All this shorting is a desperate tactic to force you out of your GOLD holdings. They want your GOLD, don't give in to them. The U.S. Fed is very destperate now and you can see how the U.S. Equities is behaving even though they know there will be no tapering.
If GOLD wasn't so important to the U.S. Fed they would not pretend to be have 8500tons of the stuff. If GOLD were useless they would just say we sold the GOLD we have at Fort Knox because it was worthless.
They haven't and the wont say anything like that because they know the world will punish the U.S. Dollar badly.