Month January 2009

Porn. The new financial bubble?

Hedge fund invests in porn-related businesses, claims 50% gain last year. Whole new categories of financial derivatives are, no doubt, about to be launched to take advantage of this apparently burgeoning porn market, which might give whole new meaning to…

German billionaire commits suicide

` Adolf Merckle lost hundreds of millions of euros in the mother of all short squeezes in Volkswagen stock last October. He was short the stock. It went from 210 to 1000 in two days. His subsequent losses had a…

The Israeli attack on the school

What everyone needs to take but probably won’t. Harry’s Place And even if you hold Israel responsible for the current conflict, try to look at things from an Israeli point of view. Do you really think Israeli commander said, “There…

Boycott Israel. Boycott 729

“729” is the country code for Israel Boycott Israel has a huge amount of links and information about the growing number of campaigns to boycott Israel, plus lots more. Lest there be any doubt on the subject, this site is…

40 Palestinians killed in IDF strike on UN school

Huh. But the UN says they provide Israel with coordinates of their facilities specifically so they won’t be targeted. So why the deaths at the school, then? Are Gaza hospitals are being targeted? Craig Murray notes the immensely unbalanced coverage…