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'Bogus' AP tweet about explosion at the White House wipes billions off US markets
The UK Telegraph ^
| April 23, 2013
| Peter Foster
Posted on 04/23/2013 12:14:47 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The US stock market went into a temporary tailspin after hackers broke into the Twitter account of the Associated Press and announced that two bombs had exploded at the White House, injuring Barack Obama.
Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured, said the fake alert from one of Americas most trusted news sources, briefly fooling some news outlets and sending the Dow Jones plunging 145 points in the space of two minutes or 1 per cent.
The benchmark S&P 500 index also fell nearly 1 percent in the space of three minutes as the tweet hit the markets. With the S&P valued at roughly $14.6 trillion at the moment of the false tweet, that three-minute plunge briefly wiped out $136.5 billion (£92.2 billion) of the index's value.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: americanpravda; ap; asspress; bhowhitehouse; buttociatedpress; djia; hackers; twitter
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:14:47 PM PDT
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Hojczyk
To: Hojczyk
I would have imagined a hell of a surge upwards.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:16:08 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Hojczyk
That would never happen. Islamos don’t blow up their own.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:16:32 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: Hojczyk
Someone made money..?????
Apples earning are out today
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:16:49 PM PDT
by
Hojczyk
To: Safetgiver
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:18:00 PM PDT
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: Safetgiver
Damn, I HATE IT when you guys beat me to it. Freepers are just too damn smart(alecy). :’))
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:18:56 PM PDT
by
Dick Bachert
(CONGRESS, GROW A PAIR. IMPEACH THE USURPER!!)
To: Safetgiver
I would have imagined a hell of a surge upwards. Heh. Imagine how excited Joe must've been for a moment there.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:20:42 PM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: Dick Bachert
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:21:02 PM PDT
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: Hojczyk
Someone made a LOT of money.
There will be as much accountability as there was
for BenGhazi or Fast&Furious or any of the bank frauds.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:23:19 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(De Oppresso Liber)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Exactly. Why would an enemy bum Obummer?
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:25:45 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
To: Safetgiver
To: Hojczyk
Thank God our House wasn’t hurt!
Oh, and that guy who lives there, too...
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:26:17 PM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
((optional, printed after my name on post))
To: Hojczyk
Did not think anyone put any “stock” into any AP reporting.
They have become the Mad Magazine of the MSM.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:27:13 PM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam!)
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:27:49 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(My faith and politics cannot be separated)
To: Hojczyk
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:28:45 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
That would never happen. Islamos dont blow up their own.
Obama steadfastly insists that he is a Christian. His father was Muslim. In the eyes of Muslims, if your father is a Muslim, you are Muslim. Which makes him an apostate in their eyes, and an eligible future recipient of a customized pressure cooker.
To: Hojczyk
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- Well the “Ricin/Elvis” bs is looking shaky with the Elvis impersonator now released on bond - and Obama’s “Me too! Me too” (his alleged low-level Ricin never got near the WH while someone did walk into Congressional buildings with envelopes for (R-MO) Roger Wicker)
- Time for a “Hey! They bombed me too!” diversion from Opansy and his AP goons......
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:30:55 PM PDT
by
devolve
( -- -- liberals secret fuel economy trick -- simply fill up your tires with propane --)
To: Charles Martel
Just opened my first Twitter account as #TheRealBenBernanke
Hey guys, watch THIS!!!
To: Safetgiver
Me too, I would think people wpould buy with info like that coming out.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:40:04 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Hojczyk
For about 7 minutes. All came back.
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posted on
04/23/2013 12:44:11 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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