David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do!

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David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do!

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<br><br>NEWSLETTER #83<br>August 11, 2006<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do!</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr83.html">link</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br> It is now time, fearless readers, to revisit some of the events of 2004 - the year that a suspiciously well-organized band of 'Peak Oil' salesmen began cranking up the volume of their propaganda campaign while simultaneously attempting to shout down any dissenters in the crowd. <br> Some of the events that will be covered here have been commented on before on these pages, but in a largely disjointed manner. With the benefit of hindsight, I now realize that what is needed is a timeline, which I now present, for the very first time, under an arbitrarily chosen title.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>March 3, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Philip Watts, CEO and former chief of exploration for Shell Oil, is asked to step down amidst a scandal involving allegedly inflated reserve estimates. Two months earlier, Shell had dramatically lowered its estimates of recoverable reserves, claiming that earlier figures had been faked. Both Watts and Walter van de Vijver, who had replaced Watts as chief of exploration when Watts became CEO, are forced to resign. <br>Wattsis the first CEO in the company's century-long history to be forced from office.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>April 19, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Judy Boynton, Chief Financial Officer for Shell, is fired in the ongoing scandal over 'faked' reserve estimates. Boynton's departure is accompanied by a further reduction in Shell's estimated reserves.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>April 28, 2004: </strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->Spokesmen for Saudi Arabia's state- owned oil company announce that they are more than quadrupling their previous estimates of recoverable reserves, adding that the new estimate of 1.2 trillion barrels is "very conservative."<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>May 1, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Unidentified 'terrorists' strike out against key components of Saudi Arabia's oil industry.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>May 21, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Saudi spokesmen again announce that the kingdom sits atop vast stockpiles of recoverable oil reserves.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>May 29, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> 'Terrorists' again attack the Saudi oil industry. No further announcements are forthcoming from Saudi officials.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>June 22, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Professor Thomas Gold, the West's most vocal and influential proponent of the abiotic origins of hydro- carbons, dies suddenly on the Summer Solstice.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>July 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Russia's Yukos Oil is charged by the Putin government with tax evasion.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>August 3, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Pemex, Mexico's state-owned oil company, announces that it has mapped vast new oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, enabling it to more than double the country's estimated recoverable reserves.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>August 20, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Green Party activist Walter Sheasby, who six months earlier had penned a piece exposing the true backers of the 'Peak Oil' ruse, dies suddenly, reportedly from the West Nile Virus.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>October 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO of Yukos Oil, is arrested and - appropriately enough - sent off to a cell in Siberia.<br><br> <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>November 1, 2004:</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Raul Munoz Leos is forced out of his position as CEO of Pemex following a manufactured scandal. As the Los Angeles Times reported, Laos' ouster came "a week after Mexican newspapers detailed how his wife, Hilda Ledezma Mayoral, billed the company for liposuction treatments costing a total of $12,000 last year and this April. Although Pemex insisted that any of its employees and their dependents were entitled to similar medical reimbursements and that Munoz Leos repaid the company,<br>the damage was done." (Chris Kraul "Mexico Replaces Oil Monopoly Boss," Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2004)<br><br> I hope to expand upon this timeline in the coming months, possibly through tips sent in by alert readers, but already we can see that, in the span of just eight short months, two of the West's leading critics of 'Peak Oil' theory turned up dead and the CEOs of three of the world's major oil producers got axed. One of those three oil giants (Pemex) had just announced the discovery of massive new oil fields, another (Shell) had just been 'caught' supposedly inflating reserve figures, and the third (Yukos) is <br>the leading producer of oil in a country whose entire petroleum industry is based on the teachings of abiotic oil theory. In addition, a fourth major player in the oil industry, Saudi Arabia, saw some of its key oil installations attacked immediately after it had announced dramatically increased reserve figures.<br><br> The pattern here seems rather clear: contradict the lie that the world is running out of oil, and you end up either dead or exiled to Siberia.<br><br> There is one other thing that I need to add to my timeline: in October 2004, at the tail end of this extraordinary series of shameful events, all of which appear to have been aimed at preparing the playing field for the 'Peak Oil' scam, Michael Ruppert posted a piece on his From the Bilderbergs website in which he triumphantly declared, "We Did It!" Oh yes, Mr. Ruppert,<br>you do indeed gotta lotta splainin' to do. And when Mikey's done <br>explaining his position on 'Peak Oil,' maybe he can then explain something else that has been troubling me for the last several weeks: how is it that a seasoned police detective could do such an amateurish job of staging a crime scene?<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/070506_offices_burglarized.shtml">FTW</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby Et in Arcadia ego » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:43 am

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>how is it that a seasoned police detective could do such an amateurish job of staging a crime scene?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Ok, he's brought that one up..I want to hear from members here about this. What is he insinuating to you? Because every time I try and speak up about Ruppert's relationship to Webb, something stinky takes place..<br><br>So let's here about that again, please? <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>
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All tomorrow's oil

Postby Avalon » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:34 am

I can't comment on the relationship between Ruppert and Webb, as I don't know anything about it.<br><br>But I found myself humming "All the dead computers" to Nico's "All Tomorrow's Parties." <br><br>He's a major threat to The Powers That Be, yet he doesn't have his crucial information backed up offsite in several places?<br><br>And if that is a deadbolt on a hollowcore door, I will laugh until it hurts.<br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:43 am

I think he just might be insinutating that Ruppert staged the attack...<br><br>Those who believe it was real can send money (always an appeal for money) to Ruppert.<br><br>Others can wonder why an attack Ruppert says was designed to "destroy data" the vandals removed the covers of the computer and then smashed them with sledgehammers rather than simply stealing all the hard drives...or the computers themselves. What I saw in that room could have been loaded into the back of a honda Accord. <br><br>Also, one does wonder why Mikey doesn't have a burglar alarm. One also assumes that like any business, the data in those computers is backed up daily, thereby allowing them to get back in business fairly quickly assuming they can go buy a couple of new machines. <br><br>McGowan was the one who first opened my eyes to Peak Oil. Here in Nashville we have a new group, started by someone central to the local peace community. It's called "Peak Oil nashville" appropriately enough. <br><br>They are not clear about whether our "doom" is escapable and do talk about alternatives and acting for conservation...I'm for those things. But one of her first posts to the local peace list was about how the recent record oil profits were not the fault of the oil companies, but purely a result of world events and middleman speculators as if <br><br>a) oil companies have nothing to do with world events and<br><br>b) oil companies have nothing to do with oil speculation.<br><br>Silliness..and dangerous silliness.<br><br>Another poster recently talked about how the very recent BP shutdown of the Alaska Pipeline was a result of peak oil. Unbelievable. However, to their credit, the founder was the one to post the excellent Greg Palast article about how there has been dangerous corrosion in the pipeline for a decade but how those bringing this to attention were harrassed, sometimes literally by an "ex" cia agent. Only now do they shut down for repairs...jacking up oil prices even further. <br><br>I'll post the article here and send it along to Dave.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 10:53 am

