Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 7: South of the Border

   The morning of July 12, 2006, Carolyn Baker called.    “Are you sitting down?”    “Yes.” Then I did.    “Mike’s in Venezuela. He got there this morning.”    Email to Mike, August, 2006:    when carolyn told me where you were, i was shocked but not surprised. you had left a trail of breadcrumbs: the line, “there are […]

Mike Ruippert’s Story Part 6: Jackboots

   I didn’t let Mike smoke in the apartment when I was home so he would go downstairs in front of the building and talk to the doorman or tenants walking their dogs.  But when it was too cold for that (he was a California kid after all,) he simply slipped into the stairwell.    One […]

Peak Oil Subvert

An oil junkie goes cold turkey as the pumps dry up. A short film in the subvert genre, based on Peak Oil: depletion, supply, energy crisis, inflation, gas, gasoline prices, economy, unemployment, global warming and fuel.

Natural Gas In New York Marcellus Shale Costs More To Get It Out Than The Gas Is Worth

For years, the shale industry has touted the economic benefits it can provide. An overflowing supply of domestic natural gas will help keep heating and electric bills low for American consumers, they argue, while drilling jobs and astounding royalty windfalls for landowners will reinvigorate local economies. These tantalizing promises have caught the attention of politicians […]

Peak Oil, Sustainability and the Transition to a Post-Carbon Economy in the Republic of Ireland

In the context of the uncertainties that exist in the global energy market, this paper aims to expose the practical and theoretical inadequacies of the R.O.I government in dealing with the social and economic threats associated with the advent of peak oil. Drawing on the literature on peak oil and the statistical data related to […]

Crossing Over the Rubicon: R.I.P. Michael C. Ruppert

Sunday, April 13, after finishing what would be his last, The Lifeboat Hour, radio show, whistle-blower, activist, author, American hero, Michael C. Ruppert, allegedly shot himself, taking his own life. Getting the News A close friend and colleague, Carolyn Baker, Ph. D., posted a notice on her FaceBook wall informing Ruppert’s friends, fans and followers of his death, assuring […]

The Peak Oil Concernist Dilemma

Here’s where my head is at. Life’s nice at the top of the mountain. For now. I started this blog because I wanted to give myself extra motivation to act. My family does truly feel that we’re nearing a breaking point for modern society. At the same time, we have 2 small children, own a […]

Kunstler: Hubris. Greed. Distraction. Denial.

The wonder is that more Americans are not ticked off about the state of our country than whatever is happening ten thousand miles away. For instance, how come the US Department of Justice is not as avid to prosecute the pervasive racketeering in the US economy as the State Department is for provoking unnecessary wars […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story Part 3: Dad

   “My dad had a great life,” Mike said one day.  “War hero in two wars.  Fought in one; was a [I didn’t catch the term] in the other.  Made money.  Died taking a shit, which he loved.  So do I,” he added, with a defiant smile.  “But what did he do to make the world […]

Mike Ruppert’s Story – Part 2

One morning a few weeks after he’d settled in to my apartment in Brooklyn, Mike said, “Honey?  I’m having a hard time this morning.”    He was supposed to call his therapist but the prospect was causing him such anxiety, he broke down in tears.  I comforted him until the storm abated – at which […]

Peak Oil: Facts Aren’t Optional

Part of the problem with rising oil prices is that they radiate through the economy in many ways: in higher food prices, because oil is used to produce and transport food; in higher metal prices, because oil used in metal production; and in higher  finished products, such as automobiles and new homes, because they use […]

Michael C Ruppert staged suicide?

When news hit the headlines of a suicide of Michael Ruppert a renowned whistleblower, journalist, commentator, author, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to CollapseNet.com people are being urged PLEASE DO NOT SPREAD SPECULATION! If you’ve been listening to iON you’d hear that every death is a suicide so this cause of death is […]

Mike Ruppert’s Suicidal Tendencies and Suicide Note

In response to the internet sages who have concluded, in the face of all known evidence from the people who were most in…timately familiar with him as well as with the admittedly real dangers that had faced him over the course of his life as an investigative journalist, that Mike did not kill himself but […]

In memoriam: Michael C. Ruppert

Carolyn Baker (Speaking Truth to Power) IN MEMORIAM MICHAEL C. RUPPERT, February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014. Sunday night following Mike’s Lifeboat Hour radio show, he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This was not a “fake” suicide. It was very well planned by Mike who gave us few clues but elaborate […]

A Brief Comment on the Death of Mike Ruppert by Self-inflicted Gunshot Wound

We always knew it could come to this. To write about Mike requires the tranquility of recollection but at the moment, all is turmoil. Mike, you told us, “Evolve or perish.”  Yet in Apocalypse Man you merged them, speaking of death as the ultimate evolution.  One day we’ll all find out whether that is, in fact, the case but it’s […]

