tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58763152024-03-13T10:33:30.787-04:00Ron Brynaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02100814615137667649noreply@blogger.comBlogger937125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5876315.post-41052415232977071032011-07-20T14:06:00.003-04:002011-07-20T14:09:57.731-04:00

Articles on hacking of Twitter and fake news stories can be found at www.ronbryn.blogspot.com and www.aanewz.blogspot.com Lots of good stories in the archives here if you search for Markos or Vis Numar or socks or puppets or Netroots or Simon Rosenberg or GOPUSA or Ricky Vandal above.

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I think this Lew Hunter person? Was a fake. Direct message sent by Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) to you (@ronbryn) on Jun 24, 9:48 AM. NYT_JenPreston Jennifer

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Twitter fyi... i think lee is trying to screw me. associate me with his bullshit jg story. it is total bullshit. had to publicly tweet. Direct message sent by Jennifer Preston (@NYT_JenPreston) to you (@ronbryn) on Jun 25, 10:35 AM. NYT_JenPreston Jennifer Preston Send a direct message Want to receive mobile notifications? Download Twitter for your phone » If you'd rather not receive

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From: "Preston, Jennifer" To: Ron Brynaert Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:10 PM Ron, I just got an email. Don't know if it is from you. Why I am responding here. I will talk to you in the morning. I have been trying to help you even as you stab me in the back and share private conversations. I know you are really smart, well intentioned and a good person. My advice is to be quiet..advice

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Scott Shane's latest New York Times article on the Guantanamo files (link) weighs heavily on this Joint Task Force Gitmo detainee assessment: pdf link. He peers out from the photo in the classified file through heavy-framed spectacles, an owlish face with a graying beard and a half-smile. Saifullah Paracha, a successful businessman and for years a New York travel agent, appears to be the oldest

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I apologize for never following up on the BBC yanking of Raymond Davis story (link), which I said would be published at The Brad Blog in March. The BBC never responded to my email, and I got sidetracked, then Raymond Davis was released, but I was able to craft a complete version of the yanked article via painstakingly complicated Google searches. Since the story had a lot of minor grammar edits

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Update at bottom: Article runs day later, key line edited, but mystery behind yanking remains Around one half-hour after publishing an article entitled "Behind the scenes of Pakistan Raymond Davis 'spy' saga", the BBC appears to have yanked it. The Washington Post, the Associated Press and The New York Times have all admitted to killing stories about Raymond Davis, who was apprehended in

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In November of 2010, Florida voters approved ballot amendments 5 and 6. Florida will be awarded two new Congressional seats in 2012. Amendment 5 and Amendment 6 was designed to change the way Congressional districts are drawn. Amendment 5 In establishing Legislative district boundaries: (1) No apportionment plan or district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party

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Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Philip “P.J.” Crowley isn't playing around when it comes to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. At the Daily Beast, Howard Kurtz reports, "As Julian Assange steps up his rhetoric and his releases of sensitive material, the State Department is becoming increasingly undiplomatic." With Julian Assange in jail, the State Department steps up its WikiLeaks

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It's going to take me a long while to finish the Obama's Spikes of Activity article I alluded to the other week. In the meantime, I probably won't be doing much of anything on this blog, but I have become more active on Twitter. My new account is at www.twitter.com/ronbryn. There's at least two or three series of tweets that would have made great blog posts here, but I'm concentrating on the

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What is the difference between Bush's "spikes of activity" and Obama's "spikes of activity"? Five-and-a-half years ago I published "'Spikes of Activity' In The DSM." My blog was so widely read and linked then, that according to Google, it still trumps the amazing Michael Smith's original Pulitzer-worthy article that I based all my work on in the first place. Among other things, the major two

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It has been over three years since I last blogged here, and I'm not certain this counts as a return. But if you're lost, crazy or care one way or the other I might be back here soon. At least for a spell. I'm planning to switch my Twitter account name soon to my real name, but for now it remains at http://twitter.com/rawstorystaff. Holla.

