Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 31 – Prelude to Bellevue

We were at a pizzeria, killing time before Mike’s doctor’s appointment in a neighborhood run by the Mafia.  I knew this because my husband had lived there when we met and when I had voiced misgivings about moving in, he had assured me the Mafia kept it safe since they didn’t want any unnecessary visits […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 30 – Transference

“I accomplished five things today,” Mike said, getting up from writing a memo to an FTW staff member requesting, yet again, the black checkbook for the Ruppert family trust. But more work lay ahead. With $15,000 dollars, Mike and Ray could go to Ashland, kick ass and silence [the female employee suing him] forever. Also, […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 28 – Christmas

December 24 Mike came in from the stairwell where he’d been having his morning coffee and cigarette. “Actually, today I think I’m going to start an outline. For the novel. And it occurs to me that your family…..”   “Knows agents?” I thought.  I knew one who’d achieved prominence by sticking with mainstream topics and literary fiction.  […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 26: Pills

From Mike 11-27-2006: Ray —    I left with [a lawyer], [the] employee file [of the female employee who was suing Mike for sexual harassment] with the information that it contained large amounts of exculpatory evidence. X has reported that she has filed a sexual harrassment complaint with the Dept. of Labor but we do […]

Orlov: Interview on Signs of the Times Radio

A wide-ranging discussion with some particularly well-informed and thoughtful commentators.

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 25: Sinking

Having asked for some water, Mike inspected the glass dubiously, like a connoisseur of housekeeping; the fluted part at the base was murky. “Jenna, we’re going to have some work to do,” he laughed.   “I scrubbed and scrubbed,” I protested.   “Don’t you use the dishwasher?” “I don’t know how.” This was within two or three days of […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 24: Brooklyn, Ho!

It was time to move again, Mike felt, before he got on Barry’s wife’s nerves. He was coming to Brooklyn where he’d be able to meet with Ray to sort out the trust, and be with me. I had become the next goal. This was a dream come true: To have Mike on my turf […]

A Peek At The Peak Oil Catastrophe

Generals and others have talked about the dangers of conflicts and/or wars being generated as resources are depleted (Natural Resource Depletion and the Changing Geopolitical Landscape). A conflict between Vietnam and China is an example of the tensions that can arise – in this case oil is the resource (China Blames Vietnam). But as the […]

Does Peak Oil Matter?

Diving Into Stories of Energy Transition with Chris Nelder Part Two of Four. Link to Part 1. A transcript of our interview on Extraenvironmentalist #76 by Scott Bohachyk Editor’s note: Last time we discussed nuclear power and the potential role it may have in the 21st century energy transition. This time we are discussing the story of peak […]

Peak Oil: Semantics Vs Issues

In the end, does the choice of words really matter? He [Total CEO Christophe de Margerie] also cautioned against oil and gas industry pronouncements about abundant energy  resources. When industry leaders ‘say there is plenty of oil and gas . . . you’re sending the message that we don’t care about the environment,’ de Margerie […]

The Peak Oil Crisis: Parsing 2014

Some 15 years ago when the current concept of peak oil was posited, it was all going to be simple. Somewhere in the early part of the 21st century oil production was going to reach a peak and start to decline. Shortages would develop and prices would spiral upwards. But we should know by now […]

Peak Oil: Framing The Issues

‘The way to fix the problem is not to turn the volume up on the evidence.… ‘The way to deal with the problem is to change that meaning, to remove what makes it threatening to other people. It’s about framing it in a way that doesn’t antagonize or come across as an assault on one […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 20 – Snafu

To Mike 10-20-2006:      …be careful of email trails. a few days ago a sequence got forwarded to X in one email of which u said he was ‘full of excuses…’                       [And, since Mike was no longer sure whom he could trust among […]

The Upcoming Collapse Of Civilization

Anthropologists such as Ronald Wright in his book, A Short History of Progress, and Jared Diamond in his, Collapse, are not the only ones who are noting the precarious condition of civilizations. Now, a report by a multi-disciplinary team of natural and social scientists from the University of Maryland, led by an applied mathematician Safa […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 19 – Suspicion

Several colleagues in Ashland had become increasingly annoyed by the latest developments at FTW.  They felt that writing the Burning Bridge article was in itself an act of burning the bridge home; if Mike came back, particularly so soon, FTW’s credibility would be trashed.   Now that he’d relinquished his role as CEO, Mike could best serve the website, they maintained, by acting as […]

