If North Korea Can Kill 90% Of Americans In A Year, Why Did DoD Just Defund The Congressional EMP Commission? | Zero Hedge
Description: At a House hearing yesterday, experts warned Congress that a North Korean EMP attack could kill 90% of Americans within one year, calling it an "existential threat." But despite this looming crisis, the Department of Defense has decided now was the time to defund the Congressional committee that has been studying the threat since 2001.
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# If North Korea Can Kill 90% Of Americans In A Year, Why Did DoD Just Defund The Congressional EMP Commission?

by Tyler Durden
Oct 17, 2017 11:25 PM
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Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog,

At a House hearing yesterday, experts warned members of Congress that a North Korean EMP attack could kill 90% of Americans within one year, calling it an “existential threat.”

But despite this looming crisis, the Department of Defense has decided now was the time to defund the Congressional committee that has been studying the threat since 2001.

The Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack has been around for nearly two decades, but their efforts have mostly been restricted to making sure that the U.S. national command authority and U.S. strategic forces could continue to function. Meanwhile “no major efforts were then thought necessary to protect critical national infrastructures.” Apparently, the plan was that our defense would be so effective, no further steps were needed.

This has all changed with recent strides in nuclear weaponry by North Korea. The results of an EMP strike could be apocalyptic.

> With the development of small nuclear arsenals and long-range missiles by new, radical U.S. adversaries, beginning with North Korea, the threat of a nuclear EMP attack against the U.S. becomes one of the few ways that such a country could inflict devastating damage to the United States. It is critical, therefore, that the U.S. national leadership address the EMP threat as a critical and existential issue, and give a high priority to assuring the leadership is engaged and the necessary steps are taken to protect the country from EMP. (source)

What a lot of people didn’t know was that just a couple of weeks ago, Sept. 30, 2017, the Department of Defense terminated the funding for the EMP Commission. At the same time, “North Korea detonated an H-Bomb that it plausibly describes as capable of “super-powerful EMP” attack and released a technical report “The EMP Might of Nuclear Weapons” accurately describing what Russia and China call a “Super-EMP” weapon.” The EMP Commission has been urging EMP preparedness on a national level for 17 years, but no one has been listening, despite alarming strides toward that goal in just the past six months.

> Recent events have proven the EMP Commission’s critics wrong about other highly important aspects of the nuclear missile threat from North Korea:

> - Just six months ago, most experts thought North Korea’s nuclear arsenal was primitive, some academics claiming it had as few as 6 A-Bombs. Now the intelligence community reportedly estimates North Korea has 60 nuclear weapons.
> - Just six months ago, most experts thought North Korea’s ICBMs were fake, or if real could not strike the U.S. mainland. Now the intelligence community reportedly estimates North Korea’s ICBMs can strike Denver and Chicago, and perhaps the entire United States.
> - Just six months ago, most experts thought North Korea was many years away from an HBomb. Now it appears North Korea has H-Bombs comparable to sophisticated U.S. two-stage thermonuclear weapons.
> - Just six months ago, most experts claimed North Korean ICBMs could not miniaturize an ABomb or design a reentry vehicle for missile delivery. Now the intelligence community reportedly assesses North Korea has miniaturized nuclear weapons, and has developed reentry vehicles for missile delivery, including by ICBMs that can strike the U.S.1

> After massive intelligence failures grossly underestimating North Korea’s long-range missile capabilities, number of nuclear weapons, warhead miniaturization, and proximity to an H-Bomb, the biggest North Korean threat to the U.S. remains unacknowledged—nuclear EMP attack. (source)

So, for 17 years, this group has been ringing the warning bell and no one has been listening. Now that the threat is at our doorstep, their funding has been pulled. Something doesn’t add up.

### The technology exists for a North Korean EMP attack

A successful attack doesn’t even require a Super-EMP weapon. The Commission concluded that even a primitive weapon could successfully render our infrastructure obsolete.

> “Therefore, terrorists or state actors that possess relatively unsophisticated missiles armed with nuclear weapons may well calculate that, instead of destroying a city or military base, they may obtain the greatest political-military utility from one or a few such weapons by using them—or threatening their use—in an EMP attack.” (source)

But that isn’t the worst of in. In 2004, two Russian generals told the EMP Commission that their design for a Super-EMP weapon was “accidentally transferred to North Korea.”

