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Michael RuppertNamespaces Views Article Read From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page Talk Edit ContentsNot to be confusedVariants with Michael Rupert. View history MichaelFeatured content C. Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was Actions Current events Michael C. Ruppert an American author,[1][2] a former Police Random article Search [3] [4] DepartmentDonate to Wikipedia officer, investigative journalist, political Search activistWikimedia[1] Shopand awareness advocate.[3][5][6][7][8] UntilInteraction 2006, he published and edited From The Wilderness, a Help newsletter and website covering a range of topics including About Wikipedia internationalCommunity portal politics, the C.I.A., peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economicsRecent changes, corruption and the nature of the 9/11 conspiracy.Contact page[9][page needed] He served as president of Collapse Network,Tools Inc[10] until he resigned in May 2012, when he gave 35 Whatpercent links ofhere his 55 percent share back to the company's Related changes [11][12] [13] Born February 3, 1951 founders.Upload file He hosted The Lifeboat Hour on [14] Washington, D.C. ProgressiveSpecial pages Radio Network until 2014. He has been Died April 13, 2014 (aged 63) describedPermanent as link a conspiracy theorist by numerous mainstream Page information Calistoga, California media outlets. Data item Occupation Author, activist, radio talk show RuppertCite this was page the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline host, retired LAPD narcotics ofPrint/export the American Empire at the End of the . He was investigator theCreate subject a book of the 2009 documentary film Collapse, which was Known for Whistleblower and author of Download as PDF based on his book A Presidential Policy and received Crossing The Rubicon: The Printable version ' "critics pick".[4][2][5] In 2014, VICE Decline of the American Empire Languages [15] at the End of the Age of Oil featuredČeština Ruppert in a 4-part series titled Apocalypse, Man. Deutsch Contents [hide] Français 1 ActivismNederlands Norsk1.1 bokmål From The Wilderness Edit links 1.2 Further activities 1.3 Reception 2 Criticism 3 Death 4 Bibliography 5 See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ruppert[5/25/2014 8:33:45 PM] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Activism [edit]

On November 15, 1996, then Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch visited Los Angeles' Locke High School for a town hall meeting. At the meeting, Ruppert publicly confronted Deutch, saying that in his experience as an LAPD narcotics officer he had seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing.[16] The confrontation was handled poorly by Deutch, resulting in Deutch's termination from the CIA.[citation needed] He went on to become an investigator and journalist[17] and established the publication From The Wilderness, a watchdog publication that exposed governmental corruption, including his experience with CIA drug dealing activities.[18] Ruppert is the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil,[19] published in September 2004. Crossing The Rubicon claims that Vice President , the US government, and had a well-developed awareness of and colluded with the perpetrators of 9/11. Numerous documentary films have featured Ruppert, including the The 911 Report You Never Saw - The Great Conspiracy , Peak Oil - Imposed by Nature,[20] : Moving Forward, , American Drug War: The Last White Hope, Collapse and Apocalypse, Man.[15] Ruppert correctly predicted the financial crisis in the US five years before it happened.[21] [4] He has been termed a "conspiracy theorist",[22][23][3][5][6][7][8] to which he has said he "deals with "conspiracy fact" rather than theory."[24] His book Crossing the Rubicon was a "favorite among conspiracy theorists", according the . After writing it, and subsequently moving on to peak oil, he said "I walked away from 9/11 five years ago," he says. "I have nothing to do with the 9/11 truth movement."[25]

From The Wilderness [edit] From The Wilderness was a newsletter published from 1998 to 2006 by the media company From The Wilderness Publications. The newsletter covered political and governmental issues. It was published eleven times per year but featured weekly updates online. Critics such as [26] and Norman Solomon argued that Ruppert on occasion veered off into making unsubstantiated claims. In the summer of 2006, claiming government harassment and fearing for his life, Ruppert with Raul Santiago left the for , vowing not to return.[27] The Ashland Daily Tidings would later report that, in June 2006, Ruppert had accused a former female employee of burglarizing the offices of From The Wilderness, a case in which Ruppert himself was considered a potential suspect. Around the same time, the former female employee accused him in turn of sexual harassment. Ruppert would later in 2009 be ordered to pay a $125,000 fine by the Oregon labor

