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Friday, November 14, 2014
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Monday, November 10, 2014
Switzerland
SWITZERLAND
1 August 1291 – Switzerland gained freedom from its former
mother country, the Holy Roman Empire. (Ancestry July August 2007).
1365 – Basel. Timeline of earthquakes.
6 Oct 1849 – A duel near Lausane Switzerland. Sergeant
Bochot the Socialist rep for Paris and
a Spanish officer for the regent of Isabell Segunda. London news UK.
1876 – The future of archives. In 1876 Switzerland changed
over from church registers to civil registration. Some church registers have
been microfilmed LDS. (Practical family history august 2009).
1890s – A Verdingkind or contract child in Switzerland. Sex
slavery and concubines, comfort women. (New York Times 11 Nov 2014).
12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.
8 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
10 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist conference. Colonist. Papers
Past NZ.
1930 – Lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell was headed by John
Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles, future head of the CIA, was a partner. Bank for
the international settlements BIS, was set up in Switzerland in 1930, to
channel war reparations between the US and Germany. Gold looted by the Nazis in
Europe ended up in BIS vaults. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012
US).
13 March 1930 – Spies in Switzerland. The Manchester
Guardian 1901-1959 UK.
28 March 1930 – Italian spies in Switzerland 8 men expelled
consul position in question. The Manchester Guardian 1901-1958 UK.
July 1937 – Swiss sanitorium, after July 1937. Foreign
patients did not register and the records of the main sanitorium at Danos and
Leysin were destroyed. (Too secret too long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
1943 – Alexander Rado in Switzerland was part of the Red
Orchestra, a GRU spy network. It was broken up by Swiss police in 1943. (The hidden
hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
May 1954 – Geneva peace conference sought a settlement to
the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the Int control commission in Vietnam
observers. (GCHQ Richard J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
1955 – LDS President David McKay dedicated the Bern
Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the church LDS book).
18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on El Al Airliner in
Zurich. One person was killed and four jailed. Three were freed after the 6
September 1970 attacks.
21 February 1970 – The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine blew up a SwissAir Convair airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv,
killing 47 people.
20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for spying in Switzerland.
The Times London UK.
23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East German spies for 7 years.
The Times London UK.
1976 – Banque de commerce et de placements BCP a BCCI
affiliate opened in Geneva.
1976 – One of the main BCCI operations in Europe was Banque
de Commerce et de placements, SA a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed
in 1976 in partnership with other financial institutions including the Union
bank of Switzerland.
13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer the executive director of the
credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank, Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg
subsidiary to Gelli to corporate shell in Panama called Bell atrix. Loans of
$142 million. On 13 Sept 1982 Gelli was arrested in Switzerland. (The annals of
unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
1984 – Safety in numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss
banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish Hamilton.
1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich opened an account and
obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe deposit boxes. Banking secrecy
laws in Switzerland and the Canasta player investigation. (Traitors among us
©1999 SA Herrington).
1990 – Switzerland launders whiter. Book Worldcat database.
J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering from drug cartels.
29 Nov 1998 – Herald Journal. Prosecutors move against
Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP. Geneva..Trial of Russia
businessman Sergei Milhailov. Major Swiss.
1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia boss on trial. Peter
Capella. The Guardian 1959-2003 UK.
7 November 2001 – Raid of a villa in Campione. Youssef Nada, director of the Al-Taqwa bank of
Lugano, who had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than
50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s international
leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law enforcement at the request of the
US White House. A crackdown on terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US
Swiss investigators were looking into Al-Taqwa involvement in money laundering
and funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA and
Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag The Muslim Brotherhood project. Patrick Poole
11 May 2006).
3 June 2006 – Swiss sex industry is thriving. Prostitution
is legal in Switzerland and generates $2.65 billion annually. Sex slavery.
9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN declares an end to a
security alert. There was a possible threat to the European HQ of the UN and
its agencies.
26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for countering forced
prostitution.( sex slavery), It was held
at the UEFA Euro in 2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.
7 December 2007 – Disappearances of newborn babies for
illegal adoption in Europe. Social health and family affairs committee Ms Ruth
Gaby Vermont Mangold. Trafficking in children. child sex slavery and child
pornography. Disappearance of newborn babies, children found begging in the
streets. Eastern Europe to western Europe.
2008 – The state owned Chinese oil company Sinopec spent
$7.2 billion to buy the Swiss oil field exploration company Addax petroleum,
which has reserves in Nigeria, Gabon and Iraq. (The shadow market Eric J Weiner
©2010).
2009 – KGB money laundering in Geneva and the credit suisse
bank. It was used to fund links to organised crime families in the Middle East,
terrorist groups. Money also went through Bulgarian intel, used to kill Soviet
dissidents in the west. (Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).
17 June 2009 – Switzerland Wikileaks Lord Aikins Adusai
Ghana Money laundering from Africa.
26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian mafia on home soil.
Flarenetwork The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug trafficking in Switzerland and
laundering money.
19 December 2010 – Crime boss opens up about mob in
Switzerland Swissinfo drugs.
26 December 2010 – AFP Italian mafia spreads in
Switzerland. Switzerland is also being
used for drug trafficking on a large scale, and a hideout for mafia members
hunted by police.
2011 – St Moritz Switzerland Bilderberg meeting. Infowars
Alex Jones 26 Aug 2014. Steve Watson. The Austrian location of the 2015
Bilderberg meeting venue is owned by Swiss giant Liebher group.
18 May 2012 – Growing threat authorities brace for fight
against the mafia Swissinfo Mafia crime in Switzerland.
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN executive was charged
in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo news. Money laundering in
Switzerland CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption
and money laundering in Switzerland.
December 2012 – The Swiss coordination unit against the trafficking
of persons and smuggling of migrants KSMM Police department Switzerland.
5 December 2012 – Intelnews.org by Joseph Fitsanakis. A
Swiss intel employee stole millions of classified pages. Reuters.
16 December 2012 –
Money laundering public intel Money laundering banks fuel Mexican drug cartels.
16 July 2013 – Swiss bank leaker. Money is easy to hide.
Spiegel online Tax evaders HSBC Swiss bank whistleblower Herve Falciani. Money
laundering and drug cartels.
26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss info. 16 members of Mafia
arrested in Thurgau.
27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting Calabrian. The Independent.
Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of Fauenfeld north of
Zurich.
28 Aug 2014 – Extortion cocaine heroin. Mafia. The
Independent London. A gathering of Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia, was
held in Swiss the town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich.
10 Sept 2014 – Peru closer trade with Switzerland.
Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new food provider. Demand for
Peru’s products.
Singapore
SINGAPORE
1830-1945 – E Nathan. The history of the Jews in Singapore
1986.
9 April 1939 – Chinese Jack Choo was born in Singapore. A
member of the Mr Asia drug syndicate, importing heroin and buddha sticks into
Australia and New Zealand from Thailand. Japanese occupation of Singapore
during the Second World War. Burma and Thailand, supplying heroin. He was
related by marriage to Khun Sa, the opium war lord who controlled most of the
heroin in the Golden Triangle, between Thailand and Burma. For 40 years. Heroin
on credit. Most of the heroin Clark got was on credit. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond
Shepherd ©2010 Australia)
Jan 1941-May 1941 – The British SOE branch in the far east
was named Oriental mission OM. AE Jones was sent to Singapore in Jan 1941 to
set up HQ and a regional organisation, responsible for northern China. Japan
occupied Shanghai, Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Japanese across Suzhou
in Hong Kong. In May 1941 a head of OM was appointed, Valentine Killery, office
of Singapore. (Japans Gestapo Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
1942 – 26 Sept 1942 seven months after the British
surrendered Singapore to the Japanese. The Japanese Kempeitai special
investigation branch in Singapore was run by
Lieutenant Colonel Haruzo Sumida. POWs at Changi jail under command of
Kempeitai in Singapore was Lieutenant Colonel Oishi. There were 200 Kempeitai
in Singapore. The main Kempeitai prison was Outram road jail. (Japans Gestapo.
Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
Feb 1942 – Outside China, Unit 731, Raffles medical
university in Singapore, Unit 9420 Kono unit, for research into malaria. Umeoka
unit for plagues. Unit 9420 had a unit in Thailand during the war. Japan
destroyed records and medical research before the Allied war crimes in Sept
1945. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).
