The Truth will prevail, But only if we Demand it from Congress!
9-11 Inside Job and Neocons Hacked 2004
By Christopher Bollyn
Exclusive to American Free Press
3-19-5
http://www.rense.com/general63/brutalpurgeofPMstaff.htm
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 Gvring, Reichstag president and
Hitler's chief minister.
Gvring 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 B|low, 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
Gvring.
While Chertoff is the czar of DHS, 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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