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board in the case. The female employee claimed Ruppert fired her after she refused his sexual advances, Ruppert denies this and claims he fired her for "disruptive behavior, poor work performance and wearing inappropriate clothing". The former employee further claims Ruppert approached her in her office "wearing only his underwear and a smile", something Ruppert doesn't deny.[28][29][30] The end of From The Wilderness was announced in a post at the website on November 7, 2006. Reasons for the closure were detailed in the article. Ruppert claimed his bad health, glitches that disabled their web store, "problems of human origin" and his departure to Venezuela had led to the demise of From The Wilderness.[31] Later that year, Ruppert flew to Toronto, Canada, for medical treatment. The following statement was posted on the From The Wilderness website on November 26, 2006:

"Personally, I am through forever with investigative journalism and public lecturing. I am leaving public life. It is my hope that by continuing to repeat this sincere position that many of the inexplicable difficulties which have dominated my life over the past months will ease. It is time to move on. I spent twenty-seven years as a dedicated public activist and that is something which I am no longer able or inclined to do. The price was ultimately too great."[32]

After shutting down, From the Wilderness was sued by their landlord for unpaid rent owed on their Ashland office space.[28]

Further activities [edit]

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A posting from Ruppert on the From the Wilderness Web site said he was back in New York, receiving treatment from "sympathetic physicians" for a variety of ailments. Ruppert still occasionally contributed to the Collapse Network news desk, run by former From the Wilderness associate and longtime friend, Jenna Orkin. As recently as 2010, Ruppert lived in Los Angeles, California and launched Collapse Network to build sustainable communities across the world. In 2011 he announced on his Lifeboat Hour radio show that he was relocating to Sonoma County, California, because he thought that it would be a safer location in the event of societal collapse. Ruppert left the Collapse Network in May 2012.

Reception [edit] The New York Times, in its review of Collapse, wrote "the majority of his premises are verifiable, any weakness in his argument lies in inferences so terrifying that reasonable listeners may find themselves taking his advice" and that in it, Ruppert "emerges finally as an authentic human being, sympathetic even when the film that embraces him is not."[4]

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Criticism [edit]

Columnist Norman Solomon has argued that Ruppert has a flawed analytical model. "Some of the problem is in how he characterizes news reports. These citations can be narrowly factual yet presented in a misleading way. Yes, such-and-such newspaper reported that thus-and-so claim was made by so-and-so. The paper reported on the claim, but that doesn't mean the claim is true."[33] Columnist David Corn has also criticized Ruppert's methodology, and dismisses the idea that conspiracy theorizing is useful: "In fact, out-there conspiracy theorizing serves the interests of the powers-that-be by making their real transgressions seem tame in comparison."[34] Ruppert responded with an open public letter to Corn saying that Corn is not able to disprove any of Ruppert's claims.[35]

Death [edit]

On April 13, 2014, Ruppert was found dead in Napa County at home just outside of the Calistoga, CA city limits. Ruppert died of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. This has been confirmed by close friend and property owner/landlord Jack Martin.[36] Martin is the man who found Ruppert's body.[37] According to his business partner and last Attorney of Record, Wesley Miller,[38] Ruppert shot himself after taping his final broadcast of The Lifeboat Hour with friend and colleague Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.[1]

Bibliography [edit]

Ruppert, Michael C., Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, New Society Publishers, 2004. ISBN 0-86571-540-8 Ruppert, Michael C., A Presidential , New World Digital Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1- 61539-257-5 Ruppert, Michael C., Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-60358-264-3

See also [edit]

Counter Misinformation Team Cynthia McKinney

References [edit]

