9.11
investigation: indymedia interviews Mike Ruppert in
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josie:
I just want to verify it's ok to use this footage in whole or
in part in audio, video or transcript form. MIKE RUPPERT: IMC can do
anything with this footage they want to, with my complete blessing. josie:
Critics ask: Why would the MIKE RUPPERT: Let's rephrase
the question to say, "Why would the josie:
You mention the project Northwoods. I have seen people assert
that was just a plan by the Joint Chiefs of Staff that was eventually
vetoed by the government, and they use that to assert that is
proof that the government would not allow such a thing to happen. MIKE RUPPERT: The fact
that it was drafted into a complete operational plan and in classified,
top secret, is proof in and of itself
that members of the government think that way. josie:
Do you see certain factions of the government having more power
these days that would allow them to carry out such operations
instead of having them circumvented by some sort of moral code? MIKE RUPPERT: I think it's
probably better to say that circumstances have changed. josie:
What circumstances? MIKE RUPPERT: The imperative
has changed. Castro was an inconvenient nuisance to conservative
elements in the government in the '60's. He was not a threat to
American national security. However, as we enter the 21st century,
the access to vast untapped Central Asian oil fields, at a time
when the world was on the edge of a monstrous global oil crisis,
made it a completely different risk issue. There was much more
at stake. It was essential the major oil companies like Exxon/Mobil,
Chevron, Texaco, BP/Amoco to get access to that oil, without which
the global economy might have collapsed. So the stakes were much
higher. josie:
Besides Cynthia MIKE RUPPERT: None have
officially or publicly yet. I can tell you that I've traveled
to josie:
Do you criticize Congresswoman McKinney for not having supported
Barbara Lee on 20th September last, when Bush got his blank check
from Congress? MIKE RUPPERT: No, I don't
criticize Congresswoman McKinney at all. It was clear that Barbara
Lee's vote was not going to make a difference in the outcome.
Cynthia McKinney has constituents to answer to, and she knows
that her voting or not voting with Barbara Lee, who took a very
courageous stand, would not have made a difference in the outcome.
When you're in politics, members of congress have to judge when
and how to fight their own battles on their own time. Cynthia
has just bitten off a huge chunk with this. josie:
How long do you believe Cynthia McKinney will survive politically? MIKE RUPPERT: She's tougher
than anybody thinks. This is not a bad issue for her at all. This
is the old political axiom "Build it and they will come."
There are many, many millions of people in this country who are
totally suspicious about the government line about September the
11th. That she was the first to take a step, I think you will
see a lot of support building for her, both at home in her own
district but also around the country. Because
she's right on the money. josie:
Is there any way besides letters and contributions we can help
legislators and officials who do speak out against the official
911 story? MIKE RUPPERT: I think we're seeing a huge groundswell. I think one of the things that I'm very emphatic about is that we have to try new things. Approaching activism or
progressive issues the same way that had been done throughout
the '60's, '70's, '80's and '90's doesn't apply in the post-911
world. Yet there are a whole lot of new things that are available.
We have Independent Media. We have the internet. We have my newsletter
From the Wilderness. We have lots of alternative or independent
media sources now. And, we encourage people to vote with their
money to support IMC's, to support From the Wilderness because
the stronger we get, the more readers we get, the more viewers
we get, the more people we can reach to really tell accurate stories
that build support for these members of congress. That's a very
important thing to do. josie:
So, do you see the primary battle right now being getting the
real story out? MIKE RUPPERT: Yes, that's
the only battle... that counts. josie:
Do you think legislators such as Cynthia McKinney and Senator
Daschle are in real danger of treason charges? MIKE RUPPERT: No. That
would be too politically dangerous for the Bush administration.
And, I need to say very clearly that I view the Bush administration
now as being in deep trouble. I think that the Bush administration
is extremely vulnerable both on corruption charges from Enron,
some grand juries that I've been writing about in From the Wilderness
and all kinds of events around September 11th... and campaign
fundraising and so on and so forth. The Bush administration is
much more vulnerable than people know that it is. josie:
Are there other grand juries on things besides Enron going on
right now that you feel are making the Bush administration vulnerable? MIKE RUPPERT: Yes. We have
broken a major story in From the Wilderness. Seymour Hersch wrote
a great piece in the New Yorker in July of 2000 called "The
Price of Oil." Following up on that, I've done my own investigation.
