A Brief Digression Before The Petition At Hand
Friday, 1 November 2013, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
secret fact for the day is that in much of the world Halloween although officially over is still being "partied". With even lucky New York Wall Streeters still able to get in a $100 steak and a few good hours or so trick-or-treating in the hottest club restrooms "for the good old days" while the kids hit friends' penthouses under the watchful eyes of the au pairs. Plus some of that world-famous next phase New York late night partying once your significant "whatother" goes home with a headache.
Just imagine how good it must feel to stay up all night drinking $1,000 bottles of champagne and going straight via your $200 breakfast into your skyscraper corner office in a genuine office tower built for the ages (such as the Empire State Building where a B-17 could REALLY hit it in the fog and just BOUNCE OFF IT). Where they really are not yet ALL now designed by the architects to be faux corner offices so the CORNER PARTNERS really still do have the CORNER OFFICES. Have your fresh shirt put on and into your private bathroom with your next day's shoes shined while you read the funnies. You are shaved with a super-sharp straight edge by an escort you once dated whom you trust with your life (so long as you keep hinting her those tips "you would play yourself were you still working the trading down the ladder ha! ha! where it made any difference at all whether you came out ahead or behind because now it is all the same it IS ALL AHEAD).
Lickbacks For Order Flow
Oh what fun it is to ride where every day is a winning day. However one bets and whether one loses or wins numberswise you always win moneyswise. As we saw with "litttle shrub" Bush and yes again President Obama once Goldman, Sachs shared the imminent (as in at the close of business) evidence of its collapse and thus of its cronies, the Country's and inconsequentially must-not-forget least of all its clients to its former and future bosses through the federal government banking revolving door, that Federal Government sure could move fast for once, as in fat hands reaching for hundreds of billions of dollars in pockets as fast as they could ("the paperwork could be worked out later").
Candidly this meaning everyone else's money, including the whole Country's, by the way being sold to their fine clients that garbage you would not even take out for the stink and look at that, what did your clients do but go and BEAT YOU with your own ROTTEN ADVICE WHICH HOW DARE THEY SINCE EVEN YOU BET AGAINST THEM. Oh well, as we said, you are where EVERY DAY is a winning day, especially a losing day and a "conflict of interest" is just another trading technique kind of like "lickbacks for order flow"
And presto! chango! look at that just as we were taught in school. "How A Bill Is Made." And, boy, it sure is made fast! (Government's not closed that day!) And slipped right there (along with everything else) right in Uncle Sam's pocket and look out comes a fresh new shiny "bill", only this one is straight from the mint, and this one is a WINNER! Winner, winner, chicken dinner! There we go what we intended to say a bit more concisely. About as good odds (for BlackJack our very favorite) as in our TOTALLY UNINFORMED opinion one might expect on an Indian Lands (owned not "managed" please), say eight-deck continuously shuffling shoe where we can only split tens and double down on twenties. . . .
Sign Credo's Petition For The USA Freedom Act
All kidding aside the truth is this post has been drafted and lost and pummeled and back again. Speaking of our lead heading
NSA CREDO Petition post title readers actually may be interested to learn that the Ninth Amendment's recent informational CREDO Working Assets mobile telephone service apparently has generated a significant amount of interest amongst Ninth Amendment readers as evidenced by an originally strong reader "pageview" showing followed by sustained higher levels than average of return readers to that post in particular.
Readers may recall that "CREDO Action from Working Assets" apparently follows in the tradition of Working Assets which we recall as originating at the time of the advent of fierce long distance "landline" telephone service competition. Working Assets set itself apart by characterizing itself as socially active (like CREDO today) at that time allowing customers monthly opportunities to make free calls for allotted time periods to designated numbers choosing from a selection of causes to support by volume of mostly "personal" directed telephone calls.
In any case we do NOT ourselves currently have any staff members whom we can consult personally as to the quality and reliability of CREDO service which apparently follows in the Working Assets tradition of setting itself apart by social activism such as demonstrated here in "
Reining In The NSA" along with incentives such as assurances of the refunding of "contract service charges" for readers who decide they wish to try a CREDO telephone contract mid-stream in another but not suffer a financial setback (being held hostage) for doing so.
