Gold has not broken the short term downtrend yet. It almost looks like it is rangebound in its attempt to break that nasty overhead resistance that the bullion banks are defending. The next credible attempt will be the fourth, and it would likely be successful in most markets.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero