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Crowds gather at the decrepit Berlin Wall in November, 1989
A year of huge political change in Eastern Europe, as the people in nation after nation rose up to express their discontent with the Soviet backed governments. In China, the government stifled the popular demands for government change by a mass murder of (at least) hundreds of students.

1989 marked the end of the entrenched cold war, as the communist governments of Eastern Europe began to yield to popular pressure.

Savings & Load fraud

Full article: Savings and loan fraud

1989 was a peak year in the USA for bank failures, as the ongoing Savings and loan fraud continued to transfer money from ordinary US citizens to those committing the (cabal-enabled) fraud. Author Pete Brewton has called this "the largest theft in the history of the world", and estimated the size of the total theft as about $500,000,000,000.

Disintegration of the Soviet Empire

In 1989, many nation states in Eastern Europe underwent sweeping political change in response to organised non-violent demonstrations by millions of their citizens. In contrast the report of the 1989 Bilderberg predicted that “The political stability of Eastern Europe will continue into the nineties.” One exception was Romania, where Nicolae Ceaușescu's government was toppled 8 days after the military, police and Securitate shot anti-government demonstrators.

Existential crisis for Cold Warriors

The end of the Cold War presented a challenge for institutions which had been using it to justify their existence, a gap which was filled by "terrorism", a narrative in preparation since 1979:

“In one sense MI6 and MI5 have got it right, are, in fact, a brilliant success. Faced with their biggest crisis of the post-war period, the end of the Red Menace which justified the budgets,

the careers and the gongs, they have emerged with budgets renewed, new agendas approved; untouched by the politicians, unsupervised by anyone, still - we are not supposed to laugh - still accountable to the Crown not Parliament ( i.e. to no-one). Both MI6 and MI5 have reacted to the new conditions post Cold War in thoroughly competent, even creative ways. Needing something something to justify the budget, MI6 picked the international drug trade. Far as I know, since MI6 joined the 'war against drugs' the price of cocaine and heroin in the UK at street level has halved: it is now cheaper to get off your face, as they say in Hull, on smack than it is on alcohol. And didn't I read a few months ago that MI6 had persuaded Clare Short to task them to provide her with early warning of coups in the developing world? An honest-to-goodness license to do anything, anywhere. Only a Labour government, timid and ignorant, would fall for a proposal as preposterous as that one. MI5 hardly paused for breath after losing the KGB 'threat' contained in the Soviet Embassy and its Trade Mission, before acquiring the domestic terrorism franchise from the Met Special Branch and beginning the process of hyping up the animal rights and green activists as a new terrorist threat. (And they are getting a new definition of terrorism run through the Houses of Parliament to support it.) Of course, only the politicians and some of the media - the handful who are paying any attention at all - take the talk of the war on drugs seriously. MI6 don't, I am sure; any more than they seriously intend to provide Clare Short with an early warning of coups in the Third World. At the higher levels of MI6, MI5 and all the rest they must be

chortling in the senior dining rooms at the incredible gullibility of the British political class - and this present lot in particular.”
Robin Ramsay

Tiananmen Square, China

A year of huge political change in Eastern Europe, as the people in nation after nation rose up to express their discontent with the Soviet backed governments. In China, the government stifled the popular demands for government change by a mass murder of (at least) hundreds of students.

