The following message was sent by Mike after I sent him some of your comments by way of encouragement. For some reason, the paragraph key is not behaving. Sorry. Jenna Orkin MESSAGE FROM MIKE To all of you who have sent your love and personal messages I can only say that you have saved my life more than once. You did that because you showed that you understood me and I -- who have such a hard time with it -- could actually feel the love.
I wish I could tell you all more about what my life is like here at the moment but I just can´t for reasons that maybe someday I´ll be able to ´splain to you. These are terrible times for the planet and I fear they are going to get worse. Right now I am in something of an unavoidable limbo that seems to have no end. But it will, I´m sure. I mean, who the Hell am I to say, I´m 55 and have been through enough. I don´t need no more freaking evolutions. As always, my arms are too short to box with God. How quickly my head will take me to a place where I´ll think I´ve failed, or I didn´t do enough. How quickly isolation from friends amidst the trials of learning a new language and culture can sap one´s strength.How absolutely and magnificently lucky I am to have these words from people like you to remind me of all the things I have to be grateful for and give me a much needed attitude adjustment.We are, and always will be connected.
Mike
It's great to hear directly from Mike, and I'm glad he knows we're behind him. I eagerly look forward to reading more of his news and insights on FTW.
ReplyDeleteAnother sobering look at biofuels
ReplyDelete"Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5369284.stm
Mike, please be assured and reassured, that we are resoundingly
ReplyDeletegrateful for the work you've done (and we're spreading the word; I recently I recommended CTR to my friends in the UK, who know people, who know people, there -- the last couple of weeks I've been running into people who are getting the 9/11 realization -- I further it by making the peak oil connection... I think there IS a groundswell underfoot -- the shape that it takes remains to be seen, but I think it's not going to take very long for the groundswell to become a mountain... not very long at all).
I also know how stressful the moves I've made have been (and they've just been within the US ). I can't begin to imagine what it must be like to be, as Paraclesus calls it, "uprooted," with relatively little preparation, and plopped into a new country and culture, and to be aware that you are basically a man without a country.
I know that when one is in crisis, and struggling to survive, it is difficult focus on taking care of one's physical and emotional wellbeing, and to consciously foster a sense of peace and balance within oneself -- I have found these are NECESSARY requirements of survival. Even if the things one does to bring oneself into balance are just very simple, small things, they can be of benefit. I think that it is just the fact that that they are done with the intention of caring for oneself that makes them be of benefit -- the body-mind somehow responds by lowering the stress chemistry. I keep thinking about the piece you wrote about the night life in Caracas... just enjoying the people, the laughter, the smiles... I hope you're able to latch onto things like that, to give yourself a little bit of joy (in the midst of the tornado of crap).
hi marianna, thanks for your comment. i'm not sure which piece you're referring to about the night life of caracas. plz be aware that recently a fraudulent email was sent out which mike emphatically did not write. the life he leads is extremely circumspect. thanks as always.
ReplyDeleteStill more sobering news about biofuels. This is a reposted subscriber article from New Scientist.
ReplyDelete"Fuels gold: Big risks of the biofuel revolution"
http://inmyownway.blogspot.com/2006/09/fuels-gold-big-risks-of-biofuel.html
Mike:
ReplyDeleteIt was great to hear from you, both in this blog and in your article posted today. Being almost the same age as you I think I have earned the right to say "Screw that evolving stuff."
You have not failed. Seems to me you have poked old cyclops in the eye and got him ticked off. I look up to you, even though I am probably not even a chigger on cyclops' butt.
Give em hell... follow the first part of Casecore's advice, but never never go to the back of the bus like his 2nd part.
Jenna, I was referring to the night life Mike described in Caracas Part II "... This city is alive." I was thinking of the potential for pulling out little bits of happiness, just in all that vitality he described. Caracas Part II wasn't the fraudulent email, was it ( I hadn't thought I'd recveived it... )?
ReplyDeletemarianna, if it was published on the ftw website then it was legit.
ReplyDeletethanks
Green Man -- welcome, and I hope you stay with _Crossing the Rubicon_. It's worth the effort to read because it ties many seemingly disparate things into an organic whole, and shows how they relate to 9/11, which is one of the greatest scams of all time.
ReplyDeleteTo Mike: Please be careful! It's wonderful to know you hear us & feel the love. That makes me feel better about the unfairness of all this crap. I have to work at it everyday to keep my anger at a reasonable level so as not to cause myself ill health. I have to wonder if Cheney & crew can feel how ill he makes so many disgusted & angry people feel? Seems like his own people are turning against him. This is small but the course of the universe.
