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Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead
Frankie70 writes with word of a Twitter-account hijacking that's raised eyebrows today, supplying a link to the account in question. From the Telegraph's account: "'The Twitter account of the American Fox News Politics team was compromised and used to falsely announce the death of the U.S. president. Hackers, who identified themselves as 'The Script Kiddies' and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group Anonymous, used the account to write: 'BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP.'"
Every one of these 'hacker' news stories brings us one step closer to an internet kill switch. The government knows that the riots will begin soon in the US, and they are trying to set things up to make it hard to communicate. Beware.
Words go in, tweets come out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.
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First, hack the account. Change the password.
Second, post a fake tweet or five, make them obvious and crass.
Third, post that the account has been brought back under the control of Fox News and locked down while the hack is investigated. Change the password again.
Finally, start posting some more fake tweets an hour or so later, but be more subtle about it.
So I guess you're voting for the Republican candidate in 2012 then?
Tax revenue raises itself, when the economy grows, and is more likely to do if the economy isn't being bled by government and kept from growing.
All the money that comes into the government goes out again, usually into economic circulation. So while it's in the interests of the economy to cut taxes on economic activity, it's also worth taxing money that would otherwise be taken out of circulation. And yet it's tax cuts on the income of the rich (which contributes far less to economic activity than that of the poor) which the republicans are most strongly advocating.
I am trolling