Contract reveals US NSA paid French hacking company unknown sum in 2012 to develop software exploits

By Madison Ruppert: A recently released contract reveals that the National Security Agency (NSA) paid a French hacking company an unknown amount of money in 2012 for a 12-month subscription to a “binary analysis and exploits service.”
The contract, released under a Freedom of Information Act request, shows firm proof of the massive malware purchasing program run by the United States.
While it was most recently revealed that the FBI employs hackers, this is the first time that a document has been publicly released that clearly shows the NSA’s exploit purchasing program.
The contract, released by MuckRock, shows that the NSA paid a redacted sum to Vupen, a company based in Montpelier, France, for a year’s worth of exploits.
The exploits purchased are sometimes called “zero-day attacks” due to the fact that they remain undetected and unpatched by software developers.
They are “complex codes custom-written by hackers to target undisclosed security weaknesses in widely used operating systems like Windows and software programs like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Java, and Flash,”

The Armageddon Looting Machine: The Looming Mass Destruction from Derivatives

By Ellen Brown: Increased regulation and low interest rates are driving lending from the regulated commercial banking system into the unregulated shadow banking system. The shadow banks, although free of government regulation, are propped up by a hidden government guarantee in the form of safe harbor status under the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform Act pushed through by Wall Street. The result is to create perverse incentives for the financial system to self-destruct.
Five years after the financial collapse precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy on September 15, 2008, the risk of another full-blown financial panic is still looming large, despite the Dodd Frank legislation designed to contain it. As noted in a recent Reuters article, the risk has just moved into the shadows:

[B]anks are pulling back their balance sheets from the fringes of the credit markets, with more and more risk being driven to unregulated lenders that comprise the $60 trillion “shadow-banking” sector.

Canadian Billionaire Predicts The End Of The Dollar As Reserve Currency; Warns "It's Likely To Get Ugly"

Submitted by Tyler Durden: Beginning with how war criminal Kissinger and Nixon enabled the USD as the world's de facto reserve currency through oil, Canadian Billionaire Ned Goodman explains in the brief but far-reaching clip how it is both inevitable (and rapidly approaching) that the rest of the world will turn its back on the dollar. With China and Russia (among many others that we have detailed in the past) agreeing on non-USD swap terms for energy, the cracks are starting to show and as Goodman details, "in the 1930s, everyone wanted USD (backed by silver)," but today, backed by nothing, "everyone wants to get rid of them." Buying hard assets is crucial (he has never been more bullish of gold) as we head into a period of stagflation or even high inflation; and as Goodman previously commented "the world is totally upside down right now - it's completely crazy," in fact, he adds, "I'm keen on anything that's going to live with higher inflationary numbers, because I can't see the world getting out of the problems that it's in.

Half of world’s richest women are Chinese

By Lu Nengneng: Yang Huiyan, 32, heiress to property developer Country Garden, has retaken the title of China’s richest woman from another property tycoon Wu Yajun, 49, this year, according to the Hurun List of Richest Women in China 2013 released today.
It has been five years since Yang ceded the top spot of the list compiled by Hurun Research Institute. Based on calculation made in August, Yang's wealth shot up 60 percent to 51 billion yuan (US$8.3 billion) from a year earlier when she ranked 11th after Country Garden, 58 percent owned by her family, reported a 20 percent increase in revenue and a 17.9 percent growth in profit last year.

Millionaire Paytriots

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Misandry and aggression against men is REAL

By Secretary/CEO Law Society of Kenya: Recent events offer us an opportunity to debate attitudes and approaches to the question of gender violence.
Over the past few decades, ‘gender violence’ has been defined as violence by men against women. Women’s violence against the male gender has been considered to be either non-existent, or the fault of men, or has been trivialised and justified in a variety of ways.
This interpretation further implies that women’s aggression is a reaction to men’s actions towards them, blaming the victim for his plight.
There are many factors contributing to this, but the most relevant and most important is the radical feminist philosophy which holds that the sexes are adversarially poised; that all forms of violence are derived from the power men have over women; and that men are a class of aggressors, from which arise individuals with greater or lesser aggressive capacity. 

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This perception resulted in a marked shift in relevant policies from a pro-male to a pro-female position, and a bias in favour of abused females and against abused males, who are being ignored, neglected and disbelieved.

Where there is Government there is NO rule of law

Stefan Molyneux on Snowden and Aaron Swartz

CIA, NSA & Economic Espionage - Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert with Greg Palast

Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss economic espionage and sabotage by the NSA against the corporations and innovators of competitor nations. In the second half, Max interviews author, journalist and filmmaker, Greg Palast of GregPalast.com, about the Larry Summers' secret 'End Game' memo and the decriminalization of what were once financial crimes. Source

Information Will Save Us? Ask Aaron Schwartz... + Shakespeare Was A Blindingly Talented Statist Whore!

Stefan Molyneux: Stefan Molyneux and Jeffrey Tucker discuss the tragic Aaron Schwartz situation, the fallacy of "the rule of law," the distribution of information and philosophy as medicine for the world.

THE GREAT 2013 GOLD HEIST : Exploding Demand & Falling Supply

By SRSrocco: No one was prepared for the orchestrated take-down of the price of gold and silver in the first half of 2013.  Forecasted supply was generously overstated while demand… grossly under-estimated.  Thus, the tremendous imbalance had to be resolved which came to be known as “The Great Gold Heist of 2013.”
Not only were the investors taken by surprise from the huge price declines, but so were the Fed and member bullion banks — one by price movement and the other by huge demand.  To understand why I believe there was a gold heist, we have to dissect through some of the just released official data.
Thomson Reuters GFMS just came out with their 2013 Gold Survey Update by providing interesting data that can finally shed some light on what will become an important pivotal point in history.  While I realize many individuals are quite skeptical of the data coming from the World Gold Council and Thomson Reuters GFMS, at least we can make some key assumptions from these statistics.

Why this triumphalist Lloyds sale of 6% is a big fat nothing of spin bollocks.

Why is getting a 6% sale away at break-even for the Coalition, and a 75% loss to the Lloyds shareholder, a sign of imminent economic recovery, George?

The Slog: The news these days consists of three steps where there used to be one. First, you wonder WhyTF they’ve done something. Second, they give you a reason. Third, the reason makes no sense and/or merely obfuscates the issue, so one starts looking for the real reason(s). The days when one heard news, read analysis and moved on ended around 1975, if my memory serves me correctly.

Most of the electorate, however, have stayed with a slightly simplified version of the original news imbibing modus operandum: they hear the news, feel puzzled, and then go back to sleep. From such citizen raw material was fashioned concepts such as the American Recovery, the Healing UK Economy, Falling Unemployment, Bail-ins at the Bank, Jimmy Savile raped a Nation, ClubMed austerity and Larry Summers for US Fed Reserve Chairman.

Today, the mystifying thing on my mind (not in or out, just sort of on it – like a cyst) is this ‘sale’ of Lloyds Bank to allegedly eager US investors.

Men Face Hardship And Discrimination - Warren Farrell, Paul Elam and Tom Golden

Paul Elam: Warren, Paul and Tom discuss the reasons that so many people today simply don't think that men face hardship and discrimination. This video is a 10 minute clip from a 45 minute conversation between Warren Farrell, Paul Elam and Tom Golden.