Reddit reviews Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
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This movie is.....bananas. It starts out safe enough with a lot of really interesting concepts and conspiracies but by the second movie we are talking lizard people. This movie has a lot of opinion presented as fact. If you are a conspiracy enthusiast mainly for the entertainment of it all, then this movie is pretty fun in a tin foil hat kind of way. If you are gullible or looking for real answers GO ELSEWHERE because this movie will send you down a lizard people/psychic vampire/4th dimension alien rabbit hole.
EDIT - If you are into these type of government/illuminati conspiracies, I suggest looking up Michael Ruppert or his book Crossing The Rubicon https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408 The man became increasingly unhinged as he aged but he was a good investigative reporter.
Check out this book then. Well documented, no unfounded assumptions, and the author claimed that the truth wouldn't come out once the "Truth Movement" began declaring demolition as a "fact". He never claimed that they weren't (I have no idea what his opinion was on that), however, he felt that if it could not be documented and conclusively proven, it was not worth mentioning.
Good work.
If there is anyone out there who has already done their fair share of research, i cannot recommend this book enough: Crossing the Rubicon. It's intense, and you're a better man than i am if you can take it all in on the first read, but it is without a doubt a must-read if you really want to understand this thing properly.
There is stuff in there that needs to be read by a lot of people, as it seems to me like people who think they have this whole thing figured out really haven't put the time in, especially the "it was the Israelis" crowd. This is a proper investigation: there is very little conjecture in the book, and everything is sourced.
Two books I can recommend.
Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency
and
The One percent Doctrine
I'd also recommend
Crossing the Rubicon
but the author Michael Ruppert is widely denigrated as a kook. I'm not in that camp, but read it with an open mind, there's plenty on Cheney's evil--even outside of his 9/11 allegations.
This ^^
I don't know WHO did it.
but I know, through the same process, that it is NOT the story we've been fed.
I highly suggest reading Crossing the Rubicon :
http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
What's actually heartbreaking is the fact that 2,996 people were murdered and less than $15 million was spent on the investigation. And that was after years of fighting to raise the budget from Bush's initial $3 million. Wtf, right?!
Challenger crash investigation, $50-$75 million.
Monica Lewinsky blow job, $40-$80 million.
Hell as tax payers we chipped in $40 million for trump to renovate an old D.C. post office into a fucking hotel. Hell Glitter cost $22 million!!
Do you see the pattern here? That's only four examples of how our country spends money both on legit investigations and total bullshit. Bloated, wasteful spending, all the time. Why would they fight so hard to NOT solve the most powerful country in the history of the world's largest mass murder? Wtf, yes, no?
Nothing Marion Cotillard said about 9/11 was factually incorrect, they're only a handful of the hundreds of basic questions everyone w/ a modicum of intelligence should find themselves compelled to ask about the murders of September 11th, 2001.
So read The Kean commission Report and then read Michael Rupert's Crossing the Rubicon and truly see if you still feel comfortable calling a beautiful, talented, progressive thinking Oscar winner… "Thick."
You could read his book. Well worth your time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0865715408/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493192162&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=crossing+the+rubicon&dpPl=1&dpID=41GjBSx5S8L&ref=plSrch
SS: The late, great author of Crossing the Rubicon talks about limits to growth forces on current human civilisation era.
Mike Ruppert's book on 9/11 is epic.
(http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253418085&sr=8-3)
Who is this Zuckerberg quack?
PROMIS software already had this technology in the 1980's. It was stolen from INSLAW by various first world governments, modified and put into widespread use across the globe. It played a large part in 9/11 disaster. How did we have foreknowledge of 9/11? How did we have magical intel that could track the movement of terrorists? How did certain terrorists remain one step ahead of our best intel? PROMIS software. Stay awhile and listen:
https://cryptome.org/promis-mossad.htm
http://www.larsschall.com/2016/04/02/why-did-the-911-commission-not-follow-the-money/
http://www.rense.com/general17/maf.htm
https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_bin_Mahfouz
Vice suffers from a strange and terrible schizophrenia when it comes to 9/11. It loves to give people who point out the obvious problems with the official story a kicking and yet it rightly worships the memory of Michael Ruppert who was one of the greatest and most courageous 9/11 investigators there's ever been.
I am just gearing up to read it now but Michael Ruppert's Rubicon goes into heavy details about the war games, who controlled them and how they were used to confuse ATC on that day.
