Reply #12: That may be so

[Frederik]

or not, but I wouldn't take Ruppert's word for it. Ruppert is a depopulator. He thinks the world cannot sustain a population of more than 2 billion people. He promotes the racist eugenics and depopulation advocate Charles Galton Darwin (not the same Darwin as the "origin of species" Darwin!) and he is in favour of "the world's leaders" coming together to decide on the modalities of population reduction. He gets invited to the Commonwealth Club to talk about it, too. Sounds good? Advocates of such things often use environmental alarmism to justify their ideology, which is really about drastically reducing the populaton in the third world. I don't know if that's the case with Ruppert, but it's interesting that Ruppert started with this peak oil stuff after he received substantial economical support from unknown sources. The depopulation "cause" has the backing of many wealthy capitalists and right-wingers, people like Warren Buffet and George HW Bush, as well as AOL Time Warner's Ted Turner.

Oh, and Ruppert allegedly spent the year of 1999 preparing for the end of civilization as we know it after the Y2K meltdown...

Here's an article on the subject:
http://www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/ruppert_darwin.html