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'''1955'''  
 
'''1955'''  
 
==Bilderberg==
 
==Bilderberg==
 
1955 was one of only two years in which more than one [[Bilderberg]] conferences took place. The first was the [[Bilderberg/1955 March]] conference, the second [[Bilderberg/1955 September]] conference.
 
1955 was one of only two years in which more than one [[Bilderberg]] conferences took place. The first was the [[Bilderberg/1955 March]] conference, the second [[Bilderberg/1955 September]] conference.
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==Events==
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* [[January 17]] – {{USS|Nautilus|SSN-571|6}}, the first [[Nuclear marine propulsion|nuclear-powered]] submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from [[Groton, Connecticut]].
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* [[January 22]] – In the United States, [[The Pentagon]] announces a plan to develop [[intercontinental ballistic missile]]s (ICBMs), armed with [[nuclear weapon]]s.
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* [[January 25]] – The [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]] of the [[Soviet Union]] announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in [[1941]].
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* [[January 28]] – The [[United States Congress]] authorizes President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] to use force to protect [[Taiwan|Formosa]] from the People's Republic of China.
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* [[February 9]] – [[Apartheid]] in [[South Africa]]: 60,000 non-white residents of the [[Sophiatown]] [[Suburbs of Johannesburg|suburb of Johannesburg]] are forcibly evicted.
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* [[February 10]] – The [[United States Seventh Fleet]] helps the [[Republic of China]] evacuate the [[Chinese Nationalist]] army and residents from the [[Tachen Islands]] to [[Taiwan]].
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* [[February 19]] – The [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] (SEATO) is established, at a meeting in [[Bangkok]].
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* [[February 24]] – The [[Baghdad Pact]] (CENTO), originally known as [[Baghdad Pact|Middle East Treaty Organization]] (METO), is signed between Iraq and Turkey.
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* [[April 1]] – [[EOKA]] starts a terrorist campaign against British rule in the [[Crown colony]] of [[Cyprus]].
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** [[Winston Churchill]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]], due to ill-health, at the age of 80.
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** [[Richard J. Daley]] defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago, by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
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* [[April 6]] – [[Anthony Eden]] becomes [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
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** The [[Taiwan]]ese [[Kuomintang]] (with good help from the [[CIA]]) put a time-bomb on the airplane ''[[Kashmir Princess]]'', killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, [[Zhou Enlai]].
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* [[April 12]] – The [[Salk polio vaccine]], having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the [[Food and Drug Administration]].
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* [[April 17]] – [[Imre Nagy]], the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
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* [[April 18]]–[[April 24]] – The [[Asian-African Conference]] is held in [[Bandung]], Indonesia.
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* [[May 5]] – [[West Germany]] becomes a sovereign country, recognized by important Western countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
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* [[May 6]] – The [[Western European Union]] Charter becomes effective.
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* [[May 14]] – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the [[Soviet Union]], sign a mutual defence treaty in [[Warsaw]], Poland, that is called the [[Warsaw Pact]] (it will be dissolved in [[1991]]).
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* [[May 15]] – The [[Austrian State Treaty]], which restores Austria's national sovereignty, is concluded between [[Allied-occupied Austria|the 4 occupying powers following World War II]] (the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France) and Austria, setting it up as a neutral country.
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* [[June 26]] – The [[Freedom Charter]] of the anti-[[apartheid]] [[South Africa]]n [[Congress Alliance]] is adopted, at a [[Congress of the People (1955)|Congress of the People]] in [[Kliptown]].
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* [[July 7]] – The [[New Zealand Special Air Service]] is formed.
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** The first atomic-generated electrical power is sold commercially, partially powering [[Arco, Idaho]], from the U.S. [[National Reactor Testing Station]]; on July 18, [[Schenectady, New York]], receives power from a prototype nuclear submarine reactor at [[Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory]].
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* [[July 18]] – Illinois Governor [[William Stratton]] signs the Loyalty Oath Act, that mandates all public employees take a loyalty oath to the State of Illinois and the United States or lose their jobs.
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* [[July 18]]–[[July 23|23]] – [[Geneva Summit (1955)|Geneva Summit]] between the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom and France.
