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In the mean time, you can reach emptywheel by email at emptywheel AT gmail.com.
Please be patient and allow reasonable response time; thanks for your readership and participation at emptywheel.
Oops, I screwed up and double posted. Please pull the second one. It didn’t look like the first one went in so I came back later and posted it again. I apologize.
The ability to respond to posts was useful, any chance you’ll be able to add that? Also, we like to print and read offline. Any chance we’ll be able to do that? Cut and paste to a Word document works, but it’s a pain.
Thanks for all you’ve done, and continue to do. It takes courage to stand up with a high profile these days.
Regards,
Cliff
can yall put a “home” category under your banner.
it seems impossible when entering “www.wmptywheel.net” in the google to come up with anything other than a specific ew post.
thus putting emptywheel under ie “favorites” results in returning later to a single, already-posted essay.
i cant find a way to access the entirety of the site with one entry in “favorites:
tx
Yep, just give us a little time; still working some kinks out.
I see that orionatl beat me to it on the need for a “Home” button to make navigation easy.
Other than that, I actually like the way the comments look
I became a member of fdl specifically for your work and I’d like to set up a monthly system with you guys but I refuse to use PayPal.
The name “Emptywheel” in giant type on the header should be a huge hyperlink to the main page
Thanks, makes it much easier.
I’ll second Cliff’s request for a printer friendly button for posts :) I know you’re still getting up and running, so no hurry, just when you get a chance.
Thanks,
Heather
Howdy! I wish there were a “share” button so I could distribute this among all my social networking sites. Keep up the awesome work!
What is the significance of ‘empty wheel’?
What’s it mean?
Thanks, interesting site.
Laura
http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2011/10/17/herman-cain-sings-an-ode-to-pizza.html
Thoughts?
So where is the scandal?
Marcy, I have missed you so much . I thought you had retired and was very sad .Your views are always so sharp and biting . Let us hear more from you .
Ben Hussey
@Laura:
Laura,
I just noticed no one has yet answered your question.
Marcy T Wheeler blogs under the pseudonym emptywheel.
M. T. Wheel. ==> it’s her abbreviated name.
Grist for your mill, as if you needed more.
“Enterprising law-enforcement officers… can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.”
Scientific American December 2011 pg 24, “Freedom Fighter – Which side was Steve Jobs on”.
First time I’ve seen this in print. Usually the discussion is focused on cell phone location tracking, or last week, root kits. The capability to remotely turn a phone into a bug has been part of US “national technical means” since at least the 1950′s. Ironically, the higher the technology, the easier it is to do.
Moving Bradley Manning to Leavenworth seems to have effectively “disappeared” him.
Since I’m on a roll, almost 500k people were added to those “not in the labor force” in November. Happy f**** Thanksgiving to them. Household Data, summary table A-1, BLS news release http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Thanks for all you do.
Cliff
Judge Cebull’s mere act of forwarding the racist (And, by the way, misogenous-the President’s mother and a dog?!) email is solid cause to demand and get his resignation. At a minimum he should not be allowed to hear any cases involving people of color or women. (His comments are not a defense and further by them he violates the Hatch Act.) He is a disgrace
Hi, Marcy,
I didn’t notice this until today, and I think no one else mentioned it in the thread…don’t even know if you care at this point, or if it matters, or if there’s anything you can do about it now, but there is a typo in this title:
SCOTUS and the Designated Strip Sea[r]ch Observers
Thanks for all the fabulous work you do!
harpie
A dear friend is currenlty experiencing DOJ/DEA misconduct. I am so disappointed in our government. I have never seen anything like this. If you would like to see prosecutorial misconduct in progress and review this case… I think we would all learn a lot about prosecutorial misconduct and the importance of a “Win” in court for DOJ. This man is truely innocent, I worked with him daily, my name was on every email sent from the company… can you believe that I was never questioned? There are so many things frightening about this out of control department. Please help
@Theresa Kadlec: Hi there Theresa. If you post the name and cause number of the case here, or email it to the address above, I will take a look at it.
following arizona sherrif and da’s problems does anybody anywhere remember the word conspiricy? why hasnt anybody been charged with this yet?
Dear Standard Shartered and ING-Direct,
I have an deposito slip of $ 900,000,000.00 usd and a certificate of that.I it was send by Johnson Smith and Douglas Flint from the HSBC.
I have see that you have also I have also ian ING account it can be Huse in the hole world.I want you to contact me directly about it.
Sign:Angelo Martis
Dear Bank,
Hsbc have transfer my $ 195,000,000.00 usd to my ING account but it is still not reflect and they say that the Netherland Gouvernmet have my funds/money.But the Gouvernmentsay that they dont know about it.Last week ING told me to go to ING whith the documents to claim my money ,but first contact HSBC about it.We are planing to go to the banks because this time have to gif me my money.ING say that if i have all the legal papers i have to go to ING Amsterdam to take my money.
