I think he was a victim of a very elaborate fraud, that entangled him in the "truth" movement net. Some people observe much of his conspiracy material is repackaged Larouche propaganda;Ruppert even admitted to being impressed with Larouche, though clearly he'd never heard of the death of Jeremiah Duggan, or he'd be less impressed :
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155983/september-11-x-files#
On March 31 of last year, for instance, he published a report on an economic conference in Moscow where the opening speaker was a fellow who works for Lyndon LaRouche, the conspiracy-theorist/political cult leader. "I share a near universal respect of the LaRouche organization's detailed and precise research," Ruppert wrote. "I have not, however, always agreed with [its] conclusions."
Also, Ruppert had a girlfriend who he believed was a CIA agent:
http://www.thenation.com/blog/155983/september-11-x-files#
The Ex-Cop Who Connects the Dot
By his own account, Ruppert has long been a purveyor of amazing tales. In 1981 he told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner a bizarre story about himself: While a cop in the 1970s, he fell in love with a mysterious woman who, he came to believe, was working with the mob and US intelligence. Only after she left him, Ruppert said, did he figure out that his girlfriend had been a CIA officer coordinating a deal in which organized crime thugs were transporting weapons to Kurdish counterrevolutionaries in Iran in exchange for heroin. In an interview with the newspaper, the woman denied Ruppert's account and questioned his mental stability.Hmmm...the exact MO of a political or cult operation: when caught, accuse target of being "crazy".
After sifting through the sifting facts, I'm of the opinion Ruppert was socially engineered by frauds who wanted to convince him the CIA was after him; this would make him open to their conspiracy propaganda. From there they could rely on Ruppert to mis-connect the dots, knowing full well the proof of CIA involvement with 9/11 or his personal life was non-existent.
It never appeared Ruppert became suspicious a private group of organized political conartists could just as easily explain his experiences as the "CIA". Or perhaps he did become suspicious or even discovered it...and realized his life was wasted pushing a fabricated lie by some persons pretending to be his friends.
It looks like we'll never know for sure. He's gone now:
http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resources/collapsenet-public-access/news-alerts/item/12454-collapsenets-founder-michael-c-ruppert-has-committed-suicide
Tuesday, 15 April 2014 04:56
CollapseNet's Founder, Michael C. Ruppert, Has Committed Suicide - UPDATE 04-16-2014: MCR's Suicidal Tendecies and the Note He Left
UPDATE 04-16-2014
Mike's Suicidal Tendencies
from Jenna Orkin
In response to the internet sages who have concluded, in the face of all known evidence from the people who were most intimately familiar with him as well as with the admittedly real dangers that had faced him over the course of his life as an investigative journalist, that Mike did not kill himself but was in fact murdered, his suicidal ideation goes back at least eight years. As a small example, below are excerpts from a few of his emails sent from Venezuela in 2006. In addition, he would call at any and all hours to be talked out of jumping from the roof or offing himself in some other way.
A foray into the seedier barrios of Caracas during a protest was one part journalistic adventure but one bigger part, courting danger. For a hero's death was devoutly to be wished. Failing that, he'd settle - as happened in the end - for death by any means available. On one occasion, he confessed to having tied his necktie around his neck as part of an effort to hang himself - and you can be sure I would not put forth such an implausible notion if it were not true - from the shower fixture. He said that he didn't go through with it because he wished to spare his roommate at the time, Carlos Ruiz, the trauma of finding him the next morning.
He finally left Venezuela in November, ending up, after a detour to Canada, at my apartment. But his reprieve from the alien environment that had not welcomed him the way he had dreamed brought only brief respite. For the next fourteen months, he contemplated suicide on an almost daily basis so that whenever I went to work or the grocery store, I made him promise not to kill himself before I came back. His word - his "honor" - mattered to him more than anything so we took it one day at a time, a notion that was familiar to him from AA.
More on this period in due course.
To Jenna Orkin, 9-24-2006
...Every day I long for death because I just don´t see how this current limbo is ever going to end. I just keep waking up and going through motions. I wrote a new article today and start another tomorrow. I do miss the US and especially my loved ones but I know I can´t ever go home. That would betray my moral decision and put my life at greater risk than I feel it is here.
I may wind up being the writer that no country wants. Then what?
Sigh. I´ve been doing the anger thing, especially at those close to me who betrayed me so deeply. That´s what´s really taken the heart out of me...
To colleagues at Fromthewilderness.com, 9-26-2006
...I am flat out of energy, spirit and hope now...
I am ready to die and the only thing I want to know is that I am totally clean with all the people who are FTW.
I saw a great documentary on Socrates last night. They made him drink hemlock because he kept throwing peoplés [sic] bullshit and sloppy thinking in their faces.
Sounds a little familiar. I am not trying to torment or worry any of those who love me and care for me. I am hanging by a thread here. best, Mike
To colleagues regarding plans for dissolution of Fromthewilderness.com and Mike's possible return to the US, 10-19-2006 :
...anythng I do now will be out of the public eye. Guidance yes, but I need to get offstage for a good long while. That is both a pressure and a drug I need to detox from...
With the push of a button [referring to the 'send' key] the world leaves my shoulders.
Recipients unrecorded, 10-19-2006 21:32
...The bridge is still calling. I say that not to threaten or pressure. I share it just to get it out of my head. I have had two close suicides and the breakup of an engagement in less than three years. Only now am I coming to grips with all of that and much more...
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From Wes:
It is my one affirmative goal in all of this mess to make sure that the truth be told, and that Mike’s death not be bastardized or be made the product of “conspiracy theory”, as had happened to his good friend, Gary Webb.