There are two sitting federal grand juries, one in What's interesting is that
both Exxon/Mobil and BP/Amoco got into Vice President Cheney's
Energy Task Force, the one about which we have all the secrecy
and around which President Bush is refusing to release the records.
He has now redacted so many pages you don't know what's in there.
What we know now is that two targets of federal felony grand jury
investigations got into the Vice President's task force, which
is the same as having Manuel Noriega consult on the War on Drugs. What's worse is the Kazakh
government was involved in all of these crimes, the bribery and
the oil swap. During the period in time that this happened, Vice
President Dick Cheney was sitting on the Kazakh government's Oil
Advisory Board. The Bush administration is criminally exposed
all over the map. This is what politicians are seeing in josie:
What do you think our chances are of opening up the records once
more, ie: the Presidential records and all the records that have
been sealed to try to conceal complicity and crimes that have
occurred within the administration or among the people involved
in the administration? MIKE RUPPERT: That kind
of depends on how far The People want to go, how much courage
The People muster, how much voice we can muster to demand that.
President Bush did break the law when he refused to release the
presidential records from the Reagan presidency and from the Bush
presidency; he is obligated by law to do so. So, he has released
some but held back some, and that still breaks the law. That will be a tougher
fight because it's not before the public's eyes right now. The
Vice President's Energy Task Force, however, is the subject of
a GAO [General Accounting Office] suit that may go to the Supreme
Court. But, bear in mind Bush owns the Supreme Court. So, this
will be primarily a political fight that will be fought on a partisan
level. I'm not partisan one way or the other, but this is a fight
that can really drag the Bush's out and make them look really
bad. josie:
You mention the need for public outcry. What type of outcry would
be effective? Letter writing? Campaign
contributions? MIKE RUPPERT: It's a combination
of things. Again, when I was in josie:
How helpful are those questioning unbridled war-mongering and
corporate influence while still accepting the official 911 story?
For example, Congressman Ron Paul of MIKE RUPPERT: They're both
great men. They're both subscribers to my newsletter, so I'm not
going to say too much bad about them. Ron Paul has been very brave.
Both of them I think have serious questions about the official
government line, but they have to walk the line of answering to
their constituents who may not be ready to digest those kinds
of issues yet. I think they're fighting selective battles where
they can. But, they shouldn't be discounted. They've both said
some wonderful things since September 11th. josie:
How do the powers-that-be deal with your very vocal and public
exposure of their lies? (in other words: Why are you still alive?) MIKE RUPPERT: I don't worry
about why I'm still alive. I mean, now I have 20 members of congress
who subscribe to my newsletter. I'm read in 30 countries around
the world and professors of 12 universities, so if I were to suddenly
turn up dead that would be an affirmation that I was right. That
would cause more trouble than it would solve. It's not something
that I even think about. I will not die one minute before God,
whoever she is, has decided. Aside from that, there is no more
time for half measures. You've raised a point earlier that I wanted
to touch on: This is not a time to be a so-called "safe progressive."
This is not a time to pick up a primer and look and see what some
progressive pundit decides your opinion should be. This is a time
to examine the facts and see where they lead you on your own and
to speak fearlessly based upon the facts, upon the evidence that
has been unearthed around September the 11th and nothing else.
