The Lifeboat Hour – 05/08/11

What a load of complete balls. I'll restrict my critique to something I actually have professional knowledge about, although most of the stuff covered is so full of holes it's absurd. I'm an airline pilot with over 16,000 hours and was an instructor in two air forces (selected for exchange duties). I think I'm more qualified to comment than someone who claims knowledge of everything from aviation to nuclear weapons to intelligence because his daddy was a navigator in WW2 and his mummy was a cryptologist.

It was not necessary to control those aircraft by remote control. The terrorists flying the planes on 9/11 didn't actually need to have instrument ratings or even be able to fly an approach and landing and I don't think anyone was asking them for their licenses, they were hijackers after all. It would not be difficult to obtain enough training in light aircraft and simulators to do what they did.

Remote control? Give me a break! What a load of utter, utter crap.

Thanks for the links LarryE, I like the second one in particular. But I don't know why this guy get's his own self-serving radio slot here after this;

http://www.mikeruppert.info/

and this;

http://www.mikeruppert.org/

what a garbage show! why does a mental case, confirmed sexual harasser even have a show?? And he believes OBL death is faked. MCR you con artist. Critters like you are the real con men. Let me guess who's on your next show. Nicole foss again or Carolyn baker?? Same old crap.

I find wheatfarmer and huntergather very interesting with their similar and consistent persistent hater posts. Why bother to come here week after week to post negative opinion comments? What does it matter to you if listeners want to hear what MCR and guests have to say? The URLs provided have private ownership and the blog name on the .org site, and the "contact us" on the .info site aren't even honest contact or email information so why would a critical thinking individual take anything you say seriously? In fact, you lend more credibility his conspiracy theories than if you wrote nothing at all so…

Why bother to come here and post negative comments Kym? Several reasons to start with;

1. Many people take MCR seriously. I used to. I was reading him back in the FTW days before the Great Ashland Oregon Office Break-In Computer Massacre followed by the Daring Escape to Venezuela (I wish I still had the email I got from him while he was there – the one that was followed up by a panicky "but my computer was stolen while I was distracted by a teenage girl" or words to that effect. Ha ha, that was funny!)

Just because the topics he talks about are important doesn't mean what he has to say is worth listening to. His understanding of how modern economies actually work is disturbingly underdeveloped. Too much reading Zero Hedge and Business Insider perhaps?

2. This would not matter except that people are considering or have made life-changing decisions based on what he's said.

3. People are sending him money when everything he provides is available to those who look.

4. He seems incapable of accepting when he has made a mistake and will not even correct errors of fact when they are pointed out to him by his readers. He makes many, many errors of fact, just in the stuff that I can claim knowledge of so how can I trust what he says about things I'm not sure about? He is not the great investigative reporter he claims to be. He gets a bit too much milage out of being an LAPD cop for what, five years? His "connections" to the intelligence world are laughable. Enough said.

5. Because he's accepting money for what he's doing, he's basically committing fraud. This is perhaps not as serious as the panic that he causes in some people. He and his die-hard followers have all the characteristics of a cult.

Note that I'm not questioning the underlying ideas of Peak Oil, environmental destruction, over population etc. I'm a great admirer of the writings of Derrick Jensen, although I hate to even mention his name in the same paragraph as MCR. I've attended ASPO conferences. It's serious stuff. The last thing we need is some clown who will only put many people off and leave many people disillusioned once they realise they've been "had".

Here's some other reading http://search.dailytidings.com/?q=mike%20ruppert&source=adt

It seems that many who've had dealings with MCR over the years and been burnt are not wanting to go anywhere near him. They should show a bit more courage and stand up to make others aware.

So, that's why I come here. I feel like I have a duty to warn people about this man. Frankly I'd rather go and play my guitar or go for a walk, but I hope this might help people "wake up", as so many like to say around here.

Hey wheatfarmer, some have suggested we are the same person! After you stole my land and cleared my forests and poisoned my rivers! What a cheek! ;-)