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Readers! A November fund-raising drive!

 

It is unfortunately time for another November fund-raising campaign to support my work here at Behind the Black. I really dislike doing these, but 2025 is so far turning out to be a very poor year for donations and subscriptions, the worst since 2020. I very much need your support for this webpage to survive.

 

And I think I provide real value. Fifteen years ago I said SLS was garbage and should be cancelled. Almost a decade ago I said Orion was a lie and a bad idea. As early as 1998, long before almost anyone else, I predicted in my first book, Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8, that private enterprise and freedom would conquer the solar system, not government. Very early in the COVID panic and continuing throughout I noted that every policy put forth by the government (masks, social distancing, lockdowns, jab mandates) was wrong, misguided, and did more harm than good. In planetary science, while everyone else in the media still thinks Mars has no water, I have been reporting the real results from the orbiters now for more than five years, that Mars is in fact a planet largely covered with ice.

 

I could continue with numerous other examples. If you want to know what others will discover a decade hence, read what I write here at Behind the Black. And if you read my most recent book, Conscious Choice, you will find out what is going to happen in space in the next century.

 

 

This last claim might sound like hubris on my part, but I base it on my overall track record.

 

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April 21, 2021 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast

On April 21st, I recorded another 35 minute podcast with Robert Pratt. That podcast is now available at his website at this link. From his description:

An update with author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com on the current cancel culture we are experiencing, or as Bob put it: Blacklisting Americans.

Trust me, even though we were reviewing the many blacklist stories I have posted in the past few weeks that you might have read, you want to listen. I expand on those posts, outlining why I am doing them, and what they illustrate about our larger society. Free-thinking and liberty-loving Americans are no longer the majority in this country. We face a terrible battle to make “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” the central principle of America once again.

On a positive note, Pratt has begun re-establishing his radio network in Texas. The corporate blacklisters have tried to silence him, but he’s thumbing his nose at those petty tyrants. Go Robert!

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 or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. 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

5 comments

  • Wayne: Yeah. I hadn’t realized that you had to click through to the podcast link. The actual podcast link is now added.

  • Robert Pratt

    Thanks. Podcasts are embedded on the page just as is done on this site.

  • Arthur Glunt

    Keep up the great work guys. Exposing the blacklisters and those that have sadly been added to the list for no more than stating the obvious or standing in defiance of the status quo, it’s more than past time for this fight back!

    Now that it is clear even the bottom line does not affect corparate America and the final push for socialism is here these seemingly insignifigant acts of blacklisting are just the stepping stones to what comes next, see 1930’s Germany.

  • James Street

    Brilliant five minute video that has gone viral. Black former police officer Brandon Tatum goes on a pro America rant on the BBC (American “news” would never show this).

    BBC interview black police officer to discuss Chauvin’s convictions with truth bombs at the end.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7LoFWkY6Nw

    Some points Brandon Tatum makes:
    – 0:40 “This (Derek Chauvin) was the swiftest justice I’ve ever seen in my life. The day after the film came out he was arrested. He was tried. Ten hours of deliberation he was convicted.”
    – 0:58 “They paid the family out $27 million before the jury could be selected”
    – 1:03 “They’re going to have a case in appeal”
    – 1:09 “People are making money off the pain of people in our country”
    – 1:35 “This is not a landmark case. This is a political agenda. They’re pushing lies in our country.”
    – 1:38 “Policing in America is not inherently racist. We don’t live in a racist country”
    – 1:42 “This was an interaction between a police officer who I thought did the wrong thing and a black man who was on drugs high resisting arrest and ended up being killed by that police officer. That’s as simple as it can be.”
    – 1:54 “The president of the United States got out and made a fool of himself trying to promote racism in a simple police encounter that the officer got convicted on”
    – 2:15 “President Biden is an idiot in my personal opinion and he’s just talking because he’s a politician”
    – 2:20 “Systemic racism… I mean if you look at Joe Biden himself you know he spoke at a Ku Klux Klan member’s funeral and did the eulogy of Robert Byrd. I mean he is white supremacy and racism if you want to say that is the case and now he’s the president. If he really cared about white supremacy and racism he should step down as the president because he is an exemplification of that very thing”
    – 2:43 “These people are just running their mouths and they’re not being honest. We don’t have a problem with racism in our country, we have a problem with people not following the law. We also have a problem of politicians making up things to get reelected…. They’re lying to us.”

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