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* [[July 27]] – [[El Al Flight 402]] from [[Vienna]] (Austria) to [[Tel Aviv]], via [[Istanbul]], is shot down over [[Bulgaria]]. All 58 passengers and crewmen aboard the [[Lockheed Constellation]] are killed.
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* [[August 1]] – The prototype [[Lockheed U-2]] [[reconnaissance aircraft]] first flies, in Nevada.
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** The [[First Sudanese Civil War]] begins.
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* [[August 20]] – Hundreds of people are killed in anti-French rioting in [[Morocco]] and [[Algeria]].
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* [[August 28]] – Black 14-year-old [[Emmett Till]] is [[lynching in the United States|lynched]] and shot in the head for allegedly grabbing and threatening a white woman in [[Money, Mississippi]]; his white murderers, Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam, are acquitted by an all-white jury.
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*[[September 6]] – [[Istanbul pogrom]]: [[Istanbul]]'s Greek minority is the target of a government-sponsored [[pogrom]].
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** The military coup to unseat President [[Juan Perón]] of Argentina is launched at midnight.
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** A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a [[ballistic missile]].
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* [[September 18]] – The United Kingdom formally annexes the uninhabited Atlantic island of [[Rockall]].
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* [[September 19]]–[[September 21|21]] – [[President of Argentina]] [[Juan Perón]] is ousted in a military coup.
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* [[October 4]] – The Reverend [[Sun Myung Moon]] is released from prison in [[Seoul]], South Korea.
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** [[Ngo Dinh Diem|Ngô Đình Diệm]] proclaims [[Vietnam]] to be a republic, with himself as its President (following the [[1955 State of Vietnam referendum|State of Vietnam referendum]] on [[October 23]]), and forms the [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam]].
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* [[October 29]] – [[Italian battleship Giulio Cesare#Novorossiysk|Soviet battleship ''Novorossiysk'']] explodes at moorings in [[Sevastopol]] Bay, killing 608 (the [[Soviet Union]]'s worst naval disaster to date). Rumored to have been done by [[X flotilla mas|Italian frogmen]].
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** Official start date of the [[Vietnam War]] between the [[North Vietnam|Democratic Republic of Vietnam]] and [[Republic of Vietnam]]; the north is allied with the [[Viet Cong]].
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** A time bomb explodes in the cargo hold of [[United Airlines Flight 629]], a [[Douglas DC-6]]B, over [[Longmont, Colorado]], killing all 39 passengers and 5 crew members on board.
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* [[November 15]] - [[Democratic Party (Japan, 1954)|Democratic Party of Japan]] and [[Liberal Party (Japan, 1950)|Japan Liberal Party]] were mergered, ruling [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|Japan Liberal Democratic Party]] has active started.
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** The [[American Federation of Labor]] and the [[Congress of Industrial Organizations]] merge, to become the [[AFL–CIO]].
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* [[December 10]] – [[1955 Australian federal election]]: [[Robert Menzies]]' [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]]/[[National Party of Australia|Country]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] [[Menzies Government (1949-66)|Government]] is re-elected with a substantially increased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[H. V. Evatt]]. This election comes in the immediate aftermath of the devastating [[Australian Labor Party split of 1955|split]] in the Labor Party, which leads to the formation of the [[Democratic Labor Party (historical)|Democratic Labor Party]]. The DLP will preference against Labor, and keep the Coalition in office until [[1972 Australian federal election|1972]].
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** [[Albania]], [[Austria]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Cambodia]], [[Finland]], [[Hungary]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], [[Italy]], [[Jordan]], [[Laos]], [[Libya]], [[Nepal]], [[Portugal]], [[Romania]], [[Spain]], and [[Sri Lanka]] join the [[United Nations]] simultaneously, after several years of moratorium on admitting new members that began during the [[Korean War]].
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** [[General Motors]] becomes the first American corporation to make a profit of over 1 billion dollars in 1 year.
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** [[Austria]] becomes independent, under terms of the May 15 [[Austrian State Treaty]].
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===World population===
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* [[World population]]: 2,755,823,000
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** Africa: 246,746,000
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** Asia: 1,541,947,000
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** Europe: 575,184,000
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** South America: 190,797,000
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** North America: 186,884,000
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** Oceania: 14,265,000
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==References==
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Atomic bomb testing in the Nevada desert.
Year 1955

1955

Bilderberg

1955 was one of only two years in which more than one Bilderberg conferences took place. The first was the Bilderberg/1955 March conference, the second Bilderberg/1955 September conference.