Inspired by the success of people in Eastern Europe, hundreds of thousands protested the government and demanded some proper representation. The Chinese government mobilised up to 300,000 soldiers and killed or injured thousands of demonstrators. The courage of Tank Man is one legacy of this bloodbath that continues to inspire non-violent resistance.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Operation Paperclip	8 May 1945	1990	A transfer of top German scientists to USA.
Cold War	1947	26 September 1991	The 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.
The Troubles	1966	1998	The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969
Operation Condor	1968	1989	US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America.
Inslaw	1970	1990	Complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record.
FBI/Activities 1971-2001	1971	2001	FBI activities between the official end of COINTELPRO and 911
Project STARGATE	1978	1995	Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group.
Operation Cyclone	1979	1992	The first time the CIA officially met Osama Bin Laden, they deemed him part of the hero movement to protect the world against Soviet influence. In Operation Cyclone, the CIA funded him and allowed entire cities to become death traps with the narrative of giving Soviets their own Vietnam.
1980s Afghan war	24 December 1979	15 February 1989	Another episode of the Soviet Union and US imploding a third world country from inside by fuelling a civil war with weapon smuggling. Afghanistan has yet to recover.
Ronald Reagan/Presidency	20 January 1981	20 January 1989	The Ronald Reagan administration 1981-1989
The secret war against Sweden	27 October 1981	1994	A large number of "Soviet" submarine intrusions in Swedish waters in the 1980s, in reality committed by NATO under false flag. The intrusions were about deception and PSYOPs, to change the mindset of the Swedes, to make them adapt to US interests.
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
McMartin Preschool	August 1983	July 1990	The day care scandal that started the so-called "satanic panic" of the 80s. Covered up.
Al-Yamamah arms deal	September 1985	August 2006	A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions.
Savings and loan fraud	1986	1995	"The largest theft in the history of the world", carried out in broad daylight, with legislative assistance. So many US politicians were directly or indirectly involved, that it was never properly exposed and efforts are ongoing to try to hide the fact that it was no mere accident.
Franklin child prostitution ring	1988	1991	A US/Deep state backed child prostitution ring centered around Larry King that was partially exposed
Operation Yellowbird	1989	1997	A UK/US operation to extract Chinese leadership of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
George H. W. Bush/Presidency	20 January 1989	20 January 1993	The George H. W. Bush administration
Caracazo	27 February 1989	8 March 1989	Police massacre of 2-3000 people after protest against collapsing neoliberal economy.
Hillsborough disaster	15 April 1989	15 April 1989	A crush at a football stadium with the highest death toll in UK sporting history.
Bilderberg/1989	12 May 1989	14 May 1989	37th Bilderberg meeting, 110 guests
Tiananmen	3 June 1989	4 June 1989	A Chinese mass protest in hundreds of cities turned violent. Questions remain about the sequence of events, CIA involvement and the scope of the aftermath after a media blackout occurred as media were mentioning threats of civil war to be increasing. Chinese media banned the mentioning of the event entirely, while atrocity stories are trotted out regularly by Western corporate media to maintain an enemy image.
UTA Flight 772	19 September 1989	19 September 1989	1989 plane bombing in the African nation of Chad. Libya was framed for political reasons, in a striking resemblance to the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
Avianca Flight 203	27 November 1989	27 November 1989
United States invasion of Panama	20 December 1989	31 January 1990	US war of aggression in 1989

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Therapeutic Goods Administration			The medicine regulatory agency most captured by Big Pharma in the world.
Accident Investigation Board Norway			Responsible for investigating transport-related accidents within Norway, where the 1982 Mehamn Accident is one of them.
Wexner Israel Fellowship			Les Wexner's Young Leaders program
Center for the Study of Democracy
Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism		Think tank
APEC		International	Economic forum made up of the 21 countries in the Pacific Rim,
New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority			New Zealand government supervision body for corporate media.
Common Purpose
Council for the National Interest			A non-profit anti-war advocacy group focused on transparency and accountability about the relationship of Israel and the United States.
Executive Outcomes		Military Commercial	A private military contractor which offered "Security management" and "full-service risk management consulting". It operated during the 1990s and boasted 500 military advisers and over 3000 military personnel, largely drawn from the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau.
Global Panel Foundation			NGO with members who are mostly people with deep ties to the intelligence community, working behind the scenes promoting international cooperation with regard to decision-making and implementation processes.
Adbusters			Anti-consumerist NGO which somewhat inadvertently kicked off the Occupy movement in 2011
Social Market Foundation		Think tank
The Sydney Institute			Australian business-friendly talking forum
Accenture			multinational corporation that is heavily involved in privatization and public-private partnerships in sectors such as schools.
One World Action		Charity	A London-based charity, headed by Labour MEP Glenys Kinnock from 1989 until its closure in 2011, which provided development aid for overseas projects focusing on alleviating poverty and oppression, and on safeguarding people's human rights.
Bruges Group			Officially, a eurosceptic think tank.
Sky
Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza		Historic	A museum that promotes the official narrative that JFK was killed by "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald.
Asus			The world's 5th-largest PC vendor by unit sales

