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1-1-2000
What a strange feeling to be so painfully aware of all the things that could go wrong with the 2000 date roll-over, and then watch and listen to an endless string of "No Problem - No Problem - No Problem." Rigidly controlled news at it's finest! Even with the Internet, news reporting over holidays and weekends is usually minimal. Still, considering the world's concern, the lack of information during this critical time was a dead giveaway.
Before continuing, I must declare how grateful I am to the armies of planners, engineers, programmers, and technicians who have worked all year to make sure that the power grid stayed up today, water is still pumping and, thank you Lord, the Internet and phone systems are working perfectly. Few people realize that some manufacturers of heavy power equipment were still selling brand new non-compliant equipment to electric utilities only 18 months ago. Without a monumental effort, this country and much of the world would have been on its way to the stone age this morning. The Y2K threat has always been devastatingly real.
I don't think we would have actually arrived at the stone age, because I have great faith in the efforts of dedicated people to find their way around even the greatest of problems. But the interim would have been pure chaos.
Today, Day One, is a Saturday. With power, water, and communications working, there's really not all that much that can go wrong with the average weekend. We haven't tried to run out and charge something, so we can only guess that electronic banking, where the largest and earliest effort was mounted, is also working fine. What more could we ask for? I'm guessing there may be a few gas stations with low or empty tanks, but we weren't planning to go anywhere, anyway. What else is going on? No one can tell. The news blackout continues.
Thousands of crisis teams are in place right now,in medium and large businesses, overseeing their companies' information systems as they test the transition of vital business systems. How are they doing? To judge from the wire services, no one has bothered to ask. The country's railroad network shut down last night, for safety. Did it come up again? No one is saying. And of great concern, a huge number of oil and gas pipelines, highly susceptible to the embedded chip problem, also shut down to avoid trouble. Are they running again? How strange that no one seems to know or care.
Last night's reporting by news organizations was nothing less than bizarre. As the date change began in the South Pacific, a parade of nearly identical stories came across the major wire services. From each country the same report, "We had a wonderful celebration, and the lights are still on." Period. End of story. New Zealand's OK? Fine. No more news from New Zealand. Great party in Australia, mate? Fine. No more news from Australia. On and on it went. Great party. Lights still on. News Blackout. At 8 AM this morning, Reuters filed a story indicating their headline writer didn't understand the basic concept: "World Completes Crisis-Free Millennium". So much for a thousand years of history.
Only the Japanese had the honesty to report trouble, thankfully minor, at two nuclear generating plants. At the International Y2K Cooperation Center, only tiny Gambia had the guts to list their government computer systems as "yellow" while the rest of the world's nations show "green" in all sectors.
At my neighbor's business (30-40 employees), they already know that the security gates to the parking lot won't open, and the employee time clock can no longer talk to the main computer. To give them credit, they've spent a long time getting ready, struggled with countless problems as they changed computer programs, and knew ahead of time these particular gadgets would probably fail. They just couldn't find reasonable fixes for them. Monday, they will go to manual operation.
So it looks like we are to enter the new year blind, and on Monday morning we begin what may be, in economic terms, the death of a thousand cuts. Later you can see the movie, "Revenge of the Nonessential Systems!" If nothing else, in data processing centers the world over, managers are going to remember that back in the farthest filing cabinet is a large stack of almost forgotten programs labeled "Year-End Processing". They were non-essential on Day One...
The majority of business that experience true computer disasters go bankrupt within months. Some within a few weeks. Rather than full blown disaster, however, the threat from Y2K is a steadily increasing drag on productivity and resources. As everything takes more time and effort, the bottom line shrinks, and jobs are threatened. Since this is occurring everywhere, sales are effected, losses increase, and so on. In the meantime, we can still approach disaster level quickly if the supply of refined petroleum products has sustained a significant hit from the Y2K bug. Just a 20% cut in gasoline supply could be economically ruinous.
If you read my Chemtrail Christmas article [http://www.sightings.com/politics6/chemcs.htm] you know that Uncle Sam and other governments have bet the farm on an imminent and ugly catastrophe of some kind. It would be foolish indeed to think that since the world got through Day One, we can discard the careful preparations so many of us have made for difficult times. In fact, I am thrilled that I have more time for thoughtful preparation. My list of small things we had forgotten, or never gotten around to, was getting awfully long! I definitely want more spices for survival cooking, and I'd like to put some more deep-cycle batteries in the motor-home's electrical system. All sorts of things. Perhaps another box of P95 surgical masks to ward off the NWO flu.
I had really hoped that we'd seen an end to the chemtrails. The awesome chemical barrage of Houston and the surrounding counties during the holiday period certainly had a feeling of climax about it. The Ethylene Dibromide that falls from the fuel-aerosol plumes was rolling through our location north of the city about every two hours from dawn until midnight Wednesday and Thursday. I was really getting tired of my AOSafety "professional" mask [www.kenwelch.com/spray5.htm] that protects against both chemtrails and the nasty bugs that sometimes accompany them. When the spraying stopped abruptly in the first minutes of New Years Eve, I found myself thinking, hoping, that the budget had run out - that there might be no more spraying for a while. Beautiful blue skies Friday and this morning, also, with some clouds moving up from the south around noon today. About three this afternoon, we drove into Conroe on an errand, glanced upward, and there they were. Two tankers pumping away, building up a nice haze over Conroe and it's surroundings. That poor town, straddling the vital I-45 corridor north from Houston, has been hit so many times I've lost count. So much for a neat end to chemtrails.
So keep your helmet on my friends. Don't sell the survival food. Keep thinking about what might come in handy. What could you offer in trade if paper dollars become worthless, or if everyone including yourself is out of work? How would you function if you could only get five gallons of gasoline for the month? The Y2K threat now shifts to the economic front, and it is just as real as it always was.
Released overnight, when no one was supposed to be watching, is a statement that the Fed expects one business in thirteen to die this year from Y2K computer problems. It is probably the highest number they thought they could get away with and not panic everyone. This would be on top of the normal failure rate. Just remember the little computer voice that says, "Nothing could possibly go wrong... go wrong... go wrong..."
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Ken Welch is the author of the "Master Key System", a full study course in making your own subliminal tapes to achieve personal goals, and "Earth Changes Survival" a book that shows you how to use subliminal technology to enhance the safety of you and your family.
-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), January 02, 2000