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It bothers me because people throughout the world as a cause of the hype bought into the manufactured mystique of the new millennium and became totally seduced.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="so_what_s_been_said_so_far_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></b><B>So what's been said so far?</b></div> <bR> <div> Unless you've been in hibernation, then you will have noticed that huge celebrations were made in the early hours of 1 January 2000, commemorating the arrival of the year 2000 and the '21st century and New Millennium'.</div> <div> Now I am not wanting to be any sort of '<A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Smarty Pants"><U>party pooper</U></A>' or killjoy - I enjoyed the arrival of 2000 just as much as anyone else - but I feel that a lot of us had been given the wrong details as to events in the calendar.  Neither am I 'pedantic' nor a 'spoil sport' but I ask you: how would you feel if you were born on the 11 July and everyone just decided to celebrate your birthday on the 10th because it was a nice round number? Comical yes, but just as relevant to the point I'm making.</div> <div> Even now into the New Year, when I listen to the radio, read a newspaper or watch TV, reporters are talking about life as we are experiencing it in the 21st century and congratulatory remarks about the New Millennium that we are now in.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="why_is_this_important_then_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></b><B>Why is this important, then?</b></div> <bR> <div> I think that most people would agree that if you listen to the media you expect what you hear is going to be correct and as factual as possible.<I> Right?</I> What we have heard in most cases from the voice of the media so far, has been utter bunkum and has no basis of fact. I don't want to bore you now with the mathematics as it really doesn't take me long to explain that as the first millennium (i.e. a thousand years) lasted from 1 AD to 1000 AD, then it follows that the second millennium should likewise - over the span of another thousand years - be from 1001 to 2000 inclusive. The Third, or as we are calling it presently, the 'New Millennium' follows that it covers the years 2001 to 3000 AD inclusive. (There are many links to Web sites pointing out this simple formula.  <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Appendix3"><U>Appendix 3</U></A>  gives a brief overview of the general calendar system that is in use today. A greater insight may be read <A HREF="id50_1_what_astronomical_events_form_the.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="More on calendars"><U>here</U></A>).</div> <bR> <div> Not only that, there are many more reasons why I think that what we've been told so far is wrong:</div> <bR> <div> - Because it's based on a false premise. Bearing in mind all the contradictory evidence it is a blatant lie. Parents especially have a responsibility to get it right.  After all we demand that our children get things right!</div> <bR> <div> - Because the whole thing wreaks of George Orwell's '1984' with Big Brother and the Ministry of Untruth spewing out its propaganda at us. It is interesting to note here that under the régime of Stalin in Soviet Russia, events and individuals were quite often 'written out' of history if they later contradicted the political belief structures of the time. Beria <A HREF="#_1_" TITLE="Contents"><U>(1)</U></A> is a case in point who was 'removed' from Soviet history with bibliographical entries replaced with extended essays on 'The Bering Strait'! Perhaps the same thing will happen in future encyclopaedias under the entry 'millennium'?</div> <bR> <div> - Because it questions the integrity of the authority which is giving us the false story - tell us one lie and how many <I>will</I> they - and <I>have</I> they got away with?  Any media outlet that proclaims the year 2000 as the start of the next millennium can't be trusted. They obviously don't employ personnel with the sense or ability to count properly. Would you trust them to report other news accurately? Or prepare a viable ad campaign for your business? Put bluntly, their credibility is defunct, their honour tarnished and honesty suspect. One must seriously question the qualifications of <I>any</I> reporter or editor who perpetuates either a myth or a known untruth</div> <bR> <div> - Because there is a lot to be said for getting things right.  Future generations are really going to laugh at us. After all, who would celebrate their 100th birthday when they've only just turned 99?</div> <bR> <div> - They do it so that they can make money  NOW  instead of waiting another year.  Magazines don't tell readers the true date because they don't want to make it hard for advertisers to make money from the attractive "New Millennium". A 'repeated' great celebration of the millennium would maximize profits for exploitative commerce and sponsors. So what? you may ask. Instead of the media performing one of their responsibilities in educating the public, they manipulated public perception hoping to profit from what their masters considered a more</div> <div> immediate, more sensational and more profitable story: the new millennium NOW.</div> <bR> <div> - The Year 2000 makes for good media hype, like when your car odometer turns quadruple zeros, for example. Through saying it, and saying it often enough, they have actually created a perception about the millennium that is untrue.  The truth hasn't come out in so many words yet, but by listening to radio presenters' chitchat there is sometimes just a hint that they don't actually believe in what they're talking about. However, the overwhelming majority of reporting material concerns views that the new millennium started on January 1, 2000</div> <bR> <div> - Because this is either the biggest mass conspiracy in the history of media and advertising or a case of ignorance gone amok. Logic be damned; let the confused, the befuddled and the foolish of our era celebrate their "millennium" on 31 December 1999. " <I>Sic friat crustulum</I>. Ignore these fools - you can't change the <I>ignorati</I>. <I>The cognoscenti</I> will wait another year before they party! " (<A HREF="http://www.georgian.net/rally/madness.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.georgian.net/rally/madness.ht"><U>Source</U></A>)</div> <div> The public at large was very compliant in allowing itself to be duped by the allure of three zeroes! History will probably record this as one of the greatest 'cons' ever - that is, until the year 10,000 and the allure of four zeroes!</div> <bR> <div> - Because it's not just about parties, it's about accuracy, it's about science, it's about mathematics and it's about not being a sheep. One can choose to run with the flock if they wish. Now that the sheep have had their 2000 bash, perhaps we can together get prepared for the real celebrations of the coming millennium turnover on 31 December 2000</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="so_whose_fault_is_it_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></b><B>So whose fault is it?