The Something Wicked This Way Comes video and article pretty much sum it up:

War, rumors of war, corrupt governments run by psychopaths, phony terrorism, burgeoning police states…but is that all we have to worry about? What if there was something to put it all in context? Or rather, what if there is something else we are missing, something that is beyond the control of even the political and corporate elite; something that is driving them to attempt to herd the global population to an ever finer order of control…

Even on the most beautiful day something bad can happen…