by Ian Greenhalgh
Maybe man has visited the moon, but one thing is certain – he did not do it in the way we were told, inside a flimsy tin can riding atop a giant firework.
Anyone with the capacity for rational thought can find so many holes in the official story that it becomes ludicrous, not least because all of the photographs and films purporting to have been shot on the lunar surface are completely fake, shot on Earth using a sound stage, performers on wires and sophisticated projection screen techniques.
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Utterly fake – shot on Earth and then crudely manipulated. Sadly it took until the advent of modern
digital imaging decades later to expose such frauds. |
Globally, many never believed the big lie, not least because trusting anything the USA says had become a fool’s errand. However, to Americans it is a different matter, a thing of intense pride; therefore many of them, despite being otherwise rational and somewhat intelligent, continue to insist they did put a man on the moon in 1969.
It’s an argument I have had with Americans and have always ended up with the same dead-end as they can only offer farcical defences such as ‘but I saw the rocket take off’ or ‘hundreds of thousands of people worked on the Apollo program, so if it never happened, we would know’.
Yeah, right, how do you know if the rocket went to the Moon or just to earth orbit? A lot of people and companies worked on it, sure, but each only worked on one tiny part of the whole, the endeavour was so highly compartmentalised that only a handful inside NASA knew the truth; so what if your dad machined the wing nuts for some part of the rocket, that only means he knows about wing nuts, but tells you nothing about the rest of the programme.
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| Is this the craft that landed Armstrong & Aldrin on the lunar surface or is it a prop made from cardboard and held together with bits of tape? |
You see, Americans just had to have something to be proud of, to cling to as a remnant of national pride. They had virtually nothing else to be proud of back in 1969, just over 6 years since they lost their country to foreign control when the last real president had his head blown off. A nation wracked with social unrest, drug abuse and pervasive racism, a whole generation was disenfranchised; a country that was engaged in a hugely derided war in Vietnam that was little short of genocide using banned weapons against farmers.
The USA needed a morale boost badly and the powers that be chose to make the fulfillment of JFK’s promise to put a man on the moon before the end of the decade the boost to morale so sorely needed. That is why they chose to have the entire process of landing on and then exploring the lunar surface shot on a Earth-bound soundstage – so they could obtain the morale boost though fair means or foul, regardless of whether or not they actually succeeded in the lunar mission.
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| How the audience saw the moon landing in 1969 – easy to get away with fakery when the image quality is this bad. |
