Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0865715408 
Category
900-GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
2004 
Pages
674 
Subject
Petroleum industry and trade -- United States; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Drug traffic -- United States; Political corruption -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; 
Abstract
The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects—finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government—by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result. A superbly detail scrutiny of the events of 9/11, the book also ranges across the terrain of rapidly diminishing hydrocarbon energy supplies, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism-without which 9/11 cannot be understood.
Crafted as a criminal investigation of homicide, Crossing the Rubicon examines:
 The motive for the 9/11 attacks, including the pentagon’s need for a pretext for war that would enable an all out drive for the planet’s last reserves of oil and gas; Wall Street need for liquid cash from restored traffic in Afghani heroin; and the administration’s need for legal domestic repression during severe and imminent resource shortages;
 The personnel, including Dick Cheney, the Pakistani Intelligence Agency(ISI), the Taliban, al Qaeda, the Bin Ladens and elements of the government of Saudi Arabia;
 The intelligence including covert software, the full complexity of the US intelligence community, the connections with Wall Street and the Israeli government
 The carefully designed opportunity on the day of the attacks, the role of the secret service and the US vice president;
 The cover up; and
 The outcome: “The war on Terror” as pretext for the loss of US civil liberties and domination of world oil reserves.
 
Description
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects-finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government-by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result. Crossing the Rubicon is unique not only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth of its world picture-an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism-without which 9/11 cannot be understood. The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas-the fuels that make economic growth possible-are subsidized by American military force and foreign lending. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting "War on Terror" are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil-the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization-is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control. Crossing the Rubicon is more than a story. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which, together and alone, we are all now making our way.  
Biblio Notes
Contents

INTRODUCTION……………………………………...........................P.1

Part 1- Motive
1. Petroleum man………………………………….......................P. 22

2. Cheney Knew ……………………………………......................P. 41

3. The CIA is Wall Street, and Drug Money is King….....P. 50

4. Connecting Drugs and Oil……………..........................P. 69

5. A Criminal Meltdown…………………............................P. 76

6. Laying the Foundation: Destroying Russia,
Prepare the Battle Field…………………….............................P. 82

7. Caspian Corruption…………………………………................P. 94

8. Setting Up the War: Pakistan’s ISI,
America’s Agent for PROTECTING
the Taliban and al Qaeda………………………………..................P. 103

9. Business With the Bin Ladins: the Real
Saudi Arabia…........................................................P. 123


Part II- Means
10. PROMISE: Controlling the Data…………………….......p. 152

11. Vreeland I……………………………………......................P. 175

12. Executing a Conspiracy: shame and honour
in the Fbi-An Air Force Colonel Blows the Whistle…….....P. 203

13. PENETRATION……………………………….......................P. 225

14. 9/11 Insider Trading, or “You Didn’t Really
See that, Even Though We Saw It” ………………………........p. 238

15. Israel…………………………………………………….................p. 254

16. Silencing congress ……………………………………............p. 269

17. Vreeland II: Silencing Me……………………………….......P. 291

PART III- OPPORTUNITY
18. The Attacks……………………………………………................P. 308

19. War Games and High Tech: Paralyzing the
System to Pull Off the Attacks ………………………...............P. 333

20. Q&A Many Asked, Some Answered-and a
Golden Moment........................................................P. 357

21. The Last Hearing: FTW Confront on
the War games; NORAD Runs…………………………………….....P. 393

22. Giuliani and TRIPOD II……………………....................P. 404

23. Dick Cheney, FEMA, and “Persons of Interest”………p. 412

24. The Secret Service and National
Special Security Events…............................................p.427

25. The commission’s wild blue yonder……………………....p. 437

PART IV- EMPIRE AND DECLINE
26. The Record……………………………………………..................P. 448

27. “We Don’t Need No Badges”……………………………….....P. 471

28. Conquering The American People…………………..........P. 482

29. Biological Warfare…………………………………................ P. 505

30. The Order of Battle………………………….....................P. 527

31. Peak Oil Revisited- The Bill Collector Calls…………....P. 554

32. Summation: Ladies And Gentle Men Of The Jury……P.570

APPENDIX A: Joint Chiefs of Staff
Northwood Document…………........................................P. 595

APPENDIX B: Vreeland Financial Document Sample…......P.609

Appendix C: Iraqi/Saudi Oilfields Information…………….....P. 610
 
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