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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.

 

So please consider donating or subscribing to Behind the Black, either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. I could really use the support at this time. 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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Ten things you could do in 1975 that you can’t do now.

The death of freedom: Ten things you could do in 1975 that you can’t do now.

Read the comments as well. I especially liked this: “It used to be that laws and regulations were put in place to prevent people from doing bad things to other people. Now laws and regulations are put in place to prevent good people from enjoying the fruits of their labor!”

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

  • R. Cotour

    Although this document “The report from Iron Mountain” is touted as a hoax, if you were to read it you would find many of the plans, agendas and “crazy” conspiracy theories that were written about in 1967 is coming to fruition today. This leads me to question whether we are just being kept busy with the silly and adolescent issues such as who Anthony Weiner while running for the office of Mayor Of New York is showing his junk to or what Amanda Bines is setting on fire. It becomes more and more apparent to me that our Constitution has been usurped long ago by the power of attaining and hoarding and administering power. Exactly what the Constitution was formulated to counter act.

    “The Report from Iron Mountain is a book published in 1967 (during the Johnson Administration) by Dial Press which puts itself forth as the report of a government panel. The book includes the claim it was authored by a Special Study Group of fifteen men whose identities were to remain secret and that it was not intended to be made public. It details the analyses of a government panel which concludes that war, or a credible substitute for war, is necessary if governments are to maintain power. The book was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into fifteen languages. Controversy still swirls over whether the book was a satiric hoax about think-tank logic and writing style or the product of a secret government panel. The document is a favorite among conspiracy theorists, who are either unaware or reject the statement made in 1972 by satirist Leonard Lewin that the book was a spoof and that he was its author. [1] “

  • I am inclined to think that Leonard Lewin was not telling the truth, when you look at agenda 21, many of the things published in iron mountain are the same thoughts! When you read Atlas Shrugged and take a look around the city of Detroit, fiction becomes truth, Eric Blair, Ayn Rand were very prophetic fictional authors that about nailed what is going on with this society. Finally look up an open conspiracy by H G Wells, in it he says (and I paraphrase), that every 5 years, a person should show up before a board and justify himself! Nice people these progressives are.

  • R. Cotour

    All of them are informed projectors of the future based on what they understood about the nature of the human animal. Part of the strategy is the strength of keeping people confused with a lot of information both believable and unbelievable, with both being revealed in time as being true. The more unbelievable the better.

    The public having and being limited by their moral perspective model, while “others” are executing models outside of that perspective that are several moves ahead of the public.

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