Crossing the Rubicon : the decline of the American empire at the end of the age of oil /

The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. This book claims to discover and identify key suspects--some in the highest echelons of American government--by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee the desired result. The auth...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruppert, Michael C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Catherine Austin Fitts
  • Ch. 1. Petroleum man
  • Ch. 2. Cheney knew
  • Ch. 3. CIA is Wall Street, and drug money is king
  • Ch. 4. Connecting drugs and oil
  • Ch. 5. criminal meltdown
  • Ch. 6. Laying the foundation : destroy Russia, prepare the battlefield
  • Ch. 7. Caspian corruption
  • Ch. 8. Setting up the war : Pakistan's ISI, America's agent for protecting the Taliban and al Qaeda
  • Ch. 9. Business with the bin Ladens : the real Saudi Arabia
  • Ch. 10. PROMIS : controlling the data
  • Ch. 11. Vreeland I
  • Ch. 12. Executing a conspiracy : shame and honor in the FBI
  • an air force colonel blows the whistle
  • Ch. 13. Penetration
  • Ch. 14. 9/11 insider trading, or "you didn't really see that, even though we saw it"
  • Ch. 15. Israel
  • Ch. 16. Silencing Congress
  • Ch. 17. Vreeland II : silencing me
  • Ch. 18. attacks
  • Ch. 19. Wargames and high tech : paralyzing the system to pull off the attacks
  • Ch. 20. Q & A : many asked, some answered
  • and a golden moment
  • Ch. 21. last hearing : FTW confronts on the wargames; NORAD runs
  • Ch. 22. Giuliani and TRIPOD II
  • Ch. 23. Dick Cheney, FEMA, and "persons of interest"
  • Ch. 24. Secret Service and national special security events
  • Ch. 25. commission's wild blue yonder
  • Ch. 26. record
  • Ch. 27. "We don't need no badges"
  • Ch. 28. Conquering the American people
  • Ch. 29. Biological warfare
  • Ch. 30. order of battle
  • Ch. 31. Peak oil revisited
  • the bill collector calls
  • Ch. 32. Summation : ladies and gentlemen of the jury
  • App. A. Joint chiefs of staff "northwoods" document
  • App. B. Vreeland financial document sample
  • App. C. Iraqi/Saudi oilfields information.