Let that sink in. Somehow, North Korea has had their hands on the design for an incredibly powerful EMP weapon for more than a decade. The report says:

> In 2004, two Russian generals, both EMP experts, warned the EMP Commission that the design for Russia’s Super-EMP warhead, capable of generating high-intensity EMP fields over 100,000 volts per meter, was “accidentally” transferred to North Korea. They also said that due to “brain drain,” Russian scientists were in North Korea, as were Chinese and Pakistani scientists according to the Russians, helping with the North’s missile and nuclear weapon programs.

> In 2009, South Korean military intelligence told their press that Russian scientists are in North Korea helping develop an EMP nuclear weapon. In 2013, a Chinese military commentator stated North Korea has Super-EMP nuclear weapons.

> Super-EMP weapons are low-yield and designed to produce not a big kinetic explosion, but rather a high level of gamma rays, which generates the high-frequency E1 EMP that is most damaging to the broadest range of electronics. North Korean nuclear tests, including the first in 2006, whose occurrence was predicted to the EMP Commission two years in advance by the two Russian EMP experts, mostly have yields consistent with the size of a Super-EMP weapon. The Russian generals’ accurate prediction about when North Korea would perform its first nuclear test, and of a yield consistent with a Super-EMP weapon, indicates their warning about a North Korean Super-EMP weapon should be taken very seriously. (source)

The report says that while everyone is focused on the future, when Pyongyang may develop “highly reliable intercontinental missiles, guidance systems, and reentry vehicles”, a North Korean EMP attack wouldn’t require that level of accuracy.

> EMP attack does not require an accurate guidance system because the area of effect, having a radius of hundreds or thousands of kilometers, is so large. No reentry vehicle is needed because the warhead is detonated at high altitude, above the atmosphere. Missile reliability matters little because only one missile has to work to make an EMP attack against an entire nation. (source)

It would be a strategic initial strike to take down the American power grid to disable the maority of the country before undertaking any other form of attack.

### How would a North Korean EMP attack be likely to occur?

Potential vehicles of attack are submarines or freighters, which could launch an EMP weapon to the relatively low altitude of 30 kilometers over the United States. Unsettlingly, “even a balloon-lofted warhead detonated at 30 kilometers altitude could blackout the Eastern Electric Power Grid that supports most of the population and generates 75 percent of U.S. electricity.”

A more likely choice would be a satellite.

> A Super-EMP weapon could be relatively small and lightweight, and could fit inside North Korea’s Kwangmyongsong-3 (KMS-3) and Kwangmyongsong-4 (KMS-4) satellites. These two satellites presently orbit over the United States, and over every other nation on Earth– demonstrating, or posing, a potential EMP threat against the entire world.

> North Korea’s KMS-3 and KMS-4 satellites were launched to the south on polar trajectories and passed over the United States on their first orbit. Pyongyang launched KMS-4 on February 7, 2017, shortly after its fourth illegal nuclear test on January 6, that began the present protracted nuclear crisis with North Korea.

> The south polar trajectory of KMS-3 and KMS-4 evades U.S. Ballistic Missile Early Warning Radars and National Missile Defenses, resembling a Russian secret weapon developed during the Cold War, called the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) that would have used a nuclear-armed satellite to make a surprise EMP attack on the United States. (source)

The report goes on to explain that our defense systems are completely unready for any of these scenarios.

### There’s a lot of misinformation about the threat of EMPs.

The report counters a great deal of misinformation about the threat of EMPs. While no one really wants to consider the devastating effects, many “uninformed persons posturing as experts” completely deny the possibility. However, the Commission says that the empirical basis for an EMP attack is better established than that of a cyber attack.

They offered numerous examples of hard data regarding the effects of EMPs.

> - The U.S. STARFISH PRIME high-altitude nuclear test in 1962 over Johnston Island that generated an EMP field over the Hawaiian Islands, over 1,300 kilometers away, causing widespread damage to electronic systems.
> - Six Russian EMP tests 1961-1962 over Kazakhstan that with a single weapon destroyed electric grids over an area larger than Western Europe, proving this capability six times.
> - 30 years (1962-1992) of U.S. underground nuclear testing that included collecting data on EMP effects.
> - Over 50 years of testing by EMP simulators, still ongoing, including by the Congressional EMP Commission (2001-2008) that proved modern electronics are over 1 million times more vulnerable to EMP than the electronics of 1962.
> - “Radio Frequency Weapons were used in separate incidents against the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to falsely set off alarms and to induce a fire in a sensitive area.”
> - “In Kzlyar, Dagestan, Russia, Chechen rebel commander Salman Raduyev disabled police radio communications using RF transmitters during a raid.”
> - “In June 1999 in Bellingham, Washington, RF energy from a radar induced a SCADA malfunction that caused a gas pipeline to rupture and explode.”
> - “In 1999, a Robinson R-44 news helicopter nearly crashed when it flew by a high-frequency broadcast antenna.”
> - North Korea used a Radio Frequency Weapon, purchased from Russia, to attack airliners and impose an “electromagnetic blockade” on air traffic to Seoul, South Korea’s capital. The repeated attacks by RFW also disrupted communications and the operation of automobiles in several South Korean cities in December 2010; March 9, 2011; and April-May 2012.(source)

