(((Mark Zuckerberg’s))) -- NOT HIS REAL NAME -- "Expensive Fear of Competition": What if the dominant courtroom drama of the year wasn’t about guilt or innocence, but about whether Silicon Valley’s richest empire spent billions to smother threats before they could breathe? Behind closed doors and under oath, executives, professors, and former insiders have begun to unravel the real playbook of a company [FACEBOOK] that claimed to innovate while quietly cloning, cornering, and outspending its way to dominance. From desperate app launches to $19 billion “panic buys,” Meta's actual story is more about fear, the desperate need to 'influence' you and everybody else, and the simple raw mechanics of how "Deep State" sponsored tech giants quietly defend their crappy thrones.

I once visited the Houston Space Centre during some free-time while attending a technical course on Gas Turbine control systems, held on the outskirts of the City of Houston. As a result, I am one of the relatively few persons on this planet who has walked the full length of a horizontally laid Saturn V rocket. And to my eye, it looked far too small (both in length and diameter) to convince me it could have launched 3 men in suites, alongside a Space Buggy, food and water supply equipment, plus oxygen tanks to last several days ... not to mention several relatively heavy batteries, and a long list of other exotic equipment. And when I eventually made my way to the Lunar Module (i.e., the weird contraption glued together with aluminium foil, staplers, and a few metal struts) I stood just a few paces away from it ... and within a few breaths I just burst out laughing. "You got to be kidding me" said my mind's eye. The Apollo Program was (surely) mostly a hoax, that's all I can say. I can't prove it. But neither can NASA prove that all of it's camera work and telemetry [allegedly on/from the Lunar surface] were both authentic. [Photo: "Moon Rise" taken from NASA's Space Shuttle, Columbia.]