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An unusual sequence of five consecutive solar storms will result in disrupted radio transmissions and possible effects on power systems, according to NASA’s Spaceweather.com. However, this storm does not carry radioactive particles, and air travelers and astronauts are not at risk.

“We’ve got five different opportunities to get hammered,” commented Bill Murtaugh, a forecaster for the Space Environment Center in Boulder, CO. The extended nature of this storm is likely to cause more disruption than a single, stronger storm. Larry Combs, also from the Space Environment Center, explained that “the longer this stuff affects a system, the harder it is on that system.”
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Reuters, Kyodo News Service – It was discovered in September that many brands of taco shells and chips contained StarLink, a biotech variety of corn that has not been approved for human consumption. It was announced Tuesday, November 21, that material from StarLink corn has been discovered in corn seed that wasn’t supposed to be genetically altered. “The discovery raises the possibility that the material could find its way into other food products,” USDA spokesman Andy Solomon said. “We don?t yet know exactly what happened and how.”

The USDA is on record as saying that this type of transfer could not happen.
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Whitley and I recently helped save a friend?s life. It’s a strange feeling. We don’t feel heroic, only grateful, because he’s one of our favorite people.

We didn’t run into a burning building or jump off a bridge into icy water. We accepted an invitation to a beach house a few weeks ago and had a lovely, lazy weekend with our friends. While chatting in the living room, the husband happened to mention some annoying symptoms he’d been having for years.

Whitley recognized the problem immediately because he’s had the same symptoms of a troublesome prostate, the curse of middle-aged males. We urged our friend to have a blood test to check his PSA level and make sure he didn’t have cancer.
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On 11/17/00 Whitleysworld published a story about numerous UFO sightings in Texas and Oklahoma that included accounts of a massive UFO being observed in Elk City, Oklahoma, and a series of extremely bright flashes of light in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

We normally follow up on reports like this, and have been unable in either case to obtain any information about such events from any source other than the original sources mentioned in the story. Therefore, we cannot confirm these stories at this time, but will provide further information if we are able to do so. However, it should be remembered that UFO sightings are fleeting events, and often it is extremely difficult to obtain supporting testimony.
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