I agree Ximon and I also believe a lot of the buying for quite a while now has been MSJ officers/insiders.  Remember in the Aug 31, 2012 annual report issued in December of last year, it said officers were working out a deal to buy the rest of the Novamex shares.  At that time, I think there were 200 mil left.

Regarding Earnest, I also find it odd for an abrupt end to the bashing.  As you say, he could be in some trouble with the constant bashing.