492 diggs) Most of the growing job opportunities are at the non-specialist, or unskilled, end of the field, though they run the full gamut of wage levels. The disappearing jobs are concentrated in the lower third of the pay range, though the field work was done before the onset of the credit crisis, so it precedes recent job losses in the housing and ...

Assisted Suicide of Healthy 79-Year-Old Renews German Debate (521 diggs) When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception. Ms. Schardt, 79, a retired X-ray technician from the Bavarian city of W ürzburg, was neither sick nor dying. She simply did not want to move into a nursing home, and r

Hey Condoleezza, How Do I Get These Nasty Stains Out? (1,443 diggs)

Contest of the Titans: China and the US in Africa [chart] (587 diggs) Graph showing the skyrocketing and increasingly fierce competition between the PRC and USA for African trade. Something that has largely gone unnoticed by the world at large, but will exert a profound effect on the economics and geopolitics of the 21st century.

Condolezza Rice: ‘I Am Proud Of The Decision to Invade Iraq' (985 diggs) In an interview with Bloomberg TV yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was unable to acknowledge the failure of Iraq. She said: "But I know that great historical events go through difficult phases and often emerge with the world left for the better. And I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein."

UK Identifies Russia as Biggest Threat After Iran & Al-Qaeda (563 diggs) Britain’s security services have identified Russia as the third most serious threat facing the country, it has emerged before Gordon Brown ’s first meeting with President Medvedev. Security officials say that only al-Qaeda terrorism and Iranian nuclear proliferation are greater menaces to the country’s safety than Russia.

Man rips head from Hitler wax figure in Berlin (1,093 diggs) BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said. Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside...

Bush heckled during July 4 speech (1,287 diggs) It's The Fourth of July, but not everyone was in a festive mood when President Bush delivered a speech Thursday at Thomas Jefferson's famous home, Monticello.

Independence Day: Let Us Remember Who We Are (816 diggs) Kucinich's fourth of July impeachment message.

John Edwards to Debate Karl Rove at University of Buffalo (898 diggs) Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain might not burn up the campaign trail around Western New York this election year, but the University at Buffalo may have scheduled the next best thing. GOP strategist Karl Rove and former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards will debate the issues of the presidential campaign Sept. 26

A Historical Look at the Presidential Candidates [PICS] (1,138 diggs) This 4th of July, America celebrates its 232nd year of Independence. Here are some historical and family photographs of each of the two major candidates (in alphabetical order), John McCain and Barack Obama

GOP Anger: Bush Is Being "Reduced To Child's Play" (747 diggs) US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the President's relevance is shrinking beyond already dismal levels.

F*CK VIACOM! (2,368 diggs) Philip DeFranco talks about Viacom and Fireworks.....

Al Qaeda Expanding Recruitment Of Children (361 diggs) Al Qaeda has successfully established a network for recruiting boys as young as 12 from across central Asia as it seeks new volunteers to enlarge its team of prospective suicide bombers and militants fighters, senior security officials from the Middle East have revealed to CBS News.

Utah adopts 4-day workweek to save energy (1,098 diggs) Starting next month, thousands of government employees will only work 4 days per week, in an effort aimed at reducing energy costs and commuters' gasoline expenses.

Protesters disrupt Bush's July 4th address at Monticello (1,112 diggs) President Bush delivered a July 4th address before a naturalization ceremony for new citizens at Thomas Jefferson's home of Monticello that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who called out "war criminal" and "impeach Bush."

The evolution of a conspiracy theory (827 diggs) It wasn't only the Twin Towers that collapsed on September 11. A third World Trade Center tower that wasn't hit by the planes also fell. As a report into Tower 7 prepares to publish its findings, Mike Rudin considers how this conspiracy theory got to be so big. 9/11 is the conspiracy theory of the internet age.

Canadians First to IIlustrate Lyme Disease Bacterium (461 diggs) Canadian researchers are the first in the world to use high-resolution, 3-D imaging to create dramatic new footage of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease as it moves through the bloodstream of a living host.

US War On The Third World: 40 Years of CIA Activity (710 diggs) John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations. He is a very compelling speaker and the highest level CIA officer to testify to the Congress about his actions. He estimates over 6 m people were killed.

What to Do With $5,000? (623 diggs) OK, so you have $5,000 burning a hole in your pocket, and you're itching to do something with it. Here are some ideas.

Five to face Concorde crash trial (389 diggs) US airline Continental and five people will stand trial over the 2000 Concorde crash near Paris which killed 113 people, French judicial officials say.

Obama asks Americans to step up, volunteer (718 diggs) Continuing to press the themes of values, faith and patriotism, Sen. Barack Obama exhorted Americans on Wednesday to volunteer for public service, pledging to dramatically expand opportunities for those accepting his challenge.

General: Attack on Iran would trigger war (676 diggs) Any strike against Iran's nuclear facilities would be regarded as the beginning of war, a senior Iranian military official says.