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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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1776 – Hatching an Egg

A evening pause: It is July 4th, a time to celebrate not only the Declaration of Independence but the geniuses who created it. This wonderful song from the 1976 movie version of the 1972 musical, 1776 does it so perfectly. I posted it several times before, but it bears repeating because, as I said in those earlier Independence Day posts, “not only did the musical capture the essence of the men who made independency happen, it is also a rollicking and entertaining work of art.”

And as I have also said previously, “Despite the hate being spewed against America and its founding principle that all humans are created free with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that truth still shines. As John Kennedy said of himself, ourselves, and these founding fathers. ‘We stand for freedom.'”

I pray that most Americans still agree, and are willing to fight with me the growing mobs across our land who no longer do.

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

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    PRESIDENT PHILOSOPHICAL MARXIST HAS A COMPLAINT

    Who is president Philosophical Marxist?

    Barak Hussein Obama! He has some complaints!

    And why do I characterize Obama in such terms? Now I never and would never vote for such a person for president of the United States. Especially after doing my due diligence regarding his Socialist pedigree and by his own spoken and written words related to his political perspective which I classify as being a philosophical Marxist. A full blood culture of dependency on government and a redistributor of “Other” people’s wealth and diminisher of equality of opportunity and freedom.

    And to be honest there was a part of me (a very small part) that when he was elected President of the United States I was pleased that America would elect a man of color. A Socialist / Communist head fake on America IMO. But always remember, Obama is really not a black American. He is only half black but a full blood radical “Community Organizer” and philosophical Marxist at heart.

    Obama started in earnest all of this “I have a phone, and I have a pen” government by executive order mode of governance that has now been fully embraced by today’s full blood America First MAGA president. Be careful what you set in motion and establish precedence and wish for.

    President XXXXX has a problem with the direction of the country apparently:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14876873/barack-obama-dig-donald-trump-4th-july-message.html

    Obama got rolling all of this “progressive” insane “Destroy the Patriarchy” trans men in women’s sports and much, much more. A place where a female Supreme Court Justice herself when asked what a woman was was unable to define the term. Seriously! And then the cascading blue haired nose ringed compounding insanity that comes along with such self-hate and self-delusion. This is todays Democrat party in other words, and they are today in a well-deserved and earned political death spiral.

    Obama: July 4th, 2025: ‘Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens,’

    “Now is precisely the time to ask ourselves tough questions about how we can build our democracies and make them work in meaningful and practical ways for ordinary people.”

    “WE”? Our Democracies? Plural? You mean the Globalist / Socialist / U.N. model of “WE”? Of course that is what you mean.

    The Democrats now dominated by radical anti-American leadership party is all about that big picture Globalist / “America is but one country among the many” and must surrender its personal wealth, freedom and sovereignty to a set of “Guardians of the planet” WE. The oh so “moral” authoritarian Socialist overlords. Treason to my eye.

    You have a problem President Obama with what’s going on with the reinvigoration of true America oriented Constitutionally based patriotism and the America first philosophy? Well, it is you and your radical Socialist / Marxist / Anti-American / Globalist aligned political handlers that have caused it all.

    And I thank you! Well done!

    E Pluribus Unum: From The Many One.

    Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 7/5/25

    TIRED OF WINNING YET AMERICA?

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/july-4th-tired-of-winning-yet-america

  • Chuck

    Standing firm with you, Robert! The mobs are tiny compared to the Patriots ready to defend our sacred land!

  • July 1776 – Hatching an Egg

    October 1917 – Laying an Egg

    Worth pointing out that 1776 also saw publication of “Wealth of Nations”

  • WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE AMERICA?

    “This “WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE AMERICA” will be an ongoing theme here at SIGMA3iOC and here is the first installation:

    “We are tired of straight white men” This is a 1-minute Joe Rogan clip: https://youtube.com/shorts/XxoXGWwuO2s?si=yWesgYVyPUl0dz1M

    Where did this obviously well dressed, well fed apparently highly educated well-spoken very attractive free as free can possibly be brown skinned woman and her lily-white friend acquire what can only be seen as a fundamental hatred of America and “straight white men”?