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Apologies for never posting a proper goodbye, here. But it has been so long since I last blogged that I had forgotten my password. Since I became Executive Editor of Raw Story it's been too tough to keep up a blog since most of my energy is directed there. Thanks to all my readers and non-readers. And I won't be deleting this blog, so feel free to dig through it to find tasty morsels and

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For the past couple of days, the Providence Journal has covered a massive federal immigration agent raid at Michael Bianco Inc., a textile plant in New Bedford, MA that had $170 million in contracts to make clothing for the US military. The raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents netted 327 illegal immigrants, and they also arrested members of Bianco's management and charged them with

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While I was psyched to see Martin Scorsese win best director finally on Sunday night, I was kind of disappointed that "The Queen" lost out on best film. Being a huge fan of the original Hong Kong film "Infernal Affairs," it's hard to measure the film without thinking about all the wonderful things that got cut out. But Stephen Frears "The Queen" really knocked me out, especially the

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Twice today, President Bush said something bizarre at his press conference, yet not when reporter (not even yesterday's Snow battler, CNN's Ed Henry) called him on it. "General Pace says that these bombs found in Iraq do not by themselves implicate Iran," one reporter said at the conference. "What makes you so certain that the highest levels of Tehran's government is responsible?" Bush responded,

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Sean Harder, reporting for Georgia's Savannah Morning News, reveals that 143 or more US troops deployed to Iraq from Fort Stewart last month missed their final combat exercise, and one eighteen-year-old soldier is already dead: Last week, one of those soldiers - Pvt. Matthew T. Zeimer, 18 - was the first from the brigade to be killed when he was hit by enemy fire in Ramadi, the stronghold of

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Wow. I believe Prince just gave the greatest performance I have ever seen in my life, live or on television. That was completely unexpected. Prince's new song "Guitar" can be downloaded for free at his website, and I'm sure video of his Super Bowl performance with rain falling, pigeons soaring, purple lights glowing, marching band performing, and lots of gyrating will be all over YouTube in

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Sorry, I've been kind of busy: House Majority Whip touts 'diversity' to herald start of Black History month Bush: Future generations face cuts in Social Security, Medicare unless 'we act' now; New budget will 'eliminate the deficit by 2012' Obama's 'trying to figure out' if he's 'going to Hollywood' or getting 'voted off island' Update: Man arrested in bizarre Boston marketing ploy Web video

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Big story at Raw Story today. Larisa Alexandrovna (who - if you somehow don't know - broke the story that former CIA agent Valerie Plame had been working on Iran WMD when she was outed by Bush Administration officials) and Muriel Kane (one of the best damn researchers on the planet) have a story called A hidden history: Administration's move towards Iran strike dates back six years which

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Guest blogger: Michael Hussey This is an article you won't see when conservatives speak of liberal media bias. Rich Little won't be mentioning Iraq or ratings when he addresses the White House Correspondents' Dinner April 21. Little said organizers of the event made it clear they don't want a repeat of last year's controversial appearance by Stephen Colbert, whose searing satire of President

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Cheney on domestic spying by the Pentagon and CIA: 'There's nothing wrong with it or illegal' Convicted Watergate 'plumber' claims LBJ may have had JFK assassinated DNC slams McCain for 'pandering to far right' on MLK day; Wesley Clark also attended Alabama governor's inauguration Democratic presidential candidate Kucinich warns, 'If Bush attacks Iran, all bets are off' 'My name's Dr.

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Press 'swarm' as Pentagon leadership, protester 'enjoy' chat Leaked remarks: Kennedy to say Senate not told about Iraq rules of engagement Over 1,000 protesters spell out 'IMPEACH!' on beach in Pelosi's district Paper: 'Blood and oil; How the West will make a killing on Iraqi oil riches' Video: Fox crew 'bashes' Boxer for 'childless Condi slur:' White House spokesman later calls senator 'tacky'

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Mr Bush said there would be violence in Iraq "for many years" and that US troops would only be able to withdraw as local forces gained competence. "These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgement of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington," he said. Mr Bush said victory would come "when the

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