15 Feb 1942 – Other Indian troops were captured at the fall
of Singapore on 15 Feb 1942 and moved to Borneo as slave labour alongside
British and Australian prisoners. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK)
26 Sept 1942 – Seven months after the British surrendered
Singapore to the Japanese. The Kempeitai special investigation branch in
Singapore was headed by lieutenant colonel Haruzo Sumida. POWs in Changi jail.
Overall command Kempeitai in Singapore was lieutenant colonel Vishi. There were
about 200 Kempeitai in Singapore. Main jail was Outram road jail. (Japan’s
Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).
1943 – Lieutenant Rod Wells a 23 year old Australian POW at
Ram road jail in Singapore from a prison camp at Saidakan in north Borneo in
1943. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
1946 – Colonel Howard Ellis returned to M16 in London in
1944. In 1946 he was posted to M16, controller responsible for south east Asia
and the Far east, based in Singapore. (Too secret too long. C Pincher. ©1984
US).
1947-48 – Intel reports from DSO Malaysia and Singapore. DIA
Hamblen M15 Sir Marston Logan 20 July 1948 DSO Special conference HE Singapore
26 June 1947. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
1950-56 – From the early 1950s there were demands for
Singapore self govt. British and defence for Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and
Hong Kong. 10,000 British troops were in Singapore. Aug 1956 British defence
and Singapore. M15 role in the future. Singapore population was about 1.5
million, three quarters of them ethnic Chinese. (Empire of secrets. Calder
Walton ©2013).
1956-59 – Sept Oct 1956 meeting. Gov of Singapore was Sir
Robert Black. M15 in Singapore. 1959 govt Lee Kuan Yew as PM with British
control of defence and foreign policy. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
28 Aug 1956 – Security intel far east 24 May 1964. Singapore
constitutional talks JB Johnson .Lee Kuan Yew. Lennox Boyd. (Empire of secrets.
Calder Walton ©2013).
3 Dec 1956 – Intel and security Singapore constitutional
talks. ND Watson 14 Aug 1956, 5 Dec 1956. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton
©2013).
1975 – Since 1975 Martin Johnstone was setting himself up in
Singapore where he lived and controlled his business. He had numerous companies
in Singapore. Cross and Mercer in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. (Mr Asia.
©2010 J Shepherd Aust NZ).
1975-80 – Since 1975 Martin Johnstone was in Singapore with
companies, Cross and Mercer, wife Bronwyn Davies. Oct 1976 the Marco Polo hotel
9 Oct 1979.Martin Johnstone got a half share in John Chedderton’s ex-Taiwanese
fighting trawler the Konpira Maru. Timor international marine and oceanographic
research called ‘Timor’ Dec 1980 Debts of $480,000, 26 Nov 1976 (Mr Asia. Jim
Diamond Shepherd (c)2010 Australia).
Aug 1978 – Chinese Jack Choo in Singapore, heroin dealer for
Mr Asia. Police protection. He also owned a crockodile farm. Choo Cheng Kui.
(Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).
1984 – Heroin trafficking. Ho Chin Hoon alias Vincent Ho,
Chinese Triads. Heroin and Danny Chubb Australia. False passports from
Indonesia. Sydney, heroin trafficking and couriers. (Smack express. Clive Small
©2010 Australia).
2005 – Colin Smith. Singapore burning. Heroism and surrender
in World war II. London Penguin books ltd.
18 April 2005 – Singapore gives green light to development
of two casinos. BBC London.
28 April 2005 – Singapore ASEAN to act on child sex
trafficking. BBC. Child prostitution.
28 Oct 2005 – Feds, Singapore drugs, Sydney Morning Herald.
Drugs from Cambodia.
11 Sept 2006 – Barricades on roads for IMF meeting in
Singapore.
18 Sept 2006 – The day before a World Bank meeting in
Singapore. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
9 Aug 2010 – Singapore says golden triangle opium increased
production. BBC London.
26 Feb 2011 – Crown steps up push Singapore casinos lure
high rollers. Damon Kitney. Weekend Australian Canberra ACT. Two news casinos
in Singapore Burswood casino in Penh.
2 March 2011 – Casinos boom in strait laced Singapore. NZ
Herald Auckland. Marina by Sands casino.
20 Oct 2014 – New Zealand’s Auckland Pakuranga plaza was
sold to Singapore business. One of the years biggest New Zealand business
property sales. $96 million to Stanley Tan, chief exec of Global yellow pages
and Pang Yoke Min of Gyp, a subsidiary of Global yellow pages, based in
Singapore. (Stuff.co.nz. Catherine Harris).
4 Nov 2014 – Singapore government to hold major share in
Auckland NZ waterfront property. TVNZ. Multi million dollar deal.
6 Nov 2014 – Joint venture with GIC in five New Zealand
shopping malls. Scoop.co.nz. Scentre group ASX SCG with GIC Singapore wealth
fund, five shopping malls in New Zealand. $NZ 2.1 billion.
7 Nov 2014 – Singapore fund buys into NZ Westfield shopping
centre. Stuff.co.nz. $1 billion stake in some of NZ top shopping malls. Herald
Sun.
8 Nov 2014 – New Zealand sale of malls. The Australian.
Westfields, government investment group of Singapore $930 million deal.
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
Monday, November 3, 2014
Singapore
SINGAPORE
1830-1945 – E Nathan. The history of the Jews in Singapore
1986.
9 April 1939 – Chinese Jack Choo was born in Singapore. A
member of the Mr Asia drug syndicate, importing heroin and buddha sticks into
Australia and New Zealand from Thailand. Japanese occupation of Singapore
during the Second World War. Burma and Thailand, supplying heroin. He was
related by marriage to Khun Sa, the opium war lord who controlled most of the
heroin in the Golden Triangle, between Thailand and Burma. For 40 years. Heroin
on credit. Most of the heroin Clark got was on credit. (Mr Asia. Jim Diamond
Shepherd ©2010 Australia)
Jan 1941-May 1941 – The British SOE branch in the far east
was named Oriental mission OM. AE Jones was sent to Singapore in Jan 1941 to
set up HQ and a regional organisation, responsible for northern China. Japan
occupied Shanghai, Japanese invasion of China in 1937. Japanese across Suzhou
in Hong Kong. In May 1941 a head of OM was appointed, Valentine Killery, office
of Singapore. (Japans Gestapo Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
1942 – 26 Sept 1942 seven months after the British
surrendered Singapore to the Japanese. The Japanese Kempeitai special
investigation branch in Singapore was run by
Lieutenant Colonel Haruzo Sumida. POWs at Changi jail under command of
Kempeitai in Singapore was Lieutenant Colonel Oishi. There were 200 Kempeitai
in Singapore. The main Kempeitai prison was Outram road jail. (Japans Gestapo.
Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
Feb 1942 – Outside China, Unit 731, Raffles medical
university in Singapore, Unit 9420 Kono unit, for research into malaria. Umeoka
unit for plagues. Unit 9420 had a unit in Thailand during the war. Japan
destroyed records and medical research before the Allied war crimes in Sept
1945. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).
15 Feb 1942 – Other Indian troops were captured at the fall
of Singapore on 15 Feb 1942 and moved to Borneo as slave labour alongside
British and Australian prisoners. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK)
26 Sept 1942 – Seven months after the British surrendered
Singapore to the Japanese. The Kempeitai special investigation branch in
Singapore was headed by lieutenant colonel Haruzo Sumida. POWs in Changi jail.
Overall command Kempeitai in Singapore was lieutenant colonel Vishi. There were
about 200 Kempeitai in Singapore. Main jail was Outram road jail. (Japan’s
Gestapo. Mark Felton. ©2009 UK).
1943 – Lieutenant Rod Wells a 23 year old Australian POW at
Ram road jail in Singapore from a prison camp at Saidakan in north Borneo in
1943. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).
1946 – Colonel Howard Ellis returned to M16 in London in
1944. In 1946 he was posted to M16, controller responsible for south east Asia
and the Far east, based in Singapore. (Too secret too long. C Pincher. ©1984
US).
1975 – Since 1975 Martin Johnstone was setting himself up in
Singapore where he lived and controlled his business. He had numerous companies
in Singapore. Cross and Mercer in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia. (Mr Asia.
