If you have time to listen to the below audiocast at financialsense...please do so. Bud Burrell sure sobered me up. I am sitting here wondering how all this will effect the gold/silver markets going forward...without succumbing to some despair after so many years of believing in the ultimate currency and that fundamentals always win in the long run (supply and demand)..and they do...but I may not have the time to wait. I have been ranting about naked shorting for years and finally thought it was something that would be routed.

How naive of me not to understand the power, greed, criminality and immensity of it all...that it is now seemingly out of control. How naive of "them" to underestimate the consequences of pushing fear into a corner, to close off the exits, to make angry men realize they are left with nothing else to lose. It will onl be when those men unite that the game will change.

The only way out is for settlement or exposure, and that ain't gonna happen without force (riots or war) or a collective courage and many brave souls. Unless perhaps, gold can break the fraud through sheer physical demand for real currency in league with the momentous global groundswell demanding truth, trust and justice..and an honest return for honest toil. Here is the post from MIDAS:

Hello Bill,
Further to the theme of the opening quote in yesterday’s MIDAS, "Like lightning at midnight, what the economic crisis throws into stark relief is the corruption at the heart of our system. The Empire is like a towering tree hollow at its center, its core eaten out by termites and dry rot. It will surely make quite a crash when it falls, or is pushed over." … Justin Raimondo, anitwar.com - 03 October 2008," GATA supporters will be interested in an enlightening [and depressing] interview with Bud Burrell (expert on naked short selling) on Financial Sense found here: http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/ma... http://www.financialsense.com/fsn/ma...

It is shocking how the financial mafia have destroyed once free markets throughout the system. And yet so many seem totally oblivious and carefree of these outrageous crimes committed by the government and its agents against the people.