Kunstler: Beyond the Peak Oil Narrative … with KMO

JHK’s conversation with KMO of the C-Realm Podcast. KMO, who goes by that tag for his public persona, is one of the best interviewers in the podcast world. I’ve been listening to him for years, and have been on his podcast more than once, so it’s a treat to have him on mine. KMO is […]

Mike’s Story Part 17: Fallout

Back at FTW, another fire erupted:  Readers were placing product orders which could never, under the current administration, be fulfilled.  When Mike learned of the situation, he emailed those in charge that it could constitute fraud; they were to return whatever money had come in and freeze the sales portion of the site immediately.  (If I […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 16: Honeypot(?)

Meanwhile up north, FTW was wandering in the wilderness. Mike’s account of the unraveling of the company may be found in By the Light of a Burning Bridge.  A key figure is an unnamed “female employee.”  In the article, he presents a scenario in which he played along with her sexual provocations in order to make […]

Portland, Oregon Memorial For Mike Ruppert, May 17

Mike’s Public Memorial/Celebration of Life will be at the Unitarian Universal Church complex, in the Eliot Chapel located 1011 SW Main St Portland, OR 97205. We will start at 5 PM Pacific, and we’ll try to keep the program to an hour or less. I intend to show a video tribute to Mike, including his […]

Hollowing Out the Middle — Precarity in a time of Cholera

Peak Oil, Peak Soil, Peak Minerals, Peak Food, Peak Water, Peak Everything. a whole lot of writing going on, but no more shaking . . . rattling the cages I’ll get to the school and the yard and the fights in a minute. But . . . . Okay, a guest on the “alternative radio […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 14: Spinning Out of Control

After leaving the US in rage, sealing the deal by writing his Burning Bridge article, Mike was forced to face the possibility that he’d made a mistake. Owning up to mistakes was not new to him.  AA had taught him that to do so was honorable so he apologized more frequently and fully than most people, whether for an editorial inaccuracy […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 12: Blogreaders Weigh In

News of Mike’s flight to Venezuela had become public in August, with Carolyn Baker’s description of the days leading up to his departure.  That, along with Michael Kane’s account of the same period, makes interesting reading in light of Mike’s final exit on April 13 of this year. Since the blog had been assuming a […]

How Iran Became One of the World’s Most Futuristic Countries

When we think about futurism, often we imagine cutting-edge technologies like bionic arms or weather machines for colonizing Mars. But if we really want to make it for another few centuries, we’re going to need something that Iran has already got. To understand Iran’s breakthrough, we need to go back in time to 1993, when […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 11: Apprentice Devils

     The reason Mike felt impelled to confess the burundanga episode had to do with an event that had taken place back home.    FTW subscribers used to get news updates on a daily basis, if memory serves.  One afternoon we opened the email to find a long account, supposedly from Mike, describing his […]

‘Peak oil’ theory runs out of gas

The problem is, it’s just so hard to be an alarmist these days. Temperatures aren’t rising, U.S. emissions are down, and now it turns out that peak oil won’t peak. What’s a scare-monger to do? “Peak oil proponents — the guys and gals who believe overconsumption combined with scarce resources will lead to stratospheric energy […]

Peak Oil Cartoons

Peak Oil: No “Shock Moments”

There may never be a ‘shock moment’ of peak oil’s arrival; instead, peak oil may continue to play out as a gradual, unplanned transition to a new set of energy and consumption patterns that are less oil dependent, giving rise to social, economic, and ecological impacts that no one can predict with any certainty. [1] […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 8 – Orinoco

As mentioned in previous posts, before Mike left the US, he disbursed his worldly affects among his loved ones, his FTW (Fromthewilderness) colleagues who were the closest thing he had to family, with the stipulation they be returned to him should he ever come home again; and that for the most part, they were. The exception […]

Global energy crunch: how different parts of the world would react to a peak oil scenario

Peak oil theory predicts that oil production will soon start a terminal decline. Most authors imply that no adequate alternate resource and technology will be available to replace oil as the backbone resource of industrial society. This article uses historical cases from countries that have gone through a similar experience as the best available analytical […]

Is Peak Oil Waiting for Godot?

Waiting for Godot was a two act play by Samuel Beckett where two men kept waiting for Godot and they just kept waiting and waiting and waiting… And no, I don’t think we will be kept waiting and waiting like the characters in that play. Peak oil is about to arrive, in my opinion anyway. […]

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