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Tuesday, December 18, 2012
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UK 1 November 2006
UK 1 November 2006
1 November 2006 – Alex Goldfarb, a friend of Litvinenko’s
who ran the International Foundation for Civil Liberties, a human rights group,
funded by Boris Berezovsky, the Russian émigré who lives in London, and a
critic of Putin. Berezovsky is the man, Litvinenko claims, he was ordered to
assassinate by the FSB, the KGB successor. Goldfarb accused the Kremlin of
ordering his friends death and implicated Andrei Logovoi. (26 November 2006
Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun. Lugovoi
another ex-KGB officer, and Kovtun another Russian, met Litvinenko at the
Millennium hotel in Grosner square, just after his encounter with Scaramella.
Lugovoi, now a security operator in Moscow, claims Litvinenko drank nothing at
their meeting. (26 November 2006 Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – Mario Scaramella, an Italian academic and
security expert, who is part of an Italian parliamentary inquiry into KGB
activity says, he met Litvinenko for lunch lasting 35 minutes, in the Itsun
sushi bar on London’s Piccadilly on 1 November 2006. The same day Litvinenko
became ill. Claims they met “because” both their names were on a hit list which
he received an email about. Scotland Yard are investigating him. (26 November
2006 Sunday Observer Guardian UK).
1 November 2006 – A meeting on 1 November between Litvinenko
and two Russians at the Millennium hotel Mayfair. One of the men Andrei
Lugovoy, a former KGB bodyguard, had travelled to … business associate Dimitri
Kovtun, said they offered Litvinenko alcohol. Detectives of Scotland Yard
anti-terrorist branch are trying to piece together the movements of Litvinenko
on 1 November, when he met Mario Scaramella at a branch of the Itsu restaurant
chain, the first of several meetings held by the former Russian agent that day.
(Independent UK Cahal Milmo 30 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Around mid afternoon on the day Litvinenko
was fatally poisoned ,he met Russian businessmen Dmitry Kovtun and Andrei
Logovei who says Litvinenko did not drink anything while they were with him.
Later Kovtun li the drizzle to Muswell hill. His trip caught the grainy CCTV
which was being studied by Scotland Yard. Litvinenko called Kovtun the
following day to cancel their meeting. The victim of one of the most elaborate
assassinations in political history. His death has bewildered Scotland Yard’s
most experienced Detectives. (Sunday Observer Guardian 26 November 2006 UK).
1 November 2006 – A perpetrator may have entered Britain
shortly before 1 November 2006, the date Litvinenko is thought to have been
poisoned, and they may have fled London after administering the deadly dose.
Litvinenko was as good as dead as seen as the first alpha rays entered his
body. Litvinenko’s dissident friends blame the Kremlin. The Kremlin blames
Litvinenkos dissident friends. Russian agents have been named central suspect
has emerged. Vladimir Kuznetsov, former chief of Russias state atomic central
agency. He described Litvinenkos death by plutonium 210 as “journalistic
invention”. (Sunday Observer Guardian UK 26 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Poisoning of the former KGB agent who is
seriously ill in a London hospital. SVR. Mr Litvinenko claims he met a former
KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi at the hotel along with another Russian. Mr Lugovoi
said yesterday he would not comment. Mr Litvinenko claimed to have obtained
documents about Anna Politkovsky’s death, on the day Litvinenko was poisoned.
Mr Litvinenko said Dr Scaramella, passed him material that suggested secret
service operatives were connected with the death of Politkovsky. Dr Scaramella
also showed him a hit list which named him Litvinenko. (Jeevan Vasagar. Tom
Parfitt in Moscow. The Guardian UK 23 Novembver 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Goldfarb said all options should be
explored including whether the poison might have been sprinkled into
Litvinenko’s drink during a meeting at a central London hotel on 1 November
before he went to the sushi restaurant. Litvinenko briefly met two men from
Moscow, one of them was a former KGB officer he knew for tea at the hotel
Goldfarb said. Litvinenko said he had not previously met the second man.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied involvement. (Pravda Ru article 27
November 2006 front page 20 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Scaramella told Italian reporters that
when he met with Litvinenko on 1 November he showed him emails from a mutual
intelligence acquaintance containing a list of individuals whose lives were
said to be in danger from criminals based in St Petersburg. The emails
reportedly claim that the same criminals killed Anna Politkovskaya. Litvinenko
was investigating her fatal shooting in Moscow in October when he was poisoned.
(New York Times Alan Cowell 28 November 2006 Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Mr Litvinenko a former Russian secret
service agent accused the Russian authorities of poisoning him, with what
police said was an ingestion of radioactive isotope polonium 210. Litvinenko
claimed to have refused an order to assassinate Berezovsky in the late 1990’s.
I credit him with saving my life. Police tracked Litvinenko on 1 November to a
sushi bar, a five star hotel in central London and his home in north London.
They also found traces of radiation in the offices of a security company in
Mayfair called Erinys, Litvinenko visited its offices. (New York Times 28
November 2006 Alan Lowell and Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Yuri Shvets, a former Russian security
official old BBC that Litvnenko believed he was poisoned when he met three Russian
businessmen, Andrei Lugovoy, Dmitri Kovtun and Vyacheslav Sokolenko, at a
central London hotel on 1 November 2006. He said he drank a tea which was not
made in front of him. (Indias national newspaper online 18 December 2006 Hasan
Suroor).
