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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.

 

 

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The Obamacare website routinely uploads your confidential personal information for all to read.

The Obamacare website routinely uploads your confidential personal information for all to read.

Tea party and conservatives repeatedly warned that this law would be a security risk. Even if they get the website fixed, the system still exposes your personal data to too many people who shouldn’t see it.

And then there’s this: A reporter calls the Obamacare hotline, is put on hold, and then told by the operator they know he’s a reporter, refuses to answer questions, and that a supervisor will call back.

How did the operator know he was a reporter? And even so, why should a reporter be treated differently? Doesn’t this also suggest that Obamacare could be used by present and future administrations against their critics?

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

8 comments

  • JWing

    The tyranny is as obvious as the runny nose on your face. How can it have gotten this far without a massive revolt.

    Think about the absolute breach of personal freedom when the government dictates how you handle your runny nose.

    Enough….everyone in America please wake up from your video screen’s strobe-induced dopamine surge hypnosis that keeps normally critical-thinking and aware people from being slowly boiled in the pot.

  • Cotour

    The test will be in the 2014 elections, that will tell the tale of our future.

  • ken anthony

    What state has the most liberty? Can that liberty be exported to nearby states? If so, how long would it take to fix all 50?

  • D. K. Williams

    So…reporters can’t sign up for Ovomitcare? What about bloggers?

  • wade

    I have instructed my offspring and friends Not to apply . the lack of signing members is the best Peaceful Tool against this Hoodwink

  • D. K. Williams

    The next step will be to require doctors to take medicare, medicaid, and Ovomitcare patients as a condition of licensure.

  • Cotour

    And here is the next step, a little premature IMO though.

    “Virginia Democrat Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients”

    Just like the Catholic Church and private employers on the abortion issue doctors need to band together and resist the government compelling them to accept Medicare and Medicaid if they do not want to accept it. The people of the country need to put the drivers of this agenda in a choke hold, grab the wheel and force this whole thing into the ditch. Then get it turned around and headed in a non Marxist / communist / socialist direction and back on to a market based system where the individual is actually responsible for their own healthcare insurance. Personal responsibility, what a concept!

    I really can’t believe that I am writing about this situation in America but this is what you get when the people who put people in power become complacent and dependent (read lazy, stupid and drug addicted). Sick, sick, sick.

  • wodun

    “How did the operator know he was a reporter?”

    They probably googled his name. Are they googling everyone who calls or do they have a list of phone numbers of people they are not allowed to talk to?

    But there should be nothing wrong with a person going through the system and reporting back to everyone else about their experiences. We clearly cant trust the Obama administration to either know or to let people know the reality of the system.

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