I once followed Ruppert's website with great interest. I first learned about Peak Oil from the documentary The End of Suburbia. I've read The Long Emergency by James Kunstler and Twilight in the Desert by Matt Simmons. I have read other books and websites dealing with Peak Oil and similar topics. I would also recommend Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed for an interesting historical perspective on the rise and fall of human civilizations.
These days I get most of my energy related news from Energy Bulletin.
The good thing about Ruppert, in my opinion, is that he is not weird like Alex Jones. I have no illusions about our governments. I know they are fully corrupt and capable of perpetrating crimes at home and abroad. Nevertheless, this documentary is a one man show which is unfortunate. I disagree with many of his predictions and solutions.
Fifty-five Real Things to Worry About (If You Must...)
1. Job loss is up there.
7. We’ll also have to deal with the harmful side-affects of worry and fear, not brought on by the FBI tapping our telephones, but because we have no clue where the money’s going to come from to pay off our credit cards.
20. Crime will increase. But you won’t have 40 inner-city youth with oozies ransacking your living room. The kid who lives down the street, the one that couldn’t get a summer job, he’ll be the one stealing your stuff. Keep teens busy. We’ll need them even more as time goes on.
32. And things will start to look older and shabbier: Cars that we drive, clothes that we wear, homes that we live in. We’ll understand the word “decaying” in a whole new way, when we can’t afford to replace our roofs, or repair our driveways.
38. Fancier electronic ways will be developed by governments to separate us from our money–automatically.
45. Those times we told other people that we ‘just couldn’t live without X,Y, or Z’– we’ll learn that we can. Some of us will be surprised to find out that we don’t miss the things we were so sure we couldn’t live without.
47. We’ll have to swallow the news that most people who don’t live in the “developed” world already got: “we aren’t automatically entitled to be wealthy, have an easy life, be constantly amused,” and for some, that fact will make life absolutely miserable.
54. Some of us will watch the worst of this Greater Depression from the comfort of our “still working lives,” and will retain much of what we need to get by, in a comfort that we now appreciate a great deal more.