When They Realized They Could Get Away with Anything...

How did we get here? How did we go from "two weeks to slow the spread" to a demand for perpetual jabs in exchange for seasonal permission to engage in public leisure and our right to earn a living [*1]? How did an obviously-senile man become ruler of the post-free world, as we pretend he (and not his handlers) makes decisions for us?

Why the Wicked Need Our Irrational Belief to Rule Us
The comically-obvious U.S. election fraud of 2020 [*2], that even foreign leftists are not only conceding but worrying about the ramifications of [*3], reveals how critical controlling the U.S. is to the global power structure that rules us. The U.S., as an empire, rules most of the world, not with an iron fist, but implicitly, as decisions in jurisdictions around the world commonly mirror U.S. policy. Non-U.S. jurisdictions fear the consequences of not following U.S. lead, like economic sanctions, potential military action, or the U.S. intelligence apparatus overthrowing their governments via hard coups or soft ones, like its 81+ historical "election influence" operations through 2000 (and how many more since?) [*4].

But, fear of consequences alone is not an effective way to rule, because people are naturally disinclined to accept long-term control as merely a pragmatic means of avoiding discomfort associated with opposing rule. The ruled want to believe in the morality of their rulers, if for no other reason than to relieve the discomfort of their cowardice. The ruled will gladly champion their rulers, if only just causes are cloaked before them. 

Thus, rulers getting denizens of the world to believe in their causes is paramount to their control [*5]. What matters to our rulers is not whether something is true or false, but how many people believe it's true or false. Power flows from belief.

An old adage I rather despise, perception is reality, comes to mind. Reality exists independent of what people believe. But people react based on their beliefs about reality, not reality itself. And, since reactions are measurably real in themselves, perception can influence reality more than reality can, at least for a awhile. 

The phrase "perception is reality" has truth in it, but its concession belies acceptance of its wicked principle, that the world is ruled by ignorance and lies. We should always look to reality and overcome our prejudiced false perceptions. Conceding that "perception is reality" changes our focus to managing perceptions for the purpose of managing outcomes instead of seeking and sharing the truth for a higher immaterial or spiritual purpose.

Most people trust in the information presented to them, not through foundational examination, but by assessing what the important people in their community all believe to be true. Of course, most assume the important people's knowledge comes from foundational examination as opposed to by checking what other important people believe. An endless feedback loop reinforces this principle, like a snowball rolling down a hill. An illusion of consensus is formed.

This lazy heuristic governing belief is checked only by an old adage parents share with their children: if everyone else was jumping off a bridge, would you do it too?

But, rule by lies can only get rulers so far, since there are obvious limitations to what people are willing to believe, even if the consensus of media presented to them all believe it too. If every media channel and public official all declared that everyone needed to take a special medicine every day to prevent an army of killer tomatoes from murdering everyone in their neighborhood, I'd still like to believe most wouldn't take the medicine. 

Ultimate power is the ability to be arbitrary and capricious with rule. Rulers want the ability to change the way they rule on a whim, as that means they can do anything they want: to rule without limits.

Since rule by fear alone is insufficient to sustain power in the long run, the ability of our rulers to get us to believe ever-more brazen and farcical lies is paramount to increasing their power.

When They Knew They Could Get Away With Anything
While I don't believe, as of yet, we've become denizens of a world that would believe we need to take medicine daily to avoid being eaten by killer tomatoes, a significant historical event put us on that track: the late '60s and early '70s Apollo missions purporting to send men to the Moon (Apollo 8 and 10-17).

Photo S69-32244, Apollo 11 training, simulation photo.

A sequence of photos from Apollo 15 [*6], the fourth Apollo mission to "land" men on the Moon, is all one needs to prove this entire endeavor as a comically-obvious farce.



It's obvious the official Apollo photos were taken in a studio, using a false backdrop. Not only are the positions of the "lunar lander" mutually exclusive, but the positions of the foreground versus the mountain backdrop are as well.



Lest anyone claim "they faked the photos but went anyway," unequivocal proof of the fraud, catching the Apollo 11 astronauts (the first to have "landed" on the Moon) red-handed, was discovered in 1999 by Bart Sibrel and David Percy. In a piece I wrote, paying tribute to Sibrel's September-2021-published book, Moon Man: A True Story of a Filmmaker on the CIA Hit List [*7], I reviewed Sibrel's harrowing journey exposing the Apollo fraud, as well as giving my own take on why the evidence of fraud he produced is even stronger than he explains in his book [*8].

For the tldr version, I'll summarize the evidence here. In 1999, footage was leaked to photographer David Percy in the U.K. (published in in his 2000 documentary with Mary Bennett, What Happened On the Moon? [*9] ) and filmmaker Bart Sibrel in the U.S. (published in his 2001 documentary, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Moon [*10]), who were researching the Apollo missions. In 2003, the same footage with some minor edits was released by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) through a company called Spacecraft Films, authenticating the footage, as NASA considers that to be the official record. The footage shows Apollo 11 astronauts pretending to be half-way to the Moon or "130,000 miles out" by placing a color transparency of "Earth" on a porthole window, while shutting the lights out inside the spacecraft to pretend that lack-of-light inside was the blackness of space. They show the 34-hour-16-minute time-duration display of their ship computer for their three-day journey, despite white lacey clouds being seen from a separate window, evidencing they were only in low-Earth orbit (about 200 miles up) at the time they pretended to be half-way to the Moon (130,000 miles "up").