No time for pedagogy or ideology at this time. josie:
Is it true your site has been repeatedly hacked recently? MIKE RUPPERT: Yes. We've
had two major, very professional hackings of the From the Wilderness
website within the last five weeks, one of which was so professional
and so ruthless that they took out 150 websites just to get to
mine. We have since moved to a very expensive, hi-tech site, and
we doubt we're going to have any more problems. But, we've also
had physical burglaries of our offices within the last six weeks,
an outside storage area. josie:
Have you experienced any other recent harassment. Is there a pattern? MIKE RUPPERT: That and
some very nasty, unfounded emails and a campaign that is utterly
meritless within the so-called left or progressive movement with
some completely inaccurate statements. josie:
Who do you think is primarily behind the harassment? MIKE RUPPERT: There's two ways to look at it, and I'm not sure I've reached a total conclusion. One is: We know from the COINTELPRO area and the great work done by the activists in the '60's and '70's to unearth the records of the COINTELPRO program, that the powers that be, the government, the military, the FBI, CIA have gone to the utmost lengths to infiltrate the so-called left or the progressive with people who become wolves in sheeps' clothing for the specific purpose of being able to contain or control debate. Certainly I think I've seen some of that here recently. On the other hand, there are those within -- and I totally don't understand this, but... -- there are some people who get caught up in petty or small turf interests or little kingdoms and fiefdoms who feel threatened. That's not my issue at
all. I don't come from that place. This is too critical a moment
in human history. There's only one thing to do and that's to talk
about the evidence, not about personalities. It's truly about
principles more than it is about personalities. It should be. josie:
What is the source of your obvious passion in doing this work.
What keeps you going? MIKE RUPPERT: You would
have to go into the long history of what happened to some 25 years
ago in LAPD. The fact that the woman I was in love with was a
CIA agent betrayed me. Of course I found out she was dealing drugs,
and I wouldn't get involved. Again, this is all extremely well-documented
in major papers. A police department that I believed in at the
time betrayed me. But, after I made my stand based upon principle,
I was forced into poverty. I was homeless for three years, arrested,
driven into bankruptcy. That was a pattern of harassment that
lasted for a long time. I couldn't get a job anywhere. This was
seen to because I was a whistle-blower. Over the course of time,
in the years since, I have seen too many brave men and women who
were within, either in the military or law enforcement or various
places, stand up and say the right thing at the right time and
be utterly victimized for it. I reached a point across the Rubicon
at some time, and it didn't matter to me anymore. There was nothing
more they could do to hurt me. I didn't care. As I've seen the
situation get progressively worse and worse, there has just been
basically no other choice for me than to do this. I have kind
of a Taoist or Buddhist viewpoint, that this is the path that
I was supposed to walk, so I surrender to it. josie:
Do you think that's what it will take to get the American public
to decide to stand up and start paying more attention and produce
the outcry that will be necessary to expose the corruption...
and how deeply it goes... and change it? MIKE RUPPERT: It's a coin
toss right now as to whether the American people will wake up.
I am traveling all over the country now. I'm lecturing all over
the country and soon josie:
Why do you think so many Americans, including progressives, are
resistant to looking for the truth about September 11th? MIKE RUPPERT: Denial is
not a river in A dysfunctional family,
where the father is molesting the young daughter in the basement
and everybody in the family keeps quiet because they're afraid
of the shame. They're afraid of what will happen. They wind up
scapegoating, and they don't want to look at the whole issue because
it requires a level of inward searching, struggle, conflict...
that people are not willing to accept. The other is an issue of
co-dependency, where I have seen within the progressive movement.
It's an old joke about the wife showing up for treatment for co-dependency,
and the therapist says, "How do you feel about coming to
treatment." And, she says, "I don't know. I'll ask my
husband." Within the progressive movement, I have seen some,
not all... I have seen a great many clear-headed thinkers, very
courageous reporters and activists, willing to look at the evidence
ruthlessly... but then I've seen some who say, "Well, wait
a minute. I have to see how I feel about 911. Let me read So-and-So
and see what he says. And, that will be my politically correct
position." That's not healthy to me at all. josie:
Has Noam Chomsky, to your knowledge, ever made any comment on
you and/or what you are saying? MIKE RUPPERT: I have heard
people tell me that Noam Chomsky has said, first, that he's never
heard of me, which I know is not true...
because people have been carbon copying me emails that they have
sent to him. And then I've heard someone tell me, and again this
is hearsay... second hand, that he said there is no merit to my
research. Well, he's ok to say that if he wants to, but he still
has to look at the evidence which I have presented which is all
documented. He has to deal with the facts. And, if the facts contradict
a vested interest, then he needs to prove himself to be the great
thinker that people believe him to be... and deal with the facts. josie:
I recently read David Corn's article and it seemed that his main
point was that the US Government simply couldn't do such a thing.