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Publishers. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 18 April 2014. a b c 3. ^ Tobias, Scott (September 14, 2009). "Toronto 22. ^ Stahl, Jeremy (6 September 2011). "Where Did Film Festival '09: Day 4" . The A.V. Club. Retrieved 9/11 Conspiracies Come From?" . Slate. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 17 April 2014. a b c d 4. ^ Catsoulis, Jeannette. "Collapse (2009)" . 23. ^ Jenkins, Mark (5 November 2009). "Michael NYT. Retrieved 17 April 2014. Ruppert, Explaining The Coming 'Collapse' " . NPR. a b c 5. ^ "Collapse Director Chris Smith on His New Retrieved 17 April 2014. Doc and the Impending Fall of Civilization" . New 24. ^ "Michael Ruppert, Explaining The Coming York Magazine. June 11, 2009. Retrieved March 27, 'Collapse' " . NPR. Retrieved 18 April 2014. 2011. 25. ^ "Sounding an Alarm on Oil" . Wall Street Journal. a b 6. ^ " "Collapse" Director Chris Smith: "It was all an Retrieved 18 April 2014. attempt to get the audience inside Michael’s 26. ^ Corn, David (2002). "The September 11 X-Files" . head." " . indieWIRE. November 6, 2009. Retrieved The Nation. Retrieved 2006-05-28. March 27, 2011. 27. ^ Michael C. Ruppert (August 19, 2006). "By the a b 7. ^ Gleiberman, Owen. "Toronto: The buzz film light of a burning bridge" . From the Wilderness. 'Collapse' showcases a gripping pundit of economic Retrieved March 27, 2011. doom" . Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 28. ^ a b Robert Plain (December 4, 2006). "From the 27, 2011. Wilderness taken to court" . Ashland Daily Tidings. a b 8. ^ Nelson, Rob (September 17, 2009). "Collapse Retrieved March 27, 2011. (Documentary)" . Variety. Retrieved March 27, 29. ^ Sanne Specht (September 25, 2009). 2011. "Businessman fined in sexual harassment case" . 9. ^ "From The Wilderness: Information on Peak Oil, Ashland Daily Tidings. , and the events surrounding 9/11" . 30. ^ Sanne Specht (September 24, 2009). "Man says From The Wilderness Publications. Retrieved March he's innocent of sexual harassment" . Ashland Daily 27, 2011. Tidings. Retrieved March 27, 2011. 10. ^ http://www.collapsenet.com 31. ^ Michael C. Ruppert (November 7, 2006). 11. ^ Ruppert, Michael. "Evolve or Perish" . Collapse "Evolution" . From the Wilderness. Retrieved March Network, Inc. Retrieved 10 May 2012. 27, 2011. 12. ^ Schortgen, Kenneth Jr. (December 31, 2010). 32. ^ Ray Kohlman (November 26, 2006). "Mike Ruppert "2011 economist predictions – Michael Ruppert". In Canada" . From the Wilderness. Retrieved March Examiner.com. 27, 2011. 13. ^ http://prn.fm/category/archives/lifeboat-hour/ 33. ^ Norman Solomon (2002-03-07). "Letter From: 14. ^ "Michael Ruppert "The Lifeboat Hour" " . Norman Solomon" . Retrieved 2007-02-27. Progressive Radio Network. Retrieved March 27, 34. ^ David Corn (2002-03-01). "When 9/11 Conspiracy 2011. Theories Go Bad" . Alternet. Retrieved 2007-02-27. a b 15. ^ "Apocalypse, Man - Part 1" . VICE special. 35. ^ Michael C. Ruppert (2002-03-01). " "Nation" editor Retrieved 17 April 2014. David Corn attacks Mike Ruppert with bad 16. ^ Steve Lowery, "A CIA Infomercial", New Times Los information./Read Mike's reply to corn." . Retrieved Angeles (21 November 1996) p. 6. 2007-02-27. 17. ^ "Who Is Michael C. Ruppert?" . 2005. Retrieved 36. ^ Crossing over the Rubicon - R.I.P. Michael C. 2007-02-27. Ruppert 18. ^ C.I.A. & Drugs 37. ^ Micheal C. Ruppert suicide note released 19. ^ Michael Ruppert; New Society Publishers (2004). 38. ^ Collapsenets founder Michael C. Ruppet has

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