"Secondly, I believe that Sprott holds a fairly significant number of AUM shares and that he bought more not too long ago. Why would he do that if he believes in Andy's predictions?"

Cuz, unlike a certain Italian cruise captain, Admiral Sprott believes in going down with the ship?

Targeted for extinction? Wow, perhaps though cheaper and cheaper acquisitions?

Andy's got so many generals and admirals in there, who is the chairman of the joint chiefs? He also ought to give himself a rank, seems like a colonel, at least.

Well, I guess they call him Rantin' Andy for a reason.