For those interested but doubtful, click the prior-referenced link for a more-detailed explanation or, if you have time, check out the full footage here [*11].

The original footage contains this graphic at the beginning:



It also contains a clip of a third-party voice prompting Neil Armstrong over the radio to "talk" after four-seconds of dead silence between him and Earth. The aforementioned graphic and third-party voice were cut out of the Spacecraft Films version [*12] the public can purchase.

It wasn't the Apollo fraud in the the late '60s and early '70s by itself that served as the moment our rulers recognized they could get away with anything. Instead, it was the fact that this footage is readily available, could be purchased by Spacecraft Films, as the official record, that served as that moment.

Between receipt in 1999 and publishing his documentary in 2001, Bart Sibrel took this footage to numerous sources in the mainstream U.S. media who all refused to air it. On pages 91-92 of his prior-referenced book, Sibrel states:

I remember the day very well, when, together with the executive producer of my film, we met privately in the news director’s office and showed him this incredibly revealing footage for the very first time. The NBC news director turned pale white, clasped his hand over his mouth in astonishment, and fell back in his chair as if he had just heard that President Kennedy had been shot. After a while he sighed and said, “This proves we didn’t go to the Moon.”

“I know,” I said, “What do we do about it?”

The NBC news director thought quietly for quite a long time and then finally said, “I cannot broadcast this. It will cause a civil war. I will not be responsible for that.” I disagreed, saying that American citizens discovering that the already well-known corrupt government agencies had added the faking of the Apollo Moon landings to their list of many recognizable frauds against the people of the United States would cause a civil war, in that Americans would not be fighting against one another as a result of such an unpalatable disclosure, rather their corrupt leadership. I suggested that instead it would instigate a rather dramatic, much-needed overhaul of all government agencies. Nevertheless, he could not be persuaded out of his decision. The news director said that he was sorry and I left feeling rather hopeless. Quite a country US citizens live in when the news media is afraid to broadcast the true account of an event because it is too truthful [emphasis added].

At pages 206-207, Sibrel reveals how his documentary showcasing his footage, and derivative works from it, were censored by the media:

After filming my interview and transferring a copy of the footage in preparation for a special national broadcast about the Moon landing hoax, everything suddenly, and mysteriously changed. Obviously, the less honorable agents of the CIA, through their telephone and email monitoring, had found out about this unprecedented program that NBC was preparing to broadcast [based on Bart Sibrel's prior-referenced A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Moon], and which the producer had tried to keep a secret until then.

This new NBC producer told me that NASA had somehow found out about their revealing program (which was supposed to be in confidential development) and as retaliation threatened NBC, as well as all of their other networks (like the Discovery Channel, the Si-Fi Channel, the Weather Channel, Bravo, USA, E, Oxygen, Fandango, Hulu, and Comcast) with never cooperating with them – ever again, on any space-related program, as well as permanently disconnecting their live camera aboard the International Space Station, if they broadcasted this revealing television program of theirs with my condemning footage of false photography from the first alleged Moon mission.

Sadly, NBC succumbed to NASA’s blackmail, cancelled their Discovery Channel television special showcasing my amazing discovery of behind-the-scenes footage of fake NASA photography, and never broadcast the interview they had painstakingly filmed of me meticulously explaining this newly uncovered evidence. As NBC had already enthusiastically purchased the exclusive rights to my discovery, it cost them tens of thousands of dollars to cancel the program they had already produced about the fraud, specifically sidelined to appease the very perpetrators of it, which only proved to those involved in the production of this forbidden television special, that NASA was obviously guilty of staging the Moon landings, just as I had said and my footage proved [emphasis added].

And, at pages 207-208, Sibrel reveals how Geraldo Rivera and The Washington Post were willing to discuss Sibrel's belief the Moon-landings were a fraud, as long as Sibrel agreed to omit the key piece of evidence from his documentary:

I even met privately with “investigative journalist” Geraldo Rivera in New York, in order to personally give him a copy of A Funny Thing Happened… with its video evidence. While I later appeared as a guest on his show to discuss this topic, Geraldo made it clear to me that though he may be personally suspicious of the Apollo mission’s authenticity, he is not able to say so publicly and keep his job. The only way that I could appear and present my case on his program was if I did not show the number one key piece of evidence of the fraud, the fake filming of the “Earth halfway to the Moon”, which proves that none of the Apollo crews ever left Earth orbit. Why would this important one-of-a-kind evidence of the fraud be forbidden from being broadcast if the astronauts really went to the Moon?

Instead of showcasing this absolute proof of the deception, the producers of “Geraldo” chose instead to sensationalize the violence I received [Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin punched Bart Sibrel after Sibrel called Aldrin a "liar coward and a thief"] in pursuit of the truth.

