hi china,

You asked;

1) It would appear that there must be something rather substantial that has kept a massive shorting effort away as it is a ripe candidate on paper. If that is the case, I am trying to find out what that may be.

1) To help you with this part, you have to look further than the paper. Thats why the short attacks have been futile to the degree they would have wished. The shorters didn,t do all their homework and tried to rally more suckers on board with them to try to drive the sp down as low as they could so they could recoup some of their losses when they started shorting around the $1.30-$1.50 range. Apparently they made a grave mistake by not properly estimating their foe.This stock is made of mostly retail investors thats been told to make sure their shares could not be borrowed by shorters, making it more difficult for shorters getting the shares they needed to orchestrate a successful attack. The shorters also underestimated the strength of the current shareholders and management. We are a family, and it is hard to divide a family.