Somewhat peripheral, but important...here's the Palast article I mentioned. <br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown<br><br>by Greg Palastalskapipeline<br>For The Guardian (UK)<br>Tuesday, August 9, 2006<br><br>Is the Alaska Pipeline corroded? You bet it is. Has been for more than a decade. Did British Petroleum shut the pipe yesterday to turn a quick buck on its negligence, to profit off the disaster it created? Just ask the “smart pig.”<br><br>Years ago, I had the unhappy job of leading an investigation of British Petroleum’s management of the Alaska pipeline system. I was working for the Chugach villages, the Alaskan Natives who own the shoreline slimed by the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker grounding.<br><br>Even then, courageous government inspectors and pipeline workers were screaming about corrosion all through the pipeline. I say “courageous” because BP, which owns 46% of the pipe and is supposed to manage the system, had a habit of hunting down and destroying the careers of those who warn of pipeline problems.<br><br>In one case, BP’s CEO of Alaskan operations hired a former CIA expert to break into the home of a whistleblower, Chuck Hamel, who had complained of conditions at the pipe’s tanker facility. BP tapped his phone calls with a US congressman and ran a surveillance and smear campaign against him. When caught, a US federal judge said BP’s acts were “reminiscent of Nazi Germany.”<br><br>This was not an isolated case. Captain James Woodle, once in charge of the pipe’s Valdez terminus, was blackmailed into resigning the post when he complained of disastrous conditions there. The weapon used on Woodle was a file of faked evidence of marital infidelity. Nice guys, eh?<br><br>Now let’s talk timing. BP’s suddenly discovered corrosion necessitating an emergency shut-down of the line is the same corrosion Dan Lawn has been screaming about for 15 years. Lawn is a steel-eyed government inspector who has kept his job only because his union’s lawyers have kept BP from having his head.<br><br>Indeed, it’s pretty darn hard for BP to claim it is surprised to find corrosion this week when Lawn issued a damning report on corrosion right after a leak and spill were discovered on March 2 of this year.<br><br>Why shut the pipe now? The timing of a sudden inspection and fix of a decade-long problem has a suspicious smell. A precipitous shutdown in mid-summer, in the middle of Middle East war(s), is guaranteed to raise prices and reap monster profits for BP. The price of crude jumped $2.22 a barrel on the shutdown news to over $76. How lucky for BP which sells four million barrels of oil a day. Had BP completed its inspection and repairs a couple years back — say, after Dan Lawn’s tenth warning — the oil market would have hardly noticed.<br><br>But $2 a barrel is just the beginning of BP’s shut-down bonus. The Alaskan oil was destined for the California market which now faces a supply crisis at the very height of the summer travel season. The big winner is ARCO petroleum, the largest retailer in the Golden State. ARCO is a 100%-owned subsidiary of … British Petroleum.<br><br>BP could have fixed the pipeline problem this past winter, after their latest corrosion-caused oil spill. But then ARCO would have lost the summertime supply-squeeze windfall.<br><br>Enron Corporation was infamous for deliberately timing repairs to maximize profit. Would BP also manipulate the market in such a crude manner? Some US prosecutors think they did so in the US propane market. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) just six weeks ago charged the company with approving an Enron-style scheme to crank up the price of propane sold in poor rural communities in the US. One former BP exec has pleaded guilty.<br><br>Lord Browne, the imperious CEO of BP, has apologized for that scam, for the Alaska spill, for this week’s shutdown and for the deaths in 2005 of 15 workers at the company’s mortally sloppy refinery operation at Texas City, Texas.<br><br>I don’t want readers to think BP isn’t civic-minded. The company’s US CEO, Bob Malone, was Co-Chairman of the Bush re-election campaign in Alaska. Mr. Bush, in turn, was so impressed with BP’s care of Alaska’s environment that he pushed again to open the state’s arctic wildlife refuge (ANWR) to drilling by the BP consortium.<br><br>Indeed, you can go to Alaska today and see for yourself the evidence of BP’s care of the wilderness. You can smell it: the crude oil still on the beaches from the Exxon Valdez spill.<br><br>Exxon took all the blame for the spill because they were dumb enough to have the company’s name on the ship. But it was BP’s pipeline managers who filed reports that oil spill containment equipment was sitting right at the site of the grounding near Bligh Island. However, the reports were bogus, the equipment wasn’t there and so the beaches were poisoned. At the time, our investigators uncovered four-volume’s worth of faked safety reports and concluded that BP was at least as culpable as Exxon for the 1,200 miles of oil-destroyed coastline.<br><br>Nevertheless, m’Lord Browne preens himself with his corporation’s environmental record. We know BP cares about nature because they have lots of photos of solar panels in their annual reports — and they’ve painted every one of their gas stations green.<br><br>The green paint-job is supposed to represent the oil giant’s love of Mother Nature. But the good Lord, Mr. Browne, knows it stands for the color of the Yankee dollar.<br><br>BP claims the profitable timing of its Alaska pipe shutdown can be explained because they’ve only now run a “smart pig” through the pipes to locate the corrosion. The “pig” is an electronic drone that BP should have been using continuously, though they had not done so for 14 years. The fact that, in the middle of an oil crisis, they’ve run it through now, forcing the shutdown, reminds me, when I consider Lord Browne’s closeness to George Bush, that the company’s pig is indeed, very, very smart.<br><br>* * * * * * * *<br>40940177 greg palast2 byl5855<br><br>Greg Palast, an energy economist and investigative reporter, is the author of “Exxon Valdez: A Well-Designed Disaster.” His reports can be seen on BBC Television’s Newsnight, Democracy Now! and in Harper’s Magazine.<br><br>Beginning noon today, at www.GregPalast.com, read, “Trillion Dollar Babies: Big Oil’s War Bonus” from Palast’s recently-released New York Times bestseller, “ARMED MADHOUSE: Who’s Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal ‘08, No Child’s Behind Left and other Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War.“<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br> <br> <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/british-petroleums-smart-pig">www.gregpalast.com/british-petroleums-smart-pig</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby wordspeak » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:50 pm