Sign:Angelo Martis
I have let FBI and United Nation to screan and contact all the banks that have my money.They say that they will go to all the banks to make them gif me my money.
Sign:Angelo Martis
Bregmann from FIBI have also my 9 Billion usd.
IMF have also billions from me you can ask them about it.
Sign:Angelo Martis
IS THERE A PETITION TO SEND AROUND THE COUNTRY? THIS IS AN ABOMINATION
I MEAN THE UNCOUNTED VOTES!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve been a bit surprised not to have seen any posts on the site on the recent Robert Bales preliminary hearing. I find new info revealed during the proceedings on what was happening–and said–at Bales’ base that night very revealing (not to mention petrifying) about the environment and attitude for our military in Afghanistan.
Been away from here for awhile.
Has anyone tracked down whether or not there were prisoners held at the Benghazi US Consulate compound or not? There’s only the youtube video of Broadwell making statements that there were (CIA held prisoners in Benghazi US Consulate) and some claims by CIA that “she didn’t get that right at all”. All rumor—unverifiable or verifiable?
I’m going to go through your archives now over the next few hours and see if I can find any discussion of this. Am thinking that if that was true than the whole resignation thing/Congressional harping is not what we we’re being told in US media at all…
Please remove my name and email from your subscription list.
Thank you
can someone help me out here please? i cannot listen to this – can someone tell me why D-Day is leaving blogging???
Firedoglake’s David Dayen: Exiting The Liberal Blogosphere
The soon to be former blogger, David Dayen, explains why he is leaving blogging. David also asks if the liberal blogesphere losing its added value and how we can hold power accountable in the Obama era.
http://majority.fm/2012/12/18/1218-david-dayen-exiting-the-liberal-blogosphere-social-security-back-on-the-table/
Please help me understand-(DiFi)-??
@James Vanhofwegen: I’m having a problem with DiFi myself, sorry probably not much help!
I recently made a video about how the CIA created Al Qaeda and used it to attack Egypt. Here it is, in case you are interested: http://vimeo.com/55980866
Mark Murata
The Right of the People to Petition Their Government
I want everyone to know about a new petition on We the People,
a new feature on WhiteHouse.gov, and ask for your support. Will you add your
name to mine? If this petition gets 25,000 signatures by January 31, 2013,
the White House will review it and respond!
This is a National, an International, and a local issue.
Please sign, put it on Facebook and Twitter. Time is running out.
If the petition gets enough support, the Obama Administration will issue an official response.
You can view and sign the petition here:
http://wh.gov/UKpQ
Below is the petition.
*End the DRONES…Stop the killing of children and innocent
civilians.*
The USA has Drone bases in many areas in and out of the US. There is
probably a Drone base near you. One is located in New York, near Syracuse.
The Hancock Drone Base must be shut down. Children are being killed in
Afghanistan and Yemen from bases close to us. This is a war crime and a
crime against humanity.
All Drone Bases must be shut down immediately.
The world will be a better place when we love the children in Afghanistan,
and all children, as much as we love our own.
For more information contact:
Rosemarie Jackowski
Bennington VT
dissent@sover.net
when you write a piece for another site other than emptywheel.net would you please let your readers know somewhere on your front page??? i would have not known about the below linked essay at Alternet.org if i had not read a comment on one of the threads to a post. that is not very efficient. do not hestitate to toot your own horn when needed – you have certainly earned the right to do so. many thanks for all that you have done and continue to do.
The Prosecution of Aaron Swartz Paints Obama’s Justice Department as Needlessly Cruel and Capricious
A powerful indictment of our justice system, the Swartz case exemplifies the sick hypocrisy of persecuting information activists while corrupt corporations and bankers get off easy.
http://www.alternet.org/activism/prosecution-aaron-swartz-paints-obamas-justice-department-needlessly-cruel-and-capricious?paging=off
Regarding Zero Dark Thirty, the actress said on the Daily Show that Maya is not a composite character but based on one woman. It seems very likely that “Jen” is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky.
Both Maya and Frances have red hair and both were close friends with Jennifer Matthews who was killed in the triple cross bombing.
From Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick, who confirmed that Frances and Jennifer Matthews were close friends-
“There is a group of very, shall we say, strong personalities within the counterterrorism division, you’ve named 2 of them, they were good friends, they worked together on these cases, and the list of people the IG has identified as potentially deserving of disciplinary review for their actions before 9/11 never been published, but we know from multiple counts that Jennifer Matthews had been on that list…”
54 min mark at http://www.peterbcollins.com/2011/09/28/wall-st-protests-get-traction-dc-protest-starts-october-6-journalist-joby-warrick-recreates-december-2009-attack-at-khost/