Mike Ruppert

Note: This was filmed in October of last year, before -- thanks to the work of Hatrick Hattie Penry and others I realized that the official stories were complete falsehoods. The situation has always been much worse. Of course, since then, I have stopped even entertaining official or semi-official reports, and so have most of us.

What's important is for all of us to remember that Fukushima has never been controlled. New leaks discovered all the time, and Japan's State Secrecy law and the mainstream are trying to remove Fukushima from our consciousness as hard as they can. Daily, many tons of radioactive waste are being incinerated and released into the atmosphere, right along with the unbelievable amounts of radioactive water that have flowed every day since. The official statements of 300 tons or 400 tons are demonstrably low. For more, I suggest visiting Radcast or Nuclear Hotseat.

And there are still 450 commercial nuclear power plants around the world, many of them way past their operating lives, and leaking nuclear storage facilities placing us all in jeopardy.

---Mike Ruppert

APOCALYPSE, MAN -

PART 5

In the penultimate episode of our six-part documentary, Michael C. Ruppert examines the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

Here is an accompanying statement from Michael:

"Two weeks after VICE finished filming in Crestone, after reading and posting many verified reports from official, semi-official, and expert sources, I concluded that all official accounts were deceptions, especially the charade that TEPCO was removing fuel rods from the Spent Fuel Pool at Reactor 4 ,which was most likely destroyed within of the earthquake. There is no way to determine—given Japan's new State Secrets law—the true extent of original damage, or the ongoing, uncontrolled release of radiation into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean, which has continued without pause.

"All I am certain of is that the original incident was much worse than has been acknowledged and that, three years later, it remains uncontrollable by any known technology."

Most people were first exposed to Michael C. Ruppert through the 2009 documentary Collapse, directed by Chris Smith. Collapse was one of the scariest documentaries about our world and the fragile the state of our planet. It was also one of VICE's favorite films from the past ten years.

Michael was forced to leave the LAPD after claiming that the CIA was complicit in selling drugs across America, and he quickly became one of the most original and strident voices to talk about climate change, government corruption, and peak oil through his website From the Wilderness.

Following the release of Collapse, Michael’s personal life underwent something of a collapse itself, and he paid off all his debts, left behind all his friends, and moved with his dog Rags to Colorado, planning to commit suicide.

VICE caught up with Michael in the middle of the epic beauty of the Rocky Mountains at the end of last year. We found a man undergoing a spiritual rebirth—still passionate about the world and with a whole new set of apocalyptic issues to talk about.

Apocalypse, Man is an intimate portrait of a man convinced of the imminent collapse of the world, but with answers to how the human spirit can survive the impending apocalypse.