Of course Mcgowan was just saying Ruppert faked the burglary. I don't follow why Gary Webb was brought up... though I've always believed that he was murdered, and Ruppert's admanant stance that he wasn't reeked.<br><br>But, meanwhile, a good timeline from Mcgowan about "Peak Oil." Spreading the evidence that "Peak Oil" is a scam seems to be risky business. It's one of the ultimate parapolitical battlegrounds.<br><br>That was a good Palast article, too; thanks for sending it, Dreams End. <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:18 pm

OH...yeah, about Webb. When Webb took two bullets to the head in what was ruled a suicide, Ruppert was the most adament to immediately condemn anyone for speculating that the death was anything other than suicidal. I mean, why on earth would ANYONE question that a man who uncovered CIA drug running into South Central L.A. dying from two gunshot wounds to the head be anything other than suicide? It's not just that Ruppert expressed his opinion, he took a proprietary "anyone who dares question is torturing Webb's family" sort of tone that was one of the clearest messages in my opinion, that he's working for the other team.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby Et in Arcadia ego » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:06 pm

Bingo.<br><br>No Ruppert in my diet.. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>
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Postby Bismillah » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:44 pm

"he's working for the other team"<br><br>Which 'other team' would that be, DE? The CIA/government/drugrunning team? The one Ruppert himself spent years fighting, at no little personal cost? <p></p><i></i>
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Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:14 pm

Yeah...that team. <br><br>The one that killed Webb.<br><br>Folks, I don't have insider knowledge of Ruppert's motivations...I just know that he asks for lots of money and likes the idea of downsizing the earth's population significantly...that's a matter of record.<br><br>However, it does occur to me that any regime worth its salt will spend more time and effort misleading, controlling, manipulating or in other ways destroying the opposition.<br><br>The LAPD, of which Ruppert is a former member, was notorious for their "red squads" which went around infiltrating and provoking all kinds of activist groups. Been a victim of that my ownself.<br><br>I have a friend who photographed LAPD using spray paint to mark out gang member tags in graffiti which is a way of threatening that person, who would assume it was a rival gang.<br><br>What, you mean the LAPD was PROVOKING gang warfare that they were sworn to try to prevent?????<br><br><br>Yep. <br><br>Now, I do try to avoid the "everyone is an agent" theme, but the most effective work to disrupt the opposition is WITHIN the freaking opposition. I've certainly seen my share...and discussed them here. While I'm no fan of Perot's Reform Party, see what happened to it and who was behind it to get a taste...yeah, that Lenora Fulani, she's a progressive..she couldn't be working for the bad guys, could she?<br><br>We've discussed Ruppert to death. If you like him, keep sending him checks so he can pay for his new house or new computers or whatever the next item is on the auction block. If you don't, I'd also like a new house, so please send ME a check. Something nice and in the mountains, I think...safe from the PTB, eh?<br><br>Oh, and I have some more bad news...<br><br>A lot of those guys on TV who are trying to win people to Jesus...they are just in it for the money. Sorry to tell you that. <br><br>Oh, and professional wrestling is fake.<br><br>Oh, and so is the drug war. Yeah...it's weird but the very guys who are supposed to be fighting the drug cartels are often actually cooperating with them for larger agendas.... Weird, huh.<br><br>By the way, I've actually been around two or three activist office breakins...Cispes in the early nineties, for example. And also the office that was housing petitions around the Rodney King beatings (can't remember the organization.) HARD DRIVES WERE TAKEN...they didn't just beat up the computer case and leave the drives there. <br><br>I really can understand a belief in Peak Oil...there's a logic to it and there's some science behind it. But Ruppert is a hustler....his freaking mom worked for the CIA (Ruppert's own words) and so did some mysterious girlfriend who had him chasing his own tail for years. (Ruppert's own words....I can provide documentation if you really want.)<br><br>Maybe he's just manipulated himself...could be. But it makes no sense...ZERO sense...for someone dealing in conspiracy to so self-righteously and egotistically denounce anyone who suspected that Webb was murdered. I don't know for sure that he was...<br><br>but TWO shots to the head???<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Throwing shit at Ruppert and hoping some of it might stick.

Postby Bismillah » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:36 pm

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Oh, and I have some more bad news... A lot of those guys on TV who are trying to win people to Jesus...they are just in it for the money. Sorry to tell you that. Oh, and professional wrestling is fake."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>If you're going to attempt condescension, it's advisable to do so from a position of actual superiority. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"Oh, and so is the drug war. Yeah...it's weird but the very guys who are supposed to be fighting the drug cartels are often actually cooperating with them for larger agendas.... Weird, huh."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>- as Ruppert himself has spent years pointing out.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"his freaking mom worked for the CIA (Ruppert's own words) and so did some mysterious girlfriend who had him chasing his own tail for years. (Ruppert's own words....I can provide documentation if you really want.)"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>I don't need the documentation; I've read it. It wasn't 'for years'. And as you point out, Ruppert himself told the story. It was a story about how the very guys who are supposed to be fighting the drug cartels are often actually cooperating with them for larger agendas. Weird, huh?<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"By the way, I've actually been around two or three activist office breakins [...] HARD DRIVES WERE TAKEN...they didn't just beat up the computer case and leave the drives there."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br> - which may be why Ruppert himself has said he <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>doesn't</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> think the government was behind the break-in at his own place.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"it makes no sense...ZERO sense...for someone dealing in conspiracy to so self-righteously and egotistically denounce anyone who suspected that Webb was murdered. I don't know for sure that he was..."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>None of us do. Ruppert has explained why he, personally, doesn't think Webb was murdered. He may be right and he may wrong. But so what? You take <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>that</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> as evidence that Ruppert's secretly working for the government and intelligence agencies he has spent his life exposing as liars, drugrunners and mass murderers? <br><br>You're talking nonsense here, DE, plain and simple. <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=bismillah@rigorousintuition>Bismillah</A> at: 8/12/06 5:51 pm<br></i>
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Re: Throwing shit at Ruppert and hoping some of it might sti

Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:54 pm

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>It wasn't 'for years'. <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Ruppert got Teddy's phone number at breakfast. They went to dinner the next weekend then spent most of the next 15 months together. Even after Teddy disappeared in March of 1977, she would remain in Ruppert's life as the catalyst for his career collapse, his obsession with intrigue and his eventual doubts about his own sanity.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Teddy is the alleged agent. I count 15 months plus many more of obsessing over finding her. Your math may vary.<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><br>Which may be why Ruppert himself has said he doesn't think the government was behind the break-in at his own place.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Yeah...who do YOU think he's implying did it...just some random group that went in, disabled the no-doubt state of the art burglar alarm, unplugged all the machines, bothered to unscrew the cases and then, with great noise and risk, bash in the cases while leaving the hard drives. <br><br>By the way, he says he's not thinking the government did it...but not ruling them out.....(dramatic music builds.)<br><br>I hope you got your checks to him quickly. I'm sure he still has housepayments to make. <br><br>But my point was a serious one...the Jesus and wrestlers one. Unlike many, I don't actually claim to have insider knowledge of the Illuminati or any other agenda. I have trouble keeping track just of my daily agenda, and that's with a paper calendar and two computers.<br><br>But clearly, whether Ruppert is an agent or not, the idea that leaders of various movements or what have you might be agents should not be dismissed. My impression in my years in LA was that if you combined the state agenda with those of quasi independent groups like New Alliance Party, Larouche, etc, much...maybe most of the "opposition" was kept fairly well in check by bad guys who participated in the movement itself. Every now and then a few activists figure this out and actually out a police agent and win a little lawsuit or something. Often they use independent contractors, so it's not so easy. Which, by the way, has always been my main problem with Larouche...since he bragged of having provided intel.<br><br>But back to Ruppert...have at it...the threads already down there in the archives somewhere.<br><br>Combine his attitude about Webb (not to mention showboating with Webb's findings to bring HIMSELF to attention), his LAPD background (heard of them?), his weird family and relationship agency connections, his dismissal of anything being of value for activists OTHER than Peak Oil, and his call for some nebulous committee to create a plan for rapid population reduction so some people can survive the coming apocalypse, I'll sleep soundly betting on some other horse.<br><br>But, again, send him your cash. Dig till it hurts....<br> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Throwing shit at Ruppert and hoping some of it might sti

Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:02 pm

As a side note, but in the spirit of McGowan and RI, read the actual article below. This "Teddy"...does she not seem to fit the bill of an MC op? Seriously, given what we've learned here about MC and mafia ties. Read it and see what you think. It's also possible that she really was just a party girl and ole Mike is delusional. <br><br>Here's part one. I can't say the article is completely accurate, only that Ruppert finds it accurate enough to host it on his site:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>[ Part One of the report ] [ Part Two of the report ]<br><br>Part One of the report by Randall Sullivan, published in the Oct. 11, 1981 edition of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner<br><br>Los Angeles HERALD EXAMINER<br>Sunday Oct 11, 1981<br><br>RANDALL SULLIVAN<br>'The spy who loved me': An officer's battle with obsession<br><br>First of two parts, concluding next Sunday.<br><br>She quoted from Chaucer at breakfast but had preferred talk of stakeouts, surveillances and undercover busts over drinks that night.<br><br>She bore an exotic name that suited her aquiline features - Theodora Nordica D'Orsay - but called herself Teddy, wore a red sweatshirt with the emblem of the New Orleans Police Department on the shoulder, and was sitting with three patrol cops from the Los Angeles Police Department's Venice division when Mike Ruppert met her at the bar of Brennen's Pub in Marina del Ray during December of 1975<br><br>"it's not too often you meet a woman who is beautiful, intelligent, literate and witty siting in a bar with a bunch of police officers," Ruppert said. "She was definitely somebody I wanted to see more of."<br><br>Ruppert got Teddy's phone number at breakfast. They went to dinner the next weekend then spent most of the next 15 months together. Even after Teddy disappeared in March of 1977, she would remain in Ruppert's life as the catalyst for his career collapse, his obsession with intrigue and his eventual doubts about his own sanity.<br><br>It was never clear, especially at the beginning, precisely what Teddy was doing with her life.<br><br>She was vastly more versed in the vernacular of law enforcement than any police groupie Ruppert had ever encountered. And she knew people or seemed to. Teddy dropped the names of not only undercover investigators but of suspected organized crime figures like Dan Horowitz and Hank Friedman. She brought home a story once of a visit to the hotel rooms of an apparent Mafia weapons dealer who kept a cache of machine guns in his closet but insisted to Ruppert that she had gone there with friends, "good guys."<br><br>Lacking any visible means of support, Teddy explained that she had saved money.<br><br>[Pull Quote: "His story was incredibly detailed and with many names and dates, all of which appeared quite logical. At not time were the patient's associations loosened or was his story incoherent. His thought processes were lucid. He appeared fully oriented in all spheres. Clearly, he is a bright individual with no major weaknesses." -From the Woodview-Calabassas Psychiatric Hospital "Discharge Recommendation" prepared by Dr. Robert A. Cole, Feb 2, 1978, regarding Los Angeles Police Department Officer Mike Ruppert.<br><br>"OK, I tried to go along with the idea that I was crazy, since that's what the department wanted me to do. But my doctor said I was totally sane. And if I was sane, then something really strange was happening. And it went back to Teddy." -Mike Ruppert, Sept. 26, 1981 End Pull Quote]<br><br>Late night calls to Teddy from men who asked for her even when Ruppert answered a phone registered under his own name and what Ruppert described as "cryptic phone messages" left on the answering machine went unexplained.<br><br>Teddy was out two or three nights a week - off drinking with her friend Linda Covington, a Brennen's bartender, Ruppert was told. When he heard from Linda that Teddy had disappeared early in the evening on one of those nights, Ruppert did not make the obvious assumption that she was seeing another man. Instead he imagined clandestine operations and undercover identities.<br><br>Not long after Rupert and Teddy moved into the same Culver City apartment in March of 1976, she left for a vacation in Hawaii. When Teddy returned to Los Angeles, Ruppert was not interested in stories of waterfalls and white sand beaches, and certainly not of men with darkly tanned torsos. Ruppert insisted that she tell him the truth. What was the "deal," he demanded to know. He hammered her with questions about the specifics of the "operation." At 3 o'clock in the morning, exhausted, Teddy "confessed" that she had been in Hawaii to participate in an exchange of a huge load of government-issue automatic weapons for several kilos of processed, uncut cocaine.<br><br>Teddy fell asleep to the sound of Rupert alternately chortling and demanding "further details."<br><br>Ruppert had been warned early on by another policeman that Teddy was "a party girl," but he saw that as "a cover."<br><br>The aura of adventure Teddy cloaked herself in appealed to Ruppert's own sense of singularity.<br><br>He was "not your average cop," Ruppert said, and he had plenty of evidence to support that claim. Ruppert was far more intelligent than the average LAPD recruit, an honors graduate from UCLA who had verified his intellectual gifts by obtaining membership in MENSA, the organization for people whose IQs are in the top 2 percent of the population. One of the former commanders said he had heard Ruppert had the highest IQ in the LAPD.<br><br>A political science major at UCLA, Ruppert was attracted to the "sense of mission" that had been inculcated inside a police department run then by the nations fore-most spokesman for "Don't like cops? Next time you're in trouble, call a hippie" law enforcement chief Ed Davis<br><br>He had attended college as "a shorthair surrounded by longhairs" during the early 1970s, Ruppert said, and he was drawn to the sense of camaraderie shared by the officers of a department that was then successfully passing itself off as the finest police force in the world.<br><br>Ruppert and his closest friend at UCLA, Craig Fuller, now a highly placed White House aid to President Regan, had frequently discussed -- as they stood on the sidelines of campus demonstrations - how much more effective they could be if they got inside the system and became part of its inner workings before calling for change.<br><br>"I entered the police department sincerely believing that someday I would be chief of police in Los Angeles," Ruppert said.<br><br>It did not seem such an unlikely forecast at the beginning of his career. Ruppert was valedictorian of his Police Academy class in 1973 and earned solid "outstanding" ratings on his personnel reports over the next four years.<br><br>While his commanding officers praised him with four official commendations and 13 citations, some of his fellow patrol officers were a bit rattled by Ruppert. He was obsessed with his career. As a young white man from Orange County thrown onto the streets of a black ghetto wearing a blue uniform, Ruppert was known for his relentless pursuit of "hypes," heroin addicts. Other officers said he never took the uniform off, that he worked in his sleep.<br><br>Ruppert's field reports, a former sergeant of his said, were the most elaborate and descriptive in the department., "a pleasure to read each one a complete story."<br><br>His new girlfriend, Teddy D'Orsay, not only accommodated Ruppert's obsession with police work and his endless extrapolations, she enhanced them, building on the idea that each small case was spiraled upward into the criminal organizations she had infiltrated.<br><br>[Pull Quote: During the course of the next 10 months Ruppert began to document evidence - much of it still on file with the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department and the LAPD - that would support his theory that he was living with a CIA agent. End Pull Quote]<br><br>In May of 1976 Ruppert and Teddy went to Las Vegas, where he was enrolled in the US Drug Enforcement Agency training program. In Las Vegas Ruppert asked Teddy to marry him. There were things she had to discuss before she could answer, Teddy said. The couple drove to Ensenada, Mexico, for a short vacation.<br><br>In the Bahia bar, Ruppert loudly demanded to know where Teddy got her money. In a stage whisper that was overheard by people at nearby tables, Teddy told him that Rupert had already assumed, that she was "working for the government in an intelligence capacity involving organized crime."<br><br>Ruppert pounded on the table, shouted in triumph. Teddy began to shake her head, looking frightened. It was just a joke, she said, Didn't he get it? But Ruppert was still pounding the table, repeating again and again, "I knew it. I knew it."<br><br>Teddy shrugged her shoulders and finished her drink. OK, she said, you knew it.<br><br>During the course of the next 10 months Ruppert began to document evidence - much of it still on file with the FBI, the U.S. Justice Department and the LAPD - that would support his theory that he was living with a CIA agent.<br><br>The intrusions on their home life, the phone calls and Teddy's disappearances increased.<br><br>Ruppert bought Teddy a present, a pistol, an off make F1 Garcia 380-caliber automatic.<br><br>"She had it field stripped in 10 seconds," he recalled. He took Teddy to a practice range and discovered "she was as good a shot as I was."<br><br>She had been trained by the government, Teddy told him, and smiled.<br><br>One night during the fall of 1976 according to Ruppert, he was awakened by a phone call from a man who asked for Teddy. He handed the phone to her, lying in bed next to him. When Teddy hung up, she told Ruppert that Carlo Gambino, the Mafia don of dons, had died that night and the West Coast mob was meeting in San Francisco. She would have to fly up there that night, Teddy said.<br><br>For once, it occurred to Ruppert: to secret business, national security, undercover assignments, what better cover could a faithless lover have?<br><br>The next morning, driving to work, Ruppert heard a radio news announcement of Gambino's death and of the mob meeting in San Francisco.<br><br>Teddy insisted later that the trip to San Francisco had nothing to do with Carlo Gambino, whoever that was. She had been planning the trip for a week, she said. It was all a coincidence. She couldn't remember any phone call the night before she left. She advised Ruppert to take deep breaths.<br><br>Ruppert's speculations upon his live in love's "business" began to assume international proportions during the last month of 1976.<br><br>Teddy had been a childhood friend of Minou Haggstrom's, the American educated niece of Shah Reza Bahlavi of Iran. Teddy and Minou had carried on an occasional correspondence between Culver City and Tehran during the early months of 1956, but at the end of the year the letters from Iran began to arrive more frequently. Teddy talked about the danger Minou was in, how important it was to get her out of Iran soon.<br><br>Ruppert decided that the envelopes arriving from Tehran did not contain personal letters but rather encoded messages.<br><br>He began to see that it all fit. Even the bullet hole in Teddy's car fit.<br><br>He discovered the bullet hole on March 1, 1977, one year to the day since Ruppert and Teddy had taken the apartment in Culver City. Their relationship was deteriorating. Teddy was out more, gone overnight occasionally. Ruppert was complaining more about "the disruptions of our home life."<br><br>"I'm blowing your cover, right?" Ruppert said.<br><br>Teddy showed him the bullet hole in the driver side door of her 1965 Ford Comet - a perfect car for a secret agent, Ruppert had decided, because it was "sound mechanically on the inside, a heap on the outside, the kind of car you don't notice." Someone had tried to kill her in her Comet, Teddy said, she had to get out of town.<br><br>Ruppert now believes Teddy put the bullet hole there herself, with the gun he bought her, but at the time he believed her story.<br><br>Two days later Teddy was gone without a goodbye. A month passed without word from her.<br><br>One week after Teddy's disappearance, Ruppert's mother, a marginally successful realtor in Fountain Valley, was approached in her office by four men with Italian surnames who asked her to help arrange the purchase of a $45 million parcel of real estate.<br><br>Mrs. Ruppert, who made her living selling occasional $70,000 tract houses, calculated that her commission on the deal proposed by the Italian gentlemen would be $750,000. Panicked, she called her son and told him she thought she was becoming involved in something illegal.<br><br>Mike Ruppert took the names of the men who had proposed the $45 million deal to two members of LAPDs Organized Crime Intelligence Division, Lee Goforth and Charles Bonneau.<br><br>Goforth and Bonneau ran checks and informed Ruppert that one of the four men did have "an association with an important organized crime figure" but that it was not a close association. They scheduled another meeting with Ruppert.<br><br>At this gathering, Goforth said he noticed that Ruppert appeared "agitated."<br><br>"I asked him if there was something else besides his mother's deal and he said, yes, there was," Goforth recalled. "Then he went into all this weird stuff, this theory about his girlfriend, the double agent, being behind it all.<br><br>He and Bonneau attempted to check out the name Teddy D'Orsay with "at least one federal intelligence agency," Goforth said, and "nobody had heard of her, they said." Mike Ruppert's name had been passed along during these inquiries as well.<br><br>It was after his initial meeting with Goforth and Bonneau, Ruppert said, that "the harassment started." Hang up phone calls and cars tailing him to and from work. He found his apartment searched, he said, and the only things missing were two photographs of Teddy. He began to drive with his gun on his lap and slept at night with it under his pillow.<br><br>Five weeks after Teddy's disappearance, Ruppert received a post card from a small town outside Atlanta, Ga. - "Having a great time, wish you were here, Teddy."<br><br>One more month after that, 10 weeks after her disappearance, Teddy called Ruppert from New Orleans, where she was "working on something important," and gave him a phone number and an address in suburban Gretna, near the Belle Chase Naval Air Base.<br><br>(Part two continues the story of Ruppert's obsession with Teddy, which leads eventually to his resignation from the LAPD to "save my life."<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START ;) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/wink.gif ALT=";)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br><END of PART 1><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: David McGowan: Oh Mikey, You Gotta Lotta Splainin' to Do

