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Venezuelan government blames 'electromagnetic attack' for nationwide blackout
CNN News ^ | 23 July 2019 | Stefano Pozzebon and Jessie Yeung,

Posted on 07/23/2019 9:40:06 AM PDT by Steely Tom

Large swathes of Venezuela remained without power on Tuesday, the day after the country suffered its fourth nationwide blackout this year.

The blackout, which officials blamed on a hostile "electromagnetic attack," affected almost the entire country, including the capital Caracas.

About 94% of Venezuela's telecommunications infrastructure was hit by the outage, and internet connectivity was only running at 10% nationwide, according to Netblocks, a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking outages.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: blackout; cnnfakenews; emp; empclaim; fakenews; maduro; noticiasfalsas; noticiasfalseadas; socialism; venezuela
More fun, under the friendly socialist sun.
1 posted on 07/23/2019 9:40:06 AM PDT by Steely Tom
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To: Steely Tom

and CNN is dumb enough to report it.
It must be nice to have a job you don’t have to research anything and just reprint what Media Matters faxes over to you.


2 posted on 07/23/2019 9:46:17 AM PDT by Zathras
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¡Noticias falsas!


3 posted on 07/23/2019 9:52:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Steely Tom

Sounds like Kim Jung Un attacked them.


4 posted on 07/23/2019 10:00:38 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Steely Tom

Yanquis are responsible for EVERYTHING.

And enough people down there buy this to keep them in power.


5 posted on 07/23/2019 10:11:50 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Steely Tom

What? Three air conditioners turned on simultaneously?


6 posted on 07/23/2019 10:13:19 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Steely Tom

CNN is a sack of sh*t.


7 posted on 07/23/2019 10:23:03 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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LOL! So Venezuela is such a rich and vital country that it would be the target of an 'electromagnetic attack' by another envious governmental entity?

Isn't that like kicking a dog while it's down?

8 posted on 07/23/2019 10:31:51 AM PDT by DJ Frisat ( (optional, printed after my name on post))
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some of us have been saying all along - emp is gonna getcha

/s


9 posted on 07/23/2019 10:46:07 AM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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“A government statement called the blackout “an electromagnetic attack,” though stopped short of providing details about who might have been responsible or how it was carried out.”

If it was an EMP the power would not be able to come back on would it?


10 posted on 07/23/2019 11:09:24 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (yawn)
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10% is still on? Would that be certain government rulers still have theirs?


11 posted on 07/23/2019 12:40:00 PM PDT by spudville
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