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

 
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WTF? Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Warns Investors About EMP Attack!
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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".......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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more like to the danger of HIS hedge fund on computers
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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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So he admits to "prepping."
The President is an employee. His boss is the tax payer.
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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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The sun is electric.

This guy is talking about a manmade EMP threat.
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Coincidence?

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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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So he admits to "prepping."
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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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He is a hedge fund manager. obviously his biggest fear would be a black out (he doesnt even say emp... he is also talking about natural surges..) since their money is only numbers on a computer. once there is a black out you can have all the billions you want in your account. it aint coming out to help you pay for things.
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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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Thank about it, they don't really have many options now.

Russia isn't biting, so WW3 isn't going anywhere

The whole world knows ISIS was created by US, UK and Israel, so that false flag won't look as false as they expected.

Solar max is at its weakest, sun doom won't ever come

Nuke NYC is still a possibility, but it will cause massive American casualty created by Americans. And too much people need to get involved to achieve it. Way too much risk

So there you have it. EMP by some unknown group (US government) is the best solution to bring it down. Cost is low, minimal personnel involved, very easy to tie loose ends. Effect will be widespread, perfect excuse for financial collapse, martial law, gun confiscation...

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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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"Only two years ago, the sun let loose with a Carrington-magnitude burst, but the position of the earth at the time prevented the burst from hitting it
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Paul 'The Vulture" Singer was the featured villain in Greg Palast's book 'VULTURES' PICNIC'.

"The carrion king is known as Singer The Vulture. I didn't give him the moniker. The name Vulture was tagged on him and his speculator colleagues by the Prime Minister of Britain and the World Bank. Recently, former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN Winston Tubman suggested I ask Singer or his business associates, "Do you know you're causing babies to die?"

What does this guy do—put poison in kiddies' milk? Worse: he takes away the milk."

[link to www.gregpalast.com]
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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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Can't wait to hear from those who are inclined to believe that the manager of a 20-plus billion dollar fund has 'too much time on his hands'.
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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.

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Whenever the EMP happens, it won't be due to the sun.
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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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"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..."
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Maybe he's secretly telling us to buy Johnson & Johnson stocks... damned
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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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That's funny. At least not until the spent fuel cooling pools burn off the water in a week due to the back up generators being off from lack of fuel, then melting down all over the world. Imagine every nuke plant going Fukushima!
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I can understand this. The machines stop communicating and the "wealth" of the billionaires and their millionaire shareholders vanishes.
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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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The sun is electric.

This guy is talking about a manmade EMP threat.
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^^THIS^^
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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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Thanks. I'll take that into account. I always shut off the machine when thunder rumbles...
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Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
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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.

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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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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.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 57577161


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.
 Quoting: nutmeg


Thanks. I'll take that into account. I always shut off the machine when thunder rumbles...
 Quoting: Hardwired


What most people forget to do is unplug the cable or phone li e from their computer modem.. Losts of fried pcs through old style telephone line modems for example
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That hedge fund manager understands the mindset of the Marxists in charge of this sinking ship.
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Emp is a very real threat. And not much of anything is hardened the way most people just assume it is.

Are nukes , and some military equipment is.





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