Events

World population

  • World population: 2,755,823,000
    • Africa: 246,746,000
    • Asia: 1,541,947,000
    • Europe: 575,184,000
    • South America: 190,797,000
    • North America: 186,884,000
    • Oceania: 14,265,000





 

Events

EventStartEndDescription
Operation Bootstrap19301970Between 1930 and 1970, around one third of all women in the US territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized
Tuskegee syphilis experiment19321972A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
Morgenthau Plan16 September 19445 May 1955Proposal to destroy or remove Germany's industrial base.
Ratline19451960Channels where by prominent Nazis were spirited out of Europe to South America.
Operation Paperclip8 May 19451990A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Cold War194726 September 1991The official narrative had 2 diametrically opposed systems locked in combat with one another since soon after WW2. Each of the "superpowers" and its team of allies needed to outdo each other by creating ever more and deadlier weapons, creating a kind of perpetual war for perpetual peace, with the warring parties engaging mainly in covert/proxy wars. Deep state interests blossomed in the climate of fear and paranoia.
Operation Demagnetize19481980"The institutional hardening of Gladio", an expansion of Gladio in the late 1940s, early 1950s.
Project AERODYNAMIC19491970Program to provide funding and equipment for anti-Soviet resistance groups in Ukraine
Project Ulysses19501968Mossad covert operation to infiltrate and subvert the Palestinian political leadership
Lockheed/Bribery scandals19501976A series of bribes made by officials of the U.S. aerospace company Lockheed from the late 1950s to the 1970s in the process of negotiating the sale of aircraft.
Mau Mau Uprising19521960A Kenyan independence movement in the 1950s that faced brutal opposition by the UK.
Operation Midnight Climax19531966A "free-wheeling illicit criminal" CIA project which filmed the effects of prostitutes dosing up victims with drugs such as LSD.
Project MKUltra13 April 19531973An illegal mind control research programme, where psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, in addition to other forms of torture were used to gain control of individuals.
Cuban Revolution26 July 19531 January 1959
Algerian War1 November 195419 March 1962The Algerian War of Independence
Bandung Conference19551955Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy
Bilderberg/1955 March18 March 195520 March 1955The second Bilderberg meeting, held in France. Just 42 guests, fewer than any other.
Kashmir Princess11 April 195511 April 1955CIA/KMT assassination attempt on Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai on the way to the Bandung Conference.
Bilderberg/1955 September23 September 195525 September 1955The third Bilderberg, in West Germany. The subject of a report by Der Spiegel which inspired a heavy blackout of subsequent meetings.
Montgomery Bus Boycott5 December 195520 December 1956A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.

 

New Groups

GroupImageTypeDescription
Chaminade University of HonoluluChaminadeSeal.pngMilitary ranksCatholic university with 66% Asian/Pacific Islander students
Bar-Ilan UniversityBar Ilan seal.pngPublicImportant Uni in Israel, deep state connections
University of ExeterUniversity of Exeter arms.pngUniversity in the South West of England
Institute of Business Administration (Karachi)Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (logo).pngPublic university in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
General AtomicsGeneral Atomics Logo.svgCommercialPart of the military-industrial complex, much more than nuclear.
European Coal and Steel CommunityGroup.pngA step towards European Union
German Council on Foreign RelationsDgap.pngThink tank with deep state connections
Chase ManhattanGroup.pngPredecessor institution to the current JPMorgan Chase. Rockefeller family.
Liberal Democratic PartyGroup.pngFrom 1955 the party has been in power in Japan almost continuously
Kadıköy Maarif CollegeKadıköy Maarif Logo.jpgPrestigious high school in Istanbul
South VietnamFlag of South Vietnam.pngNation stateUS puppet state and location for most of the Vietnam War
Harvey Mudd CollegeHarvey Mudd College seal.pngMilitary ranks
Liberal arts
Private college in Claremont, California, focused on science and engineering.
The People's TempleThe People's Temple.jpgA cult started by Jim Jones for unclear reasons, possibly at the behest of the US Deep state
Institute of Economic AffairsGroup.pngThink tank
Toronto-Dominion BankToronto-Dominion Bank logo.svgOne of the big 5 Canadian banks. People connected to it have a Bilderberg habit.
ITVITV.jpgPropagandaBritish state media. Main rival of the BBC.
ITV NewsITV News.jpeg
Action Committee for the United States of EuropeGroup.pngAlthough it had only about 100 members, the Committee enjoyed considerable influence

