Y2K - Day 4 - Looks Like Inflation By Ken Welch http://www.kenwelch.com 1-4-2000 Today is the day that programmers across the globe will be looking forward to a good stiff drink or two at the end of the day. Yesterday was a madhouse in countless computer rooms, and today will only be worse. It's the revenge of the nonessential systems, and the law of forgotten dependencies. Few people realize how, in the average business, one set of programs feed data to another, and another, while at the same time picking up information from files generated yesterday, last week, or last year by other systems. All too often at least one of these links is forgotten until a programming change in one area suddenly bites back in another unexpected one. In some shops, programmers spend enough time with this kind of crisis all year long, that the cost in dollars and lost productivity is significant. If it gets too bad, you will often see a drastic overhaul in the DP management and staff, or the company itself begins to go downhill. Y2K is multiplying this problem dramatically. A typical problem appeared in New Mexico yesterday, when the state found it could not issue drivers' licenses Monday morning. A bit of Y2K "workaround" code was removed from another, different set of programs and the forgotten or unrecognized dependency showed up elsewhere. Programmers are sharp people. Generally, they can get a fix in pretty fast. But the need for fixes is multiplying rapidly, and a temporary fix is rarely a permanent one. All too often one fix calls for another, and another... Internet services are not immune to this sort of problem, by the way, so it seems reasonable to expect that we will see more sites unvailable for a while, or times when our ISP doesn't answer. While I believe the global economy is going to take a tremendous hit from exactly this sort of problem, the lack of news makes this difficult to prove. This is not entirely due to the one-voice news management that works so hard to shape public perception. In fact, most private companies view their computer difficulties as in-house problems and certainly no reason to call the newspaper. Of course, if your trucks aren't rolling, or your pipeline is not pumping, then it's going to impact investors, and contracts, and you turn it over to your legal department first. An important key indicator will be the reopening of Gold markets today. Yesterday (Monday) a significant hit in the bond market telegraphed a strong inflation warning from those who are in a position to know. A rise in the price of gold, signaling a loss in the value of paper currency, would be an important confirmation. Naturally, plenty of folks who are relieved that we got throught the actual date change safely will be selling. If, over the next few weeks, buying pressure wins out and the price begins to rise despite the fed's efforts to keep it down, I would consider that to be "handwriting on the wall". One of the most common questions from people preparing for Y2K chaos was whether the value of paper dollars would go up or down in a destabilised economy. Since the value of artificial currencies always declines, inflation seemed a sure bet in the long run. But the near term seemed totally dependent on how great the Y2K hit would be. If so many people are out of work that dollars become truly scarce, their value might well go up. Overshadowing this was the fact that long term inflationary policies must sooner or later come home to roost. One factor is that for several decades the U.S. has managed to export its inflation to other countries, rather than taking the hit at home. The Japanese were particularly vulnerable to this and paid a big price. To illustrate in the simplest possible way, when other countries are willing to sell us perfectly good automobiles, computers, machine tools, etc., and accept artificial money in return - then they are the ones who end up with baskets of worthless paper, instead of us. This is why there has never been any serious effort to fix the so-called "balance of payments" problem. An impressive number of experts have said, during the last year or so, that our monetary system has only been avoiding a total meltdown by the increasing use of "heroic measures" from the bankers at the Federal Reserve company, and those controlling the gold markets. Now, the price of gold may tell the tale. Almost any slowing in the global flow of goods and services will be inflationary. Imagine the whopping 26% increase in the U.S. money supply this year as a truckload of dollars spinning around in a great whirpool or cyclone over our heads. Around and around they go. If the whirlpool slows down, many of those dollars will begin to fall, and then we will be wading in them. Watch the gold markets to see what's really happening. (I like the graphs on www.kitco.com) I have consistently warned that the nationwide arial spraying campaign, known as CHEMTRAILS, is a chemical pre-conditioning program for the use of biologicals to suppress populations that for some reason are out of control. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in preparing for this as-yet-unkown event. I've been assuming for many months that Y2K was the anticipated trigger for this catastrophe, since it was the most visible large-scale problem on the horizon. There are certainly other possibilities. I suppose I feel that if the CIA thinks it's coming, then so should we. None the less, I have been called to task by recent e-mail asking when I would stop talking about all this nonsense, since we made it through Y2K and the lights are still on. (See my Day Two article on our kenwelch.com website.) Actually, I felt it was a reasonable question since I'm pretty tired of it, too! If the chemtrail program stopped, there would be no point in talking about it. It would simply be history. As luck would have it, in the same mail I received an impressive report (posted in same article) of another major spraying operation conducted over Asheville, N.C., that same Sunday morning. Could I pick a date to stop talking about chemtrails? I found that I was definitely tempted. And there are so many other really interesting things going on these days! I have a large Reversed Speech project just begging for more time. Of course I never believed the spraying would still be going on, as a nationwide program, for thirteen months. I figured we would see some kind of climax or resolution by August or Septemer of last year. Perhaps if I erred on the short side then I should try for the long side this time. After giving it some thought, I replied that by the fifth of May, if we haven't seen the event that the Chemtrails are leading up to - or figured out some other reason why our government is spraying the population with a banned, lung-damaging pesticide - then I will give up trying to puzzle it out and let others carry the ball. That's the widest window I can imagine at this time, even though economic problems - if they are the anticipated crisis - can sometimes develop slowly. On the other hand, it could be two weeks from now, and something we never dreamed of. _____ 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.