He spent a lot of time saying that, but he seemed to say prima
facie that it simply wasn't true... so none of your facts were
valid. MIKE RUPPERT: Again, this
is a classic case of attacking me, rather than looking at the
evidence that I have presented which is documented. Anybody who
has seen my Now, Corn is a case where
I have to come back and say, and if I'm asked honestly, that I
will say that I have an opinion that David Corn is one of the
establishment CIA/FBI operatives who has long been planted within
so-called progressive circles. The primary argument I use for
that is that he was chosen by one of the most venal characters
in American history, Ted Shackley – who ran the CIA station in
I spoke to Mike Vreeland
in Again, it's not about me
or them. It's about the facts because that's what tells the American
people what's really going on behind 911. josie:
Why is this subject heavily censored in the mainstream media? MIKE RUPPERT: This is a
story which brings into question the legitimacy of the entire
josie:
The following is a quote from someone on our newswire: "Whoever
killed Kennedy was incredibly powerful, and has never been brought
to justice. Whoever did it not only was able to kill the most
protected man in the world, but has successfully prevented any
investigation leading to the identity of the perpetrator(s). So
they're still out there, still powerful." What are your thoughts
on that? You obviously see connections between the assassination
of JFK and the events of September 11… MIKE RUPPERT: Well, in
terms of a model... and one of the things that absolutely just
makes me crack up laughing is this artificial framework that's
been dumped by so-called progressive leaders onto this. They say,
"Well, we talk about systematic wrongs, and Ruppert talks
about a conspiracy between bad people." That's a totally
artificial construct. It's something that's thrown in that has
absolutely nothing to do with the recipe of discovering the truth.
Bad systems can create bad people, and bad people can create bad
systems. But, somewhere within the operation of a bad system that
does bad things, like kill people and run death squads, torture
people, deal drugs, etc., there are people who actually have to
consciously do bad things. And, somewhere in that mix there has
to come one question of accountability. Personal.
Individual. Accountability.
I don't believe John Kennedy was killed by one man. I believe
it was a swarm. There were a multitude of interests that wanted
him dead. josie:
Who? MIKE RUPPERT: Certainly
Wall Street had a massive interest. The CIA I think primarily
facilitated that. josie:
What do you see as the primary purpose of a close examination
of what really happened on 911? Is it enough to reveal that the
government lied rather than having to reconcile the varying theories
about what happened and who did it? MIKE RUPPERT: This goes
to the heart of what my editorial policy has been as the publisher
of the newsletter. By training I am not an ideologue, so I'm not
trying to report from any standpoint of having to justify any
philosophical framework. I was a detective by training. I'm a
journalist by training. The absolute standard that I have used
for post-911 reporting is that I take official documented sources,
whether it be the Congressional Record, mainstream reports that
people tend to accept, ABC, BBC, Wall Street Journal, ad infinitum,
New York Times... I take documented evidence only that mainstream
people don't challenge, and I assemble that and analyze it in
a way that makes it very clear that the government is lying. In other words, very clear
example, the government says we had no knowledge of the attacks.
I have since proven that there was massive insider trading on
the stock market involving "put options" and clearly
established that the intelligence agencies monitor those trades,
knew they were taking place... and we know in the case of United
Airlines that the trades were placed through a firm that was once
run by a man who is now the executive director of the Central
Intelligence Agency. I have produced government records showing
that the National Security Agency had broken all Osama Bin Laden's
secure communications in January of 2001. I've also produced evidence
from US attorneys in financial cases where they admit they got
into the terrorists' banking system, so they knew how the money
was flowing. Given all that uncontested evidence, you have to
ask the government, "Why haven't you told us who placed the
insider trades in advance of the attacks?" "What are
the connections to the CIA?" "We know that you were
watching them, so why didn't you know?" That's a very safe
way to report what's going on. That's safe from any kind of speculation.
