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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “Psychic medium (and Dreamland host) Marla Frees was one of the people who spokeat the Dreamland Festival this June. During her talk, as she was contacting the dead relatives of some of the people in the audience, I noticed that Whitley, who was sitting next to me, seemed to be in a sort of trance. At first I thought he might have actually fallen asleep from exhaustion, but on closer inspection, I realized that wasn’t the case. Later, he told me what had happened.” It all had to do with someone from deep in her past, by the name of Marcelle. Subscribers can listen to Whitley and Marla talk about this on this week’s subscriber interview!
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As the weather heats up, conflicts between nations may heat up as well, at a time when less ice covers the than at any time in recent geologic history. It turns out that, despite past government denials about climate change, the military has been studying this threat for a long time.
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There’s all kinds of pornography, and if you like to sneak a peek at a porn site occasionally, either at home or at the office, beware: criminals are lurking there, ready to STEAL YOUR MONEY.

Statistics suggest that 12% of all websites offer some form of pornography and that 70% of men under 24 browse these sites. Researchers created their own porn sites in order to test site users’ vulnerability, and found that the people who visited the sites were incredibly naive and open to getting computer viruses, as well as being reeled in byold-fashioned sales schemes.
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Not all films are about vampires: In the film The Day After Tomorrow, made from the book “The Coming Global Superstorm, Whitley postulates the idea that climate change could lead to a gigantic superstorm. It turns out this is ALREADY happening on an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star.

Unlike the Earth, this planet has a hot side, which is always facing its sun, and a cool side, which is always facing away, and CO2 from the hot side is drawn to the cool side at high speed, setting up huge storms.

In BBC News, Paul Rincon quotes researcher Simon Albrecht as saying, “On Earth, big temperature differences inevitably lead to fierce winds, and as our new measurements reveal, the situation is no different on [this planet].”
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