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| Title | : | Scout: A Memoir of Investigative Journalist Michael C. Ruppert, with Against the Dying of the Light |
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1500771619 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-19 |
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Editorial : About the Author Jenna Orkin is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Counterpunch, Fromthewilderness and other publications. One of the first to question the US Environmental Protection Agency's assertions that the air in Lower Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks was safe to breathe, she went on to co-found the World Trade Center Environmental Organization as well as other Lower Manhattan activist organizations that revealed and testified to the government's lies. It was while speaking on the issue at the third anniversary of the attacks that she met Mike Ruppert.
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On April 13, 2014, investigative journalist and subject of Chris Smith's 2009 documentary, Collapse, Michael C. Ruppert, committed suicide. Ruppert was best known for his explosive revelations concerning the US government's involvement in drug-dealing, later corroborated in the film Kill the Messenger; as well as evidence he uncovered of insider trading and war games surrounding the attacks of 9/11. Scout describes his bouts of suicidal ideation following the smashing of all seven computers at the website he founded, Fromthewilderness, as well as his troubled childhood, to reveal a complex and fascinating man.
Winakur is at his best when he weaves together stories of his father, his own medical practice as a gerontologist, and the ethical dilemmas that rise with the care of the debilitated and the extreme elderly. I was taken to the LA Hall of Justice, which was an annex of County Jail located cross-town. I spent the time meditating, exercising, practicing my magic techniques like moving pencils, and talking to Michael Ruppert.
He seemed to be preparing me for release, and for something I didn’t know but thought concerned drugs and Latin America. His writing is lovely and very accessible to the layperson -- it never gets bogged down with technical terms, nor is there ever a "see how smart I am" overtone that occasionally taints books of this genre. I was not disappointed.
Allan Kaufman. You may have seen the examples here in other volumes -- some of the grilles and screens, for example, will be familiar to those who've read d'Allemagne's book on architectural and
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