The new prez doesn't take office until January 20. This means that the Bush/Cheney/Neocon cabal has 10 weeks to clean up any nasty business still left undone. Are the PTB going to wait until after the inauguration to unleash the next wave of manufactured disasters, as Colin Powell and Joe Biden have suggested?

Prior to the inauguration, we must make it through the numerologically loaded date of 11/11. It doesn't matter whether you believe in numerology or not - the significant fact is that many of the shadowy groups who could be planning a post-election "surprise" do hold certain dates to be particularly powerful and magikal.

Not so coincidentally, the US Northern Command has announced a massive exercise to begin on November 12, known as Vigilant Shield. Of course, the optimistic view would be that our military is simply attempting to do its job protecting us. However, the WTC attack on 9/11 just “happened” to take place as several large-scale war game exercises were underway. This helped provide cover for the real attack, and confused NORAD and air traffic control with dozens of computer-generated false images of aircraft invading the airspace over the eastern US and Canada. The actual hijacked aircraft could not be distinguished from the false images, as the transponders had been turned off.

On the heels of the G20 conference, we have continued economic instability to be concerned with. AIG is back at the feeding trough yet again, as the slow unwinding of CDOs and CDS hedge fund positions continues. As stated here before, $750B is only a stop-gap remedy against 1-2 quadrillion in toxic derivatives. How long the remedy can hold is an open question. The real danger now is that we could be approaching the point of default on the US Treasury’s ability to float new debt. We are dependent on several foreign powers to continue holding T-bills and to purchase new issues; thus we have a global chess game with military ramifications, and the fate of the US dollar in the balance.

One has to wonder what wreckage the new prez will encounter when he takes office. Following his first NSC briefing, jumping into the Potomac may strike him as a viable option.

-Darkwave