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JackRiddler
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These things sure do happen to him with an alarming consistency, and I think it's something far less than 49% (or even 33%) his fault.
Variance front page still has the book announcement:
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10-9-09 - The family grows by leaps and bounds! Welcome in David Sakmyster and his novel, The MORPHEUS INITIATIVE, and Michael C. Ruppert and his A PRESIDENTIAL ENERGY POLICY. |
http://www.variancepublishing.com/
No doubt that will soon be gone.
Follow the link and you'll read this:
| Quote: | Book Description -
Due to editorial and philosophical differences, both parties have
agreed to go their separate ways. Variance would like to wish
Mike the best of luck with his non-fiction book and movie. |
http://www.variancepublishing.com/books/a-presidential-energy-policy-by-michael-c-ruppert.html
Most of the books there look like this:
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ultramegagenius
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i haven't been following his members-only website in recent years, but i did read Crossing the Rubicon with great enthusiasm. what i would construe as his provocative narrative is the following:
the Promis software has, in it's latest iteration, become a hyper-advanced manifestation of artificial intelligence which the global elite have deployed in many nefarious ways such as, inter alia, tapping into satellites that can determine the quantity and location of all vital minerals. they are using this information in order to orchestrate a massive culling of one-third of the Earth's population, in part to cope with the unassailable fact of Peak Oil.
the infamous prologue to this eschatological death-spiral was of course 9/11. one of the U.S. facilitators of the attacks was Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon comptroller who helped fleece taxpayers out of trillions of dollars as he sat on the board of directors for a company producing remote-flying technologies for Pentagon test aircraft. one of the controller modules produced by this company was most likely utilized during the attacks from within the CIA office in WTC 7, adding more impetus for that building's demolition.
is his story impossible? no, but nevertheless i have found it necessary to step away from its more salacious points in order to a) get more into the historical and deep-political roots of our situation, and b) stop freaking out everyone i know and sounding like a lunatic. whether plebs like me have 5 months or 50 more years to exist, i need to stay constructive.
whether his isolation and marginality are the product of big enemies or more mundane factors, he hasn't bridged his claims into something credible enough to warrant my further attention, as of yet. some type of forum featuring Ruppert, Sybil Edmonds, Cynthia McKinney, and Daniel Hopsicker would certainly revive my interest. i would pine for an authority on Promis to show up, but after skimming the other threads, i still cant make heads or tails of that whole mess. |
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8bitagent
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| ultramegagenius wrote: |
the Promis software has, in it's latest iteration, become a hyper-advanced manifestation of artificial intelligence which the global elite have deployed in many nefarious ways such as, inter alia, tapping into satellites that can determine the quantity and location of all vital minerals. |
You may have seen these articles on this very thing? If not I highly recommend them:
http://911blogger.com/node/20677
"Ptech and 9/11 Cyber warfare"
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/.../012705_ptech_pt2.shtml
And
this thread I started on the matter:
http://rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=25541
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Sweejak
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| Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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I've no time for the thread so I'm just tossing this in. Ruppert at the Commonwealth Club, 2004.
| Quote: | | Maria Gilardin writes: This was one of the more surreal experiences of my recording "career". The very mainstream San Francisco Commonwealth Club had invited Mike Ruppert to speak on the eve of the publication of his new book: CROSSING THE RUBICON (- with a foreword by the amazing Catherine Austin Fitts). The Commonwealth Club is mostly a place for the power elites. Here was Mike Ruppert accusing some of those whose portraits are hanging on the walls of having had a hand in the events and/or the cover-up of 9-11 |
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http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/mike_ruppert_at_the_commonwealth_club_in_san_francisco |
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ultramegagenius
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| thanks for the links 8bitagent. the second one's broken, but i'll be plenty occupied with the other 2. |
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8bitagent
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| ultramegagenius wrote: | | thanks for the links 8bitagent. the second one's broken, but i'll be plenty occupied with the other 2. |
oh sorry! here they are, the three best ptech articles:
http://911citizenswatch.org/?p=436
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012705_ptech_pt2.shtml
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http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2009/07/alkadis-ownership-of-ptech-acknowledged-.html
This stuff is so in your face, it's amazing
Anyways, I love Errol Morris styled docs, so I cannot wait to see this. Amazing that in Nov 2001 Rupert was already giving 9/11 truth speaking engagements.
| Quote: | On July 15, the Boston U.S. Attorney’s office announced the arrest of a former Ptech officer Buford George Peterson. The announcement also revealed indictments Paterson’s and Oussama Abdul Ziade, also a former officer of Ptech, Inc., a computer software company that operated from Quincy, Mass., for making false statements to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in connection with a loan application. Thus, revealing that Yassin al Kadi was the major shareholder of the company that provided IT services to most U.S. government offices, and had access to information detrimental to our national security.
