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Twilight 2000: Countdown to Armageddon
by Richard A. Spake ©


15 February 1995. Computer hacker Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and charged with penetrating some of the most secure computer systems in the United States of America.

26 February 1995. The oldest investment banking firm of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, the Barings Bank, collapses after securities broker named Nick Leeson looses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He will be arrested on 2 March for his role in the collapse of Barings Bank.

20 March 1995 (Tokyo Subway Sarin Gas Attack). Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult release sarin nerve gas on five subway trains in Tokyo, killing 13 and injuring over 5510 people.

19 April 1995 (Oklahoma City Bombing). Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off a fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people (including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children).

1 May 1995. Lionel Jospin is elected President of the French Republic.

16 May 1995. The Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo near Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.

13 June 1995. The French Republic announces the resumption of nuclear tests in French Polynesia.

24 August 1995. Microsoft releases Windows 95.

September 1995. The DVD, an optical disc computer storage media format, is announced.
4 September 1995. eBay is founded.

4 October 1995. The French Republic launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers, they Bob Denard and his mercenaries and take them back to France. Caabi el-Yachroutu becomes the interim president.

4 November 1995. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

3 December 1995. A series of labor strikes paralyze the public sector of the French Republic.


1995: A cabal of left-leaning officers carry out a coup d'état in Mexico. The new Mexican government secretly opens talks with Venezuela & Cuba establish a military treaty organization that will become known as the Havana Pact while taking US foreign economic and military aid.

Lionel Jospin (Socialist Party) is elected President of France after narrowly defeating Jacques René Chirac (Rally for the Republic), the Jospin regime will oversee the growth of a France dominated hegemony that will counter the United States around the world.

After the growing split between the heads of state of the Italian Republic and the Hellenic Republic with US and UK leadership of NATO, they formally withdraw from the NATO Alliance and announce the formation of the new Mediterranean Alliance.

In the Republican controlled United States Congress launches a series of major reforms that reshapes the Public Health Service to better deal with major medical emergencies on a national scale after the failure by the Clinton Administration to implement a government control over healthcare industry. The reforms undertaken by the PHS also provides medical and healthcare to the average American citizen, and provides educational opportunities to those a desire to become doctors, nurses and paramedics... but lack the finical support to follow their dreams.

August 1995. A group of world renown archeologists whom where working in the Harbor of Hong Kong searching wrecks from the Second World war discover a lost treaty between the United Kingdom and both sides of the Chinese Civil War that gives the British the rights to Hong Kong in perpetuity (along with several other nations being granted the same rights to their ‘colonial concessions’ such as the treaty made with the German government-in-exile after Nanking massacre). This causes a series of political problems and tensions between the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China that ambassadors and negotiators from both sides to hold a series of summits to decide their countries future course of action. The People’s Republic of China hold talks with East and West German representatives in hopes of economic assistance in exchange for the opening of a neo-colonial concession.

April 1995 - May 1997. After years of loyal service to the Warsaw Pact, the East German Armed Forces are allowed to establish their own Soviet-style Air Assault Brigades that are unveiled on 1 May 1997.


1 January 1995. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

15 January 1995. The third and successful assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II took place in Makati City, Philippines. Pope John Paul II was killed during his visit to the Philippines during the World Youth Day 1995 celebrations. A suicide bomber dressed as a priest was able to get close to the pope as John Paul II passed in his motorcade on his way to the San Carlos Seminary in Makati City. The assassination of the Pope was intended to divert attention from the next phase of the al-Qaeda funded Operation Bojinka, but the attempts to blow up twelve airliners failed when those tasked with the mission were captured during the security crackdown after the assassination. Al-Qaeda will use the planning and preparations taken for the Bojinka Plot by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who will evolve this planning into the 11 September 2001 attacks.

31 January 1995. Despite US President Bill Clinton invoking emergency powers to extend a $20 Billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse, a group of military officers and left-wing groups carry out the overthrow of the Mexican government during the next three weeks. The new ruling Junta uses the $20 Billion loan from the United States to strengthen and assure their control over the government and people of Mexico.

1 February 1995. In the aftermath of the assassination of Pope John Paul II, the College of Cardinals is called to the Papal Conclave of 1995 for the task of electing the new pope. They elect the West German Cardinal Jospeh Aloisius Ratzinger who chooses the name Pope Benedict XVI. During the aftermath of the murder of the Pope by terrorists, the newly elected Pope Benedict is convinced to restore the disbanded security and military organizations of Vatican City-State.

25 February 1995. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization is founded; officially the ACTO was only to implement the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) that was aimed at the promotion of sustainable development of the Amazon Basin. But this would slowly change over the next three years as Venezuelan President-for-Life Hugo Chavez funded the wave of Bolivarian governments and leaders who would seize control of nearly all of the governments of the ACTO member-states. ACTO Alliance would slowly evolve into a military alliance that would grow to expand into Central America and the Caribbean.

6 December 1995. The Latin American Cooperation Treaty Organization (LACTO) is formed; many will refer to the new Venezuelan dominated military alliance as the Havana Pact. The Republic of Cuba (1995), the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (1995), the Democratic Republic of Nicaragua (1995), the United Mexican States (1996), the Federative Republic of Brazil (1996), the Plurinational State of Bolivia (1996), the Republic of Ecuador (1997), the Republic of Peru (1997), the Democratic Republic of Honduras (1998), the Republic of Guatemala (1998), the Democratic Republic of El Salvador (1998),


June - August 1995. A group of world renown archeologists whom where working in the Harbor of Hong Kong searching wrecks from the Second World war discover a lost treaty between the United Kingdom and both sides of the Chinese Civil War that reinforced the British the rights to Hong Kong in perpetuity. The lost treaty reinforced the earlier treaties that had been made concerning the territories. Such as the fact that Hong Kong Island had already been ceded to the UK in perpetuity under the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842 after the First Opium War, and the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula as well as the Stonecutters Island had also been ceded to the UK in perpetuity under the Convention of Beijing in 1860 after the Second Opium War. At first this causes a series of political problems and tensions between the United Kingdom and the People’s Republic of China that ambassadors and negotiators from both sides to hold a series of summits to decide their countries future course of action due to the Sino-British Joint Declaration made on 27 May 1985.


6 April 1995 – 1 May 1997. After years of loyal service to the Warsaw Pact, the East German Armed Forces are allowed to establish their own Soviet-style Air Assault Brigades that are unveiled on 1 May 1997. The Soviet Union allows the German Democratic Republic to take more direct role actions within the Warsaw Pact with the increases in the frequency of the yearly military trails and training exercises.



<month year>. The economic and political reforms that had been spearheaded by Danilov show major improvements in the Soviet Union and its East European satellite states. The growth in the Eastern Bloc states economies continues to start to show a swift upbeat to the morale of the average East European citizens.



1995: The Year in Review

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January 1995

January 1995. D

1 January 1995. The World Trade Organization (WTO) is established to replace the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).

15 January 1995. The third and successful assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II took place in Makati City, Philippines. Pope John Paul II was killed during his visit to the Philippines during the World Youth Day 1995 celebrations. A suicide bomber dressed as a priest was able to get close to the pope as John Paul II passed in his motorcade on his way to the San Carlos Seminary in Makati City. The assassination of the Pope was intended to divert attention from the next phase of the al-Qaeda funded Operation Bojinka, but the attempts to blow up twelve airliners failed when those tasked with the mission were captured during the security crackdown after the assassination. Al-Qaeda will use the planning and preparations taken for the Bojinka Plot by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed who will evolve this planning into the 11 September 2001 attacks.

31 January 1995. Despite US President Bill Clinton invoking emergency powers to extend a $20 Billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse, a group of military officers and left-wing groups carry out the overthrow of the Mexican government during the next three weeks. The new ruling Junta uses the $20 Billion loan from the United States to strengthen and assure their control over the government and people of Mexico.


February 1995

February 1995. D

1 February 1995. In the aftermath of the assassination of Pope John Paul II, the College of Cardinals is called to the Papal Conclave of 1995 for the task of electing the new pope. They elect the West German Cardinal Jospeh Aloisius Ratzinger who chooses the name Pope Benedict XVI. During the aftermath of the murder of the Pope by terrorists, the newly elected Pope Benedict is convinced to restore the disbanded security and military organizations of Vatican City-State.

25 February 1995. The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization is founded; officially the ACTO was only to implement the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT) that was aimed at the promotion of sustainable development of the Amazon Basin. But this would slowly change over the next three years as Venezuelan President-for-Life Hugo Chavez funded the wave of Bolivarian governments and leaders who would seize control of nearly all of the governments of the ACTO member-states. ACTO Alliance would slowly evolve into a military alliance that would grow to expand into Central America and the Caribbean.


March 1995

March 1995. D

April 1995

April 1995. D

May 1995

May 1995. D

12 April 1995 - 1 May 1997. After years of loyal service to the Warsaw Pact, the East German Armed Forces are allowed to establish their own Soviet-style Air Assault Brigades that are unveiled on 1 May 1997.


June 1995

June 1995. D

July 1995

July 1995. D

21 July 1995 - 23 March 1996 (The Third Taiwan Straight Crisis). The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests conducted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the waters surrounding Taiwan including the Taiwan Strait from July 21, 1995 to March 23, 1996. The first set of missiles fired in mid to late 1995 were allegedly intended to send a strong signal to the Republic of China government under Lee Teng-hui, who had been seen as moving ROC foreign policy away from the One-China policy. The second set of missiles were fired in early 1996, allegedly intending to intimidate the Taiwanese electorate in the run-up to the 1996 presidential election.


August 1995

August 1995. D

September 1995

September 1995. D

October 1995

October 1995. D

November 1995

November 1995. D

December 1995

December 1995. D