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Origin Story: We Never Went to the Moon pp. 10-12

  Kaysing begins, as all conspiracy theory books do, with how he arrived at the knowledge of the conspiracy. Kaysing worked for seven years at Rocketdyne, “ the firm that built the main propulsion units for Apollo …” Let’s be clear that Kaysing is trying to pull a fast one on the reader already. He’s not claiming that he worked on the propulsion engines, he’s just saying that he worked at the company which made them. He’s curiously leaving out what his position was at Rocketdyne. If he worked on the boosters that would be front and center. This is very similar to the infamous Area 51 “whistleblower” but actual liar, Bob Lazar. Lazar claimed that he worked at Los Alamos but then leaves it at that. In reality, he worked for a company that developed film for the government at Los Alamos. We are meant to think he did something important at Alamos because that’s where “the Bomb” was made. I’m sure that film development is an important part of whatever was going on there, but that’s not why
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Forewords and Intros: We Never Went to the Moon pp. 1-9

 We shall begin with the “who.” The author of this book is Bill Kaysing. He is not, as far as I know, a conspiracy theorist in the broad sense. He doesn’t appear to be an Illuminati believer, nor does he think the lizard people control everything. He has some other conspiracy beliefs about the CIA, privacy, and the federal reserve; and I get the impression that he is merely an anti-government theorist. A little biographical information: Kaysing was a Naval Officer in WWII, and afterwards became a dime store writer. His books include “How to Eat Well on Less than a Dollar a Day (1970),” “The Robin Hood Handbook (1974),” and “Great Hot Springs of the West (1984).” He has a few books in the “How to eat…” category and according to rationalwiki he was actually a decent food writer. He died in April of 2005. Kaysing claimed that he was originally approached to write this book as a satire. It was supposed to be a joke, here’s what the kooks believe, and let’s make it seem a little plausible.
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Our Next Book...

 Today hurts, it really does, and I have no solid words for it. Though we must carry on. So, I was initially going to offer a choice of three books, but when I woke up this morning I simply could not stomach a conspiracy book like we’ve been doing. In an effort to keep it light the next book is going to be the relatively short “We Never Went to the Moon” by Bill Kaysing. If you follow along at home, here is the pdf from archive.org . Next week, we’ll intro the book and get started. 
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All Bad Things...Behold a Pale Horse Recap

 So, we’ve come to the end of the Cooper book. What we learned is nothing. Cooper’s work is stranger than the previous works we’ve covered ( None Dare Call it Conspiracy and Proofs of a Conspiracy… (both are wordpress links because I didn’t use Substack then)) because Cooper includes work by other authors. In fact, this book is primarily work from other authors with Cooper supplying maybe 30% of the work. This makes the “by William Cooper” a bit misleading. The most generous conception here would be “Edited by William Cooper” since he’s written so little of it. I’ve attempted to make the claim that the NWO conspiracy theorists were more earnest in their belief than the modern-day Deep State conspiracy theorists; they care more about what they let in to their worldview and kept out the real kooks. This book completely contradicts that claim. The difference, I have asserted in the past, was that the 90s era conspiracy theorists had to measure their time. If Cooper is going to write ab
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I Hate Budd Hopkins: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 490-End of Book

 In this last appendix I have no idea what is happening. This is appendix G: Kurzweil vs Hopkins. If you remember way back in chapter 12 “The Secret Government” Cooper detailed the arrangement between the US government and the secret aliens overlords…or at least that is what he said he was going to do. Instead it was just meandering tale of anecdotes with little to no factual claims. You might be thinking, “I’ve heard this story prior to this blog, and it seemed weird but coherent.” If you do think that, it’s because you’re remembering Chris Carter’s version of the conspiracy that he pushed on the X-Files when star Gillian Anderson became pregnant and they needed to create the meta-story to explain her character’s disappearance. On page 230 (231 on the PDF) we get this line, “ I have discovered that Whitley Strieber is a CIA asset, as is Budd Hopkins.” Cooper explains that he felt that Strieber was not right because he couldn’t look Cooper in the eye. Strieber had taken the position th
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Drugs are Bad: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 473-489

 Conspiracy theorists have a strange relationship with “drugs” as a concept. On the one hand people like Bill Cooper seem to want a very limited government, a very hands-off police, and very few laws that are about the most basic of crimes. If it isn’t hurting anybody then there shouldn’t be any issue with it. On the other hand, they really hate the drugs. There are two reasons for them to hate the drugs: the first is simple racism. Drug crimes typically focus on the poor. The history of the United States’ drug laws is not only classicist but it also overtly racist. Drug laws targeting crack were far more strict than the ones targeting cocaine. The other reason that drugs are a focal point is that they offer proof of the grand conspiracy. Drugs provide an example of a problem that everyone sees, that makes lots of money, but no one seems “willing” to fix. In the conspiracy theorist’s mind, fixing the drug problem is as simple as sending in the military to destroy the cartels like in “D
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The End of Appendix E: Behold a Pale Horse pp. 459-472

We continue to grind at the appendices, reading one of the people responsible for pushing the idea that FEMA was going to throw us in camps, take away our guns, and let the UN take over the United States (chapters 5, 6). Appendix E is supposed to be about the New World Order but the document on page 459 has nothing to do with it. This is a letter titled “S_T_A_T_E_M_E_N_T” (the letter was likely written on a typewriter, and this was the attempt at underlining). The author of the letter claims that between 1972-74, when Nixon was in trouble, a directive came through that messages from the White House were to be reported to the base commander. That’s it. This is the salient point in the signed letter [it looks like the person’s first name is either David or Daniel E. but I can’t be sure]. The writer refers to an article that he read saying, “ I recall that reason this article was so interesting was that some of us were trying to determine whether we believed that President Nixon would re
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