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As the death toll from the Pakistan earthquake passes the 80,000 mark, the weather in the region is turning cold. Many thousands more are going to die this winter, and so far only $135 million of the $550 million in aid dollars that have been promised have actually been received. But the story’s over. The big media has forgotten about the quake. The public has gone on to other things. But here at unknowncountry.com, we can tell you how to make a difference.

People are still dying, and facing a winter of horrific suffering. Whitley Strieber has been looking for a way to help these people that will actually save lives, and I have found one. I have researched it carefully, and it is legitimate.
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When we invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003, there were news reports about the looting of over ten thousand valuable artefacts from the National Museum, and it was rumored that looters even had lists of things to steal, given to them by international antique dealers. Then it was discovered that museum curators hid much of it in bank vaults, so it would not be stolen. Over two years later, what has happened to all this missing art?how much of it been recovered?
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LA recently foiled terrorists by reading their emails. Now Australia reports that they have also been able to arrest a group of terrorists before they could act.

Kathy Marks reports in the Independent that hundreds of Australian police have staged raids that netted them a group of arrests of men who they believe were planning to commit a “catastrophic act of terrorism.” They found chemicals similar to the ones used in the London Underground (subway) bombings in July. The arrested the alleged leader of the terrorist group, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, a radical Muslim cleric living in Melbourne who was born in Algeria.
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Newswise – One of the biggest complaints that doctors hear is insomnia. A recent poll by the National Science Foundation found that only 50% of Americans get a good night’s sleep a few nights each week. Why do we need to sleep, anyway? Sleep researchers are studying animals in order to figure this out. For instance, they have found birds and reptiles that can put half their brain to sleep while keeping the other half alert to watch for predators. They also want to know how cats can sleep so deeply, yet spring instantly awake. If we could find a medicine that could do that for us, our sleep problems would be over.
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