Seattle's Mayor Paul Schell has ordered the Seattle Center closed due to terrorism threats. Earth Changes TV has been able to gain access to this event of this new years eve show down.

This opportunity was just too enticing to pass up. The Earth Changes TV crew, including myself, are very much aware of the danger involved. Anything could happen. I could not help but be there to cover it. Perhaps part of my zeal comes from not being willing to be a victim of terrorism threats to keep us hiding in our little caves of presumed safety. The other incentive is an ongoing gnawing thought the terrorism threat is nothing more than a cover to keep everyone in their homes due to the "real" threat, Y2K.

Just minuets ago, the National Guard has been called in to Seattle to surround the downtown area due to possible Y2K civil unrest. This could be the first sign of "Martial Law" announced all around the nation.

Either way, Earth Changes TV will be there to cover it all.

Thank you for your continued support and donations which allow us to continue our pursuit of "real" information for all of us.

Blessings To All,
Mitch Battros
Earth Changes TV, PO Box 31286, Seattle, WA 98103

Seattle's New Year's Eve Celebration Canceled...12/28/99
 
SEATTLE (AP) -- The mayor has scrubbed the city's planned New Year's Eve celebration below its trademark Space Needle, where an estimated 50,000 people had been expected to gather.

"We do not want to take chances with public safety," Mayor Paul Schell said Monday. While federal officials have not advised of any specific threat to the city, "it is safer to be prudent," he said.

The 20-acre Seattle Center, which spans below the sky-dotting Needle just off the city's downtown, is a traditional gathering point for New Year's Eve revelers.

Afternoon concerts and a circus performance will go ahead as planned on Friday, and fireworks will still pour from the Space Needle at midnight. But the Center will be cleared and the gates locked at 6 p.m., Schell told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for its Tuesday editions.

Only a private function atop the Needle will be allowed to go ahead, he said.

The city's nerves have been strained in recent weeks by tumultuous, sometimes violent World Trade Organization protests, and news that a man arrested at the U.S.-Canadian border with alleged bomb-making materials had booked a hotel room near Seattle Center.

Mitch Battros
Producer - Earth Changes TV
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