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CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"
- aethr 13y agoMore specifically, a blog subdomain of cnn (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com), which appears to be a Wordpress site, was hacked.
- est 13y ago> Filed under: 2010 • 2012 • Candidate Barack Obama • Congress • Health care • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Mitt Romney • Popular Posts • President Obama
- justinzollars 13y agoHacked by Ron Paul!
- sleepyK 13y agoRON PAUL 2012!!! :P
- codezero 13y agoThey recently posted that their social media accounts were compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army, so this is probably related.
- dredmorbius 13y agoIn the absence of other evidence, interesting information but not confirmation of anything. "Possibly related" would be a much better phrasing. Though additional updates seem to support that it was SEA. A crucial thing to remember in a fog-of-war scenario is that all information becomes suspect. Your best response is to take actions that reduce uncertainty, risk, and volatility. Not which increase them.
- throwwit 13y agoI was wondering what was happening to the site as well. The bookmark icon for http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com changed to a generic wordpress icon just recently in my toolbar.
- dsl 13y agoThe CNN main site was not hacked. This was a blog hosted by WordPress VIP (http://vip.wordpress.com/ http://vip.wordpress.com/)
- bsaul 13y agoIs it me or would "china dumping us bonds" have absolutely no effect since the Federal reserve is already the only one buying us bonds in massive quantities ?
- jaekwon 13y agoYeah I don't think it would make much of a difference, with or without the Fed. They'd really have to try to spend the dollars & not just stick that money back into a bank, and the effects of that would be slow and noticeable in time for the US to react with some policy.
- wintersFright 13y agoumm, no. It would be the end of the USD as you know it, instant hyperinflation and empty shelves in your local supermarket. The point of dumping bonds is that they are saying they are worthless, they aren't trying to extract value from them by spending them somewhere else. That would render other Central Bank dollar denominated reserve assets worthless too. World trade, denominated in USD, would freeze, along with any American's relying on imported oil to warm their houses through the polar vortex. So no, it wouldn't be business as usual...if this were a real story.
- nthitz 13y agoStill better than all the Bebier stuff that was breaking on their (US) homepage today
- duiker101 13y agowow and there is basically nothing about Ukraine... this crazy!
- foz 13y agounfortunately, today, it's all about the clicks.
- waylandsmithers 13y agoFor anyone who didn't catch it, the onion story about Miley at the VMAs: http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cyrus-vma-performance-was,33632/ http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cy... "by" the managing editor of cnn.com
- Shivetya 13y agoWelcome to Zucker's quest to make CNN relevant.... which apparently means being the online version of the supermarket check out line. The FoxNews site has more important international stories than CNN, I am assuming CNN expecting readers to click the World tab. Out front, between Drudge and Google News I get all the leads I need.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoThere was also a story about the US declaring a state of national emergency, and the reporter being unable to contact anyone in the State Department. As little sense as that made.
- perlgeek 13y agoIs this a hoax? or satire? Doesn't look like credible news to me, somehow.
