On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:52:53 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:12:12 -0500, wrote:
Popular Mechanics is a known propaganda mouthpiece for the
military/industrial complex. Anything in that mag is suspect.

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And that my friends, is the mindset of the netkOOks

Nothing more needs to be said...
Gunner

Popular Mechanics is a product of the Hearst publishing empire. Look
into the history of Hearst....for instance Google "Hearst" + "yellow
journalism".

It helps to actually check facts once in a while. You need to learn to
turn off that boot camp mind control job they did on you before they
sent you to VietNam.

By "they", I mean the military/industrial complex.....you know: the
people that got rich ****ing away this nation's blood and treasure in
that endless money pit called the VietNam war. Say like: the DuPonts
who manufactured all that HE blowing holes in the jungle over there.

Lots of people made huge cash on that war. Lots of taxpayers had their
futures cut short too.

I had a professor in college who was an OSS translator during WWII who
was involved in the direct negotiations with Uncle Ho vis-a-vis Ho's
desire to receive arms from the US to fight the Japanese and force
them to leave VietNam. At this time, the US could have made a total
ally out of him. Instead, he was denied this help primarily because
those involved realised he would also use those arms to end French
colonialism in VN after WWII ended.

Ooops.....I guess that little "mistake" sure got alot of American kids
killed, huh?

Hmmmm....a guy named Benjamin Chertoff, the 25-year-old senior
researcher who authored the Popular Mechanics 9/11 article, is related
to Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).

But I am sure that strikes you as just perfectly reasonable.
Dave

http://www.rense.com/general63/brutalpurgeofPMstaff.htm

The Hidden Hand Of The CIA,
911 And Popular Mechanics
By Christopher Bollyn
Exclusive to American Free Press
3-19-5

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.

Finis