©2010 J Shepherd Aust NZ).
1975-80 – Since 1975 Martin Johnstone was in Singapore with
companies, Cross and Mercer, wife Bronwyn Davies. Oct 1976 the Marco Polo hotel
9 Oct 1979.Martin Johnstone got a half share in John Chedderton’s ex-Taiwanese
fighting trawler the Konpira Maru. Timor international marine and oceanographic
research called ‘Timor’ Dec 1980 Debts of $480,000, 26 Nov 1976 (Mr Asia. Jim
Diamond Shepherd (c)2010 Australia).
Aug 1978 – Chinese Jack Choo in Singapore, heroin dealer for
Mr Asia; Police protection. He also owned a crockodile farm. Choo Cheng Kui.
(Mr Asia. Jim Diamond Shepherd ©2010 Australia).
1984 – Heroin trafficking. Ho Chin Hoon alias Vincent Ho,
Chinese Triads. Heroin and Danny Chubb Australia. False passports from
Indonesia. Sydney, heroin trafficking and couriers. (Smack express. Clive Small
©2010 Australia).
2005 – Colin Smith. Singapore burning. Heroism and surrender
in World war II. London Penguin books ltd.
18 April 2005 – Singapore gives green light to development
of two casinos. BBC London.
28 April 2005 – Singapore ASEAN to act on child sex
trafficking. BBC. Child prostitution.
28 Oct 2005 – Feds, Singapore drugs, Sydney Morning Herald.
Drugs from Cambodia.
11 Sept 2006 – Barricades on roads for IMF meeting in
Singapore.
18 Sept 2006 – The day before a World Bank meeting in
Singapore. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
9 Aug 2010 – Singapore says golden triangle opium increased
production. BBC London.
26 Feb 2011 – Crown steps up push Singapore casinos lure
high rollers. Damon Kitney. Weekend Australian Canberra ACT. Two news casinos
in Singapore Burswood casino in Penh.
2 March 2011 – Casinos boom in strait laced Singapore. NZ
Herald Auckland. Marina by Sands casino.
20 Oct 2014 – New Zealand’s Auckland Pakuranga plaza was
sold to Singapore business. One the years biggest New Zealand business property
sale. $96 million to Stanley Tan, chief exec of Global yellow pages and Pang
Yoke Min of Gyp, a subsidiary of Global yellow pages, based in Singapore.
(Stuff.co.nz. Catherine Harris).
4 Nov 2014 – Singapore government to hold major share in
Auckland NZ waterfront property. TVNZ. Multi million dollar deal.
Brazil
BRAZIL
1532 – Brazil’s slavery and bondage plantation economies.
Sugar was the main crop in colonial Brazil in 1532. Sugar plantations or
“fazendas” in Rio de Janero (timeline internet).
1550 – African slaves were transported to Brazil to work
sugar plantations.
16th to 18th centuries – High demand
for sugar production resulted in the import of vast numbers of slaves from
west. (21 Sept 2012).
1662-1807 – Between 1662 and 1807 British ships carried 3.25
million Africans across the Atlantic. 70% of them destined for the sugar
economies of Brazil and the Caribbean. (The trader, the owner, the slave. James
Walvin ©2007 UK).
Jan 1748 – Brazil and back to the UK. The “Greyhound” with
African slaves. (The trade, the owner, the slaves. James Walvin (c)2007 UK).
1811-43 – About 50,000 slaves arrived at Valongo. This was
Brazils main landing stage for African slaves.
1822-89 – Period of the Brazilian monarchy (timeline
internet).
7 Sept 1822 – Brazil declared independence from Portugal (AP
9/7/97 timeline internet).
1839 – Italian revolutionary Garibaldi arrived in Brazil to
help rebels there (timeline internet).
1865 – After the American civil war some southerners moved
to Brazil where slavery was still permitted.
1874 – The “Adamant” ship arrived in Nelson New Zealand on 8
Aug 1874. On one voyage it ran aground off the coast of Brazil, but was
refloated and continued its voyage. The voyage of the “Adamant” from Plymouth
UK to Nelson NZ took 93 days. There were nine voyages to NZ altogether. (NZ
genealogist. Jan Feb 2009).
