to all ney sayers.....to clear up....from centuries ago its known (to some more or less) that who wants to rule has to have resources. Thats why there were all this wars going on. one of last one was ww2 when germany didnt have any colonies and most were held by english, dutch,spanish etc.....to become first you need resources and they tried old fashioned way of becoming one by force.....it failed as many of kingdoms before....now this shifted into huge few conglomerats who realized to overtake resources is easier to print money all over the world and create confusion about whats going on and goals of that . it is pretty simple,prices of minors in mining business are held low artificially until everything gets bought out......the only resistance /competition can be created by chinese ,india (maybe some union by south america) and they very well know that.....in order to stay in the game chinese/indian have to buy as much resources as they can otherwise they will totally be dependant on mercy of big west boys......are they willing or stupid to stay on sidelines ? 5000 years of surviving culture says NO......on the other hand they have few trillions of paper which cannot be eaten.....will they be happy to use it in the stoves to cook ?....they have to feed,house and move their people....quietly they thru CIC and who knows which other venues they are watching and when time comes they will give orders to buy.....this is to controvene everybody who tells we have to watch global picture which is bad ( are you kidding me ? read again first few lines if you need )