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Subject: [permaculture] Crossing the Rubicon
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:42:53 -0400
Available from Permaculture Activist Books
Crossing the Rubicon:
The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
by Michael C. Ruppert
2004, 696 pages, $23
Exposes the links between war, politics and the energy crisis. Exposes
the Bush / Cheney / Bush terrorist crime family and their plans for
global domination.
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,
narcotraffic, 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.
Michael C. Ruppert is the publisher and editor of From the Wilderness, a
newsletter read by more than 16,000 subscribers in 40 countries. A
former Los Angeles Police Department narcotics investigator, he is
widely known for his groundbreaking stories on US involvement in the
drug trade, Peak Oil and 9/11.
--
Keith Johnson
Permaculture Activist Magazine
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Black Mountain, NC 28711
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