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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 gave us few clues but elaborate instructions for how to proceed without him,” said Baker, who was a guest on the final program and will host Ruppert’s upcoming radio show in memoriam.
The 63-year-old Ruppert had previously worked as a Los Angeles police officer, and he gained notoriety in 1995 for an encounter with then-CIA Director John Deutch during a town hall meeting.
Ruppert, a former narcotics officer, told Deutch he’d seen evidence of CIA complicity in drug dealing.
He published and edited the website From The Wilderness, where he claimed the CIA and U.S. government were involved in the September 11, 2001, terrorist plots.
Ruppert also covered civil liberty issues, government corruption, economics, and international politics on the site, which he discontinued in 2006.
He published the 2004 book “Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil,” which speculated that then-Vice President Dick Cheney had conspired with other government officials and Wall Street financiers in the 9/11 attacks.
Ruppert also appeared in several documentary films, including “The 911 Report You Never Saw” and “Peak Oil,” and was the subject of another, “Collapse.”
His critics say Ruppert used dubious or partial sources to back his claims.
“Conspiracy theories may seem more nuisance than problem,” wrote columnist David Corn about Ruppert’s work in 2002. “But they do compete with reality for attention. There is plenty to be outraged over without becoming obsessed with X Files-like nonsense.”
12 Comments on "Mike Ruppert kills himself after finishing his radio show"
Arthur on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 8:24 pm
Rest in peace.
Spend several hours in the past watching his videos, he was a very good speaker, able to put a lot of passion in his presentations.
Perhaps a little bit too much of a doomer. Curious to read his farewell note, if any, to be certain it was his own choice (which it in all likelyhood was).
M_B_S on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 8:53 pm
His book Crossing the Rubicon is brilliant.
Peak Oil!
Mike
RIP
Musher on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 9:13 pm
Possible health problems? Suicide is often used as an “out” from a life that becomes intolerable.
Repent on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 9:26 pm
He was one of my hero’s. Very sad to hear this today.
Welch on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 10:49 pm
Interesting guy but I believe he really lost it over the last couple years. RIP.
Martin Hanson on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 10:50 pm
I object to the term ‘conspiracy theorist’. This is a put-down term used to stifle any inquiry into evidence that contradicts official statements. “Never believe anything ’til it’s been officially denied”
J-Gav on Tue, 15th Apr 2014 11:00 pm
Kind of a shocker. Didn’t always agree with him but, as I’ve stated before, I owe the guy something – not just his own writing but other things I came across on his From the Wilderness website.
DMyers on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 1:01 am
I join in the tribute to the memory of Mr. Ruppert. He seemed to be a man who not only had a vivid image in his mind, but also a wrenching feeling in his guts, when it came to the issues that troubled him. He must have been discouraged by the failure of the world to realize he was telling the truth.
He may have been a victim of his own anticipation of collapse. Preventing it had become futile, and facing it, increasingly terrifying.
I’m grateful, Mr. Ruppert, that you put your ass on the line, by speaking truth to power. I am grieved that there are so few disposed to do that, and now there is one fewer yet.
PrestonSturges on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 1:13 am
Killed himself? That’s what they WANT you to think.
/snark
Lars Andersson on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 7:40 am
When I saw him on his last videoserie on You tube last week – and he hold his arm up in a special way – I now that was his farewell to as al.
Fukushima and the global climatcrise was his message to us.
He was a great man – RIP
Who take care of his dog now?
Lars in Sweden
AG on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 8:21 am
Murdered?
Aire on Wed, 16th Apr 2014 1:06 pm
Yeah conspiracy theorist is pretty much a put down. You guys saying you don’t agree with him also are putting him down on his moment of which he should NOT be put down. I don’t care if you don’t agree with him why even state that. He seemed right on the money … “until you change the way money works, you change nothing”