http://truthiscontagious.com Get Infected Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:07:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (FEDERALJACK) For Brian McGacken of Farmingdale, New Jersey, an evening of loud sex resulted in a 10-year prison sentence for growing marijuana. On Feb. 17, 2007, New Jersey state troopers arrived at McGacken’s home, responding to an anonymous 911 call complaining of screams coming ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/loud-sex-enough-for-cops-to-search-your-home-court-rules-2 (FEDERALJACK) The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration. It’s time to start cashing them in. For more than ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/social-security-to-start-cashing-uncle-sam%e2%80%99s-ious (FEDERALJACK) Birthers beware: Hawaii may start ignoring your repeated requests for proof that President Barack Obama was born here. As the state continues to receive e-mails seeking Obama’s birth certificate, the state House Judiciary Committee heard a bill Tuesday permitting government officials ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/hawaii-considering-law-to-ignore-obama-%e2%80%98birthers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzTn2LZiu30 http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/denver-international-airport-conspiracy Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to pass a law saying no thanks to part of President Obama's health care proposal. The Idaho Health Care Freedom Act says in part, "every person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/idaho-challenges-national-health-care-proposal-more-states-may-follow WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/another-uhi-effect-%e2%80%93-thunderstorms-lightning-2 Blok et al. conclude “These results suggest that the expected expansion of deciduous shrubs in the Arctic region, triggered by climate warming, may reduce summer permafrost thaw. Increased shrub growth may thus partially offset further permafrost degradation by future temperature increases. Permafrost models need to include a dynamic vegetation component ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/climategate-problems-with-the-permafrost Yet it is also the country where the largest-circulation newspaper published a scandalously misleading report accusing the Israeli military of killing Palestinians to harvest their human organs – a modern-day repetition of the historical blood libel all too familiar to Jews. It is a country where the vice-chair for the ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/propaganda-alert-sweden-a-new-hotbed-of-hatred We the people have given away our sovereign money-creating power to private, for-profit lending institutions, which have used it to siphon wealth from the productive economy. Some states are moving to take that power back. WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/the-growing-movement-for-publicly-owned-banks According to a document obtained by the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on Tuesday March 16, the 9/11 commission was warned on Jan. 6th, 2004 by high-level administration officials to "not cross the line" in the investigation of the events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001. WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/aclu-obtains-document-stating-911-commission-told-to-not-cross-the-line An Italian judge on Wednesday ordered four foreign banks and 13 people to stand trial over a complex derivatives deal involving Milan in a criminal test case for cities facing heavy losses from derivatives deals. WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/four-banks-face-trial-derivatives-test Preliminary investigations reveal that she killed the three-year-old boy on the directions of some of her relatives involved in occult practices,' he added. The girl, who is being treated at a hospital, has been booked for killing the boy. Her parents were arrested a few months back for killing a two-year-old girl ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/teenaged-girl-kills-child-to-attain-occult-powers On this green St. Paddy’s day, finally, something that explains some of the operators of, and commenters on, some other blogs. Now, if I can just find some fair trade carbon credits to offset my corned beef and cabbage… From the Guardian: How going green may make you mean Ethical consumers less ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/mister-mean-green The dual Oscar-winner went further in Time magazine."Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as 'yellow, slant-eyed dogs' that believed in different gods," he said. "They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. "We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. "Does that ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/18/outrage-as-tom-hanks-brands-war-veterans-racist-after-filming-the-pacific WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/imagine-iran But drug industry lobbyists, according to Politico, spent the weekend "huddled with Democratic staffers" who needed the drug lobby to "sign off" on proposals before moving ahead. Meanwhile, we learn that the drug lobby is buying millions of dollars of ads in 43 districts where a Democratic candidate stands to ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/dems-tap-drug-maker-millions-for-phrma-friendly-bill WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/farmers-speak-bust-up-big-ag Here is just one more indication that despite what some would like you to believe, the MWP was not a regional “non event”. From a University of Arizona press release, Giant Sequoias Yield Longest Fire History from Tree Rings California’s western Sierra Nevada had more frequent fires between 800 and ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/medieval-warm-period-seen-in-western-usa-tree-ring-fire-scars This animation depicts a proposed weapon with a one megaton yield. The funding for this weapon was cut in 2005 defense appropriations. However, the United States still has a B61-11 nuclear 'bunker buster' in its arsenal which has a 400 kiloton yield, which could still cause hundreds of thousands of ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/robust-nuclear-earth-penetrator In addition to using such a multinational regional force in Somalia, the U.S. can also deploy it against Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Uganda, Congo and Sudan, and could even employ it against Eritrea, Zimbabwe and Sudan, the only nations on the African continent not to some degree ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/us-directs-large-scale-offensive-in-somalia Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department is spending $5.4 million to buy fine crystal stemware for American embassies -- but it won't give the US economy much of a boost. The contract was given to a tiny Washington, DC, interior designer, which in turn subcontracted the crystal work to a Swedish firm ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/hills-nub-of-us-companies-in-purchase-of-crystal-stemware-is-clear EUROPE'S emissions trading system was in uproar yesterday amid a mounting scandal over "recycled" carbon permits. Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading as panic hit investors fearful that they had bought invalid permits. BlueNext and Nord Pool, the French and Nordic exchanges, suspended trading in certificates of emission reduction (CERs) ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/european-emission-trading-rocked-by-scandal-over-recycled-carbon-permits The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday that it remains the goal of U.S. troops to capture Osama bin Laden alive and "bring him to justice." WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/us-military-goal-still-to-capture-bin-laden-alive Flickr photos from march 10. WRH permalink http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/greek-police-brutality-against-photographers The March-April edition of WeatherWise magazine has an interesting article in it regarding UHI (Urban Heat Island) effects of enhancing thunderstorm formation in the downwind heat plume. It Stems from this paper (PDF) published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. I saw a similar study presented in August ... http://truthiscontagious.com/2010/03/17/another-uhi-effect-%e2%80%93-thunderstorms-lightning