I won't speculate, and that's why my reporting is bullet-proof. On the other hand, that's
why you see guys like Solomon and Corn refuse to debate me on
the issue of my reporting. They can't touch the facts because
they can't hurt those. josie:
A long-time activist attorney has said he believes that, due to
the length and complexity of the Patriot Act, it's unlikely the
Patriot Act was written after Sept 11th, at least not in its entirety.
Have you heard anything about the Patriot Act being written before
Sept 11th? MIKE RUPPERT: I do know
from sources on Capitol Hill who spoke to me off the record that,
yes, portions of the act were definitely written before; portions
having to do with the money laundering and some of the work done
on civil liberties, in the cooperation between the intelligence
community and local law enforcement... which, there had been a
wall there before. I do know that Congressman Ron Paul was definitely
on the record as saying that he was not allowed to read the act
before he was asked to vote on it. Many members of congress, most
of them never even saw the Patriot Act. Yet they were herded into
the House chamber and compelled to vote, and basically told by
party leadership how to vote. josie:
Do you see the desire to shape domestic policy (to control public
opinion and pass things like the Patriot Act) as a significant
incentive for the government to be complicit in an atrocity such
as 911? MIKE RUPPERT: There's no
question. In this book which I reported on and brought a lot of
people's attention to, The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski,
written in 1997, he talks clearly about how, unless there is a
directly perceived external threat, unless the public's sense
of well-being is jeopardized, they will not be malleable, they
will not be supportive of those programs, those activities which
the government deems essential for the economic interests, ie:
Wall Street and major banks and oil companies. So,
yes. Does the government scare people to make them... yes,
it's called Wag-the-Dog, and it happens all the time. josie:
How big of an impetus is controlling dissent within the MIKE RUPPERT: Are you asking
are oil and drugs the prime reasons why they go to these lengths? josie:
I'm asking if going to these lengths is one of the primary motivators
as well as drugs and oil. MIKE RUPPERT: Well, there's
an old saying that GOD equals Gold Oil and Drugs, or Guns Oil
and Drugs. Those are the economic ingredients that provide economic
control for this new globalized world that we live in, that's
run basically by Wall Street and the major banks. It's very funny
that the American people don't ask some obvious questions. In
1972, when Richard Nixon started the War on Drugs, the federal
budget allocation was $101 million. As we entered fiscal 2001,
the federal budget allocation was $20 billion for the War on Drugs.
Yet there are more drugs in the country today. They're less expensive,
and they're of better quality than they were in 1972. josie:
To me it seems as if the industry around the Drug War might be
even more lucrative than the drugs, like the prison industry.
I guess I'm thinking in terms as well, are we going to see third
world type slave labor in the MIKE RUPPERT: Well, that
was two questions. There's two money-making angles. The powers that be -- and
my colleague Catherine Austin Fitts is an absolute genius with
this; she has analyzed this; she's a former Wall Street investment
banker, former Assistant Secretary of Housing -- There's the money
that's spent on law enforcement, which creates its own industry,
its own empires: the law enforcement, the people that sell the
equipment and so on and so forth. Then there is the prison complex
that rises up, and that's another $30 billion a year, to house.
We know that we've put a million people in prison in the last
ten years. 60% to 70% are non-violent drug offenders. Some of
them are doing that kind of slave labor now. What's even more insidious
about that is that you have two corporations, Wackenhut and Corrections
Corporation of We're working on a follow-up
story now. I certainly think that if the criminal activities of
the government become more egregious -- and I've taken the position
that the Bush administration is out of the closet as a criminal
regime -- they can't turn back; they have to now go forward to
impose a full dictatorship... if they want to keep their hold
on power -- that we will see the signs of domestic unrest. We
will see people beginning to speak out. I think Cynthia McKinney
was just the first foot through the door on the hill, certainly.
Then we will see some very repressive moves by the government.
