Question of the Day: Why Do You Think They’re Interested?

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

In light of the 50th anniversary of the alleged Moon walk there has been a lot of virtual ink spilled trying to reassure the increasingly doubtful American public that we really did go to the Moon fifty years ago and that all the trillion dollars diverted from taxpayer pockets to keep that cash cow well fed might be more than adequate incentive to keep up pretenses even though it’s quite obvious we have no idea how to get to the Moon half a century later- despite the daily assurances that we’ll all be replaced with robots next week. Somehow, someone decided to ask a question that puts a laser dot right on the bullseye of the motive behind it all that even a retard can understand, without actually realizing it.

I love those kind of articles.

So here’s the question; why are all these billionaires so gosh darn interested in doing something even the greatest empire on Earth can’t quite figure out?

So here’s my answer- They are smart enough to know the truth and shrewd enough to figure out how to cut themselves in on the deal. Trillions is a lot of money and the USA! Inc. can’t afford to let it slip that our greatest leap for mankind was roughly equivalent to this-

Why Are Billionaires Like Bezos So Obsessed With Space?

Authored by Marshall Auerback via TruthDig.com,

The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing is this year, and it’s worth recalling the memo that then-Vice President Lyndon Johnson wrote to President John F. Kennedy:

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2001: A Space Odyssey of Transcendent, or Transcendental, Evolution?

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

The screen is dark.  Eerie and oddly dissonant music begins to play. The screen remains black.  At two-minutes and fifty seconds the music stops, followed by six seconds of silence over the blank nothingness before the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM logo fills the screen as the symphonically ascending chords and drumbeats of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra increase in volume.  In a view from the moon, the sun rises behind and then above the blue sphere of the earth.

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Doug Casey on the Modern Space Race

Via Casey Research

Justin’s note: Jeff Bezos is selling nearly $1 billion worth of Amazon stock.

Bezos, who founded Amazon, isn’t doing this because he’s short on cash (he’s worth more than $80 billion)…or bearish on Amazon’s share price.

He’s doing this to fund his aerospace company, Blue Origin. As if that weren’t crazy enough, Bezos plans to put about $1 billion of his money into Blue Origin every year until the company can sustain itself.

Bezos isn’t the only billionaire who’s set their sights on space, either. Tesla founder Elon Musk has his own aerospace company called SpaceX.

In short, a modern space race has broken out between two of the world’s richest men.

It’s an exciting trend to say the least. So, a few days ago, I called up Doug Casey to get his take. Below is a transcript of our conversation…

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