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-->Michael Ruppert is the founder and editor of From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website dedicated to investigating political cover-ups. He is regarded by his critics as a conspiracy theorist. On August 16, 2006 Ruppert announced that he was leaving the United States permanently, after years of harassment for his ongoing whistle blower activities.

From The Wilderness

From The Wilderness is a newsletter published by the media company From The Wilderness Publications, which claims to be ahead of the mainstream media by as much as one year. The newsletter covers a range of political and governmental issues. It is published eleven times per year but features weekly updates online. It was started by Michael Ruppert in 1998. Critics such as David Corn and Norman Solomon argue that Ruppert sometimes veers off into making unsubstantiated Conspiracy theory claims. Ruppert himself says he documents his sources, and is a trained Police Detective. (ex-LAPD Narcotics Officer.)

Their website says that the newsletter is about "the publication of documented truth and the letting go of fear through education" and claims to have "16,000 subscribers in 40 countries including 35 members of the US Congress and professors at 30 universities around the world" before being shut down. Online archive:

History

Michael Craig Ruppert was born in Washington, D.C. His father was an Air Force officer and later an aerospace executive who worked on projects which included the ] His father's cousin, Barbara Burges and her husband Sam, are both retired from the CIA Central Intelligence Agency.]] Mr. Ruppert's mother was a cryptographer for Army Intelligence at Fort Meyer during the Second World War.

Michael C. Ruppert was raised a Republican. From 1969 to 1973 he has jokingly said he was one of two "living" Republicans on the UCLA campus. At this time Michael Ruppert was chosen, as an honors student in Political Science, to intern for Chief Edward M. Davis of the Los Angeles Police Department. LAPD

After graduation from UCLA in June 1973 as the Valedictorian for the last three classes of 1973, he was assigned to Wilshire Division patrol, and excelled at patrol work and was subsequently loaned into Detective assignments including burglary and homicide, later was recommended by the narcotics Officer-In-Charge to attend a two-week DEA training school held in Las Vegas. narcotics was Michael C. Ruppert's chosen specialty, and has given expert court testimony on the subject twenty-seven times.

Michael C. Ruppert in 1977 discovered an extensive drug trafficking operation run by the Central Intelligence Agency CIA and went on record about this on going criminal activity. He resigned the LAPD in 1978 despite earning the highest rating reports possible, over the tolerance of continued CIA drug dealing activities. See full LAPD official police documetation: Michael Rupperts personal expeirence with death threats, 3 shooting attempts on him, aggressive intimidation over his attempted exposure of these illegal drug activities within Los Angeles, and his ethical conflict with tolerance of these activities, was the catalyse for the resignation. See Full Disclosure.WEB NOTE: This document appears exactly as submitted to the Select Intelligence Committees of both Houses.

Michael Ruppert filed an official complaint with FBI Special Agent Stan Curry of the L.A. Field Office on December 4, 1978. This was after Ruppert was forced out of LAPD on November 30, 1978.

In 1996 Ruppert achieved some justice through his comments at a televised visit of then Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch to South Central Los Angeles. Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch had made the trip to Los Angeles to dispel rumors in the black community that followed the publication of Gary Webb's series in the San Jose Mercury News revealing evidence of CIA connections to cocaine dealers in the city, and evidence of CIA and Contra's cocaine trafficking in the US. Gary Webb is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American investigative journalist, best known for his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative report. The now deceased journalist Gary Webb was found dead On December 10, 2004 with two gunshot wounds to the head. (Sacramento County coroner Robert Lyons determined that the two gunshots to the head where the cause of his suicide.) In Gary Webb's three-part series (later published as a book), Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly distributed crack cocaine into Los Angeles and funneled profits to the Contras. Webb also proved that this influx of Nicaraguan supplied cocaine sparked and significantly fueled the widespread crack epidemic that swept through urban areas.

On November 15, 1996, Michael Ruppert stood at the town hall meeting at Locke High School in Los Angeles and said to Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch, "I am a former Los Angeles Police narcotics detective. I worked South Central Los Angeles and I can tell you, Director Deutch, emphatically and without equivocation, that the Agency has dealt drugs in this country for a long time." He then referred Director Deutch to three specific CIA agency operations known as Amadeus, Pegasus and Watchtower. At the meeting, Ruppert publicly confronted Deutch, saying that in his experience as an LAPD narcotics officer he has seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing for a long time.

Michael Rupert quoted one entry from Oliver North's diary dated July 5, 1985, which said that $14 million to buy weapons for the Contras, "came from drugs." and he wouldn't need to mention the two hundred and fifty other such entries in his diary, which refer to narcotics.

On 10/1/97 Michael Ruppert submitted documents to the Select Intelligence Committees of both Houses. To date, it remains only a document submitted in advance of testimony and has not been placed in the Congressional Record.

Michael Ruppert went on to become an aggressive investigator and Journalist, as well as establishing the publication From The Wilderness' , a watch dog group that exposes governmental corruption, including his experience with CIA drug dealing activities. From The Wilderness, was read, before being shut down, in more than 50 countries around the world. Its subscribers include 60-plus members of the US congress, professors at more than 40 universities around the world, and major business and economic leaders. Since 9/11 Michael Ruppert has been in demand as a university lecturer and has spoken on Peak Oil and 9/11 in nine countries. Recently, at the request of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, he served as an official questioner during a Congressional briefing looking into unanswered questions and the unaddressed flaws of the Keane 911 Commission report.