The threat is real. So, again, why would the Department of Defense withdraw funding from the Commission that wants to take steps to harden our infrastructure against this possibility?

### What would the aftermath of an EMP attack look like?

The Commission cited several examples of real-world electrical grid failures and their catastrophic consequences.

> - The Great Northeast Blackout of 2003–that put 50 million people in the dark for a day, contributed to at least 11 deaths, and cost an estimated $6 billion—originated from a single failure point when a powerline contacted a tree branch, damaging less than 0.0000001 (0.00001%) of the system.
> - The New York City Blackout of 1977, that resulted in the arrest of 4,500 looters and injury of 550 police officers, was caused by a lightning strike on a substation that tripped two circuit breakers.
> - The Great Northeast Blackout of 1965, that effected (sic) 30 million people, happened because a protective relay on a transmission line was improperly set.
> - India’s nationwide blackout of July 30-31, 2012—the largest blackout in history, effecting (sic) 670 million people, 9% of the world population—was caused by overload of a single high-voltage powerline.
> - India’s blackout of January 2, 2001—effecting 226 million people—was caused by equipment failure at the Uttar Pradesh substation.
> - Indonesia’s blackout of August 18, 2005—effecting 100 million people—was caused by overload of a high-voltage powerline.
> - Brazil’s blackout of March 11, 1999—effecting 97 million people—was caused by a lightning strike on an EHV transformer substation.
> - Italy’s blackout of September 28, 2003—effecting 55 million people—was caused by overload of two high-voltage powerlines.
> - Germany, France, Italy, and Spain experienced partial blackouts on November 4, 2006 effecting (sic)10-15 million people—from accidental shutdown of a high-voltage powerline.
> - The San Francisco blackout in April 2017 was caused by the failure of a single high voltage breaker (source)

My mind immediately goes to the down-grid disaster occurring right now in Puerto Rico.

The death toll from such a disaster would be unprecedented:

> The result could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans—as the EMP Commission testified over eight years ago.

We’re talking about the deaths of more than 270 million people.

President Trump signed an Executive Order in May called “Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure” which will hopefully harden our country against both cyber attacks and EMPs. The Commission provided a list of actionable suggestions on pages 11-14 of this report, but will the steps be undertaken before it’s too late? Especially now that they’re defunct.

### How do you prep for something so massive?

It doesn’t seem as though the government is very interested in taking steps to protect our power grid. We can look at what is happening in Puerto Rico as a glimpse of the apocalyptic future that would follow such an attack. Restoring power after an EMP could take multiple years, and things in America would never be the same after a sustained change in our way of life.

The result of an EMP attack would be a protracted blackout that would put at risk the lives of millions of people. Climate control, a lack of off-grid survival skills, looting, lawlessness, lack of medication, starvation, waterborne disease – all of these threats to our survival cannot be overlooked. If you haven’t read the book One Second After, I recommend you do so for a fictionalized yet nonetheless realistic look at life after the grid. If that doesn’t inspire you to prepare for such an event, nothing will.

The best resource for preparing for an attack like this is Disaster Preparedness for EMP and Solar Storms, by Dr. Arthur T. Bradley. A NASA scientist, Dr. Bradley has spent years studying the aftereffects of such a catastrophe. His book dispels many myths an provides realistic, lifesaving information. My personal plan is a low-tech one – I am not spending a fortune on generators and fancy gadgets I wouldn’t be able to use once the fuel runs out.

Preparing for something this massive is beyond the scope of this article. I strongly encourage you to begin researching and create your own low-tech plan. Don’t put it off until you get your perfect homestead in the boondocks or you talk your family members into it. Disasters like this don’t wait for a convenient time – in fact, strategically speaking, the less convenient it is, the more the attacker benefits.

If World War 3 starts off with an EMP, it renders many of our plans moot. We have been warned in the strongest terms possible, but will it be enough?

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IridiumRebel Oct 17, 2017 11:29 PM

Because fuck American common folk.....
The bunker elites will be fine.

