Trivia

Author.

Former police officer.

Believes in, and continually warns about global warming and "peak oil" in his writings.

Is an equestrian, and has worked in horse grooming since retiring from police work.

He then attended UCLA, earning a B.A. in Political Science in 1973.

Was given numerous commendations while working for the LAPD.

Ruppert said that during his senior year, he applied and interviewed for a position with the CIA but ended up turning down the subsequent offer, instead accepting a position with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Retired and living in Los Angeles, California. He is refusing further speaking engagements. (2008)

He went on to become an investigative journalist and established the publication From The Wilderness, a watchdog publication that exposed governmental corruption, including his experience with CIA drug dealing activities.

In 2014, Vice featured Ruppert in a 6-part series titled Apocalypse, Man, and a tribute album, Beyond the Rubicon was released by the band New White Trash,[6] of which he had been a member.

His family moved fourteen times, living in seven different states, eventually settling in Los Angeles where Ruppert attended Venice High School, graduating in 1969.

Rupert was an American writer and musician, Los Angeles Police Department officer, investigative journalist, political activist, and peak oil awareness advocate known for his 2004 book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.

Ruppert joined the LAPD in 1973. He was assigned to handle narcotics investigations in the most dangerous neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Beginning in 1976, he made discoveries that led him to believe that he had stumbled onto a large network of narcotics traffickers and that the US military as well as the LAPD might be involved. He resigned from the force in November 1978.

He hosted The Lifeboat Hour on Progressive Radio Network until his death in 2014.

Ruppert was the subject of the 2009 documentary film Collapse, which is based on his book A Presidential Energy Policy[4] and received The New York Times' "critics pick".

He said that his mother, Madelyn, was a cryptanalyst at the National Security Agency, working in a unit that cracked Soviet codes in order to track their nuclear physicists.

He served as president of Collapse Network, Inc. from early 2010 until he resigned in May 2012.

Ruppert correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis in the US three years before it happened.

From 1999 until 2006, Ruppert edited and published From The Wilderness, a newsletter and website covering a range of topics including international politics, the CIA, peak oil, civil liberties, drugs, economics, corruption and the nature of the 9/11 conspiracy. It attracted 22,000 subscribers.