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Subject: Popular Mechanics' magazine, following a 2004 purge, now spouts
propaganda instead of science. Deserves to be boycotted
This Chris Bollyn article from 2005 explains what was behind Popular
Mechanics' March 2005 cover story, "Debunking 9/11 Lies" which was a
disinformation piece on 9/11. For the real truth, check out the links posted
at the end. Gary
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Popular Mechanics Conversion to a Propaganda Machine
By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
March 19, 2005
A brutal purge of the senior staff at Popular Mechanics preceded the
publication of last month's scandalous propaganda piece about 9/11. Pulling
the strings is the grand dame of Hearst Magazines and behind the scene is
her obscure husband, a veteran propaganda expert and former special
assistant to the director of the C.I.A.
The Reichstag fire, a key event in German history, and the steps that
followed en suite leading to the Nazi dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, provide
remarkable precedents for what occurred in the United States on 9/11 and
since. The fire that consumed the German parliament building on the night of
February 27, 1933, is widely believed, according to Encyclopedia Britannica,
to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government to turn public
opinion against its opponents and allow it to assume emergency powers.
The day after the burning of the Reichstag, the government headed by
Adolf Hitler enacted a decree for the Protection of the People and the
State. Hitlers emergency decree dispensed with all constitutional protection
of political, personal, and property rights. Likewise, a month after 9/11
the U.S. Congress passed, without even reading, similar emergency
legislation: the Bush administrations USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. The
pre-prepared massive security act's long title is "Uniting and Strengthening
America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct
Terrorism."
Within a month of the Reichstag fire, on March 23, 1933, the parliament
passed the Enabling Act, whereby its legislative powers were transferred to
Hitler's Reich Cabinet. This act, passed by a vote of 444 to 94, legally
sanctioned the Nazi dictatorship. Another parallel is seen in the way George
W. Bush and Hitler came to power. Bush obtained the presidency in 2001
through a Supreme Court decision after a flawed and un-counted election,
while Hitler secured the German chancellorship through elections in November
1932 in which the Nazi Party failed to win an outright majority.
Hitlers propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is thought to have let
arsonists into the parliament building through a tunnel leading from the
official residence of Hermann Goering, Reichstag president and Hitler's
chief minister. Goering then presided over the official investigation, which
blamed the communists.
In a similar manner, the Bush administration openly opposed an
independent investigation of 9/11 and fixed blame on Osama Bin Laden and 19
Arab terrorists. Based on this official, but unproven, explanation for 9/11
the United States has invaded and occupied two Middle Eastern nations.
"DISINFORMATION AND DECEPTION"
"Ninety-five percent of the work of intelligence agencies around the
world is disinformation and deception," Andreas von Bülow , former
parliamentary official responsible for the budget for Germany's intelligence
agencies, told American Free Press in December 2001. Like Nazi Germany of
1933, American newsstands today carry a mainstream magazine dedicated to
pushing the government's truth of 9/11 while viciously smearing independent
researchers as extremists who peddle fantasies and make poisonous claims.
The magazine pushing the government's 9/11 propaganda, Popular
Mechanics (PM), is published by the Hearst family. Its March cover story,
Debunking 9/11 Lies, has been exposed by credible researchers to contain
numerous distortions and flawed conclusions. American Free Press revealed
that Benjamin Chertoff, the 25-year-old senior researcher who authored the
9/11 article, is related to Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The PM article illustrates how a
propaganda method, used by dictatorships, is now being employed by the U.S.
government: controlling mainstream media outlets to promote its version of
9/11. The actions of Michael Chertoff concerning the events of 9/11, the
non-investigation that followed, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the propaganda
being disseminated in PM, are strikingly similar to actions attributed to
the Nazi ministers Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering.
While Chertoff is the czar of Dept. of HS, he is not sovereign at PM or
Hearst Magazines, its corporate parent. The president of Hearst Magazines,
one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines with 18 U.S.
titles and more than 100 international editions, is Cathleen P. Black, a
60-year old native of Chicago. Black oversees the publication of 175 titles
around the world including Cosmopolitan, Harpers Bazaar, Town & Country,
Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and Popular Mechanics. Black is a former
president and publisher of USA Today. In 1983, Black was made president of
the new newspaper published by Gannett. The following year she was made
publisher and soon became a member of Gannetts board of directors. Despite
her efforts, her biography reads, USA Today did not show an operating profit
in the eight years that Black was there. The newspaper's non-profitability
notwithstanding, Gannett paid Black $600,000 a year for her efforts.
USA Today reportedly had a circulation of 1.8 million when Black left
in 1991. USA Today is often given away free of charge. Black left USA Today
to become president and chief executive of the nascent Newspaper Association
of America (NAA), formed on June 1, 1992. She then became the leading
spokesperson and lobbyist for the nation's newspaper industry. Black's
position at the NAA carried "considerable political heft," Paul Farhi of The
Washington Post wrote, "given that the 1,400 members of her organization
control the nations editorial pages.
In 1995, for an annual salary reported to be "in excess of $1 million,"
Black was hired by Hearst Corp. to head its magazine division. Named by
Fortune magazine as one of the Most Powerful Women in American Business,
Black sits on the boards of Hearst Corp., the Advertising Council, IBM, and
Coca-Cola. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. It is
often said that USA Today is controlled by the CIA, which, like the paper,
is based in McLean, Virginia. The little-known fact that Black is married to
Thomas E. Harvey, an obscure lawyer who became a White House Fellow in 1977
and served as special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence
(DCI), provides substance to these rumors. Black's corporate biography does
not mention her husband.
President Jimmy Carter made Harvey a White House Fellow in May 1977.
"In that capacity," Harvey's biography reads, he "served as special
assistant to the Director of the C.I.A. Following that he held senior
appointed positions within the Department of Defense." The DCI at the time
was Stansfield Turner, who had replaced George H.W. Bush. Prior to serving
the CIA, Harvey worked at the New York law office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley
& McCloy. The international law firm, co-founded by Morris Hadley, a 1916
member of Yale University's secret society Skull & Bones, has ties to the
CIA and lists William H. Webster, DCI from 1987-1991, as a senior partner.
Webster also serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council. In the 1980s,
Harvey served as General Counsel and Congressional Liaison of the U.S.
Information Agency, the former external propaganda arm of the U.S.
government. Harvey also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Army
and Navy. In 1992, Harvey was personnel director for the Bush-Quayle 92
Campaign. Calls to the offices of Black and Harvey for the purpose of this
article went unanswered.
"THE COUP AT POPULAR MECHANICS"
In the months leading up to the Chertoff article in PM, a brutal
take-over occurred at the magazine. In September 2004, Joe Oldham, the
magazines former editor-in-chief was replaced by James B. Meigs, who came to
PM with a deputy, Jerry Beilinson, from National Geographic Adventure. In
October, a new creative director replaced PMs 21-year veteran who was given
ninety minutes to clear out of his office. A former senior editor at PM, who
is forbidden from openly discussing the coup at PM, told AFP that the former
creative director was abruptly told to leave and given severance pay of two
weeks wages for every year spent at PM. Three or four people have been
similarly dismissed every month since, he said. He said he was astounded
that the coup at PM had not been reported in the mainstream media. PM has
long been a supporter of the U.S. military. The magazine ran a full page ad
in support of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in May 2003. Since the
purge last September, however, PM readers have noticed that government
propaganda has replaced scientific writing. A letter to the editor in the
current issue says, I think you guys are just another tool in the
governments propaganda machine.
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Now click on any or all of these links below to see what Popular Mechanics,
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