Postby Dreams End » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:04 pm

Here's Part Two: Both are housed at his 2>[/quote]<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/about_Mike_part_one.shtml">site.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Part Two of the report by Randall Sullivan, published in the Oct. 18, 1981 edition of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.<br><br>LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER<br>Sunday October 18, 1981<br><br>RANDALL SULLIVAN<br>He took 'them' on - now he wonders who 'they' were.<br><br>The conclusion of our two part series.<br><br>Teddy D'Orsay's phone call from New Orleans in May 1977 was Mike Ruppert's first voice contact with her since Teddy disappeared from their Culver City apartment 10 weeks earlier. During that conversation, Ruppert wrote Teddy's new phone number and address in Gretna, La., on a sheet of paper already filled with information regarding his mother's pending $45 million real estate deal. He had that paper in his jacket pocket, Ruppert said, the next evening when he finished his shift at the Police Academy and drove to Brennan's Pub in Marina del Rey where he had met Teddy 17 months earlier.<br><br>While Ruppert was drinking in Brennan's, his car door was unlocked by someone who used a metal shim, according to the official police report, and the jacket, the sheet of paper and Ruppert's service revolver all were stolen.<br><br>The next day Ruppert was back in the office with LAPD organized crime Investigators Lee Goforth and Charles Bonneau, attempting to convince his increasingly remote fellow officers that Teddy's life was in danger. "They" were going to kill her with Ruppert's own service revolver.<br><br>Goforth and Bonneau told Ruppert he looked tired. They advised him to take some time off.<br><br>In July 1977 Ruppert took a weeks vacation and drove to New Orleans pulling Teddy's furniture behind him in a U-Haul trailer.<br><br>During his six days in New Orleans, Ruppert reported, he was shot at as he and Teddy stood outside a bar. He and Teddy were followed by car and on foot. In Teddy's apartment he discovered more than a half-dozen phone jacks, including one complicated electrical hookup unlike anything he had ever seen before. He called a friend, a naval and communications officer, described the phone and hookup, and was told it sounded like the KY3 model scrambler phone, which required top secret clearance.<br><br>Teddy was cold and stony. She would not sleep with him. She told Ruppert that the smartest thing he could do would be to forget that he had ever met her.<br><br>Teddy was visited at night by a friend who wore a 44-caliber Magnum pistol in his boot and talked about the work he was doing for Mafia don Carlos Marcello. During the day, Teddy was visited by an Air Force sergeant named Johnny who brought her Manila envelopes from Belle Chase Naval Air Base filled with what he described as "communiqu³s."<br><br>Another friend who was employed by a company specializing in offshore oil rig communications systems said he was helping Teddy see that "some things got moved off the mainland."<br><br>Teddy and Johnny gobbled speed and smoked grass that they described in Ruppert's presence as "issued," laughed crazily at Ruppert's ardent, attentive expression.<br><br>He left New Orleans at the end of that week, Ruppert said, "borderline suicidal."<br><br>Back in Los Angeles, Ruppert notified Goforth and Bonneau that he now wanted to "drop the whole thing."<br><br>Shortly after Ruppert's return from New Orleans, his father Ed, an Orange County businessman, received a phone call from Teddy.<br><br>"She said she was worried about Mike," Ed Ruppert recalled. Teddy said she was "doing some sort of sensitive work involving organized crime." An organization she referred to alternately as "my people" and "my company" had considered Mike for employment, Ed Ruppert remembered Teddy telling him, but had decided Mike "wasn't ready" for that kind of work.<br><br>Because Mike was "worried about bugs," Ed Ruppert relayed the conversation to his son on the banks of the Santa Monica Beach palisades.<br><br>[Pull Quote: "I've never seen anyone as committed to something as Mike has been to this ƒ Imagine what he could have accomplished if he had used the energy and the dedication he has devoted to this over the past five years to further a career" -Ed Ruppert, Mike's father. End Pull Quote]<br><br>Two days later, as he left a theater in Westwood, Ruppert said, he was chased around the perimeter of the UCLA campus by two men in a white pickup truck.<br><br>Ruppert called Bonneau and Goforth. He had imagined the tail, they told him. There had been no scrambler phone in Teddy's apartment. Maybe three weeks vacation wasn't enough.<br><br>That week, Ruppert signed in as a voluntary patient at Woodview-Calabassas Psychiatric Hospital.<br><br>A battery of tests and hours of interviews during which Ruppert repeated his "incredibly detailed story" to staff psychiatrist, Dr. Robert A Cole, consumed much of the two months that Ruppert was registered as a day patient at the hospital. Cole noted that Ruppert's "ties to reality were adequate with no evidence of bizarre thought, processes, delusions or hallucinations." In Ruppert's official "Discharge Recommendation" Cole referred to his patient as "an exceptional individual with no major weaknesses."<br><br>On Sept. 9, 1977 Ruppert saw Teddy again at his father's house, where she had come to pick up the last of her personal possessions.<br><br>Ruppert used a hidden recorder to tape most of their conversation. He played this tape later for Cole, who described what he heard as "a solid basis for his (Ruppert's) interpretation of events." On the tape, Cole heard Teddy "admit her involvement in investigative pursuits of an admittedly vague nature."<br><br>Ruppert later turned the tape over to LAPD's Bonneau. He never saw it again. During the summer of 1978, as the foment in Iran built toward revolution, Ruppert, now a senior training officer at the Police Academy, began once again to make those long-distance connections that obsessed him.<br><br>On Aug. 17, 1978, Ruppert went to Bonneau to say that he believed his ex-girlfriend Teddy was involved in a plot that had something to do with the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.<br><br>Twelve days later Bonneau called Ruppert and asked for details of Teddy's "associations."<br><br>According to Ruppert, the "harassment" began again immediately: hang-up phone calls, tails, break-ins.<br><br>On Sept. 7, 1978, Bonneau said he had been unable to contact Teddy. What Bonneau did not mention was the FBI in New Orleans had contacted Teddy. On Sept. 12, Ruppert said, he was followed by a car with a license plate he checked through the Department of Motor Vehicles. It was registered to a post office box registered to the U.S. Government.<br><br>On Sept. 30, Ruppert was followed again, he said, by two vans bearing license plates registered to post office boxes.<br><br>He ran a check on Teddy's license plate and discovered it was also registered to a post office box.<br><br>On Nov. 17, Ruppert formally requested an interview with LAPD's new chief, Daryl Gates. The connection was made through Sgt. Virginia Pickering, who worked in Gates' office. Pickering came to the Police Academy on Nov. 28 to meet with Ruppert and on Nov. 29 told the young officer he would get five minutes with the chief the next day.<br><br>Five minutes was not enough time to tell his story, Ruppert insisted. He was lucky to get one minute, Pickering told him. On the morning of Nov. 30, 1978, Ruppert reported that he has been followed to work by two vans, a Volkswagen and a Pontiac Firebird. He failed to show up for his five-minute meeting with Chief Gates. That afternoon, Ruppert submitted his official resignation from the Los Angeles Police Department.<br><br>In an interview with the FBI four days later, Ruppert sad he had left the LAPD "to save my life."<br><br><br>Three years have passed and Ruppert hasn't let go. His fixation on Teddy and the international intrigue Ruppert believes he was drawn into by her has become both his vocation and his avocation.<br><br>Supported by files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, through research into the affairs of Mafia don Carlos Marcello, through information contained in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency report on the exchange of drugs for weapons - classified top secret because of a U.S. government agency's alleged involvement in these transactions - and through a historical study of the United States' involvement in Iran, Ruppert insists he now knows what "this incredibly story I stumbled into" was all about.