And, I think we have to expect that. josie:
Soon after 9/11 there were two planes that went down: On October
4th, while flying from MIKE RUPPERT: We've reported
on that. We've done a story in From the Wilderness that... now,
this number increases. The last time I checked, there may be a
bigger number, but there are as many as 15 world class micro-biologists
who have died under very mysterious circumstances since September
the 11th, the major one starting on the 28th. Again, I'm using
open press sources. There were as many as four... we don't know
the exact number... of microbiologists. So there's something very
suspicious going on. I've had one of my staff writers place 50
calls to the American Association of Microbiologists asking for
comment, and they will not comment. When you have 15 world class
microbiologists... this is a small community we're talking about.
Something is clearly wrong here. josie:
Yes, I was going to ask what the normal death rate was for microbiologists. MIKE RUPPERT: I don't think
I have to have the information to answer about the normal death
rate to tell you that what's going on here is not normal. josie:
In the document I read by you, there were five microbiologists
on that plane? MIKE RUPPERT: Somewhere
between four or five. We don't know how many. That passenger list
has never been released. There were reports from the region saying
that as many as four microbiologists were on the Air Sibir flight.
Two [more] were killed in a plane crash in josie:
Do you see these deaths as part of a cover-up or could they be
the work of organizations trying to circumvent the ends of those
behind the research? Could it be both? MIKE RUPPERT: Who knows.
These are great questions, all of which would require me to speculate
to answer. All I know is that something is extremely suspicious,
and the common thread is the DNA sequencing, the communicable
disease research. There is some link that we have not yet identified
that makes these people either a threat to whoever might be preparing
to do a very serious germ warfare attack or might be potential
detectives who could identify or who could produce a cure. We
don't know yet. We do know that this research has progressed to
the point where they can create gene-specific disease agents that
will attack only people who have certain genes. josie: On November 12th,
American Airlines Flight 587, headed for Santo Domingo in the
Dominican Republic crashed in Queens, NY a neighborhood in which
a lot of the WTC firefighters and rescue workers lived. It seemed
awfully coincidental so soon after 9/11. I recall the story being
that the tail fell off. Do you have any thoughts on that? MIKE RUPPERT: I have lots
of thoughts on that; lots of suspicions, lots of questions. Again,
the position I have taken as a journalist is that... I have experience
as a journalist. I wrote my first piece at the Los Angeles Times
in 1985. So, these are what we call "journalistic suicide
missions." You can have lots of suspicion. You can go in
and find all kinds of anomalies, but you cannot produce a concrete
answer. And you still wind up leaving people able to believe one
side, the other, or nothing at all. So, for me it's not productive
to go in there. Does that look really stupidly suspicious to me?
Yeah. It really does. So does the Pentagon crash. I watched all
the films. I have yet to see a 757 in any of the pictures, hitting
the Pentagon. But, then I have to answer the question, "If
that wasn't a 757, where did the airplane go?" This is stuff
you have to be careful with as a journalist. josie:
There were reports of a shadow plane that was flying above the
plane that flew into the Pentagon. Have you heard anything about
that? MIKE RUPPERT: I've heard
of that, but again I can't prove it. I can't nail it down. That's
like questions "did someone place explosives in the buildings
to make them collapse straight down... were the planes possibly
remote controlled?" The answer is "could be... I don't
know." I haven't taken a position. I can't prove it. What
I can prove is that the government is lying. That's my job. The
government is lying. THE GOVERNMENT IS LYING. josie:
There has been some discussion about whether the complete devastation
of the WTC towers could have resulted from just the planes crashing
into them. Many say bombs must have been planted to effect
the sort of collapse we saw happen. Others say gravity would do
the trick. Another point that has been made is that all the metal
in the buildings was melted and that additional incendiary devices
and fluids would have been necessary to accomplish that. Some
assert jet fuel could easily accomplish the task. Based on your
experience as a cop and someone who has had experience with covert
operations, how would you respond to that? MIKE RUPPERT: Again, that's
one of those suicide missions as a journalist. I've seen compelling
evidence that the jet fuel could have been super-heated in the
flues of the central elevator shafts to melt. Again, I'm not a
scientist. I don't know. That's possible. Although, on the other
hand, thinking logically, as someone who has studied covert operations,
the amount of explosives necessary to have achieved that kind
of controlled demolition... to put those on many, many floors
of the building would have required levels of secrecy and penetration...