I can personally back what Jenna has said above. Mike threatened to kill himself on multiple occasions, verbally and in writing. As just one example, the following is an excerpt from an e-mail exchange I had with Mike on July 19, 2012:
“On 7/19/2012 7:14 PM, Mike Ruppert wrote:
You can just tell me how much came in and I can write myself a Collapsenet check for it.
I have been following very clear and specific spiritual direction since May. It could not have been more clear.
The weeks since have been, without exception, the happiest time and most growth-filled time of my life. All I did was farm and live with the land and pray. My leaving the company was essential so that you guys would have something to lean on. You have done well. You need the company. I don't.
48 hours ago I was well into planning suicide out back. I had nowhere to go.The crops are unbelievable. The corn is eight feet high. There will be 50 pounds of potatoes, watermleon, squash, pumpkins and we brought four trees back to producing that didn't do anything last year; peaches, plums, pears. It's wonderful.
Then Doug called and he had it all figured out, without even knowing how bad it was here. Mount Blanca is a sacred and very special place right now and I am being called there... no "ordered" there, with no more than what I can take in the Rav. I know this is true because I have already begun grieving for the loss of this place and the connection I have made here. Now I understand what it was like for the native people to lose their lands.
The objective is to save the crops and see them used lovingly and to get as straight as possible with the landlord and to get me to Colorado ASAP. Every time this has happened to me something even bigger has come from it. Every time.
There's a ton of shit in play right now on many, many levels.” (emphasis added)
But far more relevant than Mike’s past threats are the actual notes that he left before committing suicide - one for his friend who found him (Jack), and one for his life partner (Jesse). I have read them both, and can confirm that both are in Mike’s handwriting and both contain the same basic confession to suicide. His note to his friend, Jack, appears below. We will not publish the second note to Jesse, as it is personal to her and we want to respect her privacy as best we can.
This is MCR's note to Jack:
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There is absolutely no doubt or question about it, Mike Ruppert took his own life.
Rest in Peace, my brother.
Wes
Wesley T. Miller
President & CEO
Collapse Network, Inc.
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04-15-2014
I have been informed that MCR has committed suicide. I am devastated, and very, very sad...
We'll report more as information becomes available.
PLEASE DO NOT SPREAD SPECULATION!
MCR was my friend, my client (I was his attorney) and business partner in CollapseNet. We will gather and report THE FACTS about MCR's death, and nothing else. On my honor, the truth of MCR's death WILL BE TOLD, and his memory will be honored.
Media inquiries should come right here, to me, via ceo@collapsenet.com.
Rest In Peace Mike. I am so sorry that you are gone. You fought the greatest of fights, you opened thousands of eyes and you have earned your place in history, and in our hearts.
Much more to come...
Wesley T. Miller
*****
04-15-2014
From Jenna Orkin:
A brief Comment on Mike Ruppert's Death:
We always knew it could come to this.
To write about Mike requires the tranquility of recollection but at the moment, all is turmoil.
Mike, you told us, "Evolve or perish." Yet in Apocalypse Man you merged them, speaking of death as the ultimate evolution. One day we'll all find out whether that is, in fact, the case but it's not the message you used to impart!
Among the emails that have tumbled in this evening is a wonderful link which is sorely needed at such a time: Hope and Courage http://www.oilempire.us/hope.html. Accompanying it, the following quote from Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List:
"Where's the electric fence?" Clara asked the woman. To her distraught mind, it was a reasonable question to ask, and Clara had no doubt that the friend, if she had any sisterly feeling, would point the exact way to the wires. The answer the woman gave was just as crazed, but it was one that had a fixed point of view, a
balance, a perversely sane core.
"Don't kill yourself on the fence, Clara," the woman urged her. "If you do that, you'll never know what happened to you."
It has always been the most powerful of answers to give to the intending suicide. Kill yourself and you'll never find out how the plot ends. Clara did not have any vivid interest in the plot. But somehow the answer was adequate. She turned around. When she got back to her barracks, she felt more troubled than when she'd set out to look for the fence. But her Cracow friend had -- by her reply -- somehow cut her off from suicide as an option. http://www.amazon.com/Schindlers-List-Thomas-Keneally/dp/0671880314/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397569391&sr=8-1&keywords=schindler%27s+keneally
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The hardest part of this, for me, is that everything I did with or for Mike was in an effort to prevent this day from ever happening. CollapseNet was literally formed to provide a means for Mike to make a living. In doing so, he was brought back into a world of despair that he thought he had retired from. He absorbed the pain of the world on a daily basis until he could not take it any longer, and he left CollapseNet when it got to be too much. But that pain kept following him, and there is nothing that anyone could do about it for him.
He told me many times that Jenna saved his life after Venezuela. I reached out to him in 2009 to help resurrect his career and his honor, and help get him back on his feet again. I know his death is not on me, but I still can't help feeling, unlike his experience with Jenna, that I failed...or that by "helping" him, it merely brought him back on his path of self-destruction.
My grandfather once told me, "Never mourn the death of a fool," and suicide has always fit into that category to me. But not this time...this time, it just really fucking hurts.
I'm so sorry you're gone, Mike. I hope you are finally at peace, and one with Gaia.
Wes
Cue now for all the vultures to start exploiting Ruppert's corpse and legacy to promote the "truth" scam.
Michael Ruppert was a disillusioned idealist who thought he could help people. "Peak oil" spoke to the progressive left fed up with the West's oil dependence and apparently doing little to reduce it.
Unfortunately, he was manipulated and preyed on by a toxic malignant scam known as the "Truth" Movement. Remember this with humility: anyone can be conned.
Rest in peace, Ruppert, you deserve it.
For more on Ruppert:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ruppert
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703932904574511942676683258
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