Seattle appearance
Michael Ruppert
Explains 'Peak Oil' and 9/11
by Rodger Herbst
Michael C
Ruppert will be in Seattle on January 15 to speak on his latest book,
Crossing
the Rubicon: the Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age
of
Oil.
The book, which delves into the darkest secrets of the US economic
system, finds
"Peak Oil" as the economic stimulus triggering an internal US
imperative for the
attacks of September 11 2001. Ruppert approaches the
investigation from the
perspective of a homicide, meticulously establishing the
motive, means, and
opportunity of the perpetrators of the crime. He assigns his
readers the task of
jury, urging them to examine the evidence presented in 600
plus pages of text
and 40 pages of footnotes, to decide for themselves the
verdict. The book has
earned a five star rating at Amazon.com.
Ruppert
appears to be on firm ground with respect to the issue of Peak Oil, able
to
"throw more than 500 footnoted citations at you from unimpeachable sources."
His
manner of delivery however, has earned him a number of enemies within
the
government reform community. A backlash has developed which attempts to
paint
him as an operative attempting to inflate oil prices by circulating the
"scam
story" of oil scarcity.
Ruppert's basic thesis is compatible with
the views of some heavy hitters. For
example, Michael T Klare, director of the
Five College Program in Peace and
World Security Studies at Hampshire College in
Amherst Massachusetts, and author
of Resource Wars: the New Landscape of Global
Conflict, states in a recent
article in the Nation, "cultural and political
analyses obscure a fundamental
reality: that this war [on terror], like most of
the wars that preceded it, is
firmly rooted in geopolitical
competition."(www.thenation.com/
doc.mhtml?i=20011105&s=klare)
David Goodstein, a physicist and
vice-provost at the California Institute of
Technology has written the book Out
of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil. Newsweek
noted on Feb 17 2004: "Goodstein's
book is not a happy read, but an important
one. In layman's terms, he explains
the science behind his prediction and why
other fossil fuels might not do the
trick when the wells run
dry."(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4287300/)
Althought Ruppert provides ample evidence of the reality of Peak Oil,
the
outcome of his analysis does not depend on that reality. The Association for
the
study of Peak Oil and Gas notes: "Vice- President Dick Cheney made a speech
at
the London Institute of Petroleum Autumn lunch in 1999 when he was Chairman
of
Halliburton. A key passage from his speech was: 'That means by 2010 we will
need
on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day.' It suggested
that he
at that time was fully aware of the issue of peak oil."(www.peakoil.net)
The fact that
members of the administration believe the reality of Peak Oil is
all that is
needed to validate Ruppert's assessment of "Motive."
On August 31,
2004, Ruppert spoke on his new book at San Francisco's prestigious
Commonwealth
Club, which has hosted appearances by such people as Dennis
Kucinich, Madeleine
Albright, Hans Blix and King Abudullah II.
Ruppert has a solid
reputation of getting in the government's face. The June 22,
1992 issue of
People magazine noted his drug-war investigations and his support
from
then-presidential-candidate Ross Perot.
Marc Levin, Emmy award winning
Director of PBS's The Secret Government, and The
Last Party and Producer of Bill
Moyers' 1998 series on addiction, stated: "Mike
Ruppert is a one-man crusade
trying to expose America's bogus war on drugs."
Dick Gregory noted:
"This is the man who cost CIA Director Deutch his guaranteed
appointment as
Secretary of Defense after confronting him [in 1996] at Locke
High School with
hard facts about CIA dealing drugs." The episode was broadcast
on national
television.
Ruppert's newsletter, From the Wilderness, now has 16,000
subscribers in 40
countries including 40 members of the US Congress, the
intelligence committees
of both houses, and professors at 30 universities around
the world.
Ruppert will appear at Kane Hall, UW on Saturday January 15,
7-10 pm. The event
is presented by the Citizen's Truth Alliance, and
co-sponsored by Seattle
Thunder www.seattlethunder.net
and 9-11
Visibility Project
(www.septembereleventh.org).
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