Thanks for posting that
For anyone interested, I can recommend Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon. It was the firt 9/11 book I read and I feel like it really cracked the door open on the whole 9/11 Truth movement. It's got some details in there that have been missing from many other sources, and a lot of his groundwork opened doors for other researchers. It also talks about the financial instability of the US and global system, looks into drug trafficking and money laundering through the major banks, which is another unique feature of his analysis. The treatment he has received - the lawsuits, his offices being burgled and computers smashed, and the attempts on his life - are totally in line with what Al Martin wrote about in his book The Conspirators. That's how these dudes play. I'm surprised he hasn't been 'liquidated' yet.
The interesting thing about Ruppert is the whole emphasis on 'Peak Oil', which is pretty much absent from most other analyses. Most researchers dismiss it as a hoax - and I imagine many people on this forum are under the impression that global warming, peak oil etc. are all elite-created hoaxes for poplulation control etc. Ruppert is certain this is about all about peak oil. I can't help but ask, why did they target him specifically, when there are so many people that have stood up to the Bush Administration in particular - a nasty group with many attack dogs. Firstly, he went after them hard, early on. He did research, not just relaying others people's pioneering work in a loud dissenting voice. He's out there on his own. It's like Rense - why has he been targeted when there are many shows and hosts out there like him? That in itself may say something.
I think Ruppert is like Al Martin in the sense that he knows ****. He was a narcotics detective, he knows about the drug running and the money laundering. People like that are actually in the game to an extent. Conspiracy academics are sitting on the sidelines commentating, often passionately, but they're not in the game. There are people out there who are more academic in their writings than Ruppert - e.g. Webster Griffin Tarpley - but it's not as street-level.
Maybe there really is something in the whole peak oil theory. Like that dude said, Lindsay Williams reckoned huge new oil reserves were to be announced in Russia and in Indonesia (Alaska will remain untapped), which would shatter the PO theory for the meantime, but until then perhaps it is to be reconsidered.