I read a great deal of information from many, many sources and some of the things I’ve read indicate that today, or at least the near future, could be more than a little interesting. If the things I’ve read are correct we may be in for a good deal of unpleasantness, to put it mildly. I’ll try to outline my thoughts on this in a cogent fashion.

First, has to do with the financial markets. An advisory service I subscribe to posits a theory which holds that today (plus or minus a few days) marks a major simultaneous top for the gold, oil and stock markets. Seeing as these markets are all at or near all-time or long-term highs, this seems plausible. Should we expect them to continue to bull upwards, or will they undergo perhaps severe corrections? Might we experience another ugly October stock market crash like 1929 or 1987? If so, what will this mean for the gold and oil markets?

I don’t presume to know the answers, but what if a stock market correction is both inevitable and, as my advisor claims, predictable to a high degree? Who else might know of it and how might they use that knowledge? Obviously, an investor or speculator would go short the markets in question, but that’s not what I’m getting at. What I’m talking about is something much more nefarious. What I want to do is speculate as to how, assuming we are about to see a reversal in these markets, this might dovetail with other things that are happening at this time.

This is conspiracy theory stuff, folks, so tighten up those tin foil hats cause this is gonna be way out there.

Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, something else is going on this week (October 16-19) that very few people, outside of those directly involved, are aware of. It is called Operation Vigilant Shield and it is a drill to test official responses to the detonation of radiological dispersal devices (aka “dirty bombs”) on U.S. territory. These drills are taking place in Oregon, Arizona and Guam. They are also being overseen by one Dick Cheney.

I wouldn’t consider this a particularly noteworthy event were it not for a couple of other coincident “drills” in the past. First, on September 11, 2001 when numerous military drills and war games were taking place on the east coast, including involving the hijacking of airliners, at the same time that commercial airliners were crashing into the World Trade Center and The Pentagon. These drills were being overseen by one Dick Cheney. Second, on July 7, 2005, when anti-terrorist drills involving explosions on the London Underground were taking place at the very stations where just such explosions actually took place. With coincidences like that, is it any wonder I get a bit nervous when a terrorist drill, one overseen by Dick Cheney no less, is going to be taking place in my home state.

But what the heck does that have to do with the financial markets?

Well the answer to that is that I don’t believe in coincidences. Certainly not coincidences of the magnitude of those I’ve pointed out above. Nope, with coincidences like that I see “Political Motive” and “Conspiracy” written in giant neon letters. Kind of like a giant Ron Paul truck stop billboard; only not nearly so cool. So what I’m saying is simply this, if the financial markets were to crash at the same time that we experience a dirty bomb attack coincident to a dirty bomb drill, count me more than suspicious.

Count me convinced. Convinced that the desperate “Brain” of our “Pinky and the Brain” Administration has engineered a terrorist attack to explain, or even exacerbate, an already inevitable stock market crash. But that’s just the economic cover motive. They’ll claim it isn’t the administration’s wars, deficits and economic policies that are to blame for our financial meltdown, but rather, it’s those blasted Iranian terrorists. There would no doubt be Iran-linked patsies implicated, so we could expect to see Iran blamed for the attack; and the nuking thereof to proceed in short order.

Then, as sure as night follows day, we would witness the following:

More draconian, un-Constitutional legislation, ala the USA Patriot Act - (ostensibly to help root out the non-existent Iranian terrorists)

The implementation of internal passports - (you’ll need them to travel domestically and only with government permission)

The indefinite detention of political protesters and opponents of the administration (they’re aiding the terrorists, you know)

Suspension of the 2008 elections - (representative government is so 18th century)

Possibly martial law - (might as well slide wa-ay out on this limb)

“Whoa, dude, maybe you should adjust your meds,” you say?

Well, I may be wrong, but don’t think I’m crazy. I believe that the leaders of our government are the ones who are both desperate and crazy. They’ve wasted trillion$ on their Empirical Folly and things aren’t going nearly as well as they’d hoped. The people of this country are growing restive as they wake up to the fact of, if not yet the overall extent of our leaders’ crimes. The political and media elites are witnessing unprecedented challenges to their control over what we know and think. This is evidenced by the growing visibility and support of the Ron Paul campaign and many internet media outlets; neither of which are under their control.

In short, we are starting to see significant cracks in their edifice of control. If they lose that control they’re knee deep in dinosaur doo-doo and they know it. They’re guilty of serious crimes, starting with mass murder and treason, and it’s their control of the political process and the collusion of the mass media that’s kept them from being completely exposed and ultimately prosecuted for those crimes. So, they may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb, right?

At the time of the September 11 attacks I was shocked like everyone else, but I also had this nagging sense that it was only the first shoe dropping. I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop ever since. Is this the week?