<br><br>It was about suppressing the revolution in Iran,. Ruppert believes Teddy, useful because of her childhood friendship with the shah's niece, Minou Haggstrom, was assigned by the CIA to cultivate relationships with organized crime figures who would assist - in exchange for free access to refined Mideast heroin - in the transport of weapons to Kurdish counterrevolutionary forces in Iran.<br><br>"The actual transaction went down in New Orleans," Ruppert assures all who will listen, "under the supervision of Carlos Marcello. Teddy helped coordinate it all."<br><br>What is perhaps most incredible about Ruppert's story is that so many people in the best positions to evaluate it consider it "plausible."<br><br>Aaron Kohen, former deputy director of the FBI and head of the New Orleans Crime Commission considered the world's foremost legal authority on Carlos Marcello, found Ruppert's theory "entirely plausible." Speaking from a lawn chair beneath a shade tree in the back yard of his home in Lake Ponchartrain, Kohen said he, "would not be at all surprised" to learn of either Marcello's or the CIA's involvement in such enterprise.<br><br>Ruppert's attorney, Bill McCord, a former FBI agent, noted that "LAPD probably has had closer connections with the CIA and with SAVAK (the secret police of the shah of Iran) than any police department in the country. If Mike had been on to something, a lot of people would have known about it." What McCord finds less plausible is Ruppert's portrait of Teddy as a CIA agent. "It sounds like Teddy was a bit of a party girl who knew law enforcement people and also knew people on the other side of the law." McCord's friend and former colleague Buck Sadler, an FBI agent assigned to Los Angeles who conducted the official agency interview of Mike Ruppert, also found the theory "plausible," but added that he had "been offered no facts whatsoever to support it."<br><br>Other FBI agents, ones stationed in New Orleans, interrogated Teddy during the autumn of 1977. Teddy was almost immediately released, and the FBI has "no available record" of her statement.<br><br>Freedom of information Act petitions concerning the matter filled by Ruppert with the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Justice Department were answered with written statements that "nothing pertaining to your request" was found in the files of either agency.<br><br><br>On the evening of Oct. 9, I reached Teddy by phone at a bar in Honolulu, and she called back later from her home on the other side of Maui.<br><br>All that was incredible abut the story in her mind, Teddy said, was "that Michael Ruppert is still trying to make something out of this after all these years. Doesn't it make you doubt the mental stability of someone who has become so obsessed with things that happened so long ago?"<br><br>"Yes, I knew a lot of people," Teddy said, "I'm friendly, I smile and I say hello. And if you're a girl (Teddy is 32) and if you're friendly, you meet people. I didn't always know what those people were involved in, what they did for a living. Some of them may have been into strange things."<br><br>The problem with Ruppert, Teddy said, was that "he was always making connections - if I was friendly with two people who he knew or thought were involved in something together, then I was involved too."<br><br>Yes, she had told Ruppert that her vacation in Hawaii during the spring of 1977 had been cover for her involvement in a government-Mafia exchange of cocaine for automatic weapons, Teddy said. "He kept me up for hours the night I got back insisting that I tell him the truth, so finally I told him what he wanted to hear so I could go to sleep."<br><br>Yes, she had gone to San Francisco at the same time the West Coast Mafia dons were meeting there in the wake of Carlo Gambino's death, Teddy said: It had been a coincidence, but she had "let Michael think what he wanted to think."<br><br>Eventually it became convenient to play the role Ruppert had assigned her, Teddy said. Clandestine meetings and undercover assignments were the best excuses available for getting out of the house, for not coming home at night, for taking a weekend out of town.<br><br>After she ran away to New Orleans and Ruppert followed her, things got a little out of hand, Teddy said.<br><br>She was still a friendly girl and she had met people who were involved in things she did not quite understand. "Some of them may have been into - probably were into - - weird things," she admitted. "But I didn't know about that until later."<br><br>Ruppert had come into town and started asking questions of people who did not want to give answers, Teddy said. Some of her friends "had kind of done a number on Michael." Some had implied their involvement in an "operation" of international proportions. Others had threatened him. Some had shown him government documents and weapons.<br><br>"Its all kind of messed with his mind, and I'm sorry for that," Teddy said. "I just wanted to get rid of him at that point."<br><br>Yes, she had talked of her work as an undercover agent during a taped conversation with Ruppert, Teddy said.<br><br>"I saw him slip this tape recorder behind the couch as I came in and I figured if he was going to be this ridiculous, so would I." The one question Teddy would not answer was how she had supported herself without employment during the 15 months she spent with Ruppert: "That's nobody's business but my own."<br><br>She was sorry Ruppert had been hurt, Teddy said, but it would never have happened if he had developed a sense of humor.<br><br><br>"She's lying, she's lying, she's lying." Ruppert insisted pounding on the leather arm of a couch in the Herald Examiner lobby the next morning. "She's very good, I'll admit, and you wouldn't be the first person she's fooled."<br><br>He had been waiting three years to have his story told, Ruppert said. "Don't cut me off now," he pleaded. "This is the closest I've come."<br><br><br>Mike Ruppert's plight, his story, appeals to a collective paranoia that has been cultivated in most of us. "They" really are everywhere. And because we concede that much, we also must concede the possibility that Ruppert's private obsession is some aspect of responsibility the rest of us have failed to assume.<br><br>Ruppert says he is a victim. We need victims. They put a human face on the corruption and incoherence most of us are unable to confront. The inept innuendoes used by LAPD to rebut Ruppert's story only encourage sympathy for him:<br><br>"He came in with a story, I believe, that his mother was a CIA agent," said the department's official press spokesman, Cmdr. William Booth. "And you were aware, I'm sure, that he has spent time in a mental hospital."<br><br>Ruppert is a well-educated 30-year old who has been forced to fall back on the financial support of his mother and father. At least two jobs he had been promised after his resignation from the LAPD failed to materialize. Ruppert believes this was the work of "some agency interested in closing all doors to me."<br><br>Broke and beat, this UCLA honors graduate who reportedly possessed the highest IQ in the history of the Los Angeles Police Department, eventually took a job as a clerk in a 7-Eleven store. Two hours into his first shift, Ruppert was arrested for selling liquor to a minor: "A setup, without question," he says.<br><br><br>"I've never seen anyone as committed to something as Mike has been to this," his father Ed said.<br><br>"Imagine what he could have accomplished if he had used the energy and the dedication he has devoted to this over the past five years to further a career."<br><br>It is Ruppert's "commitment" that has compelled the attention of others who have helped him along the way.<br><br>"Whether or not I buy Mike's theory, I consider his personal credibility above reproach," said McCord, a former FBI agent. "I have absolutely no doubt that Mike is telling what he believes to be the truth."<br><br>That same phrase "what he believes to be the truth" was used by a retired LAPD Intelligence officer, another FBI agent and psychiatrist Cole to describe Mike Ruppert. Each of these three professionals professed both a measure of admiration and a measure of fear of Ruppert.<br><br>Ruppert has stayed on the case. In a world where so much seems possible and so little likely, you begin to wonder if the courageous and the crazy are the same people.<br><br><END of PART 2><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/about_Mike_part_one.shtml">site</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Throwing shit at Ruppert and hoping some of it might sti

