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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.

 

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Obama, too busy to attend half his daily intelligence briefings — has made up for it by missing all of his daily economic briefings.

9:56 am

What does this tell us? Obama — too busy to attend half his daily intelligence briefings — has made up for it by missing all of his daily economic briefings.

Focused like a laser, eh?

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

3 comments

3 comments

  • Cotour
    September 11, 2018 at 8:03 am

    BANNON TALKS BANNON TALKS TRUMP & 9-11
    (Posting this comment in a Sept, 11th, 2012 panel about Obama and what he was and was not focused on gives some real world perspective on where we find ourselves today. 2012, Trump, president? Are you nuts?! )

    Steve Bannon sharp as a razor, an American strategic, political guru bar none, has a new movie coming out, “Trump @ War”.

    https://youtu.be/ThJTRGiXzHc

    Globalization / a “New World Order”, or Nationalization? Both Bush jr. (R) and Obama (D), no real difference between the two, neither were true leaders, were in the process of managing the American decline because they were either just incompetent, which is highly likely, or they were working as operatives under cover of being “patriots”. IMO they fully understood and were to deliver America and the world to the Chinese and their clearly stated world domination plans. Incompetence? Lack of vision and understanding? Or worse? You decide, never let it be said that elections have no consequences.

    Remember Obama “You din’t build that!” and “Those businesses are never coming back to America, we will never see more than 2% growth in the future, its over get used to it”, what gall, what unmitigated un American, anti American Leftist gall. And Bush jr. just a big dummy doing what he was instructed to do by men of much high capacity and much higher aspirations then he. The word tool comes easily to mind.

    On this September 11th, 9-11, a day that now lives in infamy we look forward to the work that remains to be accomplished to restore America to its only place on the planet, leadership in all of its forms. And we remember those who through no fault of their own happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time when the wrong people were at the wheel and they paid the ultimate price. Some day we will all better understand the truth of 9/11/2001.

    MAGA

  • Cotour
    September 11, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    THREATS OF VIOLENCE AND ACTUAL VIOLENCE
    (Driven by Democrats growing desperation they shamefully justify and equate their violence with 9-11)

    In the news just today:

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/11/scarborough-walk-back-september-11-column/

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/11/angus-king-russian-hacking-9-11/

    http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/11/victim-september-11-democrats-political-theater/

    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/09/11/man-assaults-republican-congressional-candidate-switchblade-castro-valley/

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6157305/DC-police-respond-mass-shooting-threat-MAGA-event-Trump-Hotel.html

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/threats-of-rape-and-strangling-force-d-c-mcallister-into-hiding-after-anti-abortion-tweet/

    As shameful as they are becoming, and it will certainly grow in intensity as truth is dragged out into the light, we are witness to the destruction of the Democrat party that we used to call American, specifically the leadership. And of course with the help of their MSM facilitators and spinmeisters.

    What they in the end will become is unknown at this point in time. Will they somehow come to their senses and draw back to a reasonable Left of center political party? I suspect it will take at least 10 years before we know the answer and what will transpire in those years may indeed become fearful but we will emerge from the chaos.

    Desperate and shameful.

  • Cotour
    September 11, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    Protest, misbehave and caterwaul to no avail “IT” will soon arrive, anticipated by many for decades.

    https://youtu.be/CTX5ZF4Lhc8

    Will “IT” become a runaway train of truth and bleed into many areas of question?

    We are all no doubt about to find out.

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