you would have risked compromising smuggling hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds of plastic explosives, putting them in the right
place. That to me is a very risky operation in a building that
is always busy. So that's something that I have to stay away from
because there's just no "there" there. There's no out;
there's no way to come to a definitive conclusion absent somebody
coming forth and saying "here's what happened, and here's
what I did." Of course, we know the evidence has been destroyed
pretty rapidly, and I know that josie:
What is PROMIS, and what does it have to do with the dead microbiologists? MIKE RUPPERT: PROMIS has
to do with more than just microbiologists. It was originally a
program called Prosecutors' Management Information System. It
was developed in the late '70's by Bill Hamilton at Inslaw, who
I know. I've been to his offices. I've interviewed him many times.
It was originally designed to be a software program that would
take data from programs in any number of programming languages
-- in those days it was COBOL and I don't know what else -- US
Attorneys offices had 17 different systems, in like eight or nine
different languages. PROMIS was originally designed to be a software that could be installed in all of those operations
that would integrate the information from all these diverse languages
and make it readable into one database. It was subsequently mated
with artificial intelligence to begin to perform simple reasoning
tasks. It was stolen in the early '80's by Ed Meese, Earl Brian,
the Reagan administration, and, in intelligence agencies, several
different strains, if you will, of PROMIS developed. One was developed
by the Israeli's, one by CIA, etc. But, they were incorporated
with a backdoor that allowed intelligence agencies to go into
somebody's database, while they weren't aware of it, and extract
data, manipulate data, to find out what everybody was doing. PROMIS became very useful
in that it could integrate, let's say in terrorist cases, if you
had a bunch of terrorist suspects you could incorporate their
telephone usage, their water usage, their power usage, their grocery
shopping bills off their credit cards, and you would know, for
example, that if the power at Terrorist Z's house was off for
three days, and the power at Terrorist Y's house had doubled,
that he doubled his grocery purchases, that maybe Terrorist Z
had gone to visit Terrorist Y... and you wouldn't even need to
conduct a surveillance. That's how powerful the software is. It's
been applied and enhanced many times. It's been stolen and modified.
I was visited by members of the RCMP national security staff in
August of 2000, who were in the And that software is everywhere.
josie:
Has anyone claimed the $2.5 million made from the just-pre-911
put options on American and United? MIKE RUPPERT: That was
just one particular set of trades. To my knowledge, no. The josie:
What do you think about stock trades being as private as medical
records? MIKE RUPPERT: That's just
the law. I wouldn't necessarily want someone to know to whom I
was writing checks. It's none of their damn business. There are
also good arguments to prevent insider trading to find out who's
making what purchases of stock. If anybody could find out, of
course you would have everybody spying on everybody. Of course,
the market's totally rigged now anyway. That's my belief. So,
there's very good arguments for privacy there. However, the government
has clearly failed, totally failed, in its responsibility -- and
God bless Cynthia McKinney for speaking out about this -- to tell
us who made those trades, because that's proof that somebody knew
the attacks were coming. josie:
Have you heard of NESARA and the 29 pentagon traitors? (http:
//portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5397 ) MIKE RUPPERT: Bogus. It
doesn't exist. It's fake. I started getting emails on that. I
was in josie:
What do you think is the most effective way to raise consciousness
about what's behind the so-called "war on terrorism?" MIKE RUPPERT: Aside from
proving that the government is lying, which
has been very effective for me actually... I prefer not
to speak to the choir, although I wouldn't be here if it wasn't
for the choir and all of the incredible people all over the country
who have supported this, some very dear friends who have risked
a lot of criticism within the progressive movement, the left movement,
or... I actually have people who are conservative who read my
newsletter. But, my goal is to reach josie:
What do you think of the direct democracy and representational
reform movements that are gaining momentum? (i.e.,
Granny D.) Have you been approached by anyone trying to
get you onside with direct democratic conceptions? MIKE RUPPERT: I have been
approached actually to endorse an amendment that's being proposed
to the US Constitution. I find this stuff very, very interesting,
very intriguing. I had to respond to say that I love the concept,
but anything that tampers with the Constitution requires an enormous
amount of study on my part. And, I would hate to quickly endorse
something... because you don't tamper with the Constitution. Well,
the Bush administration tampers with the Constitution all the
time... I would not tamper with the Constitution lightly. So I
have said I basically support the concept. I cannot come out and
endorse because I cannot take the time now to research as thoroughly
as I need to. I'm at a total triage. We're in a state of emergency
here, so I'm doing the journalist/activist thing on a breaking
news story basis. josie:
Any comments on Jim Moore's upcoming book "Big Oil, Big War?' MIKE RUPPERT: Haven't seen
it. But, people have got to get something called the Hubbard Curve
and the fact that we are nearing the end of the Age of Oil. World
oil production either has or will soon peak on a bell curve never
to be exceeded again, and the whole world is going to change.
