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South Sister volcano in Oregon?s Cascade Range is beginning to show signs of erupting after lying dormant for thousands of years. Although indications are that an eruption is not likely to occur anytime soon, scientists are increasing their vigilance, which is located approximately 22 from miles from Bend, Oregon.

About a year ago, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) detected a bulge in the Earth’s crust near the base of South Sister volcano. Using high-precision radar data from satellites, Charles Wicks and his colleagues found that the ground west of South Sister had swelled about 4 inches since 1996. This swelling has continued at a rate of about 1 inch every year.
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Eleven microbiologists have mysteriously died over the span of five months. Some of them were world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others were the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others were experts in bioterrorism.

The first three died in the space of just over a week in November. Benito Que, 52, was an expert in infectious diseases and cellular biology at the Miami Medical School. Police originally suspected that he had been beaten on November 12 in a carjacking in the medical school’s parking lot, although his body showed no signs of this. Doctors then began to suspect a stroke.
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An ancient computer virus has been turned into a nasty “double-infected” virus. Anti-virus software makers say some versions of the widespread computer virus Klez.h hides a mutation of a very destructive virus first seen in 1998 and known as Chernobyl or CIH. The Chernobyl virus variant automatically infects files and programs files on computers running Microsoft Windows.

“Klez is just another Windows program,” says Graham Cluley of the UK anti-virus firm Sophos. “[CIH] just infects the executable file, whereupon Klez then forwards itself around in a double infected state.”
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Swirled News is proud to present, as far as we are aware, the very first review anywhere of the forthcoming Mel Gibson movie ?Signs,? which involves crop circles. Through genuinely staggering chance, some US correspondents of ours were able to attend a preview screening. As for the film itself, the, er, signs, perhaps predictably, are not good?

At unknowncountry.com, we probably would have supported the movie no matter how good or bad it was, simply because it will get the word out that crop circles exist. But evil aliens? The public is more sophisticated than that. We have real questions, and we?re looking for real answers, but Hollywood apparently isn?t even going to try to give them to us.
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