4-12 PSYOPS
By Hugo Salinas Price, The Daily Bell
On the website wikipedia.org, under PSYOPS, the abbreviation used for "Psychological Operations" in government circles, we find:
"PSYOPS
"[….] Various techniques are used, by any set of groups, and aimed to influence a target audience's value systems, belief systems, emotions, motives, reasoning, or behavior."
This definition of PSYOPS − "psychological operations" − applies to the events of Friday, April 12 and Monday, April 15, 2013, which were preceded by years of preparation before the knock-out blows of those days. The prolonged and unceasing war on gold took the quoted price of gold down from $1895 in early September 2011, to $1380 as of this date, a fall of 27%.
Following the wikipedia.org definition, the PSYOPS war on gold is intended to influence the target audience's value system, belief system, emotions, motives, reasoning and behavior. I would add, especially this last, which is what directly affects the price of gold.
The latest stage of the war began many weeks ago, with regular takedowns of the price of gold in waterfall fashion, at set times of the day.
More recently, there appeared a series of planned announcements of oncoming doom from individuals prominent in finance and from bank analysts. The scenario painted for gold was one of a sky darkened by approaching thunderstorms.
The purpose of the 4-12 PSYOPS was to instill fear in the minds of the "target audience" – investors in gold. If you shoot a crow, and hang it up in your field, the crows – your "target audience" – will avoid the field. The same principle applies to investors in gold.
The identity of the target audience of the PSYOPS War on Gold is clearly revealed in the front-page article of theFinancial Times, American edition, on Tuesday April 16, 2013.
Under the main headline, "Investors in rush to dump gold," is a graph of the performance of the gold price from January 3, 2011 to date, showing essentially no gain at all.
Notice the wording: "Investors… rush… dump gold."
This is a classic example of PSYOPS.
It was most certainly not "investors" who caused the huge, historic collapse in the price of gold. It was a very few banks, working in cooperation with each other, in a pre-planned fashion. They sold, in huge amounts of tens of billions of dollars, not physical gold, but futures contracts – the infamous "paper gold." It was the banks who rushed to "dump" the gold and not investors.
A news agency report published on April 16 informs that Carsten Fritsch, commodities analyst for Commerzbank AG, Germany, says that on Friday, April 12, futures for more than 1,100 tonnes of gold were sold.
That amount of futures is equivalent to about 45% of world gold production.
It is completely impossible that investors in gold should decide to short such an immense quantity on the same day. The 4-12 operation was a deliberate bomb on the market, cast by the too-big-to-fail (or prosecute) banks, colluded with the Fed and, no doubt, the Federal Government. The policy is: If the market is against your policy, bomb the market…