In addition to Ptech, Kadi was the Director of the Saudi-based, bin Mahfouz owned Muwafaq Foundation ("Blessed Relief") that fronted for, and funded, Makhtab Al-Khidamat (MK), Al-Qaeda, Hamas, and the Abu-Sayyaf organization, to name just a few. According to a Treasury Department letter to Switzerland’s Attorney General in November 2001, there was "a reasonable basis to believe that Mr. Kadi has a long history of financing and facilitating the activities of terrorists and terrorist-related organizations, often, acting through seemingly-legitimate charitable enterprises and businesses."
Kadi’s businesses extended throughout the world, and included banking, diamonds, chemicals, construction, transportation, and real estate. It would be hard to find a more strategically placed individual to advance the agenda of al-Qaeda, or any other terrorist organization.
The identities and connections of some other Ptech major investors and managers should have also raised a red flag: Suliman Biheiri, an Egyptian, is alleged by the government to have funneled $3.7 million from the Saudi funded charity, the SAAR Foundation, to Islamist terrorists through BMI, a now-defunct New Jersey-based Islamic investment firm of which he was the founder and president, and which fronted for and funded Hamas. Biheiri, who was convicted in October 2004, for lying about businesses with Hamas’ Mousa Abu Marzook, was already in prison for immigration fraud. He also had links to the Muslim Brotherhood's and al Qaeda’s money-laundering machine, the Al-Taqwa network.
Yakub Mirza, a Pakistani, was not only a business partner with Kadi in Ptech, but also the financial mastermind, Trustee, President and CEO of the SAAR Foundation, which according to the government is connected to the Safa Foundation, which the government claimed also provided material support to Islamist terrorist groups. Mirza was also a Trustee on the board of Sanabel, the investment arm of the Saudi International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), which shared the same address as the SAAR Foundation: 555 Grove Street in Herndon, Virginia. He set up and was the Secretary/Treasurer of the US branch of the Muslim World League (MWL), another Saudi charity that also served as the fund- raising arm of the US branch of the IIRO. Over the last four decades, the MWL received more than $1.3 billion directly from the late Saudi King Fahad. Both organizations have been documented to support Islamist around the world.
Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi was the President of the American Muslim Council (AMC) and the American Muslim Foundation (AMF); both received thousands of dollars from the Success Foundation. The Success Foundation also shared offices with the SAAR Foundation and provided the logistical and financial support for Islamist terror organizations. Alamoudi also served as the Secretary of the Success Foundation, and openly stated his support for HAMAS and Hizbollah. Like Mirza, he was a member of the IIRO. Alamoudi pled guilty in July 2004 on charges related to a Libyan plot to assassinate then Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
Other partners in Ptech had similar connections to al-Qaeda and Hamas.
In October 2001, former Vice-President of Sales for Ptech approached the FBI Boston office with detailed information regarding possible links between Ptech and the 9/11 attacks. He was followed by Indira Singh, a risk consultant at J. P. Morgan Chase, in May 2002, who approached the Boston FBI office, the NY Joint Terrorism Task Force, the management of J. P. Morgan Chase and FBI headquarters with more documentation regarding possible Ptech penetration of US government agencies and corporations.
The FBI finally raided Ptech on December 6, 2002. However, no arrests were made and the company continues to operate, and according to Ptech’s CEO, Oussama Ziade, in May 2004, "Ptech still has government agencies as customers, including the White House." If Ziade, a Lebanese national, who left the U.S. in 2005 is "arrested and convicted of the charges in the indictment, he could faces up to 30 years in prison, to be followed by five years supervised release and a $1 million fine....If convicted on these charges, Peterson faces up to 30 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release and a $1 million fine."
Even if convicted, we are still in the dark regarding the information to which Ptech’s employees, management and investors had access. The possibility that the Saudi funded al-Qaeda have taken advantage of then America's free market system to undermine its economy and national security seems quite real when one identifies the connections and affiliations of Ptech’s management, investors and employees.
