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WTF? Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Warns Investors About EMP Attack!

 
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EMP is such a bullshit threat. My friend and I once used a Van De Graaf generator he had to zap the shit out of a computer in various places and it kept running just fine. Modern electronics are not that fragile to a little bit of electricity in the air. Just scaremongering to keep up people's tolerance for ever more bullshit.
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Thunderstorms fried my desktop Dell computer that was plugged into a surger. The computer was
turnd off, but plugged into the surger. (Not a $100+ surger, but a surger.) Took it to two different repair shops. They told me you never ever leave a computer plugged in during a thunderstorm. The computer was destroyed.
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I feel your pain. I was awoken one morning a while back to an early morning thunder storm. Just as the sun was coming up a bolt hit a tree about 15ft from the house. It took out my flat screen in the bedroom, a 2.1 speaker set, several power outlets, and something else I can't recall at the moment. NOW, every time I leave the house when it may storm or if I'm in it at the time I'm running around unplugging stuff.
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more like to the danger of HIS hedge fund on computers
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Bingo.

Loot the hedge fund and blame on emp. Looks like he is acclimating his investors to the possibility.
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North Korea has a satellite that flies right over the USA, at the perfect altitude to inflict a country wide EMP pulse. What are the chances that it is carrying a nuke? Their fearless leader feels confident enough about his nuclear strike capability to issue threats, one of them this week. Studies have been done to estimate the effects of such a scenario and the results are grim. It is estimated that 90% of the US. Population would be dead within a year or less. That is a pretty scary weapon. What is even more troubling is that the blast would simply create the conditions for Americans to annihilate themselves. Take a look in the news. Are you confident that when faced with such extreme hardship, that the population will band together and perform all of the manual labor necessary to rebuild?
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bah, our subs would still be good, maybe 90% of americans in a year, it would 100% of koreans in a day
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North Korea has a satellite that flies right over the USA, at the perfect altitude to inflict a country wide EMP pulse. What are the chances that it is carrying a nuke? Their fearless leader feels confident enough about his nuclear strike capability to issue threats, one of them this week. Studies have been done to estimate the effects of such a scenario and the results are grim. It is estimated that 90% of the US. Population would be dead within a year or less. That is a pretty scary weapon. What is even more troubling is that the blast would simply create the conditions for Americans to annihilate themselves. Take a look in the news. Are you confident that when faced with such extreme hardship, that the population will band together and perform all of the manual labor necessary to rebuild?
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Guess what one of the purposes of chemtrails (aluminum, strontium & barium) are?


Chaff, originally called Window[1] by the British, and Düppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb where it was first developed), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of primary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen with multiple returns.

Modern armed forces use chaff (in naval applications, for instance, using short-range SRBOC rockets) to distract radar-guided missiles from their targets. Most military aircraft and warships have chaff dispensing systems for self-defence. An intercontinental ballistic missile may release in its midcourse phase several independent warheads, a large number of decoys, and chaff.
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EMP is such a bullshit threat. My friend and I once used a Van De Graaf generator he had to zap the shit out of a computer in various places and it kept running just fine. Modern electronics are not that fragile to a little bit of electricity in the air. Just scaremongering to keep up people's tolerance for ever more bullshit.
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You are a moron of epic proportion.
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EMP is such a bullshit threat. My friend and I once used a Van De Graaf generator he had to zap the shit out of a computer in various places and it kept running just fine. Modern electronics are not that fragile to a little bit of electricity in the air. Just scaremongering to keep up people's tolerance for ever more bullshit.
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Sure, sure.

[link to www.youtube.com]

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Whoa, that vid's a real eye-opener. Now I'm worried that a false-flag EMP attack is closer than we imagined. I wonder how that plane shields itself from blowback. I suppose the directed-energy beam is very tightly focussed. If so, I don't believe the effects would be as widespread and calamitous as the nuclear variety. It could very easily take out all of the IRS's files and emails though, LOL.
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It's not the plane doing the strike. It's in a missile the plane launches. That way they aren't anywhere near at the time. When the missile has done it's job, it goes till it's out of propellant and comes down.
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EMP is such a bullshit threat. My friend and I once used a Van De Graaf generator he had to zap the shit out of a computer in various places and it kept running just fine. Modern electronics are not that fragile to a little bit of electricity in the air. Just scaremongering to keep up people's tolerance for ever more bullshit.
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Wrong! Your comparing apples to oranges

"Many telegraph lines across North America were rendered inoperable on the night of August 28 as the first of two successive solar storms struck. E.W. Culgan, a telegraph manager in Pittsburgh, reported that the resulting currents flowing through the wires were so powerful that platinum contacts were in danger of melting and “streams of fire” were pouring forth from the circuits. In Washington, D.C., telegraph operator Frederick W. Royce was severely shocked as his forehead grazed a ground wire. According to a witness, an arc of fire jumped from Royce’s head to the telegraphic equipment. Some telegraph stations that used chemicals to mark sheets reported that powerful surges caused telegraph paper to combust."

[link to www.history.com]
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A popular magazine had emp device that could be made for about 5k and nukes are not even needed. It had a range they figured of a mile and a half to two mile area.
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You know if they show us this much, they HAVE to have bigger and better either tested or in the works.