    Both of these young ladies have every freedom and opportunity to choose whatever direction in life they please, and this “We hate straight white men” perspective is their conclusion?

    Where exactly is that hateful perspective of reality in America especially today derived and developed from?

    We will in time figure out where this hateful and ignorant perspective comes from.

    Stand by.

    Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 7/6/25

    https://static.wixstatic.com/media/e691e8_49e74dcc248c42f09eae1196a8f4fe3e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_925,h_544,al_c,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_avif,quality_auto/e691e8_49e74dcc248c42f09eae1196a8f4fe3e~mv2.jpg

  • Richard M

    Where did this obviously well dressed, well fed apparently highly educated well-spoken very attractive free as free can possibly be brown skinned woman and her lily-white friend acquire what can only be seen as a fundamental hatred of America and “straight white men”?

    A Jacobin of 1792 or a Bolshevik of 1918 could point to a social reality that existed within the memory of the last harvest, or even still extant in more remote parts of their society. But the narrative of “straight white men” having any legal or social advantages in day-to-day life has been a fantasy starkly orthogonal to lived reality for over two generations now: one need hardly look past the fact that only 2 out of every 5 students matriculating at American colleges this year (and indeed, the last several years) is male, and the share of those males who might be straight and white is even smaller.

    But obviously it is a fantasy tale that still has great value to the prevailing doxa of the managerial class which runs our country today. Victimhood sells, so there is tremendous gatekeeping about who gets to take up the role of victims — and who does not.

  • Jeff Wright

    You even see some of this early in the Book of Acts, the Lollards under Wat Tyler.

    I hear there was some real character assassination of his daughter—at least by William Blake.

    You don’t hear much about Wat’s family…the Borgias however…

  • James Street

    The actor playing John Adams, William Daniels, is still alive today at 98 years old and married to the same woman Bonnie since 1951. IMDB says he was acting up until 4 years ago.

    According to a CNN poll:

    80% of Democrats were proud to be Americans in 2015 under Obama.
    90% of Republicans were proud to be Americans in 2015 under Obama.

    36% of Democrats are proud to be Americans today under Trump.
    92% of Republicans are proud to be Americans today under Trump
    https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1941145530597589161

  • pzatchok

    You support your family even through the hard times. Especially through the hard times.

    Your a patriot even through the hard times. Especially through the hard times.

    The left would rather tare you down instead of lifting themselves up.

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    WHAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY LEADERSHIP INTENDED FOR AMERICA “CONQUEST”

    This Tim Pool short explaining to a Brit what he apparently is unable to see right before his own eyes is exactly what the Democrat party leadership intended and continues to intend for America by flooding the country with illegals from all over the world.

    Tim Pool: “Your country is conquered”: https://youtube.com/shorts/k5WyZ4YYR98?si=30dLnYh1fzvXKMA-

    Invasion and conquest are going on today in Britain, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and many other Western countries is intended also for America!

    And to be clear, there is a Socialist authoritarian “progressive” political agenda in the world dominated by a Globalist / U.N. / Democrat party model where all free and sovereign Western Judeo / Christian Democratic countries are to be invaded by the Eastern more Globalist / U.N. authoritarian accepting Socialist dependent population.

    Sounds crazy but if that is not so, please explain to me the willing and compliant governments of the EU and the actions of the American Democrat party leadership from 2021 to 2024 and their throwing wide open the borders of America to millions of illegals was all about? Explain it to me.

    CONQUEST! Politics is just another level of warfare, and the Democrat party leaderships “progressive” authoritarian Leftist agenda is about as President Barak Hussein Obama said, “Fundamental Change in America”.

    Why do the Democrats and the media that covers for them appear to be insane in their logic and positions? Because they have long ago decided to enact former president Obamas mandate.

    Remember: Tim Pool, Joe Rogan and many others in the renegade private Pod Cast media were big Liberal Democrat party supporters, and they have rejected them and it because they realized they became insane and desperate for political power, and they are in fact un-American.

    Are You Paying Attention Yet America? JGL 7/9/25

    https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/what-the-democrat-party-leadership-intended-for-america-conquest

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