Raffie IridiumRebel Oct 17, 2017 11:31 PM

I'm sure its a slight over sight on their part.

cbxer55 Raffie Oct 18, 2017 12:19 AM

I suspect you got downvoted because no one understand what it menas to be facetious anymore!

Raffie cbxer55 Oct 18, 2017 12:19 AM

ya but I don't care. LOL

HopefulCynical Raffie Oct 18, 2017 2:07 AM

Why Did DoD Just Defund The Congressional EMP Commission?

Because (((they))) have an agenda.

Sadly for them, we also have an agenda. And it includes never being controlled by them again.

Game on, motherfuckers.

We're fucking done with you.

Sudden Debt HopefulCynical Oct 18, 2017 3:53 AM

If 90% of the American population would die because of an EMP attack....

Those 90% are weaklings and would make Americans who lived 70 years ago cry

It's not because you can't do a facebook update dat all hell will break loose. It might even be a good thing.

Remember the babyboom in New York after the blackout?

Shemp 4 Victory Sudden Debt Oct 18, 2017 4:36 AM

> Why Did DoD Just Defund The Congressional EMP Commission?

Mitigating the vulnerability would require spending a substantial amount of money on improvements to the US power grid. This money could justifiably be considered an investment in the national defense. Thus it threatens to divert spending away from expensive boondoggles like the F-35 and anti-missile systems, depriving the MIC welfare queens of "entitlements".

techpriest Shemp 4 Victory Oct 18, 2017 7:03 AM

Look at it this way:

- We could be wiped out by an EMP
- Infrastructure maintenance costs could overwhelm us given that the ASCE is claiming $2 trillion is needed to get everything back up to standards, and while not all of it is critical, structures like the Oroville Dam are pretty far gone and many more such structures exist
- Pension obligations are rapidly becoming unpayable, which will mean an exodus of police, fire, teachers, etc. (though that might actually be a good thing in some cities!)
- Years of divisive politics are leading to balkanization
- And don't forget about that pesky $20 trillion in debt and the question of what to do when interest rates go up.

Maybe the EMP is merely a 1% probability over the next ten years, while we have lot of disasters that are a 20-60% probability of going off in the next ten years.

I used to be involved in politics, and a big part of the day-to-day stuff is fear peddlers trying to scare people into giving them money. Everything from "There's gonna be a nuclear war tomorrow!" to the feminist "There's a rapist under every rock and behind every tree!"

swmnguy techpriest Oct 18, 2017 9:29 AM

Yeah, I've heard that $2 trillion figure to bring our infrastructure up to snuff, and how it's completely impossible to even consider.

Of course, that's $2 trillion over about a decade, the engineers all say. Or put another way, about 1/5th of what we would spend in a decade on the War Machine.

So, yeah, completely impossible and hopeless and not even worth thinking about.

BetweenThe Coasts techpriest Oct 18, 2017 1:48 PM

Also don't forget about that pesky missing (looted) $21 trillion from DOD and HUD. Makes $2 trillion to fix the grid for the benefit of citizens inconsequential.

DOD and HUD Missing Money: Supporting Documentation for $21 Trillion of Undocumentable Adjustments

BTW gov has pulled the original documents off the net but they were archived here first.

land_of_the_few Shemp 4 Victory Oct 18, 2017 7:10 AM

A slightly different point of view - "Why Did DoD Just Defund The Congressional EMP Commission?"

Because.Its.A.Crock

interesting timing considering there were a whole bunch of pro-EMP-doom articles trying to avoid defunding in the last few weeks, almost as if someone knew,

is someone related to Nostradamus? :P

JRobby HopefulCynical Oct 18, 2017 5:49 AM

A real threat?

More attention diverting bullshit?

VD IridiumRebel Oct 17, 2017 11:35 PM

no emp, all-in idiotcoin

Raffie VD Oct 17, 2017 11:43 PM

'all-in idiotcoin'

Happy you found a coin you can relate with.

VD Raffie Oct 17, 2017 11:47 PM

yeah, its a reference to btc. i have to spell it all out here.

wee-weed up VD Oct 17, 2017 11:50 PM

You actually expect congresscritters to put the welfare of the American people before their own selfish needs and wants?

How fukin' naive can you be?