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You know if they show us this much, they HAVE to have bigger and better either tested or in the works.

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Yes. Their CGI department is only like 15 years behind Pixar. That's impressive for government work.
The President is an employee. His boss is the tax payer.
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As soon as all their shit is insulated in faraday cages or what have you i see an emp going off just to force us to have to go back to them so we can replace all our shit to enslave us even further. It worries m ewhen people like this who already exploit the working poor and middle class start talking like this.
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You know if they show us this much, they HAVE to have bigger and better either tested or in the works.

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If I remember emp was used by us during the first gulf war.
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North Korea has a satellite that flies right over the USA, at the perfect altitude to inflict a country wide EMP pulse. What are the chances that it is carrying a nuke? Their fearless leader feels confident enough about his nuclear strike capability to issue threats, one of them this week. Studies have been done to estimate the effects of such a scenario and the results are grim. It is estimated that 90% of the US. Population would be dead within a year or less. That is a pretty scary weapon. What is even more troubling is that the blast would simply create the conditions for Americans to annihilate themselves. Take a look in the news. Are you confident that when faced with such extreme hardship, that the population will band together and perform all of the manual labor necessary to rebuild?
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lol!

Take a science class.
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It seems somewhat dangerous living near this nuclear reactor sun thing.

I vote we move somewhere else.
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Yeah, but then we'd just mess that place up too.
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Must be waking up the reality of how fragile the system is.
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EMP is such a bullshit threat. My friend and I once used a Van De Graaf generator he had to zap the shit out of a computer in various places and it kept running just fine. Modern electronics are not that fragile to a little bit of electricity in the air. Just scaremongering to keep up people's tolerance for ever more bullshit.
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Yeah because the effect of a vdg is exactly like a solar flare.
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Coincidence?

?
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I doubt it
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So he admits to "prepping."
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What I am thinking.
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kitty I dunno. But I'm thinking of all the fun we are going to have shopping when A It's cash only and B Checkout staff have to add everything up by hand. C And naturally the ding dong in front of you wants all her coupons redeemed and last weeks special offers.
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It's not only an EMP you should worry about, it's the reason behind it and what other areas would be affected.

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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer has issued an unusual warning for investors, calling the threat of a widespread blackout from an electromagnetic surge the "most significant danger" in the world.

"While these pages are typically chock full of scary or depressing scenarios, there is one risk that is head-and-shoulders above all the rest in terms of the scope of potential damage adjusted for the likelihood of occurrence," Singer wrote to clients of his $24.8 billion Elliott Management on Monday in a standard investment update letter.

[link to www.cnbc.com]


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So Said timetravel_0
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How odd.







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North Korea has a satellite that flies right over the USA, at the perfect altitude to inflict a country wide EMP pulse. What are the chances that it is carrying a nuke? Their fearless leader feels confident enough about his nuclear strike capability to issue threats, one of them this week. Studies have been done to estimate the effects of such a scenario and the results are grim. It is estimated that 90% of the US. Population would be dead within a year or less. That is a pretty scary weapon. What is even more troubling is that the blast would simply create the conditions for Americans to annihilate themselves. Take a look in the news. Are you confident that when faced with such extreme hardship, that the population will band together and perform all of the manual labor necessary to rebuild?
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North Korea doesn't have a satellite.
Where did you read that?

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Singer's nickname (used by his friends as well) is 'the Vulture'.

He bought 90 billion old Congo govt' bonds for 10 billion because Congo isn't a country any longer. But the bonds are still good and redeemable by the new country (whatever that is now). So he had the US government issue 90 billion in aid to the new country. This money was then used to pay off the bonds.

There are many other stories about this guy. Greg Pallast has documented many of these.

I wouldn't take this seriously, he must have a plan though.
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Singer's nickname (used by his friends as well) is 'the Vulture'.

He bought 90 billion old Congo govt' bonds for 10 billion because Congo isn't a country any longer. But the bonds are still good and redeemable by the new country (whatever that is now). So he had the US government issue 90 billion in aid to the new country. This money was then used to pay off the bonds.

There are many other stories about this guy. Greg Pallast has documented many of these.

I wouldn't take this seriously, he must have a plan though.
 Quoting: Vic138


He sounds like the US version of George Soros.
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Tenderizing the yuppies in order to mask the true perpetrators. Wake up !,
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EMP is such a bullshit threat. My friend and I once used a Van De Graaf generator he had to zap the shit out of a computer in various places and it kept running just fine. Modern electronics are not that fragile to a little bit of electricity in the air. Just scaremongering to keep up people's tolerance for ever more bullshit.
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I don't think you were quite as thorough when you tested for EMP using a Van De Graaf as these guys were...

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".......Carrington refers to a solar storm in 1859 that caused telegraph systems to fail around the world.

Singer warned that a man-made EMP attack would be even worse.

"It would not cause any blast or radiation damage, but such an attack would have consequences even more catastrophic than a severe solar storm."

[link to www.cnbc.com]


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Can someone suggest a comprehensive list of preparatory actions to minimize the damage from EMP blast?

First few things that come to my mind are

Have some food stored:
1. Freeze Dried Food
2. Water
3. First Aid Kits
4. Remove money from bank (it will all crash right?)
5. Toilet Paper

Add to the list?





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