Look, I'm really not much of a "prophecy" type of guy, so keep that in mind.

I don't see anything happening now that is out of the ordinary. We see a number of airplane accidents and it looks suspicious and suddenly we wonder what is going on. The Malaysian flight months back was weird, yes. The most recent Malaysian accident flew into a war zone and the Taiwan flight flew into a typhoon. Sad yes, but the clustering is a coincidence. Who knows about the one this morning.

War in the Middle East? When isn't there one?

There is always conflict in the world. The difference now is that the bad news is pushed to our computers and phones immediately whereas the good news is generally ignored.