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Readers!

 

It is now July, time once again to celebrate the start of this webpage in 2010 with my annual July fund-raising campaign.

 

This year I celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black. During that time I have done more than 33,000 posts, mostly covering the global space industry and the related planetary and astronomical science that comes from it. Along the way I have also felt compelled as a free American citizen to regularly post my thoughts on the politics and culture of the time, partly because I think it is important for free Americans to do so, and partly because those politics and that culture have a direct impact on the future of our civilization and its on-going efforts to explore and eventually colonize the solar system.

 

You can’t understand one without understanding the other.

 

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“This is paradise. I want to live as long as possible.”

For the Fourth of July. Link here. Key quote:

“We’re living at a time when lots of Westerners are really spending this legacy of freedom and they don’t know…they don’t know what it is not to be free.”

Be sure and watch the video of the interview at the link.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

6 comments

  • Willi

    I’ve found Act for America and am getting ready to contribute…

  • Cotour

    I just became aware of this guy, Jordan Peterson, never heard of him before and I know nothing more of him than I agree with his observations on this subject. He very correctly lays out what identity politics is all about and what most of the participants here at Behind The Black know hides under it like a rabid wolf in sheep’s clothing.

    This is Obama, this is Soros, this is Hillary, this is Globalism, this is every brainwashed dopey, emotional millennial who is unaware of the brainwashing that has been poured through their ears by the mostly leftist academia that is now installed in our education system.

    https://youtu.be/PkNzYttjSHE

    Jordan Peterson, a new and very strong voice in the world. Maybe there is hope?

  • wayne

    Cotour–

    Louder with Crowder #174
    Crowder & Jordan Peterson
    May 24, 2017
    https://youtu.be/DucmJEVr5vo
    (56:09)

    (There’s also a 3 hour Joe Rogan Experience vid-cast around the same time frame, if you like the long-long format.)

  • wayne

    Joe Rogan Experience #958
    Jordon Peterson (in studio)
    May 9, 2017
    https://youtu.be/USg3NR76XpQ
    (2:57:34)

    (Episode #877 as well, is a fairly good 3 hour backgrounder on Peterson– from November 2016.)

  • Alex

    @Cotour and Wayne:

    Jordan Peterson is a bold and great man. He identified the neo-Marxist forces behind the recent transformation of society. I like his clear anti-Marxist attitude! I am viewing his videos for more as one year now. Here, my contribution:

    Dr. Jordan Peterson on Liberalism and Marxist Collective Guilt

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVtX4liNK6M

    BTW, we have to talk about how it was possible that this cultural-neo Marxism could spread about whole West and which specific group of people was involved at front with this.

  • Alex

    @Cotour and Wayne:

    This insightfull video fits also very well to that what I said above:

    The Architects of Western Decline: A Study on the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTmNWY0ZPfM

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