The same is true of The Washington Post, the newspaper that broke the infamous “Watergate” scandal. While this publication interviewed me in-depth on the topic of the fraud, the story which they actually wrote was about “how interesting it is that some people doubt the Moon landings”, rather than an actual investigation into the real possibility that indeed the missions were a Cold War CIA deception, who then later used the allocated money for illegal Vietnam War purposes. When I asked the reporter assigned to me about the condemning video evidence of the astronauts openly staging their photography of being halfway to the Moon, along with the revealing peculiarity of the hidden audio track of the CIA prompting the astronauts to fictionalize a four second radio delay, in order to falsify their distance from the Earth, the Washington Post reporter paused for several seconds quietly and then reluctantly replied, “I can’t explain that”. This “investigative journalist” then went on to say that such an investigation along these lines, while it might prove to be radically true, would nevertheless result in the termination of his employment with the publication [emphasis added].

The early '00s came and went without much fanfare around exposing the Apollo fraud, and the fact of the fraud never became part of the public consciousness, despite proof being readily available on the internet. Why? Recall, the vast majority of people do not decide what is true based on foundational examination of evidence [*13], but, instead upon sizing up what respected authorities in their community think and, then, parroting that. If NASA, the media, and the politicians are all shutting up about the footage Sibrel and Percy published in 2000-2001, then the public will follow that lead.

It's not the fraud of Apollo that has lead to our increasingly-capricious rule, to this point of six-month-recurring "booster" shots being required for public travel and work, but getting away with the fraud when the strongest-possible evidence was released. Between 1999-2001, our rulers took notice of how the public reacted and how easy it was to control the information.

Since, at least, the 1970s, the U.S. intelligence apparatus has controlled media abroad and domestically. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) role in American media manipulation was admitted on record, and they impliedly have agents in American newsrooms and for the Associated Press, per the 1975 testimony of then-CIA Director William Colby [*14].

U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Otis Pike: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation or American journal?

CIA Director William Colby: We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.

Pike: Do you have people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?

Colby: This I think gets into the kind of uh, kind of details I’d like to get into at an executive session.

Pike: Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services, AP and UPI?

Colby: Well again, I think we are getting into the kind of detail, Mr. Chairman, I’d prefer to handle in an executive session.

Maybe all the major television networks independently decided to ignore Sibrel's key evidence he presented, because they all, like that NBC official, believed airing it would "cause a civil war." But nobody with an IQ above room temperature buys the "debunkings" attempted to the footage, such as this notion they were "practicing a shot from low-Earth orbit" at 200 miles up, 34 hours into their 3-day 240,000-mile journey to the Moon.

Regardless of whether the media cowered in fear of public outcry or financial pressure, were all dumb enough to believe the excuse "debunkers" make for the footage, or were controlled by the kind of intelligence agents 1975 CIA Director Colby discussed, the result is all the same. Our rulers wondered, if we could get away with Apollo, after obvious evidence exposing us, what else can we get away with now?

It's been twenty years since Sibrel published his original footage, and we've endured twenty years of rule by a brazen cabal that now wants denizens of the world to get shots every six-months in exchange for public travel and work. How did we get here? It wasn't the Apollo fraud per se that got us here, but, instead, the public's reliance on media as a filter for truth. If media show 2+2 as an equation on the screen, the public may think it equals 4, but they will not accept that it equals 4 if everyone else on that television says it equals 5.

Once they realized they could get away with Apollo, they realized they could get away with anything. So, when people ask me why I care about exposing the Apollo fraud, why I think it's so important, I aim to pull the evil out at its roots, instead of trimming the branches. When we rebel against this scheme of six-month recurring seasonal boosters to deal with a grossly-overstated pandemic, we are pulling the pedals off the flowers of evil and allowing them to rebloom again. Our rulers will simply regroup and think of something new to impose upon us for our control and material suffering to their benefit.

We must pull the root of evil out and plant anew. Only then can true human flourishing occur.

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FOOTNOTES
[*1] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/10/what-you-should-know-before-opposing-us.html
[*2] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-measure-of-cowardice-and-sociopathy.html
[*3] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/so-trump-was-right-the-election-was-rigged-and-our-next-one-will-be-too-n0x3lv7fv
[*4] 
https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/the-agency-a-history-of-the-cia.html

[*5] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-would-you-know-if-world-was-ruled.html

[*6] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2020/03/an-epistemological-study-of-apollo-15.html
[*7] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F3NPFTM/
[*8] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/09/exposing-lyndon-johnsons-apollo-fraud.html
[*9] https://www.aulis.com/moon_pt1.htm
[*10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xciCJfbTvE4&list=PLNyr8yavcNMXVvU-cQoNuLGGb0FAS8Zxx
[*11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4UVDdUX1IA&feature=youtu.be&t=1910
[*12] http://www.spacecraftfilms.com/blog/
[*13] https://stratagemsoftheright.blogspot.com/2021/02/evidence-in-long-shadow-of-civilization.html

[*14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGxQdc0Kg8