July 19, 2005 by s.z.

It's the End of the World As We Know It

The editors of RenewAmerica (and you didn't believe it HAD editors) bring us a gloom n' doom compilation of conspiracy theories takes from other wingnut sites.  (Adam Yoshida, stop reading now, or you may drop dead at your computer monitor.)  It's called "America's Last Days."

First, they cite a report from Phyllis Schlafly about how the USA will be gone in five years, subsumed into a North American nation along with socialist Canada and corrupt, poor Mexico. 

Recently, Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum published a disturbing report stating that President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin have agreed in principle on an ambitious plan that would integrate the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

Going to Phyllis's report, we see that things are indeed looking grim.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has just let the cat out of the bag about what's really behind our trade agreements and security partnerships with the other North American countries. A 59-page CFR document spells out a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter."

"Community" means integrating the United States with the corruption, socialism, poverty and population of Mexico and Canada. "Common perimeter" means wide-open U.S. borders between the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

Although the evidence Phyllis cites doesn't seem all that alarming ("plans" for harmonized visa regulations, lessening of trade restrictions, scholarships for Mexican students, etc.), Phyllis sees them as the start of a scaled-down "new world order," presumably led by the antiChrist (Karl Rove, as predicted in the book of Revelation).

The document's frequent references to "security" are just a cover for the real objectives. The document's "security cooperation" includes the registration of ballistics and explosives, while Canada specifically refused to cooperate with our Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).

I'm guessing that Phyllis thinks that the CFR's "real objectives" are to make Americans register their ballistics, explosives, and guns, so that the Canadians (who refused to cooperate with our SDI) can confiscate them and turn them into ploughshares or something.

The experience of the European Union and the World Trade Organization makes it clear that a common market requires a court system, so the CFR document calls for "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution." Get ready for decisions from non-American judges who make up their rules ad hoc and probably hate the United States anyway.

Yes, get ready for non-American judges from HELL!  You may think that they will just be resolving the disuptes dealing wth egg inspections or sun screen legalities, but watch as they rule that it's legal for men to marry their daughters' box turtles!  And prepare to witness the last days of this great nation as these non-American judges destroy our heritiage by banning anyone with the first or last name of "Christian" from the public square.

Oh, and the CFR intends to doom Social Security:

The CFR document demands that we implement "the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico." That's code language for putting illegal aliens into the U.S. Social Security system, which is bound to bankrupt the system.

Because our only hope of saving Social Security was to get a bunch of illegal aliens to pay into the system, and then not let them collect.

But wait -- Renew America has more!

That's the "good" news. Wait till you hear the "bad" news.
On July 11, 2005, WorldNetDaily published an alarming piece alerting Americans about an imminent al-Qaida operation to destroy the United States with as many as 70 nuclear weapons of various sizes already placed in major U.S. cities.

Well, it would be alarming if it wasn't coming from WorldNetDaily, the same online "news source" that broke the news about the nephilim building the pyramids.

Anyway, here's what WND is claiming (in an effort to hype a book):

According to captured al-Qaida leaders and documents, the plan is called the "American Hiroshima" and involves the multiple detonation of nuclear weapons already smuggled into the U.S. over the Mexican border with the help of the MS-13 street gang and other organized crime groups.

But the good news is that once the CFR plan goes into effect, there won't be a Mexican border, so no more smuggling of atomic warheads will occur.

Al-Qaida has obtained at least 40 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union – including suitcase nukes, nuclear mines, artillery shells and even some missile warheads.

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But the most disturbing news is that high level U.S. officials now believe at least some of those weapons have been smuggled into the U.S. for use in the near future in major cities as part of this "American Hiroshima" plan, according to an upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse," by Paul L. Williams, a former FBI consultant.

He may have been a consultant on their employee picnic or their sexual harassment training program, but hey, whatever it takes to sell a book.

But that claim about the nuclear weapons aimed at your house is old news.  Williams floated it in his previous book, Osama's Revenge.  We briefly examined Williams' theories last year, after Williams appeared on Doug Giles' Clash Radio.  (We also made fun of Megan Fox then. Good times, good times.).  Anyway, since we still haven't all been destroyed in a burst of atomic fury, Williams has updated his conspiracy so that it now includes street gangs and the mob being in league with al Qaeda (a theory that sounds like it would be right at home on the pages of Judi McLeod's Canada Free Press, except that Judi claimed that the mob caused 9/11 and then framed al Qaeda). 

Here's some info about the Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming Apocalypse from the publisher:

Williams reveals persuasive evidence that al Qaeda has now established connections with the Sicilian Mafia, which is helping to finance terrorism through the sale of Number Four heroin, the present drug of choice in Europe and the United States.

I personally Just Say No to Number Four heroin, precisely because of that Mafia/ al Qaeda connection.

Anyway, back to Renew America, which will explain that some of the atomic weaspons were left here by the Russians, as depicted in that old Charles Bronson movie about Soviet sleeper agents, Telefon (the manly man's Call Me Madam). 

According to the article, most of the devices have been smuggled into the U.S. by way of Mexico, with the help of organized crime groups such as the MS-13 paramilitary gang.

Other devices have already been in the U.S. since the height of the Cold War--when the Soviet Union evidently hid nuclear weapons in America. Al-Qaida has reportedly paid former Soviet agents to locate these concealed devices.

Did the Soviets also smuggle their nuclear weapons across the Mexican border after teaming up with street gangs, or did they bring said warheads and such into the country via diplomatic pouch?

Anyway, it kinda makes you want to get one of those old-time geiger counters and go looking for some geigers, doesn't it?

But RenewAmerica breaks the news that you may have less than a month to live, so it's probably not worth buying any new equipment anyway.   (And why you should worry about the Council on Foreign Relations'  five-year-plan to scrap the the USA when you have 90-days max of survival is beyond me).

On July 18, WorldNetDaily ran a follow-up piece saying the nuclear attacks could begin as early as August 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima.

Going to WorldNetDaily we learn:

The cities chosen as optimal targets are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston and Washington, D.C. New York and Washington.

 So, if you live in or near one of those cities, you might not have to make Labor Day plans.

Another source, former Israeli counterterrorism officer Juval Aviv, insists that an al-Qaida attack of some kind is "imminent and around the corner here in the United States. It could happen as soon as tomorrow, or it could happen in the next few months. Ninety days at the most."

I wonder how Aviv would know this -- ESP, or what?

In any case, he's less than a credible source. 

Here's some interesting info from a piece which claims that former former Ohio Congressman James Traficant was the recipient of campaign contributions from organized crime figures and Middle Eastern political operatives.

In the case of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, Traficant first went public in this matter at a press conference in 1989, at which he claimed that the bombing was the result of a joint Syrian/CIA operation. ABC News London correspondent Pierre Salinger then picked up the story, utilizing Traficant, government informant Lester Coleman, and private investigator Juval Aviv as his sources. Coleman later pleaded guilty to Perjury charges and admitted his Pan Am/CIA story was a hoax. Juval Aviv was placed on trial in 1996 in Manhattan on Federal fraud charges unrelated to the Pan Am case. He was acquitted.

Time magazine was also scammed by Aviv and Coleman and their conspiracy theory about the CIA drug suitcase causing the Lockerbie crash, and ended up getting sued for their trouble

(This account is from Freedom mag which is a publication of the Church of Scientology, but MediaWatch has similar info, as do The American Journalism Review, and other sources -- so I think you can trust it, as long as you ignore the dead Thetans and the attacks on psychiatry.)

Initially, several Time editors had decided to kill the story due to the questionable integrity of its two sources: Lester Coleman, a former agent for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Juval Aviv, a former private investigator for Pan Am.

Both were unabashed media hounds who, even years after the debacle of the April 1992 article, continued to peddle their story with glossy press kits.

Time took the bait, despite the misgivings of several editors. Staff with the Washington Bureau passed inter-office memos which pointed out that Coleman was a “flake” and Aviv a known “fabricator” and urged scrapping the story. When the Bureau Chief in Atlanta got a copy of the story, he approached a local journalist familiar with Coleman and asked him to verify the narrative. The reporter, Dennis Suit, described Coleman’s story as “bull – – ,” and warned that Time would be “crazy to publish the story in any form.” That advice was ignored. The story went front page and almost immediately drew a lawsuit.

Central to the Time piece was a CIA double agent named David Lovejoy, who supposedly told terrorists which Pan Am flight to put the bomb onto. Coleman even supplied a photograph of Lovejoy, which ran with the article.

However, the man identified as Lovejoy was actually former Christian Broadcasting Network cameraman Michael Schafer, who had worked with Coleman for six months in Beirut in 1985. When his picture appeared in Time, Schafer was running a janitorial floor-care service.

Two weeks later, the magazine admitted its error and ran a retraction. Schafer filed a $26 million libel suit. Yet, thanks to the near-immunity granted the press under American law—no matter how injurious its actions—Time was allowed by the jury to walk away unscathed. Apparently even admitted falsehoods which cause great harm are not enough to meet the “standard” imposed by law.

A 1994 piece in The Middle East adds:

Less reasonably, the bombing has also been explained in terms of bizarre and elaborate conspiracy theories - unsupported by a shred of evidence - involving the PFLP-GC in tandem with Syria drugs dealers, "straight" and rogue CIA units and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Such theories have been propagated most notably by Juval Aviv, a New York private detective who claims to have been a Mossad agent and who was hired by Pan Am to investigate the case.

There is no reason to give either man credence. Both have long histories as fantasists and impersonators. Aviv was never a Mosad agent. His experience with the world of security is limited to an 18-month stint as a junior security guard with the Israeli airline, El Al. He has been branded as a perjuer by a US court. Coleman, meanwhile, has been indicted in the US for pegury and passport fraud. He has fled to Sweden - beyond the reach of US law enforcement agencies.

And here is a copied version of Dan Rowan's 1992 Time story.  Even it notes Aviv's questionable background, stating, "Now 45 and an American citizen, Aviv claims to have headed the Mossad hit squad that hunted down and killed the Arab terrorists who murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.  Israeli and U.S. intelligence sources deny that Aviv was ever associated with Mossad." 

But all of that didn't stop Fox News from giving Aviv a forum to spout his "You have 90 days at the very max before you're nuked" story. Here's part of the WorldNetDaily report of his TV appearance: 

Terrorists will try to carry out an attack on the United States within the next 90 days, a former Israeli counterterrorism intelligence officer predicts.

Juval Aviv, head of the New York-based intelligence company Interfor and a special consultant to the U.S. Congress, told Fox News his information is based primarily on intelligence "floating in Europe and the Middle East."

He's convinced me!

But this time, he emphasized, it will not only be big cities.

"They're going to try to hit rural America," Aviv said. "They want to send a message to rural America: 'You're not protected. If you figured out that if you just move out of New York and move to Montana or to Pittsburgh, you're not immune. We're going to get you wherever we can and it's easier there than in New York.'"

Uh oh.  I guess I may be joining you big city folks at the Labor Day party in the sky.

He also advises, "Don't be bashful."

"If your gut feeling tells you when you walk on to a bus there is something unusual or suspicious, get out and walk away," he said. "You may do it 10 times for no reason, but there will be one time that saves your life. Let your sixth sense direct you."

And I'm sure your boss will understand if you say, "Hey, I just had a gut feeling that I shouldn't come in to work today.  Yes, I know I've had this feeling 10 times before for no reason, but this time it could have saved my life.  I guess we'll never know, since we'll all probably be dead by mid-October." 

And here's Aviv's FOX News Biography.  It includes such claims as:

Before founding Interfor, Aviv served as an officer in the Israel Defense Force (Major, retired) leading an elite Commando/ Intelligence Unit, and was later selected by the Israeli Secret Service (Mossad) to participate in a number of intelligence and special operations in many countries in the late 1960s and 1970s. 

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A leading authority on terrorist networks and their inner workings, Aviv served as lead investigator for Pan Am Airways into the Pan Am 103-Lockerbie terrorist bombing. 

Yes, Fox News is a real news channel, with real news, fair and balanced and fabricated by scam artists.  I'm just amazed that they didn't get Aviv out there to help explain how the CIA framed Karl Rove so that he wouldn't expose how they'd been running drugs in mint tea containers.

Anyway, here's the conclusion to the RenewAmerica piece:  

It's possible that much of the above information is exaggerated or inaccurate. But the sources are credible enough to warrant due concern by anyone who cares about the immediate and long-term future of America.

Schlafly, Williams and Aviv are credible enough sources?  It is to laugh.  Tee hee.

If observable trends continue, the only real issue is WHEN the above scenarios--regarding the dissolution of our borders and nuclear destruction of some of our cities--will take place, not whether. We're already well on our way to fulfilling the first, and America's enemies have the funds and fanaticism to pull off the second, it seems obvious.

What do you think of the above reports? Do you give them credence--or are they merely alarmist rhetoric (realizing that such is the main purpose of terrorism, itself--for if we're sufficiently scared, the terrorism has succeeded, even without violence)?
In your opinion, how close are we to the end of our republic, and what can be done to stem that outcome?

As you might imagine, the responses from the Renew America readers are even nuttier than the article.  But personally, I'm really tired (those Canadian wingnuts really wore me out), and I don't have the energy to save the country from both the New Canada/Mexico World Order and the Soviet/Mafia/al Qaeda nuclear attack.  Allow me to close by quoting the immortal Crow T. Robot's monologue at the end of "X Marks the Spot":

You decide. You do it! I'm sick of this! I can't make a decision! I'm no good at this sort of thing! 

It's up to you. I'm passin' the buck to you. Now I've got commercial sign.

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