As far as I know the contents of this book have never been contested and it is available in the Harvard Business library.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408
I can recommend this easily-piratable book
I don't claim to know one way or another, I don't believe anything, but I do find the official story bordering on ridiculous. Just a for instance, 19 Saudis pull off major attack, so we invade Afghanistan and Iraq? I understand the Afghani one to an extent since that is where Osama "was." But every reason for the Iraqi invasion has turned out to be full of shit. So why did we do nothing about Saudi involvement?
If you want a book that will at least make you think about the entirety of the global situation at the time more critically you can try this one: http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408 . His claims about peak oil and what not aren't bulletproof but his argument and evidence about 9/11 paints a pretty interesting picture. Again, I'm not a full blooded truther, but I'm not a blind patriot either.
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I don't claim to know one way or another, I don't believe anything, but I do find the official story bordering on ridiculous. Just a for instance, 19 Saudis pull off major attack, so we invade Afghanistan and Iraq? I understand the Afghani one to an extent since that is where Osama "was." But every reason for the Iraqi invasion has turned out to be full of shit. So why did we do nothing about Saudi involvement?
If you want a book that will at least make you think about the entirety of the global situation at the time more critically you can try this one: http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408 . His claims about peak oil and what not aren't bulletproof but his argument and evidence about 9/11 paints a pretty interesting picture. Again, I'm not a full blooded truther, but I'm not a blind patriot either.
edit: fixed the link
http://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408#
Interesting. Although I initially thought WTC 1 & 2 were controlled demo (back when Loose Change was cool), for awhile I've been more skeptical of it.
I still think it's possible it was at least allowed to happen, given what we do know for a fact.
Recently read Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil after Ruppert was a guest on the Joe Rogan podcast... and although I don't really follow all his talk about PROMIS, all the drills and exercises that were happening leading up to the event & as it was happening is pretty interesting.
But it's highly unlikely we'll ever settle this. Any new investigation will be attacked regardless of its result. If it comes to a inside job conclusion, it'll be dismissed as a bunch of kooks, if it doesn't, it'll be attacked for being a whitewash.
I really don't see how anything new happening can settle the argument for both sides, so I don't really spend alot of time thinking about it.
It's all there. Granted some of the updates of the initial report have been bumped off of the page, and the top of the page has an editorial by a native american (who knew Mike) that might be what you're talking about that reads like a "crazed rant."
In that respect, I would recommend reading from the bottom of the content (not the comments) and work your way up. You'll see his suicide note and most of the updates that have been made by Wes (his lawyer, business partner, and friend), and Jenna Orkin who has been working by Mokes side for years.
Also, I'm not sure what you are looking to "prove." I've followed this guys career for years so, for what it's worth, this news didn't surprise me. He committed suicide and he did so with the direct intention of making sure there was no controversy surrounding it. He did this BECAUSE he knew that his work in life was more important than people debating about his death.
So, I would recommend reading this page, get the closure you need, and go watch The Truth and Lies of 9/11 read Crossing the Rubicon.
> If someone went to the trouble of putting together a youtube video outlining the evidence in favor of the official story, it would be ten times as long and 100-times better sourced.
No, you would actually find anomaly after anomaly that go against the official story. Youtube videos are not the main source of information, they are just summaries to use as launching points. Just as mainstream news is not, and should not be, a main source. To really research something, to build a base of unbiased facts, and to actually learn things, you must go through the act of "discovery", personally subjecting yourself to all evidence available and forming your own opinions.
As more detailed starting points than simple "Youtube videos", I recommend:
Your assertion that the Taliban encouraged the growth of opium poppies is false. The Taliban banned opium production and burned the fields the year before the US invaded, because the US is the primary organization behind heroin trafficking to the US and the world.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/20/world/taliban-s-ban-on-poppy-a-success-us-aides-say.html?_r=0
This was one of the big reasons for invading Afghanistan (during the opium planting season, it is important to note). Drug money props up world banks.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims
Now, I could go on, but it's late. If you're interested in learning more, you should buy and read this (very) in-depth book on the matter.
https://www.amazon.com/Crossing-Rubicon-Decline-American-Empire/dp/0865715408/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474702079&sr=1-1&keywords=crossing+the+rubicon
Agreed that most of the truther stuff is nonsense, but try reading Crossing the Rubicon. Mike Ruppert makes a pretty good case, I think.
I can google too:
http://911blimp.net/prf_FreeFallPhysics.shtml
And the argument is not made by one case alone.
Crossing the Rubicon