In any case we received the below e-mail from CREDO Action which is pertinent to news covered and/or followed here in that it links to a Congressional petition signature drive in SUPPORT of the "USA FREEDOM ACT" to
reverse portions of the "USA PATRIOT ACT" and its ilk. Apparently the sponsors of this Bipartisan Bill (which even INCLUDES one of the Patriot Act's co-authors) could not resist the temptation in the naming of the new bill of flaunting what we can only hope HERE is a like-minded name directed in response to the very widely remarked cynicism in the naming of the Patriot Act. Only one one learns here that in this case the name truly a sincere step in the slow processing step in the process of restoring our constitutional rights.
Hopefully the urged passage of the USA Freedom Act is but one component in many pieces of legislation, judicial opinions and myriad other steps needed not a moment later to help clean up the detritus of the U.S. Constitution with enough left intact to continue to cleanup the United States Constitution with enough of that great document intact to enable the American people to reclaim it to its original glory consistent with legitimate amendment. Readers please find below the petition circulated to the American people for their signature in support of the USA Freedom Act and more generally to express their support of these great efforts to save our Country from anything but change by legitimate peaceful process as set out in the U.S.Constitution itself.
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CREDO Petition For Circulation To Members Of Congress Linked Below For Signature:
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The petition to the House and Senate reads:
"The NSA has become a rogue agency and
Congress needs to rein it in. The USA Freedom Act is a much needed first
step that would stop the bulk collection of Americans' telephone
records and provide some needed transparency about National Security
Letters and other forms of warrantless spying. Please support this
important legislation, and oppose the competing bill proposed by Sen.
Dianne Feinstein that is reform in name only and would do nothing to
stop the rampant and unconstitutional abuses by the NSA and other
intelligence agencies."
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Dear martin,
The NSA has far too much power to spy on innocent Americans without any meaningful oversight.
It's gotten so bad that even one
of the original ultra-conservative authors of the Patriot Act, Rep. Jim
Sensenbrenner, joined with progressive stalwart Rep. John Conyers and
Senator Patrick Leahy in introducing a bipartisan NSA reform bill.
This
bill, which they named the USA Freedom Act, would end the bulk
collection of Americans' telephone records and provide a modest measure
of needed transparency to the use of National Security Letters and other
forms of warrantless wiretapping.
It's a good first step, and we need to show the
House and the Senate that there’s popular support for Congress starting
the process of restoring our constitutional rights.
Tell Congress: Rein in the NSA to stop its unconstitutional spying. Click here to automatically sign the petition.
Let's be clear. We support the full repeal of the Patriot Act and the
FISA Amendments Act. The only legislative vehicle for that is Rep. Rush
Holt’s Surveillance State Repeal Act, which we will continue to fight
for.
But until we succeed in repealing the Patriot Act and the FISA
Amendments Act, we should support anything that will start the process
of reining in the NSA without making anything worse.
The Sensenbrenner-Leahy bill is a good move in that direction. It
will at the very least stop the kind of bulk surveillance dragnets that
allows the government to spy on millions of Americans who are not
suspected of any wrongdoing. And it will take a minor step toward
transparency by allowing companies to disclose the number of requests
they get from the government that force them to turn over the private
information of their users and customers without a court order and under
a gag.
It's important to note that this is far less than what we truly need
to rein in the NSA. But it's a good start. The bill preserves much of
the status quo. Let's remember, the problem of overbroad and
unconstitutionally intrusive government surveillance is so vast that
even the president didn't know that the U.S. was tapping the phones of
allied world leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
But while the Sensenbrenner-Leahy bill is a good first step,
the same cannot be said for the bill proposed by Senator Dianne
Feinstein, which in the name of reform would simply codify the
ability of the government to spy on innocent Americans without doing
anything to prevent the rampant abuses that have become routine
practices of a rogue NSA and other intelligence agencies.
That's why we’re asking Congress to support Rep.
Sensenbrenner and Sen. Leahy’s USA Freedom Act, and oppose Senator
Feinstein’s sham bill which is meant to make the public think oversight
is being strengthened over the NSA when there will be no meaningful
reform established in the legislation.
Tell Congress: Rein in the NSA to stop its unconstitutional spying. Click the link below to automatically sign the petition:
http://act.credoaction.com/go/2449?t=5&akid=9307.5397176.GtsyYU
Thank you for taking a stand against unconstitutional government spying.
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