TBT or not TBT wee-weed up Oct 17, 2017 11:56 PM

On the other hand, the commission hasn't accomplished anything in twenty whatever years. Making the grid resilent, and with that water treatment and delivery, fuel refining, plus basic communication infrastructure, could save a big % of the expected 90% death toll.

cbxer55 TBT or not TBT Oct 18, 2017 12:28 AM

Not only water delivery for drinking purposes, water for shower or bath, water for yer turlets. Imagine life with no flushing toilets and no shower or bath every day? EEK! People will start to stink just like they did 150 years ago. No more washing your clothes in a washer and dryer! AHHHH!!! And don't plan on using the local lake, every body else close to it will be way ahead of your slow ass. It'll be polluted in a week.

Yeah, life will be pleasant. Better off swallowing a lead pill as soon as it all goes down. Cause you likely will not be one of the 10% who survive anyways. The odds are not in your favor, or mine.

Wouldn't want to be in an airplane when it all goes down. In the book One Second After, the first victims are those airborne, end up as smoking craters very shortly after the blast, which no one sees or hears due to it's height.

The EMP Commission report, on one page, siad "large ares of the U.S. will be unable to support life as we know it". Also, it's a very fast way to turn the clocks back 150 years, to a time when the systems in place could not handle as many people as moden ones can.

I read the book, I read the entire report. The report is rather boring, but it paints a bleak picture. I'm doing nothing to prepare. Soon as things start to go south, I'm checking out. Don't want to experience life 150 years in the past at all.

TBT or not TBT cbxer55 Oct 18, 2017 12:55 AM

A resilient grid keeps water pressure on for all uses. No grid means no supply chain for anything at all, and probably a lot of melted nuke plants and similar accidents. And that's it EMP merely destroys our grid. If it kills most mkcroelectronics then yeah it's like One Second After...But the author points out that preventative nvestments in old school rail engines could cut down the death toll massively

Hillarys Server cbxer55 Oct 18, 2017 2:44 AM

I stayed in bed for two days without bathing and my entire body smelled like a sanitary napkin.

HRH Feant2 cbxer55 Oct 18, 2017 2:45 AM

Same here. I have read more than one book on the issue.

Most people are so ignorant, so clueless, they can barely wipe their butts.

Scary as to how quickly society will break down without power.

I view PR as a beta test.

markovchainey cbxer55 Oct 18, 2017 9:40 AM

I've been practicing. I bathe maybe once a week. My dog loves me. People not so much.

Mtnrunnr TBT or not TBT Oct 18, 2017 12:26 AM

90%? seems a bit low.

cbxer55 Mtnrunnr Oct 18, 2017 12:34 AM

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. ;-)

Byte Me TBT or not TBT Oct 18, 2017 2:48 AM

Yes, I nearly read it that way too. But it's not a commission, it's a COMMITTEE.

Nothing good ever gets achieved by committee. QED.

bonin006 Byte Me Oct 18, 2017 2:06 PM

A committee is where ideas go to die.

BandGap IridiumRebel Oct 17, 2017 11:47 PM

Wow, and I asked for this at Christmas.

https://www.amazing1.com/emp.html

You people are complete assholes if you don't think the US has been developing these weapons for 35+ fucking years. They sell fucking kits here. Maybe fatboy got one for Christmas last year.

It will be our own government that drops any shit on us, Duh.

HRClinton IridiumRebel Oct 18, 2017 12:46 AM

If they wanted to make a killing, they'd sell a Directional nano-EMPs, to take out smart phones of dumb people who are texting in cars.

Or to zap the a-hole who cut you off in traffic.

Byte Me HRClinton Oct 18, 2017 7:03 AM

Somehow I had a vision of Maxine Waters (or insert ProgTwit of choice) calling for a clip-size limit on ZapGunZ.

Blue Steel 309 IridiumRebel Oct 18, 2017 2:00 AM

The lights go out and I am getting my happy ass to D.C. I will work my way out from there.

HardAssets IridiumRebel Oct 18, 2017 3:09 AM

Much better to implement martial law afterwards.

Trillions for Iraq & Afghanistan wars - not so much for real defense of American people.

Duc888 Oct 17, 2017 11:31 PM

This Nork shit is getting sooooooooooooo old, like the supposed Trump connection with Russia. Bring on the 14 ft reptile alien invasion already....sheeesh.

mkkby Duc888 Oct 18, 2017 4:59 AM

EMP is a farce. Sporadic damage at best. Most will never even notice. Just calling someone an EMP expert is fake news.

Even if the worst were true (which it isn't), so fucking what? Billions in asia and africa live without modern conveniences. Saying 95% dead is a fucking joke. A few snowflakes will hang themselves when they can't post to instagram.

