April 20th, 2026Kyle’s Rant
I am not usually a tin-hat wearing, anti-jab conspiracy theorist, however there’s a bit of stuff in the news that’s made me take a second look at history.
Case in point is the latest fly-by the moon by the Artemis II, where they whipped by the piece of cheese looking for suitable landing spots, which makes me pause for thought. The Artemis III test mission is planned for 2027, and then a human moon landing is planned for 2028, with the long-term goal of building a moon base which will eventually serve as a stepping stone for human missions to Mars.
But look back to 1969 where man apparently already landed on the moon with “one small step for man one giant leap” and all that. But conspiracy theorists allege that NASA, in collaboration with Hollywood, faked the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing in a studio to win the space race.
Popular myths suggest director Stanley Kubrick filmed it, often citing alleged inconsistencies in photos, such as non-parallel shadows or missing stars, as proof of a staged set.
Another head scratcher is what happened in 1972 and why haven’t we returned in the past 54 years or just over half a century. Humans have landed on the moon six times, all during NASA’s Apollo program between 1969 and 1972. A total of 12 people have walked on the lunar surface, and 24 astronauts have travelled to the moon. The last crewed mission, Apollo 17, departed in December 1972.
I guess it’s one of those riddles that will never be revealed but theories (apart from aliens who live up there and kicked us off) range from lack of funding to political focus. But as the attention is shifting to other planets for colonisation like Mars, humans need a low gravity lilypad on which to hop off to far-flung spots around the cosmos.
I suppose it’s the same as the riddle of the Iran war and why the Yanks are over there, when things from the outside appeared to be going along swimmingly. The start of the stouch was reiterating that Tehran “can never have a nuclear weapon”. And apparently, they were getting close, but who do you believe? There is so much bovine excrement being slung around by American politicians. And don’t get me started on the social media platforms which are tantamount to an echo chamber of your own beliefs.
So I can’t see why the Trump doesn’t clean up his own backyard first. He started with a nationalistic approach, going to fix everything in his great land and stuff the rest of the world but changed tack when he sidled up to his new bestie Netanyahu.
But surely Trumpster or as he now goes by “Jesus Christ” should be sorting out the US first instead of spending billions of dollars on war. After all, he has over 770,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night and a health system that is in a spiral with life expectancy of 79, roughly four years lower than the average of comparable developed countries.
The US debt-to-GDP ratio is approximately 122%–123%, with total federal debt surpassing $37 trillion – partly because of the war. This means the nation owes more than it produces in a year.
And to give you context Australia has a 34.8% debt-to-GDP ratio. But Trump still keeps spending hard-fleeced tax dollars on a war on the other side of the world, probably to shore up some sort of real estate deal. Gaza Strip anyone?
Beyond me confused rant over…
Ed’s note: Hmmm. Iran may have seemed to be going along swimmingly but I don’t think as a woman I would want to be swimming anywhere around there.
