Seven earthquakes ranging up to 4.3 in intensity struck NewZealand’s North Island within a few hours of each otherTuesday, while 6+ quakes struck off Japan’s Honshu Islandand in Hokkaido. The quake of Honshu prompted the JapaneseMeteorological Agency to issue a tsunami warning, which waslater cancelled.

The most powerful New Zealand quake measured 4.9 on theRichter scale. It shook the Wellington area. It was followedjust eight minutes later by a 3.8 magnitude aftershock fromthe same area. 30 minutes later a new quake was recorded inthe area.
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Mysterious lights are being seen in the sky all around theworld?and one was even from the Space Shuttle Columbia, justdays before it blew apart on February 1st, 2003! Some of theplaces the lights have been spotted are Indonesia,Australia, the U.K. and the US, most recently California.Have you seen any strange lights in the sky? Write towhitley@strieber.com and let us know.

Maggie McKee writes in New Scientist that after the spacelights were caught on video by the Columbia crew on January20, they transmitted the video to NASA. Israeli astronomer YoavYair spent more than a year analyzing the video. A singleframe, lasting less than a second, shows a mysteriousreddish glow in the dark sky. He calls it “somethingextraordinary,” and says it is not a lightning storm or ameteor.read more

Have you noticed? Or was thestory like the”elephant in the room”–so big you didn’t really see it?It’s the kind of news you only find HERE, onunknowncountry.com. In her newdiary, Anne Strieberpoints out how exciting this news really is, and how itvindicates every experiencer and abductee. (If you’re one ofthe many readers who get our newsletter, you already receivedthis exciting article, right on your computer. If not, putyour e-mail address in “Free Newsletter” on our homepage).We will not sell or give away your e-mail address–we willonly use it to send you a lovely newsletter once a week, andyou can cancel any time.

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a Inuit leader who is taking a standagainst global warming, because her world is melting. She was elected as the head of the Inuit CircumpolarConference, which represents the 155,000 Inuit who live inAlaska, Canada, Greenland and Chukotka, Russia. Her remarkswere originally printed in The Guardian newspaper on January15, 2005. She says that while global warming is affectingthe entire planet, it’s hitting the Arctic much harder.

Inuit elders and hunters have knowledge about the way thesnow and sea ice are supposed to act, as the seasons change,this wisdom has been passed down for generations. It tellsthem which birds, fish and animals will be in the region atwhat times, so it’s necessary knowledge for their survival.
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