How do you figure the shorts are in charge with such a small percentage of the shares outstanding?

They're short more than a day's average trading volume. And that average volume is skewed by those days where the enourmous crosses take place. The median volume for this stock is more like 400k shares/day. In that sense, they've shorted this puppy down more than three day's worth of trading. That's serious price control, especially when you think of what it will take to cover them. That is, unless it's simply the right hand selling to the left...