Text of Michael Ruppert's Speech at the Commonwealth Club Last Night

Michael Ruppert gave a groundbreaking speech at the "Commonwealth
Club" in San Francisco on Tuesday, August 31. The PDF file of the
speech is attached, and is downloadable at
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/PDF/Commonwealth.pdf (if you don't
have a PDF file reader, you can download a free reader from adobe.com
for Macintosh or Windows operating systems). The speech is long, but
a must read for anyone interested in the future of the United States,
peak oil, 9/11, the 2004 election, and related topics. There are
very few journalists digging up credible new information about 9/11,
but this speech -- a teaser for Ruppert's upcoming book -- is full of
critical information that should be on the front page of every
newspaper on the planet. It would be difficult to exaggerate the
importance of this information.

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This was a flyer from the event (please share widely -- and please
order a copy of the book at when it is available in a few weeks):

Announcing the release of Michael C. Ruppert's new book

CROSSING THE RUBICON: The Decline of the American Empire at the End
of the Age of Oil"
Michael C. Ruppert
foreword by Catherine Austin Fitts
(New Society Publishers)

Crossing the Rubicon: the Decline of the American Empire at the End
of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert is a detective story that
gets to the innermost core of the 9/11 attacks. It places 9/11 at
the center of a desperate new America, created by specific, named
individuals in preparation for Peak Oil: an economic crisis like
nothing the world has ever seen.

The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were accomplished through an
amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the
Rubicon discovers and identifies the key suspects and persons of
interest -- finding some of them in the highest echelons of American
government -- by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that
the attacks occurred and produced the desired result.

In describing the contents of the book he has spent two and a half
years researching and writing Ruppert said:

"In my new book I will be making several key points:

1. I will name Richard Cheney as the prime suspect in the mass
murders of 9/11 and will establish that, not only was he a planner in
the attacks, but also that on the day of the attacks he was running a
completely separate Command, Control and Communications system which was superceding any orders being issued by the NMCC [National
Military Command Center], or the White House Situation Room.

2. I will establish conclusively that in May of 2001, by
presidential order, Richard Cheney was put in direct command and
control of all wargame and field exercise training and scheduling
through several agencies, especially FEMA. This also extended to all
of the conflicting and overlapping NORAD drills on that day.

3. I will also demonstrate that the TRIPOD II exercise being set up
on Sept. 10th in Manhattan was directly connected to Cheney's role.

4. I will also prove conclusively that a number of public officials,
at the national and New York City levels, including then Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani, were aware that Flight 175 was en route to lower
Manhattan for 20 minutes and did nothing to order the evacuation of
or warn the occupants of the South Tower. One military officer was
forced to leave his post in the middle of the attacks and place a
private call to his brother -- who worked at the WTC -- warning him
to get out. That was because no other part of the system was taking
action.

5. I will also show that the Israeli and British governments acted
as partners with the highest levels of the American government to
help in the preparation and, very possibly, the actual execution of
the attacks."

"There is more reason to be afraid of not facing the evidence in this
book than of facing what is in it."