Just unsubscribed from the John Spiers mailing list
Technically, it's a group on Yahoo (group name is spiers), but it's all email, so why quibble?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about how John conducted his various import and export businesses. He has a distinctly different and very smart way of looking at business (read his book "How Small Business Trades Worldwide", ISBN 0-595-19955-0 - the list is open to purchasers and anyone who has taken his classes) that makes a lot of sense. His way of looking at the world is very insightful, and he raises many good points in his emails.
Unfortuneately, he went way overboard in the last few postings, enough that all of my misgivings about listening to him finally gelled into a decision to unsubscribe.
John's political views are very different from mine. (Very different.) I stopped listening to him because he no longer makes sense. His email entitled "[spiers] Terrorism and Global Warming" from 2007-02-01, in which he argued that after hundreds of Marines were massacred the US could leave Lebanon peacefully, without invading another country, was over the top. He confused cause with effect, made laugh-out-loud blanket statements, and ended with the claim that "This is why the government controls the press. If you get enough information, a question mark begins to form."
I dropped his list in large part because it was supposed to be about importing and exporting, not politics, and only about government in-so-far as it concerned crossing borders. Instead, he turned the list into his private podium, where he dropped logic bombs and made overreaching and incredulous statements, almost all without attribution or citation.