</b></div> <bR> <div> - The media for hyping the thing to death in the (successful, as it now seems) hope they could milk it - and us - for whatever they could. What we are told is more than 'journalistic licence' - it's downright lies!</div> <bR> <div> - Linked to the marketing hype was the 'Y2K' bug hype - or the <I>'Millennium Bug</I>' as it became to be known. This intensive public-awareness campaign (the UK government even sent publicity documents to every British home!) falsely linked the Y2K computer 'bug' problem to the upcoming New Millennium so much so that people robotically used the phrase without in many cases even knowing what it was all about. Thus the two unassociated phrases came as one.</div> <bR> <div> - The insularity of official Agencies such as the <A HREF="http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/faq_index.html#when_millenium" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/faq_index.h"><U>National Physical Laboratory</U></A> (the home of Britain's timekeeping), the <A HREF="http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/mill/index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/mill/index.htm"><U>Royal Observatory, Greenwich</U></A> and the <A HREF="http://www.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/millennium/CountDown3.pl" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/millenn"><U>US Naval Observatory</U></A>. They evidently have lousy if nonexistent methods of communication with the world outside their own limited domains. After all, they knew the truth but chose to keep quiet <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Appendix4"><U>(see Appendix 4)</U></A></div> <bR> <div> - The '<I>now</I>' factor and mass consumerism - taking and grabbing everything we can now rather than waiting. This says a lot as to how we really are and think today - we're impatient and often can't see beyond the end of our noses. We often willingly choose to forget and have a 'devil may care' attitude about tomorrow's consequences</div> <bR> <div> - Education's fault for often churning out morons at the end of their schooling who can count neither forwards nor backwards without the use of an electronic calculator. It's also their fault for taking away the inquisitiveness from individuals - by teaching them just to accept fact without querying them first</div> <bR> <div> - It's even been said that it's Bill Clinton's fault for giving us license for changing the meaning of words!</div> <bR> <div> - But most of all it's our own fault for allowing ourselves to be duped in the way that we <I>have</I> been and for accepting without question the garbage that is thrown at us day in, day out.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="so_what_are_we_going_to_do_about_it_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></b><B>So what are we going to do about it?</b></div> <bR> <div> I should hope, now that you have realised exactly what has happened and the folly and absurdity of it all, that individuals will want to write to their members of parliament, to the editors of magazines and newspapers, to TV and radio companies - to the same representatives who took the original decision to go contrary to the true and 'mathematical' millennium. The list is endless. But first and foremost, it's important to take stock as to what's happened and try to put right as best as we can. It's certainly not the end of the world and I'm not saying "repent and ask for forgiveness of our evil ways over what most of us did on the morning of January 1st 2000"... all I'm asking is that we can't let history see what's already happened and noting that all we did come the New Millennium proper, we just brushed it under the carpet as though it never happened.</div> <bR> <div> I can't go on and on about what we should have done and what should be happening in the next eleven or so months to come. History on that score is finished - but I'm asking that governments don't just let the forthcoming event pass as though it's insignificant. Let's do some of it all again and commemorate properly the new and true century and millennium and with heartfelt vigour. I personally believe the future <I>is</I> bright and exciting, and although I shan't be around by the time the 21st century closes, I believe that it will prove to be just as exciting now as ever it was before.</div> <bR> <div> However, it will be very interesting to see how far we get into 2000 before the spin-doctors, the media and, indeed, governments begin telling people that, actually, the new millennium begins on 1 January 2001. But how, I wonder, will they explain the way in which they have rewritten history to suit their agendas? They won't realise public dissatisfaction, however, until we have done all we possibly can to inform them about how we feel and what we now desire of them. The future is ours - let's see sense <U>now</U> and do something between us before it's too late. We have less than a year.</div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="why_not_celebrate_it_all_again_1st"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></b><B>Why not celebrate it all again 1st January 2001?</b></div> <bR> <div> I'd like to think that governments, the media and commerce will realise the error of their ways but I'm afraid that as good as the idea sounds, the bulk of the damage has been done already.</div> <div> I really cannot see our representatives realising their little <I>faux pas</I> and saying 'let's do it all again'. It would just look ludicrous after all the 'end of the millennium/century' TV specials, the special edition magazines & newspapers and the expense of holding impressive firework displays and sideshows. Taking London's so-called 'Millennium Dome' - the world's biggest circus tent and home to the end-of-the-20th century extravaganza - as a case in point, it was opened on 1st January 2000 and will be closed to the ticket-buying public on the eve of the true millennium! The illogical craziness of it all!</div> <bR> <div> A report by <I>The Guardian</I> on 5 January 2000 slated the Dome as "a lemon". The article deserves a full reading if you are genuinely interested about where £750 millions have been spent. See<A HREF="id39.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Article from The Guardian 5 Jan.00"><U> article</U></A> here (185KB)</div> <bR> <div> (Incidentally, the whole false-Millennium farce cost the British public around £800 millions - about $1,3 billions!)</div> <div> <IMG SRC="09f37040.gif" border=0 width="567" height="4" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <A NAME="_1_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></FONT>(1)<B> Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria</b><B> </b>(1899 - 1953) Soviet Secret Service police chief... becoming Soviet Commisar for internal affairs in 1938. After the death of Stalin (1953) he belonged briefly with Khruschev, Malenkov and Molotov to the so-called 'collective leadership'. Accused by his colleagues of conspiracy he was shot after a brief 'treason' trial. 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