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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (3420)	1/26/1999 8:57:00 AM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 9818

Cheryl--I saw Gershwin's testimony when it hit the house www site last week. It gave me that involuntary "cold chill" I hate so much. I expected to see portions quoted in some of the more reliable hard copy press over the weekend or perhaps this week. So far few if any takers that I can find. (Should you see his testimony quoted please post.) I think his testimony is simply too blunt and potentially frightening for mass consumption. Difficult to integrate this kind of global analysis into trite articles about planes falling from the sky etc...(Much of the "we're gonna do just fine...nothing bad will happen in the US" is based on such an ethnocentric? or isolationist? perspective that it is meaningless. The global affect/effect of this problem on the US is simply lost in all the noise or discounted to prevent..., well, prevent scenarios that some would rather not have rest us consider. Just from a few select SEC documents from multinational corporations and snippets of congressional testimony from those representing those companies ought to be enough to raise real concern...but, naw let's not go there...it's not a "happy" place.) We'll probably see Gershwin's testimony somewhere like bbc first. Then it will get picked up once bbc applies some reasonable context based reporting for other papers to emulate. "flatsville" P.S.--I think we spend entirely too much time trying to illustrate the problem to our canaries when we should simply sit back and watch them flit and flutter. That is their job. Self-appointed in at least one case.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (3420)	1/26/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cadillac HOAX: y2knewswire.com scroll down until you see: 1/25/1999 - Pre-1993 Cadillacs: is the letter a hoax? A person wrote Gary North to suggest this letter might be a hoax. We also received e-mails from several people who called GM and were told the letter wasn't real. Here's the original image of the letter. eon2000.com General Motors wanted me to print it out, and fax them it, BUT the link is now dead. I wonder why? If anyone can find a link to that Caddy Y2K letter, please post it so I can forward it to GM. My bet....it was a 100% hoax.