Postby Bismillah » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:26 pm

In what purports to be a reply to me, you provide an unsourced "quote" from somebody else in order to make the tiny and truly bizarre point that you think 15 months can reasonably be described as "years". Otherwise nothing, except this kind of stuff:<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"I hope you got your checks to him quickly. I'm sure he still has housepayments to make."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Which is a real ribtickler. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"But, again, send him your cash. Dig till it hurts...."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>I don't send him cash, ever. Not a penny. So stop making infantile ad hominem pseudo-points.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"his LAPD background (heard of them?)"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Ho ho. Yes, that the police force Ruppert left after he realised they wouldn't allow him to pursue his investigations into the CIA's involvement in drugrunning.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"his dismissal of anything being of value for activists OTHER than Peak Oil"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>He never did any such thing, and I challenge you to produce a quote to the contrary. He's said he thinks Peak Oil is the most important single issue right now. You, however (like Dave McGowan) clearly feel that making sleazy insinuations about Ruppert that you simply cannot substantiate is a <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>valuable</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> use of activists' - and bloggers' - time. I don't agree.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"his call for some nebulous committee to create a plan for rapid population reduction so some people can survive the coming apocalypse"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>He has said he thinks sustained international action will be needed in order to <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>stave off</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> the likelihood of starvation, war and death on a truly massive scale. You present this as he if he were calling for some Global Elite to massacre whomever they please. That is simply shabby.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"By the way, he says he's not thinking the government did it...but not ruling them out.....(dramatic music builds.)"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>How evilly sneaky of him. Whereas <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>you</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> think a man who exposed CIA drugrunning and who now accuses Cheney & Co. of being behind 9/11 is .....(dramatic music builds)... in cahoots with the government and the CIA. <br><br>Really, you couldn't make this stuff up; but you're doing it nonetheless, DE.<br> <p></p><i></i>
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