The final week of my annual July fund-raising campaign
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This is it, the final week of my July fund-raising campaign for Behind the Black, celebrating its 14th anniversary. The support so far this has been excellent. Thank you all, from the people who have donated small amounts to those who have given large sums. I cannot truly express how much your support means to me.
If you haven’t yet donated or subscribed please consider doing so. The support of my readers through the years has given me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes — for good or ill — that are happening across America. Four years ago, just before the 2020 election I wrote that Joe Biden’s mental health was suspect. Only in the past two weeks has the mainstream media decided to recognize that basic fact. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Even today NASA and Congress refuse to recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn’t influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. There are five ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
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