Oil is not just what fuels SUV's. It's 90% of all plastics. It's
also the fertilizers and pesticides that allow food production
that support six billion people that will be 11 billion people
soon, as oil production is going to decrease. We are on the edge
of a major world event in human history and oil. josie:
Do you have any idea of how that is going to affect us? Do you
see a second American Revolution or anything of that sort on the
horizon? MIKE RUPPERT: No, this
is what I see the Bush administration doing:
. This war is presented to us as a war that will not end
in our lifetime. Period. Why? "Osama
Bin Laden is no longer important" says George Bush. Wait
a minute. We thought that was the whole reason. Yet what we're
seeing now is a series of sequential moves. We have seen first
in This is a sequential war
to secure the last remaining oil reserves. The strategy of the
josie:
Do you believe they have a plan for after the oil is completely
gone? MIKE RUPPERT: That may
tie in to the microbiologist story. I'm not prepared to take the
full leap yet, but we are exploring. I have an excellent writer
at From the Wilderness, Dale Allen Pfeifer, who was a geologist,
a scientist. He's written nine books and some novels as well...
that indicates the possibility that the lunatics have decided
the problem is not that there's too little oil; the problem is
there are too many people. This may be the motivation for the
creation of these horrible biowarfare agents and the deaths of
these microbiologists. josie:
What do you say to the leftist argument that focusing on this
issue will only further divide people -- or that "no one
will ever believe it, so why talk about it?" MIKE RUPPERT: I say those
are the same people who would live in a family where the father
is raping the young daughter, and they try to cover up what daddy's
doing just so the family looks good. josie:
Are you a government plant? How do we know? MIKE RUPPERT: A government
plant. You mean like a rhododendrum or a bird of paradise? A
government plant. Look: there's a great test that I use.
Metaphorically, I can show you the scars on my back. Go on my
website. You can read front page Herald Examiner stories -- it's
a dead paper from josie:
How do you know we're not a government plant? MIKE RUPPERT: I don't care. josie:
A lot of people would love to make a difference, but don't know
quite what to do. What are some methods to best get the word out...
to make a difference? MIKE RUPPERT: Most progressives, in my opinion -- and I have a lot of respect for them and don't want to lump them... because we're seeing a clear split amongst progressives .. from those who are behaving healthily and those who are not... so I don't want to categorize them. But, my belief is that most people would willingly take a bullet and say, "I'll die like somebody in Reds or a big drama," but they won't risk criticism. That's kind of psychologically dumb to me. You've got to be able to risk criticism. You've got to go out and irritate people. You've got to get out and talk to the people that don't want to hear. You've got to keep putting
THE FACTS, -- not "Mike Ruppert says"... I'm irrelevant...
not Noam Chomsky, not Norm Solomon, not... I love Howard Zinn.
He's great... but don't put the names out there. Put the FACTS
out there and keep sticking them in peoples' face. The other answer is VOTE
WITH YOUR MONEY. Stop giving money to Time Warner, AOL, CNN, NBC,
the people that lie to you. Give it to Indymedia. Give it to From
the Wilderness. Give it to Michelle Chossudovsky, who has a great
website in josie:
Thank you Mike Ruppert, an inspiration to anyone who even ponders
getting off their ass to make a difference. |