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To: carranza2 who wrote (59990)	1/15/2010 5:15:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218617

<<fun>> google, predictably mentioned smack dab on just about every editorial page, the one who dares to stand up to the middle kingdom even as it is pressed from up high (read white house) by usa empire seems to have triggered something i have no particular reasons to hold faith that google's hackee troubles are over should they 'pull out' of china with their servers i see croc-tearing cry-baby google soon enough apologizing, profusely, and recognizing the truth that they are fair game until and unless usa nsa is disbanded and echelon folded up let us watch google share price, and the thanks for it volunteering to be tee-ed up as a contractor per blackwater finance.yahoo.com on the other corner, baidu, naturally 2010 is starting out to be entertaining enough

To: carranza2 who wrote (59990)	1/17/2010 7:54:07 PM
From: TobagoJack	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218617

just in in-tray LORD BLACKFIEND GETS SCMP RUBBER BARON AWARD In a ceremony at Hong Kong's Marine Institute in Wanchai, surrounded by envious but applauding bankers and sycophants from the press as well as open minded young women from some of Asia's best families, Lord Blackfiend of Goldmine Sucks was given the South China Mooring Post's coveted Rubber Baron Award by Clive xxx who held the title last year for his many contributions to the enrichment of the financial services industry. In yet another recognition of its importance to Hong Kong society, another tireless servant in Investment Banking has been given the famous rubber chicken in its horizontally striped overalls adorned with the Golden Bauhinia for his achievements and innovation in the arts of luring customers into inventively named, complicated derivatives designed to separate the trusting and gullible masses from their underused capital. As Clive xxx said in his presentation speech, "people like Blackfiend are quite simply smarter than the rest of us so it is only fair that when people take Goldmine's advice they should pay for it. That many of them are ruined in consequence is clearly a good thing in that it is wrong for stupid people and badly managed public companies to control large sums of money. This way the money moves to the people best qualified to handle it. Goldmine over the years has invested billions of dollars in the best politicians, bureaucrats and public servants that money and lavish entertainment can buy. The effects of their influence have been felt around the world where debased currencies, ramped commodity prices, despoiled treasuries, and huge increases in bankruptcies, housing foreclosures and unemployment can be directly attributed to Lord Blackfiend's exemplary leadership and the admittedly pathetic attempts by many of his competitors to emulate his good works" Blackfiend, in his acceptance speech, graciously thanked Clive xxx for not just the award but also "the example of philanthropy that he has set in the local community where his continuing willingness to support young women has been noted for years not just in Wanchai but also Mabini, Patpong and indeed anywhere where young women in need can be found" Raising his flute of Benedictine-RedBull, Blackfiend toasted all present and vowed to continue God's work in fine establishments such as this one. Responding to press questions with a modesty untinged by condescension, Blackfiend denied that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve could not operate without Goldmine alumni. "Of course, like the rest of Wall Street, we like to think that our advice, brandy and cigars are appreciated but to claim, as some malicious tongues would have it, that those institutions only serve us, would be a gross mischaracterization. After all, many of my personal friends and family have had sinecures there for years and they all spend money in hairdressers, whorehouses, hotels, tailors, jewellers etc.... the list of people who benefit from our patronage is endless. It is the untrammeled propagation of wealth by caring people like us that helps keep the economy ticking over at a time like this when there have never been so many homeless, unemployed people clamouring for food stamps. Our multi comma bonuses really are the fruit of Gods work." Admiring comments from the crowd came from people like Michael xxx who was particularly envious of Goldmine's innovative approach to the use of Credit Default Swaps. As Michael xxx said "The concept of deliberately picking the companies most likely to fail, advising clients to earn a paltry income from insuring them and then ruining the companies in question by pulling their credit lines so that Goldmine could stuff their clients and collect on the CDS was sheer genius. The great thing about it is that they took the Mafia notion of protection and transformed the economics from local petty crime to an international multi billion dollar industry. And the real joy is that no one has nicked them for it yet". Michelle xxx, well known restauratrice said "I don't understand any of this shit but clearly the best bankers steal the most money and entertain in the best places. So Blackfiend is My Man". Mandy xxx, one of the towns' best known operators of gayfriendly fund management scams announced that "I am sick and tired of all this talk of deficits, defaults, collapsing currencies and financial scandal. All my smartest Indian friends reckon the governments should just keep printing. That way we can keep the good old bubble economics going and fundmanagers can start creaming performance fees for doing sweet fuck all again. Then maybe poor Sean can stop taking all these phone calls from whingeing loser customers and I can concentrate on ramping stocks for months end performance".