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Friday, May 02, 2003

The employment report today will show a slight increase in unemployment. But as Crudele has been banging the drum all along, the number is hinky and cooked. England started this hinky biz under Thatcher, as I recall from a footnote in Harper's Index (current)years and years ago. I remember where I read it too; grand central station, near the west stair case. By the time I got to my train platform, I was spitting mad, as the beauty and the disgrace of this bean counter's common scheme or plan sunk in. Well now, this is where we are at; welcome to hinkilopolus. Crudele, at the nypost.com, estimates it's more like 10, if you include all the people whose unemployment checks ran out, or who couldn't find work, and who stopped looking for work, or who took up crime, or the life of the independent "consultant" or who were chopped out from big companies like dead wood and who are training to work at the local Casino, where the old people had their money over to the next generation via the house, which is mostly owned by Korean bankers for the slim chance that they will beat the odds. That's right, the Indian Casinos are not mostly owned by Indian tribes, which is a hinky story for another time, when Hinky fells like digging.

The Labor department's unemployment number is hinky, and a danger to national security, health and welfare; but it fits a story, a story that the fed should keep rates where they are because money is cheap enough for anyone with a good plan get banked to make it a business, right?You'd think that anyone who can put it into a powerpoint file should be able to run a business that can create jobs and grow America out of this rut, right? And besides, rates need to stay where they are because Corporations need pricing power so they can turn a profit (or at least show a profit), which will attract America's pension funds and the Saps who follow them back into the Securities markets, right? I mean, just because the Big 8 accounting firms are down to 5 little indian's sitting on a power keg of law suits, while their toady, Joe Lieberman, has the horns to run for Pres in 2004 doesn't mean investors should shy away from the markets, right? Hell no; I mean how many times have your heard the saying: "nobody ever when broke over estimating the stupidity of the American public," so, it must be true, right? Two words: Harry Lime.

Girls Lean Back Everywhere....Boycotthollywood.us was such down by a bunch some pussy at the domain registar's office because the William Morris agency threatened libable suits for it's content, which focused on public figures-- figures so public, that they are more like Saddam's statue that actual people. So, although it's the Washington Times making the point, it's a good one; cencership is bad, and Hollywood agrees. It will make movies about Dalton Trumbo starring Robert Dinnero; and gives Woody Allen vast sums to tell the story about blacklisting in The Front, another Hollywood film that tells timeless truths in exchange for vast amount of money to the benefit of human kind. Hollywood bangs that same gong, as it should whenever cencership makes ascene. But now that the Web is here, and Hollywoods leading role as dream factory is under fire (like the RIAA.org) it gets reactionary.

Boycotts, strikes, sit ins, protests are the things people do to let power know truth. When it comes to this, they don't need a middleman. Of course, Hollywood's reason for being is to turn the ugly truth of it all to something beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeauuuuuuuuuuuutiful, right? But why is it worried about a dinky little web site that tells the truth it's way? Find out here. and compare with this; and this too, if you really want to go to school on the the use of cencership by Big Biz, and let's face it-- entertainment is a big biz that is more and more vital to the American economy as everything else we manufacture is moving where they life is cheap. It's big biz that's about as good for you as Biggy sized fries.

There is a song for people like these lawyers at William Morris who gag free speech with their deep pockets and litigation: Drive west on Sunset, to the sea.... turn that jungle music down; at least until we're out of town.... this is not one, night, stand, it's a real occasion; close your eyes and you'll be there, it's eeeeeeeeeeeeeeevery thing they say... the end of a perfect day .....(continued here).

Hinky 9:14 AM

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Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Another thing, what is the hinky story with this little phrase "foggy bottom?" It can't be the Foggy Bottom Boys, of Cohn brothers fame, right? We see it in print to the point that our eyes roll off the page each day while facing some hacked out bit about this or that leader or some white collar three card monty expert dropping the ball, or stuffing it, or talking out of his neck to raise money from some hinky group to talk tough on taxes? "Foggy bottom, foggy bottom, foggy bottom"... it's like the hinky two step, pounding in our ears, like Nikki's shoe at the UN, only he has a cowboy had on and he is doing it as some intern at the Fox network video tapes it. It's as if they are shocked, SHOCKED to find gambling in America, only with a little bit of plain folk in the mix to make it look wholesome. Now that is hinky. Is that supposed to make use think the speaker has a little bit of shit kicker in him? Nice try Georgetown, I'll see you at the Thai restaurant, okay?