ReplyDeleteI keep hoping things will get better;false hope I guess. I feel like things are coming to a creshendo (seems like for Mike anyway), or at least that's the impression the wicked ones are trying to create. Isn't Big Brother after all of us in some form or another? I also have these preminitions ocasionally but I've always had intuitive feelings since my teens. So much dirty dealings and bad ju-ju flapping around on the planet at the moment. And this spying business really sucks. So many people here are outraged about living in a kind of Nazi Germany. We have to expose the perverse government robots as much as possible. Rubicon does it the best! They will not continue to stomp on the U. S. Constitution & Bill of Rights.
How refreshing to hear such great news from Italy and I hope we continue to hear more news like that! I tell everyone I know, about Mike & his fabuloso Crossing the Rubicon. Many are simply "not suprised" and eager to go get the book! All the truths will come out. Meanwhile we all must continue to survive & live justfully so step back you wicked spy robots & take 5. We're all entitiled to live in justice, free from your oppression and so is Mike! The whole world is watching all of you naughty neocons without souls. Whatever God is to you - it's on your case.
Mike - so many honor & love you, don't ever forget it. And please be careful.
"Shale Could Rock Oil Supply"
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.wired.com/cars/index.blog?entry_id=1562748
"Chevron, Los Alamos team up to develop oil shale"
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15606859.htm
More hopes for oil shale, though I doubt the EROEI differs much from that of tar sand. The bottom line is that the resulting oil won't be cheap.
I am believing that there is a big mega-project out there for Mike to sink his teeth into.
ReplyDeleteWill the presidential administration will need an independent advisor? Those guys get treated pretty well, I suppose.
Will the state oil company need a spokesman for the United States? Kind of a PR Pit Bull? That would be funny for us FTW readers to watch.
Or maybe Mike could mellow out in the country side focusing on his writing. Some of the edge might drop but the insights might deepen. (I'm not saying that they aren't deep now).
So, we readers don't have to visualize or need Mike to have post-US hardship. Post-US should be liberating.
visualizing and taking positive opportunities will be important for Mike now and our support might help in some small way.
About those cheap gasoline prices...
ReplyDeleteItem quoted from Le Metropole Cafe on how Goldman Sachs is manipulating the market with its commodity index.
http://prorev.com/2006/09/treasury-secretarys-firm-may-have.htm
Good point by Directinfo. Mike is apparently faced with serious hardships, but I expect there are opportunities as well. And he still writes good stuff! His last piece shows he still has that cutting edge... of a hot knife through BS.
ReplyDeleteI expect that CounterPunch editor Alexander Cockburn is going to find it harder to maintain his stance of calling 9/11 doubters "conspiracy nutcases." Some of CP's most prominent contributors, such as Bill Christison, Paul Craig Roberts, and now Ray McGovern, are openly expressing doubts about Bush's story. Will Cockburn ignore the contradiction and continue publishing their stuff, or will he publicly denounce them as "nutcases"? I'm not the only one asking this question, so I'm sure CP is getting a lot of emails on this.
ReplyDeleteCNN distracts American public with stupid survey
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/exchange/ireports/topics/forms/2006/09/chasing.binladen.html
Now you know why CNN stands for "Crap News Network." This whole debate over who let UBL go is nothing but a cheap distraction, about as meaningful as discussing Paris Hilton's latest escapades. The 9/11 truth community in particular needs to keep its eye on the ball!
7-ELEVEN drops CITGO gasoline...
ReplyDeleteDenies move tied to Chavez jab...
The above headlines are screaming to me that Mike Ruppert is needed to PR for CITGO. Venezuelan-controlled Citgo Petroleum needs a man that understands the forces at work. Millions of dollars in revenues are at stake, but that's not all...
... uncalculatable human lives are in the balance as the US continues to demonize Venezuela as some sort of loose cannon ready to use "oil as a weapon" (what non-sensical term is that anyway?)
Long story short, for a cheap-cheap million bucks a year to Mike Ruppert paid by the Chavez Administration (let's think high for our friend and hero, Mike, shall we?), Mike will rip the face off the farsical US position that Venezuela is responsible for their own doomed-to-fail policies and practices. In addition, Mike will help win back tens of millions in revenue from STABLE oil sales to the US market.
Think big,
Be supportive,
Tate
Yes, excellent observation by jmc -- the WTC site and Pentagon are CRIME SCENES, and the hurried cleanups were destruction of evidence. Fortunately, readers of _Rubicon_ know that our case is made without relying on destroyed physical evidence.
ReplyDeletehugochavez1 has left a new comment on your post "Message from Mike Ruppert":
ReplyDeleteFROM IRELAND WITH LOVE
Dear Mike [ftw admin has taken the liberty of editing what must surely have been a misprint here]
My friens from Dublin are now in Venezuela living in the revolution you know once in Ireland we had our own revolution as will take place in America soon once people realize the diabolical plan of the NEW WORLD ORDER that is now unfolding before our eyes.
All of us in Ireland Salute you and your work we send you as mych