ForbiddenKnowldedgeTV
by Alexandra Bruce
Michael C. Ruppert, son of a CIA family and former LAPD Narcotics Detective uncovered a CIA link to the crack epidemic in the mid-1990s and soon found himself fired.
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. The confrontation was handled by Deutch poorly, resulting in his termination from the CIA. (I remember watching that on live TV! it was an amazing showdown).
He went on to publish a very highly-ranked website, FromtheWilderness.com and book, ‘Crossing the Rubicon’, which focused on ‘Peak Oil’, exposed a lot of government corruption and discussed the imminent collapse of the hydrocarbon-based economy and the ecosystems of Earth.
In 2009, his widely-acclaimed but little-seen film, ‘Collapse’ was released. It was is an unrelenting series of angles on Ruppert,
alone, in an unlit room, smoking endless amounts of cigarettes, as he described, down to the minutiae, the ways in which
the world was self-destructing, and which I was lucky enough to see in a classic, old Los Angeles movie theater, during its limited run there. (The theater has since been torn down).
This clip is the first of six by VICE made about Ruppert, shot late last year in the days after he’d just settled his affairs in his home state of California, whereupon, totally penniless and with nowhere else to go, he moved in with a friend in beautiful Rocky Mountains around Crestone, Colorado, with his dog Rags, with the stated purpose of either dying or committing suicide.
The latter recently became a fait accomplit, according to some sources, via a self-inflicted gun shot wound to the head, shortly after finishing his weekly radio show on PRN on April 13, 2014.
The details are still emerging as I write this about the man who cried in the wilderness for us all – and who is now, no longer with us.
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Soundtrack by Sunn O))), Flaming Lips, Big Noble, Michael C. Ruppert, and more.
Directed by Andy Capper
– See more at: http://www.forbiddenknowledge.tv/videos/censorship-war-on-whistleblowers-journalists/apocalypse-man-michael-c-ruppert—part-1.html#sthash.XGxfjrXE.dpuf