| September 14, 2013 | | | | | | | |  | | | | The End Of The World As We Have Known It (TEWAWHKI)... | | | | | - The globe's science elite join to save us from the end of the world as we have known it...
- What's the difference between a member of a prestigious Cambridge academic centre and a doomsayer on the side of the road? (Hint: trick question)...
- How the U.S. thought $16.1 billion was a better line of defense than Stephen Hawking, The Daily Reckoning's best essays and… Research on profiting from the latest Snowden security leaks!
| | | | | | | | | | | | LEAKED: Pentagon Will Flood Market With $16.1 Billion in New Spending…
The Pentagon is set to unleash "The Black Budget." And it could send this one small group of stocks through the roof. When this last happened during World War II, it was possible for investors to grab massive once-in-a-lifetime gains of 12,428%… 20,381%… AND EVEN 55,000% from unprecedented military spending. So click here now for this declassified brief on how you could have the opportunity to seize military-guided gains! | | | | | | | | | | | Peter Coyne, singing: "That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane. Lenny Bruce is not afraid…"
 | | Peter Coyne | "It's the end of the world as we know it... and I feel fine."
-- R.E.M., "It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" | A group of academia's brightest minds have assembled in the United Kingdom to envision the end of humanity. It's a sort of doomsday A-team called the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER).
How could we not be intrigued?
The CSER includes members like Stephen Hawking and Lord Robert May, the former U.K. chief government scientist. Lord Rees of Ludlow, the astronomer royal and past president of the Royal Society, will run the show.
The centre's objective as stated on their website is "to steer a small fraction of Cambridge's great intellectual resources, and of the reputation built on its past and present scientific pre-eminence, to the task of ensuring that our own species has a long-term future."
Extreme weather events, pandemics, sabotage and war resulting in a shortage of food and resources all are on the possible end of the world shortlist. Along with engineered viruses, machines revolting against man, nuclear apocalypse and asteroid impact.
We don't know if most of these awful events are avoidable. But we do believe we've uncovered a sacred truth of academia. If you're this guy...
 Crackhead
...you're a "crackhead."
Passersby will not be surprised if you smell like urine.
But if you hold the title of the honorable Lucasian professor in physics, you can hang the exact same shingle outside your office... and get tenure. Maybe even a young coed to fawn over you. You also get to be a member of a prestigious centre looking to avoid existential risk.
Go figure. (And... choose your own path accordingly.)
"In a modern, efficient world," said professor David Spiegelhalter, an expert in risk at Cambridge and a member of the centre, stating the obvious, "we no longer stockpile food."
"If the supply is disrupted for any reason, it would take about 48 hours before it runs out and riots begin. We use interconnected systems for everything from power to food supply and banking, which means there can be real trouble if things go wrong or they are sabotaged."
What's the most plausible scenario?
"One of the biggest threats," reports The Independent, "is some kind of attack on the computers controlling the electricity grids around the world. Loss of electrical power would have immediate and possibly severe consequences if it could not be restored quickly."
Stateside, that kind of talk is just preaching to the choir. The Pentagon's been beefing up their cybersecurity for months. They've seen this threat from a mile away, and they're prepared to respond the only way they know how to: spend.
| "If the supply is disrupted for any reason, it would take about 48-hours before it runs out and riots begin" | The Pentagon will ramp up its cybersecurity programs, develop new capabilities and shore up its network defenses via a $16.1 billion program. To make it all happen, the government is relying on private cybersecurity companies to do most of their work for them in return for government contracts.
The Daily Reckoning's contributors, led by our military tech maven Byron King, spent uncountable hours sifting through budget details and declassified documents over the past few weeks. They've tracked down the public companies that are best poised to gain from this massive overhaul and listed the DR's best research and essays on the topic for you to access.
Be sure to check out each of them, below...
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The "Chaffee Royalty Program" That Once Turned Every $1 Into $50 In 2002, the same royalty "paycheck program" that once paid out $50 for every $1 invested... decided to shut the door to new "members" after a more than 10-year run. In 2013, a new door has opened... and it just got easier than ever to "make money while you sleep"... But there's no telling when it could close again... So you'd better learn how to collect your own "Chaffee Royalties" right NOW! | | | | | | | | | | | This Week in the Daily Reckoning...
| | |  Leaked: The Pentagon's Top-Secret "Black Budget"
By Byron King
Byron's research delivers the urgent details on how to use the secrets in the recent "black budget" leak from Edward Snowden to make massive gains. The last time the Pentagon doled out this kind of cash, investors saw extraordinary gains of 12,428%… 20,381%… and even 55,000%.
 Bionic Commandos from the Warrior Web
By Josh Grasmick
As military technology gets more advanced, new developments in wearable technology and human augmentation, like the X1 robotic exoskeleton, are changing the future of warfare. Get ready for the next generation of military technology, and find out just which companies are leading the charge…
 The Hidden Arms Race
By Byron King
The future of warfare will not involve traditional bombs and guns. It will be carried out from afar, by people sitting at computers, armed only with a mouse and a keyboard. Some companies are already gearing up for this kind of "digital conflict," and the few investors who are aware of it stand to profit handsomely...
 The U.S. Really Wants a War With Syria
By Greg Canavan
This is not just "another" Middle Eastern conflict. It's much deeper, subtler and potentially far more dangerous than preceding conflicts. The situation in Syria is a direct result of the relative decline of U.S. imperial power, and if you think the U.S. will give up this power without a fight, you better think again...
 A Better Way to Blow Up Your Enemies
By Byron King
You've heard of "the fifth domain of war" -- where soldiers push buttons instead of triggers and drop viruses instead of bombs. Well, this new "cyberwar" is big business, and with the release of the Pentagon's "black budget," some companies stand to make a pretty penny. Especially if there's a "cold" cyberwar...
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