Fans of Chris Smith (American Movie, The Yes Men) can look forward to the indie director’s upcoming release, Collapse.  In it, Smith gives the Errol Morris treatment to Michael Ruppert, the one-time cop turned investigative journalist.

Here’s what Apple’s Trailer site has to say about Collapse which, curiously, is listed as both a documentary and a horror film (but then again, if you know about Ruppert, maybe it’s not so curious at all):

Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight.  American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.  But is anyone prepared for the worst?  Michael Ruppert is a different kind of American.  He predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter ?

In the animation of “Collapse” at the end of the preview, the two Ls are much taller than any of the other letters and as the word crumbles they linger longer. Maybe it’s only me, but they sure do look like the silhouettes of the World Trade Center.

Did anyone else get that vibe?

Cheers to Dangerous Minds for posting this!

Michael Ruppert is fantastic. Everybody on the planet needs to read his books Crossing the Rubicon, one of the best book on 9-11 and the War on Drugs ever written, and Collapse, which is a book as well as a movie. (The two LL’s are definitely a reference to the World Trade Center). He plays a very big part in the documentary American Drug War as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CyuBuT_7I4

He was a police officer in L.A. and helped to expose CIA drug trafficking. Here he is confronting the CIA about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3pl5Wxgyg

Everybody reading this, go buy his books. Or at least put his name into YouTube.

Thanks again!

Wow, funny to read that comment about the two slightly longer-lasting L’s in the ending credit, cuz I was thinking the exact same thing, but thought “no, that’s probably just a little subtle coincidence”.

at jaryd: yes i did get that vibe

It’s good to see that Ruppert is alive and well and getting the platform he deserves.

The future does not belong to those that predict it, the future belongs to those that create it.

-Antero Alli.