#michael ruppert

[triste-le-roy]

The Earth is a junkie.

Michael Ruppert

[sonxofxscars]

Michael Ruppert was a good man. If you haven’t seen Collapse, take 80 minutes of your time to give it a view. Hear from a voice speaking out about the truth in everything from the beginning of the talk about Peak Oil to the Great Recession of 2008. 

[eyeliketwowatch]

Collapse - Being Paranoid doesn’t mean they Aren’t really out to get you...

The blue ray player has been on the fritz and in the repair shop for the past couple of weeks, so movie watching has slowed to a crawl (not to mention summer weather and increased extra-curricular activities on the upswing). Last night after jazz combo practice, I sat down in front of the computer to watch this one off the netflix streaming queue. The movie is basically one long monolog by the main subject of the movie, an ex LAPD policeman and noted 'conspiracy theorist' (as he is dubbed by the mainstream press) and his contention that the world is headed for (or is already in the early stages of) economic collapse and anarchy and revolution, mostly due to the unsustainability of our current reliance on fossil fuels. He contends that we've already reached the 'peak oil' point, and the current economic downturns we've been experiencing are a direct result and are only going to get worse. The most compelling part of the movie was where he talked about the 'food production' system, and how intrinsically tied to 'oil' that whole process is.

A lot of what this guy talks about is quite rational and believable, and makes a hell of a lot of sense, and yet.. I couldn't help but get the impression that this guy is also dealing with a lot of inner demons that really were only vaguely touched upon, which ended up putting a shadow of doubt over the whole premise. The constant chain smoking, the rambling discourse that sometimes slips back into old grievances with the CIA, his ex wife, etc (but only hinted at), the glimpses into his history and personal life, gave me the impression that we might be listening to a borderline paranoid schizophrenic. But it didn't make the movie any less compelling or sobering, and at times really frightening. Of course, I've been awaiting total societal breakdown since the late 70s (just take a look at many of my film preoccupations from that period: A Boy and His Dog, Soylent Green, The Road Warrior, The Day After, War Games, Threads, Testament etc etc), and one of my favorite books (which I just reread again recently) by Octavia Butler called 'The Parable of the Sower' is along similar lines. I often worry what kind of world I'm leaving to my son and his future children.

3 stars out of 5

Released 2009, First Viewing May 2011

Well, here it is 2017, and we’re still hanging on...

[jamesworrell-blog]

It is a small world, after all.

I moved out to LA in 1991 to attend an MFA program at CalArts and to make a long story short, I never went. Instead, I worked for Michael Ruppert(behind camera) and his associate Richard Daily(next to camera) in a very busy commercial still life studio. We worked insane hours, early mornings to very late nights often working on multiple jobs for Lexus, Ikea, Energizer, etc.

I often stop a shoot to demonstrate proper C Stand use or to explain lighting, one of my long time assistants, Kristi Workman, often rolls her eyes when I do this. It is Michael who gave me my crash course in all things commercial photography. Sure, sometimes I was only painting a backdrop or driving a truck or building Ikea furniture or loading 8x10 film or polishing stainless steel all around the studio, but it was invaluable.

I worked with Ruppert's Studio less than a year and I fled to New York to pursue my career... too much driving in LA for me, but it is the experience I gained with and from the crew there that allowed me to walk into amazing studios here in NYC... Richard Pierce, Craig Cutler, Carlton Davis & Gentl + Hyers, etc.

It is at Michael's studio that I met Fred Blake who now runs FotoCare's rental department here in NYC. I also met many of the people who are still my very good friends.

A short but intense part of my life that I haven't thought about in a while, I am glad to know they are all doing well. LA is good for some things...

Above is the truck I drove many times out to Burbank from Culver City, hauling Ikea furniture for shooting. Below are polaroids from from a couple shoots, that's my arm standing in for the Hand Model in the Lexus.

The building Michael had built for him in LA (culver city).

[3-5icinebedidenolma]

Faizli ödeme sistemini kullandıkca aslında zenginlerin oturduğu yerden para kazanmasına katkıda bulunuyorsunuz.

[patrickblogs]

Visionary Mike Ruppert : if we want a way out of the oil addicted economy, we will find one, but it can only happen on the initiative of the people, not by governments, political leaders or corporations.

[newspiracy]

New Conspiracy has been published on Newspiracy #YouDecide #Conspiracy #Newspiracy

New Post has been published on http://newspiracy.com/the-cia-drug-dealers-busted-finally-michael-ruppert/

THE CIA DRUG DEALERS BUSTED, FINALLY. Michael Ruppert

Michael Ruppert from FromTheWilderness.com confronts Bill Clinton’s CIA Director John Deutch about the CIA’s involvement in cocaine smuggling. He goes further in this documentary in detail about how exactly drug money is laundered into Wall Street. He concludes that 9/11 was orchestrated as a pretense to further Wall Street’s cause of laundering opium money from Afghanistan and America’s conquest in securing the world’s natural resources in the face of PEAK OIL

[veniceartsclub]

One Year Gone

A year ago today, Feb 19, 2014, Mike Ruppert took leave from the el rancho here in Colorado for points west, steered by fate, guided by destiny, aligned by stars and, like all of us, hindered by time and place, by age and by all that we cannot leave behind, no matter how far we travel. His decision came quickly, calls were made and some new accommodation was found on the west coast, in NoCal,…

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