The usual suspects up to their usual tricks for the usual reasons.
London Trader: LBMA Is a Ponzi Scheme and the Silver Isn't There.
Oh won't that be a day of days if this is true and the truth comes out.
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel