The Doomsday Plan by

APOLOGIES
I hope you my reader will forgive me for my endless mistakes: grammar,
spelling, syntax, facts and omissions. These I fear would take another
lifetime to rectify, which I don’t have given my advancing years, that plus
the fact I have so many other stories to tell and observations to make on our
world. Perhaps one day Google and AI will find a way to remove this burden
from story tellers, who like me are not sufficiently applied, as my headmaster
once told me.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book could not have been written without the data and information
published on the Internet and in the world press collected over a period of
years, starting in 2000, when I wrote Offshore Islands, and Pat Kennedy was
launched on his initially precarious international career.

I have trawled numerous British, Irish, US, Russian, French, Spanish,
Chinese, Israeli, Colombian newspapers, news blogs and specialist Internet
sites, and books (authors’ cited). And of course Wikipedia.

During this period I have collected information during my visits to the
USA, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, India, Dubai, Thailand,
Cambodia, Libya, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Mali, Morocco,
Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Brazil, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, the
Philippines, the UK, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain and Italy. To this I
have added my experience in other parts of the world, notably Ireland,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Taiwan,
Japan, Burma, Switzerland, Algeria, Russia, Scandinavia, the Baltic
Countries, Poland, Hungary, the countries of ex-Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey,
Russia, Turkmenistan, Jordan, Syria, Israel, Egypt, the Caribbean, Central
and South America.

I present my thanks and excuses to all the willing and unwilling
contributors to the information included in this book, I am not the first to
tread in the footsteps of Jack London, using the information supplied to us
from those who convey it. I have tried to verify all the facts, but this is an
impossible task. In my humble opinion most data reflects real events and the
opinions of the vast majority of persons affected, directly or indirectly, by
the multiple events and crises that constitute our collective existence.

This is a story, a novelised account of events, real or not, where the
fictitious characters are fictitious, and where the real characters, such as

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Vladimir Putin, Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and
Emanuel Macron, are real.

The story of 2000, and its sequels in 2010-2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and
2018, are recounted in my other tales.

With my very sincere thanks to all contributors, direct and indirect,
knowing and unknowing, willing and unwilling.

John Francis Kinsella

Earth Day, Paris, April 22, 2020

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Other books by John Francis Kinsella

Fiction
Borneo Pulp
Offshore Islands
The Legacy of Solomon

The Plan
The Prism 2049
The Lost Forest
Death of a Financier
The Turning Point 2007-2008
The Collection
A Redhead at the Pushkin
The Last Ancestor

Cornucopia
A Weekend in Brussels

The Cargo Club

Non-fiction
An Introduction to Early Twentieth Century Chinese Literature

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Translations
Le Point de Non Retour
The Sorrow of Europe
The Temple of Solomon
Jean Sibelius - A biography
Understanding Architecture

L’île de l’ouest
In the works
A Biography of Patrick Wolfe (Fiction)

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