You are not red pilled if all you do is trade the gov/media lying sociopaths for the internet doom porn lying sociopaths.

Implied Violins Oct 17, 2017 11:31 PM

Could it be that THEY *WANT* 95% OF US DEAD???

That's what the Georgia Guidestones decree...FUCK these bastards. FUCK them all the way to HELL.

I DO NOT CONSENT TO THIS BULLSHIT.

HRH Feant2 Implied Violins Oct 18, 2017 12:15 AM

That is exactly my conclusion.

I, also, do not consent.

Basically the only thing that has been funded is the website. I don't see that as a major fucking problem.

idontcare Implied Violins Oct 18, 2017 12:02 AM

2025 forecast deagel.com:

http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.aspx

HRClinton Implied Violins Oct 18, 2017 12:40 AM

According to the map, you'll be fine I'm the Bahamas & Caribbean, and on Catalina Island.

Unless they pop 2 or more of them, for bigger and stronger coverage.

Then a slow boat to ... would be the thing.

HRH Feant2 HRClinton Oct 18, 2017 3:58 AM

If you are on Catalina Island, goody! Plenty of cats to put in a stew pot!

HRClinton Implied Violins Oct 18, 2017 12:49 AM

Considering what 95% of the Public is like, I sure won't miss most of the 95%.

_triplesix_ Oct 17, 2017 11:32 PM

Moar EMP porn!

Sweet.

Raffie _triplesix_ Oct 17, 2017 11:38 PM

EMP = Extreme Man'o Pause?

YuConCornelius Oct 17, 2017 11:36 PM

I think this Russian who wrote this from Organic Prepper Blog needs to understand that the DoD can't defund congressional commissions.

MrSteve YuConCornelius Oct 18, 2017 12:27 AM

Read the blog promoting renewables like solar rechargers which would also fry in a Carrington Event (CME) or EMP attack, so pack your own chute. Prepping means think hard now.

techpriest MrSteve Oct 18, 2017 7:03 AM

Put some spares in a grounded steel box/locker. Prep complete.

Manipuflation YuConCornelius Oct 18, 2017 12:49 AM

Doubt it.

secretargentman YuConCornelius Oct 18, 2017 1:09 AM

That seemed off to me as well.

Dassey4FedChair Oct 17, 2017 11:37 PM

Oh no we're fucked we better start a huge fucking war soon !!!!!!

shutterbug Dassey4FedChair Oct 18, 2017 2:09 AM

yeah, we are sooo scared now ... we must start a war soooon!!!

Why don't people understand they are being played with bullshit-and-fake-science??

mkkby shutterbug Oct 18, 2017 5:04 AM

Even most smart people are science illiterate.

HRH Feant2 Dassey4FedChair Oct 18, 2017 3:59 AM

Dammit call the popo! They need to know!

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10-18 13:45: Spanish Justice Minister Catala says that Spain is ready to apply all...
10-18 13:45: EU President Tusk says the European Economy has finally woken up
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10-18 13:45: California wants to revoke Cardinal facility's wholesale license...
10-18 13:45: Technical Earnings Preview: KeyCorp range-bound ahead of results
10-18 13:45: Corporate Office says no shares issued following 1.1M share block...
10-18 13:45: NASDAQ market internals summary
10-18 13:45: NYSE market internals summary
10-18 13:45: Cinemark now accepts Chase Pay online
10-18 13:45: Community Health put volume heavy and directionally bearish
10-18 13:45: On The Fly: What to watch in telecom sector earnings reports
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10-18 13:45: Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (BWLD) PT Lowered to $128 at Barclays on U.S. Restaurant 3Q Earnings Preview
10-18 13:45: Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) PT Lowered to $325 at Barclays on U.S. Restaurant 3Q Earnings Preview; 'Cautious on CMG'
10-18 13:45: BJ's Restaurants (BJRI) PT Lowered to $29 at Barclays on U.S. Restaurant 3Q Earnings Preview
10-18 13:45: UPDATE: BWS Financial Upgrades Verso Paper (VRS) to Strong Buy
10-18 13:45: Bloomin' Brands (BLMN) PT Lowered to $22 at Barclays on U.S. Restaurant 3Q Earnings Preview
10-18 13:45: HanesBrands (HBI) Maintained Hold at Stifel
10-18 13:45: Bojangles' (BOJA) PT Lowered to $14 at Barclays on U.S. Restaurant 3Q Earnings Preview
10-18 13:45: Brinker Int'l (EAT) PT Lowered to $38 at Barclays on U.S. Restaurant 3Q Earnings Preview