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From The Wilderness (http://fromthewilderness.com/index.html) stands as one of the more fascinating sites on the web.

As it states, FTW "has been as much as a year ahead of the mainstream media on major stories. Now, as the world is undergoing one of the biggest changes in human history we find that attitudes and positions we have been writing about for five years--like the dependence of the global economy and financial markets on laundered drug money--are finding their way into mainstream press reports and academic circles. The events since September 11, 2001, have shown that FTW has been ahead of the curve in predicting the current crisis."

FTW is run by Mike Ruppert, the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil, one of the three best-selling books globally and in the US about the attacks of 9/11.

A 1973 Honors Graduate from UCLA, Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics investigator and whistleblower who was "forced out of the LAPD in 1978 while earning the highest rating reports possible and having no pending disciplinary actions.

In 1996, after 18 years of struggle, he engaged in a face-to-face public encounter with then CIA Director John Deutch on national television [regarding the CIA trading drugs in order to fund covert operations in the Middle East]. Washington sources later told Ruppert that Deutch's mishandling of the encounter cost him a guaranteed appointment as Secretary of Defense."

RUPPERT'S 2008 UPDATE HERE: http://fromthewilderness.com/retrospective2008.shtml

In February 2006, Ruppert and writer-turned-activist Jenna Orkin launched "Act 2: From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog" at http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/. Orkin's nearly daily posts go where our mainstream does not. Both "From the Wilderness" and "Act 2" are worth investigating -- especially FTW's archives going back to before 9/11.