 

A Group that was Wound Up

GroupImage
Congress of Industrial OrganisationsCIO logo.gif

 

==A Quotation== 

Deaths

TitleBornDiedPlace of deathSummaryDescription
Lionel Curtis18721955Academic
Deep state operative
Senior UK deep state operative, the first honorary secretary of Chatham House
William Lauriston Melville Lee18651955Spook
Soldier
Dougal Malcolm18771955Deep state operativeUK deep state operative. Director of the British South Africa Company for 37 years
Edward Pease18575 January 1955Author
Fred Brown12 April 18793 February 1955New Hampshire
Somersworth
US politician
Archibald Maule Ramsay4 May 189411 March 1955Soldier
Politician
John W. Davis13 April 187324 March 1955United States
South Carolina
Charleston
Politician
Robert McCormick30 July 18801 April 1955Illinois
Wheaton
Soldier
Lawyer
Media executive
Albert Einstein14 March 187918 April 1955ScientistTheoretical physicist best known to the general public for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2
Owen Roberts2 May 18752 May 1955United States
Pennsylvania
West Vincent
Cordell Hull2 October 187123 July 1955United States
Washington DC
Politician
Lawyer
The longest serving US Secretary of State, granted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945 for his role in establishing the United Nations, and was referred to by President Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations".
Qavam Saltaneh2 January 187323 July 1955Iran
Tehran
William D. Mitchell9 September 187424 August 1955New York
US
Syosset
Lawyer
Leo Amery22 November 187316 September 1955London
United Kingdom
Politician
Deep state actor
UK historian and deep state actor, chief lieutenant of Alfred Milner
Guerin De Beaumont29 August 189613 October 1955France
Nice
PoliticianAttended the first Bilderberg as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of the European Defence Community. Made French Minister of Justice soon after. Died in 1955.

 

