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This message comes from Henry Willis, who will be interviewed on Dreamland Saturday, February 8 about his book, Earth’s Future Climate: “On Jan 31, several C and on minor M Class solar flares were observed. The solar wind striking the Earth increased from 390 km/sec. to over 1,000 km/sec. This increase in solar wind hit the Earth precisely at the time of the tragic Columbia Space Shuttle accident.

“There is currently no evidence of a correlation between the two. However, it is well-known that a space shuttle in re-entry is under tremendous stress and is performing a delicate balancing act. It is possible these increased solar winds unbalanced the Columbia resulting in its unfortunate accident.”
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The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that a Bay Area amateur astronomer has photographs showing odd flashes of light, apparently an electrical discharge, around the space shuttle Columbia during the early phase of re-entry, just before the shuttle broke up.

At the same time that the shuttle was re-entering the earth’s atmosphere, a coronal mass ejection that had left the sun hours before was reaching earth’s atmosphere. While this CME was not large or unusual, it was sufficiently strong to create auroras above the Arctic Circle, and its energy would have been much greater in the area of the shuttle, above earth’s protective atmosphere.
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“An UFO-related incident that occurred four years ago poses a troubling question whether any kind of cooperation is possible between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and extraterrestrials,” says Joseph Trainor of UFO Roundup. “On December 16, 1998, during Operation Desert Fox against Iraq, a video clip aired on CNN showed a UFO hovering over Baghdad; it moved away to avoid a stream of tracer anti-aircraft fire. At that time we all thought it was another UFO sighting, although captured on videotape. But now, ufologists think it was much more than a mere incident.” This may be Iraq’s version of Roswell, where the report of a crashed UFO in New Mexico in July, 1947 was first announced, then denied by the U.S. government. When we invade Iraq, will we discover Saddam’s been hiding a crashed UFO?read more

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Scientists now think fast food and sweets are as addictive as heroin, because they set off hormonal changes in the body which make it hard to stop eating them. According to New Scientist magazine, “New and potentially explosive findings on the biological effects of fast food suggest that eating yourself into obesity isn’t simply down to a lack of self-control.” Researchers think eating lots of foods that are high in fat and sugar causes the same changes in the brain as drug addiction.
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