“You need to separate the ice cream from the bullshit.” (Article) 

Tracker of Truth Activist Michael C. Ruppert was the publisher and editor of the newsletter “From the Wilderness” and “CollapseNet” that had more than 20,000 subscribers in more than 40 countries. Ruppert truly was a passionate investigative Independent journalist who predicted the global recession in 1995 and foresaw the upcoming of an imminent energy crisis. Even though Ruppert has been criticised on his thinking methodology and conspiracy theorising, there is some simple truth to his warnings – “It is not possible to continue infinite consumption and infinite population growth on a finite planet.” (TheLipTV) Personally I had a lot of respect for this man. Ruppert really put his life’s blood into three decades of work trying to help make us more aware of the problems the planet is currently facing. He investigated in a non-profit way and researched for more then 20 years, lectured in 8 countries, and wrote two books “Crossing the Rubicon” and “Collapse”. Ruppert carried, as it were, the burden of the world on his shoulders which eventually led to his depressive and despair thinking throughout the last decade of his life. On April 13th, Ruppert sadly took his own life – Abby Martin – RT – VIDEO, his last show THE LIFEBOAT HOUR here, Michael Welch’s Global Research News Hour special on-line 1hr. memorial here and Cheris peak’s report here. I recommend his documentary Collapse (FULL DOC) from 2009, directed by Chris Smith, which was one of the scariest and most confrontational independent made documentaries about how fragile our world and society really is. And his brilliant speech (VIDEO) on November 15, 1996, which took place at a town meeting in Los Angeles where Ruppert seized the opportunity to confront then CIA Director John Deutch about the CIA’s involvement in drug trafficking. Ruppert stood for the simple fact that our species will have to go through an imminent shift in consciousness in order to transform our current destructive world. Watch writer and philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck’s TEDX talk about this topic here. And Terence Mckenna’s 1990’s speech – Opening The Doors Of Creativity (VIDEO). The in January 2014 released 6-Part doc. about Ruppert is simply one of my favorite documentaries from VICE. In this brilliantly made doc. Directed by Andy Capper (twitter) you see Ruppert, a passionate man undergoing a spiritual rebirth with a lot of apocalyptic planet-threatening issues that he wants to share with us. Important side note is that Ruppert’s personal world underwent something of a collapse itself and he paid off all his debts, left behind all his friends, and moved with his dog Rags to the Rocky Mountains with a plan to commit suicide. Obviously his body was in peace in the Rocky Mountains but the metamorphosis from the Collapse doc. to this VICE report is riveting. ONE-TO-WATCH! PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5, PART 6. ….“I do not care about political leaders or personalities. They are distractions. I do not care about war scares and the emotional drugs they unleash for those addicted, as I once was. I am not facing down a man or men. I am not facing down regions or peoples. I am not facing down an economic system. I am facing down a culture, an utterly failed culture that is lethal, blind, useless and almost incomprehensibly destructive. Human beings do not have to die, but our culture must.” —  RIP Michael C. Ruppert – February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014.