Births

TitleBornPlace of birthDiedSummaryDescription
John Gilmore1955United States
Pennsylvania
York
Activist
Hacker
One of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Perry Kucinich195519 December 20079-11/Premature death"Fell down dead six months after his brother Dennis Kucinich called for new 9/11 investigation and introduced a resolution to impeach Dick Cheney." His sister died a year later.
Stephen Poloz1955Ontario
Oshawa
Deep state functionary
Central banker
Canadian deep state functionary who as Governor of the Bank of Canada in March 2020 increased the money supply.
Joseph Clancy1955United States
Indiana
Elwood
SpookDirector of the United States Secret Service 2014-2017
Johnny Chung1955TaiwanFraudster
Businessperson
Chinese businessman involved in the financing of Bill Clinton's election bid. Sentenced to probation and 3,000 hours.
Susan McDougal1955Germany
Heidelberg
Businessperson
Muharrem Kayhan1955Turkey
Izmir
BusinesspersonChairman of TÜSIAD. Bilderberg 2000
Evan Greenberg1955USDeep state operative
Businessperson
US businessman, GLT 1998, 2nd generation multi-Bilderberger
Dmitri Trenin1955Soviet Union
Moscow
Spook
Soldier
Academic
Russian military spook which from 1994 turned academic and started working for US foundations. Double Bilderberger.
Tom Johnstone1955GlasgowBusinesspersonSwedish Wallenberg sphere business manager and Bilderberger.
Mungo Melvin1955Soldier
Historian
Major-General and "outstanding intellectual" at the Institute for Statecraft
Judy BoyntonJanuary 1955
Ross Wilson1955US
Minnesota
Minneapolis
DiplomatAttended the 2007 Bilderberg as US Ambassador to Turkey
Eberhard Sandschneider1955AcademicGerman Asia expert
Francesco Starace1955BusinesspersonItalian energy executive with heavy focus on phasing out coal plants, for Net Zero Carbon Cities.
Stephen Adler1955Journalist
Editor
editor-in-chief of Reuters, the source of most news, since 2011.
Patty Lumpkin1955US5 April 2023RealtorWife of a Raytheon director who was killed in a plane crash
Hannes Hofbauer1955ViennaAuthor
Journalist
COVID-19/Resistance
Media executive
Austrian author, journalist and book publisher.
Jutta Rabe1955Journalist
Bernard Squarcini1955French Morocco
Rabat
SpookFrench spook close to Nicolas Sarkozy. Revealed that the French government showed little interest in finding Syrian jihadists.
Sherard Cowper-Coles8 January 1955London
United Kingdom
Diplomat
Spook
Banker
Businessperson
Spooky UK diplomat
Anne Pringle13 January 1955DiplomatUK diplomat to EU and Russia.
Con Coughlin14 January 1955Author
Journalist
Editor
Neoconservatism
Foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph best known for receiving stories directly from MI6, including that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes.
Thierry Breton15 January 1955France
Paris
PoliticianFrench politician and leader of large corporations, briefly at Rothschild & Cie Banque. WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/1998. From 2019 European Commissioner implementing censorship.
Pietro Parolin17 January 1955Italy
Schiavon
Religious leaderCatholic Cardinal and Vatican Secretary of State
Jeff Koons21 January 1955United States
Pennsylvania
York
Artist
Neil Bush22 January 1955Texas
Midland
BusinesspersonSon of George H. W. Bush, involved in the Savings and loan fraud.
John Jenkins26 January 1955DiplomatUK diplomat with several deep state positions
John G. Roberts27 January 1955New York
United States
Buffalo
Nicolas Sarkozy28 January 1955France
Paris
Politician
Fraudster
Deep state operative
French deep state operative charged with "criminal association"
Melanie Johnson5 February 1955Ipswich
UK
Left her post as UK Minister for Public Health in May 2005, and in March 2006 joined the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
James Stavridis15 February 1955United States
West Palm Beach
Florida
SoldierRetired US Navy admiral who was Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
Bob Wieckowski18 February 1955Politician
Big pharma/Lobbyist
“The police power of the state...has absolute authority to force that person (even adults) to get the vaccination...We undervalue our power–the state police power. If we believe that children are being harmed, we go into this domain of family rights, which are not absolute, and my question is: maybe we are not going far enough?”
Peter Luff18 February 1955United Kingdom
Berkshire
Windsor
Politician
Bob Kerslake28 February 1955Head of the UK Home Civil Service 2012-2014
Thomas Thune AndersenMarch 1955Banker
Businessperson
Danish Bilderberger who was CEO of oil subsidiary of shipping giant Maersk
Ken Salazar2 March 1955US
Colorado
Alamosa
Diplomat
Politician
Lawyer
American politician and diplomat
John-Reier Martinsen3 March 19551 February 1986Activist
Friedbert Pflüger6 March 1955PoliticianGerman politician
Marta Dassù8 March 1955Politician
Deep state operative
Deep state connected general director of the international activities of Aspen Institute Italy. NATO, Trilateral Commission, European Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies...
Søren-Peter Olesen13 March 1955Academic
Doctor
Former member of the Board of Directors of The Carlsberg Foundation
Cynthia McKinney17 March 1955Georgia
Atlanta
Activist
Politician
Academic
Teacher
COVID-19/Dissident
American politician who did question the official narrative of 9/11 early on.
William Hones17 March 1955
Ole Petter Ottersen17 March 1955Norway
Kongsberg
Doctor
Administrator
Bilderberg physician promoting COVID jabs
Jean-Bernard Lévy18 March 1955France
Suresnes
Businessperson
Christian Perronne19 March 1955Doctor
Scientist
Administrator
COVID-19/Dissident
Former leader of the French vaccine committee on the High Council on Public Health. A fervent and well informed COVID dissident.
Paul Gallagher20 March 1955Kerry
Eire
Tralee
LawyerAttorney General of Ireland, 5 Bilderbergs
Jair Bolsonaro21 March 1955PoliticianPresident of Brazil who publicly refused a COVID-19 jab and suggested that the virus may have been intentionally created and released.
Mariano Rajoy27 March 1955Spain
Santiago de Compostela
Politician
Stephen Lynch31 March 1955PoliticianUS politician
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