Michael Ruppert

Birth : 1951-02-03, Washington, D.C

Death : 2014-04-13

History

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Craig Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014) was an American author, a former Los Angeles Police Department officer and investigative journalist and peak oil theorist. Until 2006, he published and edited From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including (international) politics, the C.I.A., peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and 9/11 alternative theories. He is also the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil and was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse. He passed away on April 13th, 2014 after committing suicide, and was found dead in his home in Napa County, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Ruppert, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Apocalypse, Man
Apocalypse, Man
Most people were first exposed to Michael C. Ruppert through the 2009 documentary, Collapse, directed by Chris Smith. Apocalypse, Man is an intimate portrait of a man convinced of the imminent collapse of the world, but with answers to how the human spirit can survive the impending apocalypse.
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
Self
A presentation of a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical 'life ground' attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a 'Resource-Based Economy'.
Collapse
Collapse
Writer
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.
Collapse
Collapse
Himself
From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter Michael Ruppert. He recounts his career as a radical thinker and spells out his apocalyptic vision of the future, spanning the crises in economics, energy, environment and more.
Denial Stops Here
Denial Stops Here
Himself
Michael Ruppert discusses the theory of Peak Oil and how Peak Oil influenced 9-11, a potential conspiracy. Michael Ruppert is the founder, Publisher, and Editor of From The Wilderness, or FTW, a newsletter he created in March of 1998 by mailing out 68 copies to friends and researchers. Today, FTW is read by more than 22,000 subscribers in 50 countries, including 45 members of the US Congress, the intelligence committees of both houses, and professors at over 40 universities around the world.
Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
Self
After condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia, filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe, outlining the issues actively moving the energy crisis from theory to reality. Spurred to action by the realities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change.
Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
Escape from Suburbia: Beyond the American Dream
Himself
After condemning America's oil dependency in his 2004 documentary The End of Suburbia, filmmaker Gregory Greene here addresses the solutions that will avert catastrophe, outlining the issues actively moving the energy crisis from theory to reality. Spurred to action by the realities of peak oil, Greene focuses his camera on individuals across the country brave enough to challenge and instigate their communities into serious change.
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
Himself
Examines the link between oil interests and current U.S. military interventions. It includes original footage shot over a four-month period in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan as well as many interviews with a large array of personalities including Bush administration officials.
Liberty Bound
Liberty Bound
self
Liberty Bound takes an entertaining look at America's ongoing struggle to keep a comfortable balance between democracy, capitalism, and fascism. This is a film about historic events that shape history. It is a film about courage and fear; ignorance and knowledge; propaganda and rhetoric. Through original footage, archived footage, and interviews with people such as Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, and Michael Ruppert, Liberty Bound explores the state of the union and its ostensible move toward fascism. We talk with people who have been interrogated by the Secret Service and threatened with arrest for doing such benign things as sending an email, turning around during a Bush speech, and having a philosophical discussion on a train.
The Truth and Lies of 9-11
The Truth and Lies of 9-11
Self
In the wake of the September 11th attacks, Mike Ruppert was among the first to be publicly critical of a number of transparent flaws in the official story presented by the US government. Mike is a former LAPD narcotics investigator who discoverd CIA trafficking drugs in 1977. After attempting to expose to corruption, he was forced out of LAPD while earning the highest rating reports possible and having no disciplinary actions. Mike has been shot at by people who have tried to keep him from bringing his findings to light. In more than 80 stories since 9-11,