13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4
million slaves were imported, the most of any country in the west.
11 Feb 1935 – Johann “Jonny” Heinrich de Graff was sent to
Brazil. Luis Carlos Prestes revolutionary movement wanted to overthrow the
right wing government of Pres Getulio Vargas who had seized power in 1930.
There was no SIS station in Brazil but the UK had business there. Canadian
owned Brazilian Traction light and power company was the Rio utility company.
(M16 SIS Keith Jeffery ©crown 2010 UK).
29 June 1943 –Reading Eagle. Former Nazi envoy in Brazil
jailed. 19 suspected as German spies. Rio de Janeiro, Kurt Preuffer, former
German ambassador to Brazil and 18 others as Nazi spies.
1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during
the resistance of World War Two, and went to Harvard business school, landed in
Brazil. Erling Lorentzen, was seeking pulp from Eucalyptus trees in Brazil.
(The emerging market century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
1954-87 – Alfreedo Stroessner an army general ruled Paraguay
since 1954 when he seized power in a coup. Smuggling was a pillar of the
economy, cigarettes, liquor and cars imported into Paraguay found their way to
Brazil. Another racket was the laundering of stolen cars. Thousands of stolen
cars from Brazil were taken to Paraguay and legalised on payment of a fee. The
Stroessner regime was also linked to the drug trade. During the 1980’s Paraguay
was importing chemicals used for coca paste into cocaine. Paraguay was one of
the first Latin American countries where BCCI set up a branch. Ghaith Pharaon
flew to Paraguay in late 1987.
3 September 1969 – US ambassador to Brazil was kidnapped.
Charles Burke Elbrick was kidnapped by the Marxist revolutionary group MR-8.
1970’s – Germany and a $5 billion contract with Brazil to
build some power reactors and a reprocessing plant for spent nuclear fuel.
President Carter vetoed the program because Brazil would have been able to
produce enough plutonium to build an atomic bomb a month. The Germans
eventually backed down. 1970’s German nuclear technology Helmut Schmidt and
Jimmy Carter. German exports of advanced nuclear technology. (Last days of
America. ©1981 PE Erdman).
1973 – John FW Dulles. Anarchists and Communists in Brazil.
Austin Texas.
June 1973 – Order for 42 Northrop Tiger fighters worth $120
million Brazil (Arms bazaar. ©1977 Sampson).
30 October 1978 – LDS President Kimball dedicates the Sao
Paulo Brazil temple. (President LDS ©2006).
1980-2002 – Luiz Inaco Lula da Silva 2002 election in
Brazil. A member of the progressive welfare party in 1980 helping the poor. Oil
and gas reserves. (The secret history of the American empire. John Perkins
©2007 US).
1 May 1997 – Christopher Colombo missing.
1998-Nov 2005 – China’s President visited in Nov 2005,
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Peru. Chinese business, a satellite
program in 1998. (The secret of the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
1999 – A concise history of Brazil. Boris Fausto. Google
books.
2000-2001 – Illicit trafficking in firearms. Rio de Janeiro
Brazil. Pericles Gasparini Alves. UN institute. New York UN Worldcat database.
24 July 2002 – Ukraine and Brazil launch construction of a
new booster rocket. Development of Tsiklom4 SLV for use from Brazils Alcantara
facility. $180 million project equally shared by Ukraine involves more than 50
Ukraine firms. (Interfax FBIS doc CEP)
25 August 2004 – Brazil police seize black market uranium
ore, taken from a secret mine. 1,320 pods of ore containing radioactive metals
in a pick up truck was seized.
Jan 2005 – World Socialist forum in Brazil. (The secret of
the American empire. John Perkins. ©2007 US).
9 August 2006 – Violence in Sao Paulo, suspected gang
members exchanged gunfire with police, and hurled Molotov cocktails at banks,
and burned buses in and around Sao Paulo, for a second day. A Brazilian died
when he opened a grenade with a sledgehammer. Rios armed drug gangs who raid
military bases.
27 November 2006 – Fake suicide bomber threaten to blow up
Sao Paulo stock exchange. A masked man threatened to blow up the building of
the Sao Paulo Stock exchange. Later it was discovered he was carrying a fake
bomb.