-- (.@...), January 05, 2000

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"I have consistently warned that the nationwide arial spraying campaign, known as CHEMTRAILS, is a chemical pre-conditioning program for the use of biologicals to suppress populations that for some reason are out of control. Hundreds of millions of dollars have now been spent in preparing for this as-yet-unkown event. I've been assuming for many months that Y2K was the anticipated trigger for this catastrophe, since it was the most visible large-scale problem on the horizon. There are certainly other possibilities. I suppose I feel that if the CIA thinks it's coming, then so should we. None the less, I have been called to task by recent e-mail asking when I would stop talking about all this nonsense, since we made it through Y2K and the lights are still on. (See my Day Two article on our kenwelch.com website.) Actually, I felt it was a reasonable question since I'm pretty tired of it, too! If the chemtrail program stopped, there would be no point in talking about it. It would simply be history. As luck would have it, in the same mail I received an impressive report (posted in same article) of another major spraying operation conducted over Asheville, N.C., that same Sunday morning. Could I pick a date to stop talking about chemtrails? I found that I was definitely tempted. And there are so many other really interesting things going on these days! I have a large Reversed Speech project just begging for more time. Of course I never believed the spraying would still be going on, as a nationwide program, for thirteen months."

Um, okay .... whatever you say.

-- love those chemtrails (cantgetenough@ofthis.stuff), January 05, 2000.

Chemtrails? Looks like you have not been taking your prescription "chemtrails" like you should. Don't you relize that you are to FINISH the ENTIRE prescription? You have got to be kidding. Why don't you give me some more information regarding the aliens that they captured in Roswell and shipped to that ultra-secret location that no one knows about (think it's called area 54 or something {SHHHHH])

-- Larry McMurtry (lmcmurtry@dove.com), January 05, 2000.

He would, but the "Road closed due to martial law" signs stacked up by the hundreds of thousands in Walmart trailers everywhere are preempting that message; not to mention the NASA conspiracy to obfuscate information regarding the new heavenly bodies that have recently joined themselves to our solar system and the masonic rituals carefully orchestrated to astrological events, or the greys among us, the ..(Hey, knock it off, willya?!)...oh...okay.

-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), January 05, 2000.

...it's pronounced "Area 51".... and it does not exist.

-- Hillbilly (Hillbilly@possum.creek), January 05, 2000.

Unfortunately for me, based upon some of the more lucid contributions I've read on this forum, I *just* discovered TB2000 last week. I will admit to being a longtime lurker on Scary Gary's site and I guess I would fall more into the category of a doomer rather than a polly. Y2K aside, could someone offer me a link or some such other insight as to what Chemtrails are? I think I saw a reference to it for the first time yesterday (1/4/00). Is this for real???!!!

Jimmy Splinters

-- Jimmy Splinters (inthe@dark.com), January 05, 2000.