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.
"The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. 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."
R. J. Rummel, Mass Murder and Genocide, 1994