2007 – A Brazilian CEO became head of Inbev Ambev, the world
largest beer company, in a merger. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine
van Agtmael).
2007 – Brazil’s CVRD made a $17.6 billion takeover bid for
Canadian nickel giant Inco ltd. (The emerging market century. ©20076 Antoine
van Agtmael).
2007 – The regional jets you fly are made by Embraer in
Brazil. (The emerging markets century. ©2007 Antoine van Agtmael).
16 Feb 2007 – Brazil’s air force chief, major general Pedro
Rafael Pena Antonio said on 15 Feb 2007. The Brazil government has offered to
sell 8 combat airplanes to the Dominican republic, Estadao reported. The
transaction would include a funding plan for 100% of the aircrafts value.
(Stratfor intel summary 16 Feb 2007).
2010 – UNICEF says 18% of children under 5 in Latin America
and the Caribbean have not been legally registered. In Brazil 25 million people
do not have a birth certificate. Three million babies in Colombia have not been
legally registered. In Mexico’s Chiapas
25,000 boys and girls do not have a birth certificate. A person with no ID is
not able to identify themselves. Those who “do not exist”. (Slavery inc. Lydia
Cacho ©2010 UK).
February 2011 – LDS Church history in Brazil facts Ensign
p70.
June 2012 – LDS President Dieter F Uchtdorf dedicated the
temple in Manaus Brazil. Ensign. Nov 2012 ).
19 November 2012 – Brazillian sex traffickers target
Switzerland. Human trafficking a code of silence in Switzerland.
1 Jan 2013 – Mushtaq Ahmed. Missing. Interpol.
12 May 2013 – Tammy Emanuele Alves Caldeira missing.
13 March 2014 – NZ police look for cocaine smuggling
suspect. Waikato Times Hamilton. Brazilian $1 million cocaine bust. South
America. Cocaine supply route between Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand.
6 June 2014 – Two Brazilians admit supplying cocaine. David
Clarkson. The Press Christchurch NZ. Possession of cocaine for supply 2.35
kilograms of cocaine worth 3.5 million hidden.
23 June 2014 – FIFA world cup forces homelessness on
thousands of children. Sick and elderly too. Liberty voice. Rebecca Savastio.
Forced evictions by government.
8 July 2014 – Brazil torture techniques revealed in
declassified US documents.
6 Aug 2014 – Latino Fox news EFE. Four Brazil police
officers arrested on rape charges. in a poor area. slums and police units.
18 Sept 2014 – NZ Herald. Holly Ryan. Tait expands in South
America. NZ communications company buys Brazil giant SGM telecommunicacoei.
Christchurch New Zealand based Tait communications. A digital wireless
business. Sao Paulo military and police riots and anti poor people. Military
police in Panama too.
28 Sept 2014 – Senator dismissed for corruption in Brazil
now behind bars. Fox news Latino. Banker construction magnate Luiz Estrevao.
4 Oct 2014 – Brazil elections. Wall street journal. Rio de
Janeiro Rochinha slums. Reuters Sao Paulo.
6 Oct 2014 – The persistence of corruption in Brazil’s
politics. Deusche Welle Germany. Embezzlement and corruption. Brazil politics.
16 Oct 2014 – 51 arrested for child porn in Brazil. Brazil
Business Today. Paedophiles.
22 Oct 2014 – Brazil corruption. New York Times. Presidential
voting, the evil of corruption is spreading like an epidemic.
29 Oct 2014 – Brazil Socialist. The New Yorker. Dilma
Rousseff. Brazil’s Socialist elected pres. The world’s fifth most populous
country. Socialism and corruption. The Guardian.
31 Oct 2014 – Petrobras, law firms, corruption
investigation., Petrobras is Brazil’s biggest company. Corruption scandals,
money laundering and manipulation investigations.
31 Oct 2014 – Socialism and corruption in Brazil. Rouseff.
The Guardian UK. embezzlement.
4 Nov 2014 – Petrobras int CEO. Wall Street Journal. Rio de
Janero. Brazil State run company Petroleo Brasileko SA. Seattle SP.
4 Nov 2014 – Intelnews.org. Joseph Fitsanakis. Brazil to
Portugal internet cable to avoid US intel agencies.
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