So, how could a small, Saudi-financed company with questionable terrorist connections obtain significant government and business contracts, and who facilitated this? Was Horizons, its Egyptian branch, ever investigated? Why wasn’t Ptech shut down immediately? And even more importantly, are there other Ptechs around? |
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Hammer of Los
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Yes, I think Ruppert is likely being targeted too.
Sweejak, that is a very interesting note you threw into the mix.
| Quote: | | Maria Gilardin writes: This was one of the more surreal experiences of my recording "career". The very mainstream San Francisco Commonwealth Club had invited Mike Ruppert to speak on the eve of the publication of his new book: CROSSING THE RUBICON (- with a foreword by the amazing Catherine Austin Fitts). The Commonwealth Club is mostly a place for the power elites. Here was Mike Ruppert accusing some of those whose portraits are hanging on the walls of having had a hand in the events and/or the cover-up of 9-11. |
That these folk should turn to Ruppert for information about 911 might be seen to lend him credibility. I wonder who booked him?
"Crossing the Rubicon" was a very significant book. He was a nypd detective, and knows how to build a case.
Unlike so many others, Ruppert is clearly not a 911 disinfo front. He was on the scene long before 911. They don't have him pre loaded with anti-semitic attitudes, holocaust denial or far right affiliations. I don't think. Oh hell, someone will come along now and tell me Ruppert is a Larouchie...
Now he might not have everything right about peak oil, but 911 certainly provided the justification for subsequent oil/gas wars, and Ruppert's got more right than most, that's for sure. I doubt the fact that he is targeted comes as a surprise to many.
Hasn't the secret government got a few texas oil billionaires in there? Don't they and their associated industries want more control of planetary oil and gas production and distribution? Doesn't even the possibility of "peak oil" make this need even more pressing, not to mention impending possible natural/social/political upheavals due to climate change or other environmental catastrophe(s)? Don't these people have connections to mil intel? And Saudi and Pakistani intelligence networks? And the islamic international brigades? It might even be an open and shut case, if there was ever any kind of real investigation. |
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xsicbastardx
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| Sweejak wrote: | I've no time for the thread so I'm just tossing this in. Ruppert at the Commonwealth Club, 2004.
| Quote: | | Maria Gilardin writes: This was one of the more surreal experiences of my recording "career". The very mainstream San Francisco Commonwealth Club had invited Mike Ruppert to speak on the eve of the publication of his new book: CROSSING THE RUBICON (- with a foreword by the amazing Catherine Austin Fitts). The Commonwealth Club is mostly a place for the power elites. Here was Mike Ruppert accusing some of those whose portraits are hanging on the walls of having had a hand in the events and/or the cover-up of 9-11 |
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http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/mike_ruppert_at_the_commonwealth_club_in_san_francisco |
I was there. At that point in my life I was caught up in 9/11 and falling dow the rabbit hole. I thought Ruppert was the real deal and going to blow the lid of the whole thing.
In hindsight nothing, it wasn't the things that Ruppert presented in his speech......it was more watching the audience and the knowing glances that kept going back and forth between some of the folks in attendance in the audience.
It was then that I really understood for the first time that there are two worlds that exist.......
The real world they control and the "other" world in which we all reside.....
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8bitagent
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Man that gave me goosebumps! The indie film sites and blogs I check out daily have been talking about this one, looks like it opens in select markets soon.
As an interesting little sync, I was at this goth/underground club last month, and started talking to this cute little punk rock girl. Looked like she was straight out of 80' era CBGB's. She noticed the "no war" and "9/11 truth" pins on my jacket and asked me if I had ever heard of Michael Rupert. Said she saw him a couple months after 9/11 giving a presentation. I mentioned how I had seen the dvd "Truth and Lies of 9/11" and how amazing it was he was talking about all this stuff as the ashes were still simmering at ground zero.
I mean this was the guy who years ago was talking about the high tech and deep financial aspect of 9/11, and then many years before that was talking about CIA-drugs before it became wider known.
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§ê¢rꆧ
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| Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 10:27 am Post subject: |
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That trailer is pure apocalypse porn. It's certainly possible Ruppert is being smeared, about as possible to me that he's a crazy pervert, drunk on doomer wine.
Crossing the Rubicon is an important enough book to me that I'd like to know the truth.
He made the Willamatte Week, one of Portland's free weeklies as ROGUEOF THE WEEK
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ROGUE OF THE WEEK]
Michael Ruppert
Peak trouble for an Oregon author.
