Very good post as usual Sinbob. It would appear that any true gold investor would never question whether or not gold and silver are manipulated because they are confronted with such criminal acts on a daily basis. Let us just look at a brief summary to make our point regarding Western central bank, led by the FED, gold/silver suppression. First off, one would have to consider if the central banks or Western governments have such an ability and would they act immorally to implement such a scheme? Let us answer this question with more questions:

Was it not Western governments that caused and continue to cause gold and silver market prices to plummet the majority of the time, like no other market involving any other commodity, upon market opening in NY?

Was it not the Western governments that previously and continually denied the existence of the PPT and yet now openly refer to it and even brag about it?

Was it not Western governments that promoted globalization knowing full well that it would enrich the corporate elite at the expense of the middle/lower class?

Was it not Western governments that engineered the global housing bubble to blind the masses from their reduced a standards of living resulting from globalization?

Was it not Western governments that issued and continue to issue grossly understated inflation data so that their payouts, and those of corporations are minimized, knowing full well that citizens relying on inflation based payouts are impoverished even further?

Was it not Western governments that bailed out their banker buddies knowing full well that monetary inflation would lead to massive price inflation that would starve millions if not billions of 3rd world citizens?

Was it not Western governments that invaded Iraq on completely false pretext and which has led to the direct deaths of over 600,000 innocent Iraqis as well as over 4000+ soldiers of their own kind?

Although one could list many more items above, it should be crystal clear that Western governments would do just about anything to enrich the elite while impoverishing, maiming, or even killing anything that got in their path. So would it be beyond them to suppress the gold/silver market and associated shares? P L E A S E!!!

Regards - VHF