Michael Ruppert is also the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Online viewing here: Published in September 2004 and is one of the three best-selling books globally and in the US about the attacks of 9/11. Crossing The Rubicon shows damming intelligence gathered that Vice President Dick Cheney, the US government, and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness, and had direct collusion with the tragic events of 911, as well as awareness of the looming Peak Oil crisis well before the 9/11 attacks. In May, 2006 Crossing the Rubicon was added to the Harvard School of Business library.

A former police officer, Michael Ruppert used his skills to assemble a large body of evidence and an extensive timeline that demonstrated the Bush Administration's advance knowledge of the September 11th terrorist attacks. In his 674 page book Crossing the Rubicon, Michael Ruppert documents hard evidence that indicates Vice President Dick Cheney as a prime suspect in 9/11 and alleges that not only was Cheney a planner in the attacks, but hard evidence that on the day of the attacks Cheney was running a completely separate command, control and communications system which was superseding any orders being issued by the FAA, The Pentagon, or the White House Situation Room. (SEE "False Flag" operations & Operation Northwoods for historical ref to past "false flag" operations)

Michael Ruppert turns his years of training and legal prosecution skills as a trained Narcotics detective in the LAPD on the facts. Crossing the Rubicon makes a clear, but shocking, case of collusion & participation from a select few senior Neo-Conservatives & PNAC Members in the present Bush administration with the tragic events that unfolded on September 11th, 2001. Hard fact gathering and analysis unfortunately paints a horrifying picture in Crossing the Rubicon. The events of 911 where a classic old school "false flag operation", years in the making, to precipitate a shift in trillions of dollars from "butter to guns" for radical transformation of the military, aggressive foreign policy changes, acquisition of Middle Easts oil resources, and rolling back domestic liberties in the United States of America, all impossible without a "New Pearl Harbor" to act as a catalyst for these radical changes. Crossing the Rubicon documents hundreds of pieces of information, years of inappropriate CIA, FBI, NSA, FAA, NORAD, FEMA, Senior Bush Administration behavior and policy implementation before and during 911 that points to a regrettable conclusion.

Hard fact gathering investigation, examination of official policy documents, intelligence analysis from former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski led Ruppert to the conclusion that the long predicted "Hubbert Peak" for petroleum was an imminent reality. The theory, commonly known in the oil business as "Peak Oil, predicts that future world oil production will soon reach a peak between 2000 and 2007, and then rapidly decline over the next 15 years. Michael Ruppert has built a terrifying legal case that 9/11 is an enabling event similar to other "false flag" operations conducted by the United States and other Countries through history, which provided the justification for sequential wars, to invade Iraq, as well as militarily move to control the world's remaining oil reserves.

Crossing the Rubicon reached as high as number 30 spot on the Amazon Non-fiction Top Sellers as of 11/23/2004. Its back jacket cover reads, "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."

Ruppert appears prominently in the Peak Oil documentary "PEAK OIL - Imposed by Nature"troposdoc andThe End of Suburbia, and he participated in The Citizens' Commission on 9-11.

In the summer of 2006, Ruppert abruptly left the United States for Venezuela. He flew to Canada on November 18th, for medical treatment in Toronto, for what looks like a case of poisoning. . Finally these problems became too much to bear and he threw in the towel giving the following message to his fans:

"Over the past four months many of you have touched me with your generous and loving offers of support and encouragement. You have kept me alive. I have also understood, probably for the first time, how deeply FTW has impacted your lives and the lives of a new and younger generation. As my health and my access to your letters improves I will be writing personally to as many of you as I possibly can.
"I want to repeat something I have been saying in private emails over the last month. 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.

On December 4, 2006, as reported by the Ashland Daily Tidings, Mike Ruppert/From the Wilderness was sued by their landlord, Aro Partners, for backrent owed on the Ashland office space. In the same article it was confirmed that Ruppert is, in fact, an official suspect in the burglary of said office space back in July of '06.

Michael Ruppert explains the robbery and subsequent move to Venezuela in his article, "By the Light of a Burning Bridge", in which he details the circumstances in depth that led up to those events.

"The burglary followed on the heels of my humiliation of the perpetrator of a feeble and stupidly executed sexual blackmail plot that began when a newly-hired staff writer (with a clean record and a Master’s degree in English) began a torrid (and not very discrete) sexual affair with my long-term IT manager."

As indicated in the above excerpt, and much more in the main "Burning Bridge" article, Ruppert believes that a lot of the unfortunate circumstances that have befallen him and his publication are results of government interference.

The latest posting about him on the FTW website says Ruppert is back in New York, receiving treatment from "sympathetic physicians".

Critics

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."

Columnist David Corn has also criticized the methodology of Ruppert, and dismissed 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."

Bibliography

  • 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

See also

External links

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Critical

References

  1. Corn, David (2002). "The September 11 X-Files". Blog: Capital Games. The Nation. Retrieved 2006-05-28.
  2. Steve Lowery, "A CIA Infomercial," New Times Los Angeles (21 Novembver 1996) p. 6.
  3. ^ Michael Ruppert (2006-08-19). "By the light of a burning bridge". From the Wilderness. Retrieved 2006-08-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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