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Paul Singer: This threat is 'head-and-shoulders' above all others
CNBC ^
| 7/29/14
| Lawrence Delevingne
Posted on 07/29/2014 6:23:35 PM PDT by Kartographer
"(A natural EMP event) today would cause a massive disruption to the electric grid, possibly shutting it down entirely for months or longer, with unimaginable consequences," Singer wrote. "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. The chances of additional events of such magnitude may be far greater than most people think." 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.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: emp; prepper
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Lights Out!
To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...
Preppers’ PING!!
I posted this in spite of being told by a number of FReepers that there is no such thing as EMP.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:25:18 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
I actually remember William F. Buckley warning of just that. I think it was way back in the 60s but might have been the 70s.
At the time he was thinking more of Communist Saboteurs but still the same idea.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:27:13 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Kartographer
As long as they get things back online by football season.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:29:17 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(I want 0bama to make history - First to be IMPEACHED and REMOVED!)
To: Kartographer
I’d be OK but my kids would have to learn to play outside.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:32:30 PM PDT
by
outofsalt
To: Kartographer
Gee, I wonder who benefits by an event that takes us back to the 7th century?
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:32:38 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
To: Defiant
Well it would get rid of the unprepared which I’m guessing is the 39% who still think Oblahblah is doing a good job. :-)
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:35:35 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:35:53 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
To: Kartographer
There is, it’s called Hussein obongo
To: outofsalt
You would most likely be arrested for child abuse. ;-)
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:37:58 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
The global elite are getting ready to hit the Earth's "reset" button in the name of UN Agenda 21 to reduce the population to 500,000,000.
I'd much rather have the "reset" button hit by a natural event than by them. A natural event would be an equal-opportunity killer. The global elite will exempt themselves.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:38:07 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: Kartographer
“Singer warned that a man-made EMP attack would be even worse.”
He’s probably wrong about that. Unless it’s a megaton size blast at 250 miles up and optimized for EMP... That’s pretty unlikely.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:38:13 PM PDT
by
babygene
( .)
To: Kartographer
Judge Jeanine Pirro also thinks this is the biggest threat.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:41:56 PM PDT
by
txhurl
(2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
To: babygene
And somehow travels all over the northern hemisphere.
To: Kartographer
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:45:17 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: Georgia Girl 2
I was thinking more in terms of the savages whose profit told them that their moon god wanted things to stay as they were in the 7th century. Told them how to take a dump, dress, have sex, have many wives, and kill an infidel.
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:47:03 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(4 main US grps: conservatives, useless idiots (aka RINOs), marxists and useful idiots (aka liberals))
To: outofsalt
Will the edges on my skis melt?
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:52:51 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
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posted on
07/29/2014 6:57:26 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: Paladin2
Dont' throw the away yet. They might still be useful.
To: Kartographer
The danger from an EMP engineered by Barry Soetoro is orders of magnitude greater than from a natural event.
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