1 November 2006 – Radiation was found in offices of Russian
billionaire Boris Berezovsky. An exiled Russian billionaire and opponent of the
Kremlin. Confirmed today that police found traces in his offices following the
death last week of Litvinenko. The discovery of radioactive traces at Mr
Berezovsky Mayfair offices highlighted one more clue about Litvinenko’s
movements on the day he first reported feeling unwell November 1 2006. Mr
Beresovsky visited Litvinenko in his hospital bed before he died, apart from
the traces at his offices, where Litvinenko was a frequent visitor. He has not
been implicated in the police inquiry. (New York Times 28 November 206 Alan
Lowell and Peter Kiefer in Rome).
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko told Scaramella, on the day he
fell ill, that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia
for his security service employers. Scaramella met Litvinenko on 1 November to
discuss a death threat aimed at both of them. In an interview with the
Independent soon after the poisoning became public, Scaramella said that
Litvinenko was a friend since 2001, told him he had masterminded the smuggling
of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000. The operation would have been one of
the last carried out by Litvinenko while still an FSB officer, in a unit
tackling organised crime and smuggling. (Independent UK Cahal Milmo Peter
Popham and Jason Bennetto 29 November 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Scaramella, an academic and examining
magistrate based in Rome and Naples, had been due to meet Litvinenko on 10
November in London, but brought the meeting forward at short notice on 1
November. The Itsu restaurant in Piccadilly, where traces of polonum-210 were
found, is thought to be the first location visited by Litvinenko on 1 November.
Later he met the two Russian businessmen at a Mayfair hotel and visited the
nearby offices of Berezovsky and a security firm where polonium traces were
also found. Police said they were searching the five star Sheraton park lane
hotel in Mayfair and an office building in west end. (Independent UK Cahal
Milmo. Peter Popham. Jason Bennetto. 29 November 2006).
1 November 2006 - Scaramella says he has long been involved
in investigating the smuggling of radioactive material by the KGB ad its
successors. He said in 2005 that Soviet destroyers had laid 20 nuclear torpedos
in the Bay of Naples in 1970, where they remain. Berezovsky was visited almost
daily by Litvinenko. (Independent UK Cahal Milmo. Peter Popham. Jason Bennetto.
29 November 2006)
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with
another former KGB spy Andei Lugovoy and two other men he had never met before.
Later goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario Scaramella who showed
him an email, identifying émigrés to Britain being targeted by Russian agents
and the identities of those who gunned down Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in
October. Later feels unwell and is taken to a London hospital. 20 November
police said their counter terrorism unit is investigating. Traces of radiation
were found at a number of sites including Litvineko’s north London home, the
sushi bar and the hotel he visited earlier that day. (AP London Int Herald
Tribune 29 November 2006).
1 November 2006 – Death of an ex-agent … Neil Buckley.
Arkady Ostrovsky. Stephen Fedler. Forces connected to Ramzan Kadyrov the
Chechen PM were seen as possible suspects in Anna Politkovskaya’s murder. Igor
Shuvalov a senior aide to Putin told the FT this week, the two recent deaths
were links in the same chain. Evgenia Albats a Russian journalist and author of
a book about the KGB said the FSB could have carried out Litvinenkos murder
which bore its handwriting is run totally by the KGB they call themselves.
1 November 2006 – British spy poison case detector to fly to
Moscow and Rome this week. The Sunday Telegraph reported. Security service in
Britain suspect that Russian agents or a rogue unit were behind the
sophisticated nuclear weapons elements used for the murder. Scotland Yard’s
counter terrorism unit to question two Russians and an Italian professor who
lunched with Litvinenko at the same Japanese restaurant in central London.
Scotland Yard’s officers flying to Moscow to interview Lugovoy and Kovrun.
Detectives also travel to Rome to see Scaramella. (27 November 2006 Russia).
1 November 2006 – The last person to meet Alexander
Litvinenko before he succumbed to the effects of radioactive poisoning was an
expert in nuclear materials. Online site this is London says Mario Scaramella
headed an organisation which traded dumped nuclear waste including old Soviet
nuclear missiles. Litvinenko allegedly fell ill after the Sushi lunch and died
22 days later from poisoning by polonium. (27 November 2006 ).
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko meets at a London hotel with
another former KGB spy Andrei Lugovoy and two other men he had never met
before. Later goes to a sushi bar to meet Italian academic Mario Scaramella who
shows him an email allegedly identifying émigrés to Britain being targeted by
Russian agents and the identities of those who gunned down Russian journalist
Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in October. Later feels unwell taken to a London
hospital.
1 November 2006 – Litvinenko told Scaramella on the day he
fell ill that he had organised the smuggling of nuclear material out of Russia
for his security service employers. Scaramella met Litvinenko on 1 November to
discuss a death threat aimed at both of them. In an interview with the
Independent soon after the poisoning became public Scaramella said that
Litvinenko was a friend since 2001, told him he had masterminded the smuggling
of radioactive material to Zurich in 2000. The operation could have been one of
the last carried out by Litvinenko while still an FSB officer in a unit
tackling organised crime and smuggling. (Independent Cahao Milmo. Peter Popham.
Jason Bennetto).
Friday, December 14, 2012
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).
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.
13 May 1888 – Slavery was abolished in Brazil. About 4
million slaves were imported the most of any country in the west.
1950’s – A Norwegian who had fought in the forests during
the resistance of WW2 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).
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).
24 July 2002 – Ukraine 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.
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).
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.
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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