BY WW EDITORIAL STAFF | 503-243-2122
[October 21st, 2009]
Author Michael Ruppert used the skills he learned as an LAPD cop 30 years ago to flesh out peak oil and investigate the “truth” behind Sept. 11, 2001 (the CIA did it).
Until recently, Ruppert was merely a conspiracy theorist from Ashland best known for his 2004 book Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. He spun his complicated tales in lectures around Oregon and on KBOO-FM, but his management style suffers from much simpler flaws that earn him Rogue of the Week honors.
The final order issued late last month by Commissioner Brad Avakian of the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries after three years of twists and turns reads like one of Ruppert’s investigations—except Ruppert’s the perp.
The lowlight from the BOLI report: a description of how Ruppert interacted with 25-year-old female subordinate Lindsay Gerken.
“One evening in mid-May [2006] when [Gerken] and Ruppert were alone in the office, Ruppert began complaining that he had a story he needed to get out, that he needed to free himself, and that it would be great if he could just run around the office naked for a minute to get out his ‘writer’s block,’” the report says. “Shortly afterward, [Gerken] was typing at her desk and Ruppert came to her open door, standing in his underwear in a ‘wide-legged stance’ with a ‘big smile.’”
Ruppert, who was in his mid-50s at the time, also put a CD containing selected pornography in Gerken’s desk, according to BOLI, “and told her he was willing to have a ‘sexual relationship’ with [Gerken] ‘if that’s what she wanted.’”
That’s not what she wanted. BOLI awarded Gerken $2,713.42 in back wages and the largest damages claim in BOLI’s history: $125,000 for Ruppert’s sexual harassment.
Last week, Ruppert’s attorney, Wesley T. Miller, posted a lengthy rebuttal on Ruppert’s website (fromthewilderness.com), saying the BOLI ruling “patently violates all notions of fair play and equal justice.” He promises an appeal. |
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MacCruiskeen
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Well, if that august and respected journal, the free weekly Willamatte Week, says "he's the perp" (sic), then who are we to doubt it, even if "the perp" is planning to appeal?
| Quote: | | Until recently, Ruppert was merely a conspiracy theorist |
...but now he's finally MADE IT INTO THE NEWS! Thank god for the perpetrators of investigative journalism in the Fourth Estate, eh? They've made him a celebrity. All of a sudden, that obscure and insignificant "conspiracy theorist" (sic) is deemed newsworthy, not because of anything he's ever discovered or written about, but thanks to an unsupported assertion about his roguish underpants.
The Willamatte Week deserves a Pulitzer (if not a Nobel) Prize.
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§ê¢rꆧ
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Heh heh, fair enough. Although the WW is a lot better than the Portland Mercury, which seems to have a much more right-wing bent.
I was just surprised to see Ruppert in my bathroom reading material, which is where the weeklies end up - it is not often RI invades me there, where I usually get to read about such deep subjects as the future of Hip Hop in p-town and sometimes a meaty article on local city council corruption or something.
This is, like, in my backyard. I'm inclined to want to investigate it, but my discretion is probably going to win over that motivation.
Anyway, sorry to interrupt.
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| 8bitagent wrote: | | As an interesting little sync, I was at this goth/underground club last month, and started talking to this cute little punk rock girl. Looked like she was straight out of 80' era CBGB's. She noticed the "no war" and "9/11 truth" pins on my jacket and asked me if I had ever heard of Michael Rupert. Said she saw him a couple months after 9/11 giving a presentation. I mentioned how I had seen the dvd "Truth and Lies of 9/11" and how amazing it was he was talking about all this stuff as the ashes were still simmering at ground zero. |
Sounds like Ruppert is getting somebody a little nookie besides himself even. Damn.
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8bitagent
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| barracuda wrote: | | 8bitagent wrote: | | As an interesting little sync, I was at this goth/underground club last month, and started talking to this cute little punk rock girl. Looked like she was straight out of 80' era CBGB's. She noticed the "no war" and "9/11 truth" pins on my jacket and asked me if I had ever heard of Michael Rupert. Said she saw him a couple months after 9/11 giving a presentation. I mentioned how I had seen the dvd "Truth and Lies of 9/11" and how amazing it was he was talking about all this stuff as the ashes were still simmering at ground zero. |
Sounds like Ruppert is getting somebody a little nookie besides himself even. Damn. |
Errr...not quite. Admittedly, I haven't had much luck with the ladies in some years.
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