Hinky 3:36 PM

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Hinky 11:50 AM

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Tuesday, April 29, 2003

Over a billion dollars will be paid as a fine by Investment banks for hiring freshly minted MBAs to bullshit investors with "New Metrics" and "New Paradigms" that were going to change everything, while hinky walked around insisting he still can not even order a pizza over the magic boxes that sit on everyone's desk. Well, we said it then, and we'll say it again, you don't watch computers, they watch you-- just like the other hinky infotainment delivery device of the last century, TV.

Over a billion is a lot, but not nearly enough to make investors who followed these jackassed hinky MBA pie eye pipers down the hinky rabbit hole with their life's savings in hand. Giving Frank Q the il Duce treatment won't save the game either, we'd bet. No, this looks like a job for Humpty Dumpty, as we wrote to Crudele in the post, who should get hyped for being very un hinky about the markets deflate. He's about the only guy that should be running a hedge fund for my money, but hey, what the hell do I know; I took my money out of the market when Boston Chicken reached 41 on it's IPO. We'll, not really... just between us, we've been having a hinky little run with the REITs for some time, but don't tell Henry, he makes us buy those "POS" to show insider volume and size which we all know just painting of the tape on roids.

Hinky 11:17 PM

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Sunday, April 27, 2003

It's always a hinky little knot that pops into your belly when your hinkiest ideas are confirmed by someone in a position to confirm things who writes it down, as Robert Baer has done in See No Evil, a book that we sold 2 hours after we placed it on Amazon for sale. Hinky did the math a long time ago: Russia was broke, but sitting on massive oil reserves; and multinational oil company assets in the middle east were getting rusty and need upgrades; and Europeans pay a lot of oil; and the land between Russia oil and European markets was up for grabs... Then, in the mid 1990's, the New York Times explains the big win-win: a pipeline from east to west that would ass out OPEC, feed Russia, heat the EC and keep Paris the city of lights; and profit major energy companies. Add a few hinky thoughts, and you have the makings of a great Hollywood vehicle for Hally Berry, and the special effectsperts. (See, Swordfish).

Well, See No Evil spells it out, names names, and confirms that truth, is hinkier than the kind of fiction most people find laughable, like Zen fools trusting, getting beat, forgetting and trusting again, the American people work hard, adjust when things fall apart, watch hinky media coverage of events on their kitchen monitors, and pay their taxes while swindlers with diplomatic plates grease K street law firms for access to our leaders, most of whom would sell their ass and shit through their ribs for the right price. Baer explains how the CIA was demolished by the FBI after James Woolsey turned over the farm in the wake of the Ames scandle. Meanwhile, the FBI opened offices overseas to take over the nation's international relations, a move that was like firing all the undercovers in nyc, and replacing them with beat cops. Baer was subjected to polygraph tests twice, as National Security Counsel employee Sheila Heslin did her part to keep Amoco in the black at the expense of the national interest.

Baer's book, is like reading the account of a blind man, who is asked to describe the elephant after touching it in one place. Nobody can see the whole picture. He was working with a small piece of the picture, while the buildings were falling down around him. His return to Clinton-Gore Washington DC was like reading about those Japanese solders who turned up years later and never knew that WW II was over. Baer's account shows how CIA was pulled out of the middle east, which created a information black out in the region, the implication begin that we lost our ears overseas in places where organized crime overtook good government, hell, any government. Meanwhile, the hope is that exporting the FBI will curb all the hinky bandits who are bootlegging narcotics, gems and oil across these FREE TRADE boarders around the world.

Every time a bell rings, Hoover gets his wings.

Hinky 1:43 PM

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