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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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“This was lawless behavior, and reckless as well.”

Guess who was both lawless and reckless. I can promise you it wasn’t George Bush.

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

9 comments

  • Cotour

    I listened to one of the prominent doctor / Obamacare advocates who has been promoting Obamacare from the beginning just plainly and simply lie about the purpose of the subsidy (I can not remember his name at the moment). He plainly states that it is a federal subsidy for those states who participate and create their own market. Then in recent interviews he basically denies saying what he said and says that he “misspoke”.

    (Oh yeah, and the “penalty” in Obamacare that was written as a penalty and represented as a penalty and defended as a penalty which was reinterpreted as a TAX by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is not evidence of some level of collusion between the two party’s?)

    Tap dancing and lies piled upon un Constitutional laws do not fix what was purposefully broken. This whole thing is a criminal enterprise if it did not emanate from the Congress itself. The last four presidents IMO ran un Constitutional and criminal enterprises with things like Obamacare and the Patriot Act as their goals. God help us if people like Nancy Pelosi, a clearly deranged person un connected to reality, Harry Reid, a true Maciavellian operator and a president like Barack Husain Obama ever come to into power at the same time again. The perfect Un American, Un Constitutional storm that has served both big government party models, the ultimate goal of both is to burden the people with inescapable debt and un attainable healthcare. THEY NOW OWN YOU, as per any Nazi / socialist / communist / Marxist handbook would indicate.

    The effective result of all of this? My mortgage now costs less than my health insurance (which I have dropped for the time being).

    Who the FK are these people and who the FK do they think they are? Every American should be speaking more than loudly to them all on both sides of the aisle this November. And you will notice president Obamas attitude about doing what he pleases and plainly and purposefully going over the Constitutional line is an attempt to force the republicans to file impeachment proceeding against him in an effort to short circuit what in my estimation will be an historical sea change in our government insisted upon by the people.

  • DK Williams

    Look for the Axelrod propaganda machine to go into high gear this fall blaming the GOP for taking away subsides. More pushing granny off a cliff ads no doubt.

  • Cotour

    And the obligation to pay, created by the government grows and grows by design at the cost of the overall quality of life and the ability to pay for the middle class. This is how they plan to own you and I and by default install their socialist Utopian dream. All in the name of “the children”, a strategy that Bill Clinton perfected. If you can use “the children” in your political bumper sticker than you can justify anything and everything, including the destruction of America itself.

    Sick and getting sicker!

    These politicians are damaged and deranged humans (in other words “normal” in the world of power and politics) and are the kind of persons that the founders wrote to counter act related to the overall usurping of the freedoms of the individual.

    http://dailysignal.com/2014/07/28/schools-brace-flood-immigrant-children/

  • Edward

    “I listened to one of the prominent doctor / Obamacare advocates …”

    You are thinking of Jonathan “two-faced” Gruber. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXP9Juia_U

    “My mortgage now costs less than my health insurance (which I have dropped for the time being).”

    Welcome, Cotour, to the scofflaw club. Membership is free (except for the loss of your dignity). Five years ago, when you were a law-abiding citizen, did you ever imagine that you would become a scofflaw?

  • I believe that the intention of the current government is to crash the system, with something like 84 trillion in unfunded obligations going forward, there is no way that the government can meet these obligations. I do not know why, but from early twenties I have felt an animous from the government and the elites that I call “They”, I have always felt that they despised us, that they would scorn us for being on the same piece of highway as them, that we have a standard of living that is the envy of the world and that their standard of living is being encroached upon by us, The older I grow the more I feel this way, I think that the U.N. is partially behind this move as it is obvious that They do not like an ownership type of society, most of the rest of the world would live like us if the governance of their country’s allowed, but it seems as if the people that run the U.N.(They) don’t approve and have this fear that there is not enough food or oil to support such a large world wide population. Call this Malthusian or whatever, but this is the way it looks to me.

  • Cotour

    You were right it was Gruber.

    At least I will be in good scofflaw company.

  • I am with you, although whether you’re in good company is TBD. My primary physician only accepts cash; no insurance. I do not intend to buy health care insurance, mostly because I can pay for my health care; secondarily because I’m a stubborn cuss, and don’t like people telling me what I must do. The current Administration can go, um, self-pleasure themselves.

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