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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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“Was this trip necessary?”

An evening pause: On Memorial Day, let’s revisit an evening pause from 2011 of one short scene from the William Wellman film, Battleground (1949), to remind us why sometimes it is necessary to fight a war.

The saddest thing about this clip is how ugly it makes too many modern Americans look, for they have adopted the certain, ignorant, and bigoted aspects of the totalitarians from the 1930s and 1940s that the generation then fought so hard to defeat. Today’s American totalitarians — almost all of whom are on the left — are certain that because Donald Trump is doing things they disagree with, he along with all of his supporters should be killed. No debate is permitted. They are right and anyone who challenges them is evil.

Memorial Day is not simply about remembering the dead so that they will not have died in vain. It is also about remembering why they died.

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

4 comments

  • James Street

    Groups of Christians gathered in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park on Saturday for a rally to support several conservative causes, including pro-life and protecting children from the predatory gender cult. The rally was held in Seattle on what used to be CHAZ (the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone). Antifa and other far-left groups showed up and attacked the Christians. Police made some arrests, but then Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell released a statement condemning the Christian groups for holding a worship event at a public park in the city and announced he was directing an investigation into how the Christians were approved to worship at the park.

    It’s inspiring remembering those who fought before us in this great war.

    Heh heh heh. And now it’s our turn.

  • Mitch S

    Interesting that already in 1949, the producers felt people needed to be reminded how necessary the war was.

  • The battle is necessary.

    WARFARE: THE SYSTEM AND PROCESS DEMAND IT!

    I long ago understood and made the parallel connection between full blown crush, kill, destroy, blood and guts on the floor warfare where anything goes, and politics. They are really just two versions of the same thing. One more physical and one more intellectually based, and both are deadly. Politics just like warfare is about goals, agendas, competition, territory, wealth, power, control and the strategy to get what you ideologically must have.

    And that is exactly what I and many others realized and saw very clearly going on over the last ten years specifically. “By any means necessary” was the Democrat party war cry. And the now famous Democrat party political operative, Rham Emanuel’s comment about when catastrophes happen: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”. And the party took that literally to heart and ran with it.

    No one on the inside of the Democrat party leadership had to tell me what was what when it came to the things that they were willing to do to retain and further acquire political power and control. They would stop at absolutely NOTHING!

    Why? “Because D.J. Trump was an existential threat to Democracy”.

    These are all recent Democrat party leadership political warfare tactics: From mail in voting, to no photo I.D. to vote, to ranked choice voting, to ballot harvesting, to “defund the police”, to the destruction of Americas energy and economic system, to flooding the country with illegals, to serving up America to the Leftist “progressive” EU / Globalist agenda where America was to never be allowed to be the dominant force for Objective law and justice in the world, to lawfare and the real attempt to financially ruin and or jail the greatest individual threat to their perpetual political power and control. Because when you can frame a “CRISIS” political or otherwise as being existential you can justify ANYTHING! You can righteously call for your oppositions elimination!

    It becomes a justified KILL OR BE KILLED mentality. And that is how the game of politics is really played, just like real hot warfare.

    “A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden shockingly admitted that insiders felt justified acting ‘undemocratically’ to keep the president in power because Donald Trump represented an ‘existential threat’ to democracy, a new book alleges. ”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14750863/biden-aides-undemocratic-donald-trump-democracy-alex-thompson-jake-tapper-book.html

    “Thompson wrote that an unelected official within the administration admitted that their hatred of Trump validated doing ‘undemocratic things.’ ”

    “The book has sent shockwaves through Washington as it delves into Biden’s decline in office.”

    When someone admits to what essentially has been organized deceit and lies or possibly even treason after the fact when everyone with a pulse knew well the reality of what was in fact going on within the presidency. There are no “Shock Waves”. Just one more false phony narrative to sell books. make money by those who facilitated it all. All in an attempt to clean the slate and reset in the minds of the public. Everyone is trying to cover their ass and “Come Clean”.

    Everything the Democrat party leadership and those who carried out the agenda that they formulated in order to retain their political power is and was a lie, about deceit and everyone knew it. No surprises here for sure. And if you did not understand in time what was clear and obvious, then YOU are the problem.

    Just like full blown blood and guts warfare politics is exactly the same, winning at any cost. Even the destruction of what you profess to be working in the interests of, Democracy and the country. The Democrat party leadership was and still is willing to destroy America and its Objective Constitutional system in order to prevail. And they have clearly now been forced to reveal to you exactly that.

    And under the Objectively structured Constitution that is the way it should be. This kind of raw competition, this kind of unrestricted battle keeps things in politics and government healthy where the best and the strongest closest to the truth argument ultimately gets to the people and wins! That is the theory anyway, trust none of them on either side.

    Just like the survival of the fittest in nature, it’s all the same.

    This is our system, this is our process.

    Things are today the way they should be.

  • wayne

    Popcorn in Bed with Cassie
    “Band of Brothers” First Time Reaction
    Memorial Day Watch-Along Compilation
    https://youtu.be/Vc_mfhLOKFA
    3:19:04

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