Michael Ruppert: The Lifeboat Hour – Carolyn Bakerfor & Mimi German

We will be joined by Carolyn Baker for the full show and by Mimi German of Radcast for about ten minutes. Then we want your calls.  Everywhere on this planet right now the warriors leading the way to a new consciousness are feeling the heat. My trip to Seattle was an ass kicker. Perhaps most of […]

Mike Ruppert kills himself after finishing his radio show

The conspiracy theorist Mike Ruppert shot and killed himself Sunday night after recording his Lifeboat Hour radio show. His death was announced Monday night in a Facebook post by the blogger and author Carolyn Baker, who assured her followers that Ruppert’s death was “not a ‘fake’ suicide.” “It was very well planned by Mike, who […]

RIP Mike Ruppert

Mike Ruppert has shot himself. This makes me very sad, but I certainly won’t think any less of him for his decision to take his own life. Everybody has that option. I’ll remember him for the happy times we had together, and for the big difference he’s made in so many people’s lives, opening their […]

Peak Oil: Not Quite So Easy

Most authors accept that conventional oil resources are at an advanced stage of depletion and that liquid fuels will become more expensive and increasingly scarce. The tight oil ‘revolution’ has provided some short-term relief, but seems unlikely to make a  significant difference in the longer term. Even with a more sanguine view of global supply […]

Peak Oil And Global Warming A Question Of Culture

In The Beginning Was the Word Certainly for the last 20 years these two themes have tunneled into political consciousness, but there are huge differences. Peak Oil was never “official”, but Global Warming or at least anthropogenic global warming quickly became official, in the UN system, EU28 countries, the US, Japan, Canada and Australia, and […]

The Four Industrial Revolutions

Last week’s post on the vacuous catchphrases that so often substitute for thought in today’s America referenced only a few examples of the species under discussion.  It might someday be educational, or at least entertaining, to write a sequel to H.L. Mencken’s The American Credo, bringing his choice collection of thoughtstoppers up to date with […]

The Greens’ Peak-Oil Limits-to-Growth Apocalypse That Wasn’t

A few years ago, some experts predicted the world was about to reach a peak in global oil and gas production to be followed soon by marked decline. It would cause “war, famine, pestilence and death” – the biblical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Another version: “war, starvation, economic recession, possibly even the extinction of […]

Peak Oil: When Does Planning Begin?

[D]isputes over the precise timing of a global peak in conventional oil production are unhelpful. What is more relevant is the appropriate response to the risk of rising prices and supply constraints and the extent to which markets can be relied upon to mitigate those risks. Mitigation can be achieved through fuel substitution and demand […]

Trend Analyst: “Yes, There Will Be Riots In Major Cities”

If you’ve watched a documentary about America’s economic situation in recent years there is a strong chance it was produced by Daniel Ameduri of Future Money Trends. He’s covered topics that include everything from the massive college debt bubble and the future of real estate,  to water wars and what it will look like on the […]

Peak Oil: Ignoring Other Considerations

Gail Tverberg shares some of the most insightful observations about the connection between economic growth and energy. In an article posted at her website several weeks, she raised issues which are too often shunted aside in the primary debate of  “not enough” versus “all we need” fossil fuel supplies in the years to come. They’re […]

Five Stages of Peak Oil

Much like the theory of five stages of grief, Andrew talks through the idea that there are five stages of dealing with the idea of peak oil. Barcamp Canberra is an annual unconference in Australia’s Capital city. Attendees design their own conference at the start of the day and set their own agenda. Most people […]

Welcome To The Asylum

When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty […]

Peak Oil: This Bears Repeating

Richard Heinberg and Chris Martenson, two of the most respected and thoughtful advocates publicly urging greater awareness of peak oil, recently teamed up for a broad and informative discussion about energy supply. [Unless otherwise noted all quotes here are taken from their conversation.] While their intent did not appear to be to break new ground, […]

Why the elites are so ruthless that they destroy themselves

The recent announcement of a paper by Motessharrry, Rivas and Kalnay (MRK) on the collapse of complex societies has generated much debate, especially with the publication of an enthusiastic comment by Nafeez Ahmed who defined it a “NASA-funded” study. The term rapidly went viral – no matter how irrelevant the source of funds for the […]

Why we will never run out of oil: an interview with professor Ugo Bardi

Today, this blog is proud to present in exclusive worldwide the transcript of an interview that Professor Ugo Bardi, the author of the book “Extracted,” granted to the Ronkonkoma (*) Radio Station, Long Island, New York.  – First of all, professor Bardi, thank you for accepting to speak to Ronkonkoma Radio.  – It is a […]

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