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Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by alexeisadeski3 »

1stop wrote: post #26
notastartup wrote: post #24

China dumps all bonds. US declares return to gold standards. Chinese economy crashes. World experiences significant economic downturn but soon recovers.

Yes, 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.

China 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.

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by throwaway7892 »

streetnigga wrote: post #20

There 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…

I wouldn't trust anything on Anadolu Agency which is owned by the current religious fascist Turkish government which is against Syria ONLY because they are from different Islamic fraction. The government wants to see religious fascists in power in Syria. Those things in the pictures were probably done by the barbaric islamic fundamentalist rebels.

Most Turkish people are against the government's senseless war against Syria. In last few weeks the government was caught sending military equipment to the barbaric islamic syrian rebels many times.

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by lisp-and-seo »

streetnigga wrote: post #20

There 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…

Interesting. How do you feel about the US and UK drone strikes in residential areas?

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by alan_cx »

jaekwon wrote: post #18
camus2 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would mean war against China.Plain and Simple.

Lol. The US & China are like conjoined twins.

Yeah, until China hypothetically dumps its bonds, which is what is being discussed.

Good analogy though, because separating conjoined twins in a manner analogous to dumping all its bonds would kill both. The US economy would be in ruins, and the US would reply the only way it knows how, war. I suppose war is as much an economic tool as anything else. But there is another reason why China could never dump its bonds, it would destroy its biggest market, the US.

Capitalism, the biggest force for peace we have....... (If reading that last bit made you feel nauseous, imagine how I felt typing it. Im trying to kid myself it's ironic, but its not working.)

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by streetnigga »

throwaway7892 wrote: post #32
streetnigga wrote: post #20

There 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…

I wouldn't trust anything on Anadolu Agency which is owned by the current religious fascist Turkish government which is against Syria ONLY because they are from different Islamic fraction. The government wants to see religious fascists in power in Syria. Those things in the pictures were probably done by the barbaric islamic fundamentalist rebels. Most Turkish people are against the government's senseless war against…

Sure thing hoss. Here is the story[0] associated with the photos.

"Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the "systematic killing" of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers.

The three, former prosecutors at the criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, examined thousands of Syrian government photographs and files recording deaths in the custody of regime security forces from March 2011 to last August."

OK so you are adamant that it was not the regime who tortured and executed people, that the photos were due to those nasty Islamists. How about a report pre-dating the previous on the Assad regime's Raid Brigade, amongst others in the Damascus area. Was the industrious kidnapping and murder of detainees by military also a false flag? Branch 215, Raid Brigade - Military Intelligence Division - Damascus[1].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/evidence-indust...

[1] http://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en/reports/1380463510#.UuIv...

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by streetnigga »

lisp-and-seo wrote: post #34
streetnigga wrote: post #20

There 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…

Interesting. How do you feel about the US and UK drone strikes in residential areas?

Pretty shitty. Can't think of a theater of operation where the consensus for deployment is done with the support of the host nation's public. That is excluding the secret laws often shrouding the justification for the programs themselves.

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by sirteno »

To 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/ti...

Re: CNN website hacked: "China dumps all bonds"

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Post by belorn »

streetnigga wrote: post #20

There 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…

Governments have a hard time condemning such attacks since every country want their own force out there attacking online targets.

I can only hope that a treaty over the use of online warfare gets made[1]. Until then, I will expect to see this happen more and more regularly.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/we-need-a-geneva...

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