- streetnigga 13y agoFrom CNN[0]. [0] http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/tech/cnn-accounts-hacked/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/tech/cnn-accounts-hacked/
- streetnigga 13y agoThere is a special place in hell for SEA (Syrian Electronic Army) members. In addition to hacking sites as to spew propaganda, they have been reporting nonviolent activist pages while promoting terrorist (ISIS) pages. Running a plethora of personas[0] that harass and attack while disseminating horse-shit like the Adra massacre. That Adra event saw Russia Times relaying false reports[1]. Of course phishing pretty much anyone that mentions Syria/Sham. Gotta get those admin credentials somehow right? All this while their regime goes about talking peace at Geneva2 and dropping crude air dropped improvised explosives (ADIED) onto residential neighborhoods. From two days ago, one of the happier videos to report from these strikes, a child being pulled alive from concrete rubble[2]. In addition to the regular munitons dropped on a daily basis the rocket system used to launch chemical weapon attacks is parked at the regime's Mezzeh military airport in Damascus[3] yet SEA and company have been trying to co-opt and seed disinformation on the subject such as focusing on nosecones[4]. This "cyberwar" mess has very real ramifications, and those are heaps of tortured/executed prisoners stacked up wrapped in plastic[5] with death certificates fraudulently made by the state. Real A level war crimes stuff. I have great hatred for these electronic shills and the murder they help further. [0] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Persona_Management http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Persona_Management [1] http://www.interpretermag.com/the-massacre-in-syria-that-wasnt/ http://www.interpretermag.com/the-massacre-in-syria-that-was... [2] http://youtu.be/-m_IgNakiXc http://youtu.be/-m_IgNakiXc [3] http://imgur.com/gallery/C45Cw http://imgur.com/gallery/C45Cw [4] http://whoghouta.blogspot.com/2013/09/umlaca-simulation.html http://whoghouta.blogspot.com/2013/09/umlaca-simulation.html [5] https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/426287533689815040 https://twitter.com/anadoluagency/status/426287533689815040 edit: See helpful comment regarding naming below.
- notastartup 13y agoChina dumps all bonds. US declares return to gold standards. Chinese economy crashes. World experiences significant economic downturn but soon recovers.
- 1stop 13y agoYes, that's how it would play out. China dumping US money, would be an actively hostile thing to do... implying they wanted to do other hostile things as well... The world would likely become a very different place, real fast.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoChina dumping US currency and/or bonds would be an awesome opportunity for everyone else. We could buy the wonderfully underpriced securities from China and make bank once the price pops back up a few months later. It'd basically be suicide for the seller - in this case the central bank of China.
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- 1stop 13y agoSorry, in this hypothetical, china would only do something so rash if it were going to war. There would be no "making bank" there would just be war... and given the scale of said hypthetical war, I'm not sure there would even be a victor...
- not-impressed 13y agoHaha are you aware of the amount of Gold china is buying? http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/unprecedented-total-chinese-gold-demand-2013 http://www.ingoldwetrust.ch/unprecedented-total-chinese-gold... If/when USD looses its position as a reserve currency, the price of gold will skyrocket and China will be looking smug.
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- touristtam 13y agoBlocked by by the Web Security Appliance at work .... potential malware/spyware
- sirteno 13y agoTo put things in perspective, China holds approximately 7.5% of the total US debt load ($17.3 trillion). That's an estimated $1.3 trillion in U.S. Treasuries. They are the largest foreign investor in US treasuries's[0] and the major holders of all USD foreign exchange reserves due to their huge trade surplus with the US. These dollars need to be invested somewhere and the U.S. Treasury market is one of the few places that China can recycle its surplus dollars. Even during the financial crisis in 2009 and the debate around the public debt ceiling in the summer of 2011 with the subsequent downgrade of the U.S. long-term sovereign credit by S&P, China continued to increase their USD reserves while other endowment funds in regions such as the Middle East took steps to diversify their FX reserves away from the USD. China is dependent on the US Treasury market - and it's stability - because as long as China continues to hold down the value of its currency to the USD, it will have few options other than to keep investing in U.S. dollar assets. [0] http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/mfh.txt http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/ti...
- jasey 13y agoIt's late here and I've been working all day and I'm half asleep. So it took me a few seconds to realise this was a hoax. My reaction was literally "holly shit!", Then I don't know why but my mind started racing to figure out how one would acquire gold and bitcoins at 10 to midnight on a Friday night heading into a weekend... Thinking i need some verification before i make any move, I then realised the page was a google cache and then came back to hn to realise it was a cached hacked page. But for a few seconds I was scared and excited at the same time...the same feeling of 9/11 actually
- stabiilize 13y agoAny reports on stock crashes? I'm sure there are some sentiment analysis bots trading on news trends that read this and dumped everything.