Bad Business

Futures are up down and all around. I don't blame them given the current media climate and the arrogance of our politicians.

Yesterday was not a good bounce and was a bad close. Volume was light, and again there was another failure. This is a change in tone and we must pay attention.

The chances of a bounce to 1670 will fade quickly if the market can't rally today. Should a fizzle occur, 1600 or perhaps even a test of the June lows -- 1560 -- could be in the offing.

Sounds crazy, but it isn't.

If you read the the headlines, it feels as though World War III is about to start. China, Russia, and the US are sending warships to the Middle East. And yet there is still no definitive proof of chemical weapons being used in Syria.

The more I see Stratfor quoted on this in the press and on TV news, the more this whole thing feels as though it's been planned for ages.

Ever since Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded -- on camera -- to the news of 9/11 by saying: "It's very good," and ever since I read Zbigniew Brzezinki's book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperitives, anything to do with the Middle East has felt mapped out and pre-planned.

As far as I'm concerned, Stratfor is used as an "intelligence" service to condition the public as well as politicians to do the bidding of people that have nothing to do with peace and everything to with war and terrorism.

Terrorism is the perfect war; it never ends. It's also the best way to achieve totalitarian goals.

I do not want the US to step foot in Syria, by guided missile or otherwise. This is bad business.