"And you might wonder that gold did not participate in the safe haven move. And unless you have been listening to what I have been saying here, you will not understand it. The Western central banks are loathe to allow gold and silver to run free, because it would hamper their fiat financial engineering.
That their schemes will collapse on their own is probably a good bet. But they are more than willing to expend their energies on hiding their mistakes in the meantime, rather than fixing the real problems.
No wonder the vast portion of the world that is not among the 'attendant nations' to the New American Century is recoiling in disgust from the antics that the Fed and its Banks have been playing with the dollar."
“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