RIP Michael Ruppert

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 15 Apr 2014, 05:24

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 instructions for how to proceed without him. His wishes were to be cremated, and as of this moment, there are no plans for a memorial service. However, I will be taking his show this coming Sunday night, April 20, and the entire show will be an In Memoriam show for Mike with opportunities for listeners to call in.

It was my privilege to have known Mike for 14 years, to have worked with him, to have been mentored by him, and to have supported him in some of his darkest hours, including the more recent ones. I am posting this announcement with the blessing of his partner Jesse Re and his landlord, Jack Martin.

Thank you Mike for all of the truth you courageously exposed and for the legacy of truth-telling you left us. Goodbye my friend. Your memory will live in hour hearts forever.

I have no more details to share than I am posting here. We should have much more information by Sunday night.

that was on carolyn bakers facebook page

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 15 Apr 2014, 05:42

http://lifeboathour.podbean.com/2014/04 ... an-041314/

His last podcast

nexus · Post by **nexus** » 15 Apr 2014, 21:30

Orlov:

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 eyes to what's really happening in the world.

extractorfan · Post by **extractorfan** » 15 Apr 2014, 22:03

nexus wrote:Orlov:
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 eyes to what's really happening in the world.

it is sad, but the man made me go a bit mad, some time ago.

not intentionally i'm sure, poor bloke.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 16 Apr 2014, 01:12

He just wanted out. I can understand that. I don't want to die to achieve that out, but I can understand that. Whilst he was doing all the hippy-dippy shit towards the end and it would be easy to take the piss, I don't want to take the piss. Whatever gets you through the day and all that.

Poor bastard.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 16 Apr 2014, 10:13

Nasty way to go - well, for the ones left behind, that's for sure. For him, quick. Self-hanging is common here in the west of Ireland. Still awful for the rest of us of course and leaves zillions of unanswered questions but, as Steve says, these people just want out.

Compassionate and well-regulated assisted suicide is one of the marks of an intelligent society; I would vote for it.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 16 Apr 2014, 13:21

emordnilap wrote:Nasty way to go - well, for the ones left behind, that's for sure. For him, quick. Self-hanging is common here in the west of Ireland. Still awful for the rest of us of course and leaves zillions of unanswered questions but, as Steve says, these people just want out.

Compassionate and well-regulated assisted suicide is one of the marks of an intelligent society; I would vote for it.

I wouldn't. It's the "well-regulated" part of your post that makes me instinctively shudder.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 16 Apr 2014, 14:04

stevecook172001 wrote:
emordnilap wrote:Nasty way to go - well, for the ones left behind, that's for sure. For him, quick. Self-hanging is common here in the west of Ireland. Still awful for the rest of us of course and leaves zillions of unanswered questions but, as Steve says, these people just want out.

Compassionate and well-regulated assisted suicide is one of the marks of an intelligent society; I would vote for it.
I wouldn't. It's the "well-regulated" part of your post that makes me instinctively shudder.

I know what you're saying and I'm with you - and it shouldn't be necessary. In a small community, it would be well-regulated by instinct and compassion alone.

But as with capital punishment, sometimes innocent people die, so unfortunately in this amorphous society we live in we'd need some independent oversight to prevent abuse of the opportunity.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » 16 Apr 2014, 16:21

RIP Mike. When last I drove by your trailer and waved, little did I know what you were contemplating inside it. You were truly an original…even if of WHAT you were an original of isn't quite clear yet.

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » 17 Apr 2014, 15:39

Latest on Mikey. His friends appear to not want his death to be the same type of conspiracy that Mike was famous for creating from whole cloth.

I wonder why those so interested in conspiracy would be so quick to try and damp down such speculation?

Methinks they doth protest too much?

http://www.collapsenet.com/free-resourc ... ed-suicide

jonny2mad · Post by **jonny2mad** » 18 Apr 2014, 23:54

he could have been wacked, maybe he would have been better off becoming a astrologer like matt savinar

But on the other hand I think being a doomer especially if your fluffy is quite bad for the mind .

My advice too anyone worried about collapse would be switch off the internet, dont read get rid of your radio and tv and forget about the whole thing.

Living in a tent or a cave and growing your own carrots and just getting out of as much of society as you can is a good idea.

join a group of silent monks drop out

heinberg looked a worried fellow when I saw him a few years ago in bristol, wont do no good .

Ralph · Post by **Ralph** » 19 Apr 2014, 00:38

jonny2mad wrote: he could have been wacked, maybe he would have been better off becoming a astrologer like matt savinar

I'm not sure the kind of sound and fury Mike could unleash so easily would fit in all that well with someone reading your palm. Or whatever. Mike was a great visual…just don't think to hard, don't ask questions, but if you watched him, it was entertaining.

jonny2mad wrote: My advice too anyone worried about collapse would be switch off the internet, dont read get rid of your radio and tv and forget about the whole thing.

Collapse early and avoid the rush!! I am of the belief that the REAL Doomers are never seen or heard from, because they have already taken Greer's advice. The folks doing the posting and speculating and talking? Wankers and wanna-be's, most firmly entrenched in BAU and confusing their backyard garden with a means to survive "the big one", whatever big one they rationalized to get up the gumption to start the garden in the first place.

Little John · Post by **Little John** » 19 Apr 2014, 09:16

Ralph wrote:.....Collapse early and avoid the rush!! I am of the belief that the REAL Doomers are never seen or heard from, because they have already taken Greer's advice. The folks doing the posting and speculating and talking? Wankers and wanna-be's, most firmly entrenched in BAU and confusing their backyard garden with a means to survive "the big one", whatever big one they rationalized to get up the gumption to start the garden in the first place.

Harsh, but fair.

I'll give you that one. But only that one.

leroy · Post by **leroy** » 20 Apr 2014, 00:28

Ralph wrote:Wankers

Only American to use this particularly British derogative on this forum other than RGR. Just saying. Funny point tho.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 20 Apr 2014, 01:22

leroy wrote:
Ralph wrote:Wankers
Only American to use this particularly British derogative on this forum other than RGR. Just saying. Funny point tho.

I don't know about that. I occasionally use a UK term or phrase to demonstrate that I am looking at the subject from the UK point of view, or trying to at least, but that hardly results in only Americans using UK terms, derogatory or not. If that were true it would no longer be a UK term. Would it not?