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
Institute for the Study of Conflict		Propaganda Think tank	Original CIA funded "anti-terrorism" group
American Continental Corporation			Arizona company involved in the Savings and loan fraud through its chairman Charles Keating.
Active Measures Working Group
Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Alberto Giovannetti	1913	1989
Max Geldens	1932	1989				Dutch director of McKinsey & Company who wrote and gave a working paper for the 1984 Bilderberg
Carlisle Humelsine	1915	1989			Soldier	Rockefeller protege who attended the 1964 Bilderberg
Richard Christmann	13 November 1905	1989			Spook
Bernhard Maier	1936	1989			Diplomat Iran-Contra/Premature death?	Ship designer and Austrian Honorary Consul in Geneva, Switzerland. He died in what was ruled a suicide, although he had contacts with arms deals and was a close friend Uwe Barschel, who also died under mysterious circumstances.
John Layton	28 September 1912	23 January 1989			Businessperson
Gustavo Alverez	12 December 1937	25 January 1989			Soldier	CIA-connected Honduras army commander who led torture/death squads
William Stephenson	23 January 1897	31 January 1989	Paget Bermuda		Spook Pilot Businessperson
Chadbourne Gilpatric		1 February 1989			Spook	OSS in WW2, then joined the Rockefeller Foundation
Pat Finucane	1949	12 February 1989				Catholic Belfast solicitor killed by loyalist paramilitaries on 12 February 1989
Alfred Dallinger	7 November 1926	23 February 1989	Switzerland Rorschach	Air disaster	Politician Union organizer	Austrian politician, Bilderberg 1979, died in a small plane crash in 1989
Joseph Fenton	1953	26 February 1989				Belfast man killed by the Provisional IRA (IRA) for acting as an informer for the Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) Special Branch
John J. McCloy	31 March 1895	11 March 1989	Connecticut Stamford		Diplomat Politician Lawyer Deep politician Central banker	US deep politician, Warren Commission, CFR Chair for 17 years, President of the World Bank ...
Guillaume Guindey	19 June 1909	11 March 1989			Central banker	Quad Bilderberg BIS General Manager. Marshall Plan. Advised General de Gaulle to repatriate the French gold reserve from the United States.
Alof de Louvencourt	31 March 1911	11 March 1989	Férolles-Attilly		Deep politician	First President of Le Siecle
William Higgitt	10 November 1917	2 April 1989	Canada Ottawa Ontario		Spook Police officer Deep state actor
Per Hysing-Dahl	31 July 1920	7 April 1989			Politician Pilot Businessperson	Mentioned as possible defense minister in 1981, at time of Bilderberg meeting. Instead appointed President of the Norwegian Parliament (Storting)
David Webster	1 December 1944	1 May 1989
Frank Cluskey	8 April 1930	7 May 1989	Dublin Eire			Spoke at the 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism as Leader of the Irish Labour Party
Howard Corcoran	25 January 1906	11 May 1989	US Washington DC D.C.		Lawyer Judge	US federal judge. Brother of Thomas Corcoran, a close friend of Lyndon B. Johnson.
Donald Hiss	15 December 1906	18 May 1989			Spook	The younger brother of Alger Hiss. Donald Hiss's name was mentioned during the 1948 hearings wherein his more famous and older brother, Alger, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union, and two years later convicted of perjury before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
Warren Magnuson	12 April 1905	20 May 1989	Washington DC Seattle		Politician Lawyer	U.S. Representative (1937–1944) and a U.S. Senator (1944–1981) from Washington state.
Bernice Eddy	30 September 1903	24 May 1989			Virologist
Claes-Ulrik Winberg	23 September 1925	31 May 1989			Businessperson
Ruhollah Khomeini	24 September 1902	3 June 1989	Iran Tehran
Eleanor McBean	12 September 1905	6 June 1989	Los Angeles		Author Activist "Anti-vaxxer"
Lopez Rega	17 November 1916	9 June 1989	Argentina Buenos Aires		Diplomat Politician
Ib Nørlund	29 August 1917	14 June 1989
I. F. Stone	24 December 1907	18 June 1989			Journalist	One of the great reporters of the 20th century, I.F. Stone, told journalism students never to forget that "All governments lie."
Thorkil Kristensen	9 October 1899	26 June 1989	Denmark Birkerød		Politician Academic	First Secretary-General of the OECD. 3 Bilderbergs
A.J. Ayer	29 October 1910	27 June 1989			Spook Philosopher	British spook and later Oxford professor
Karl Bendetsen	11 October 1907	28 June 1989				Architect of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. 1971 Bilderberg
Hasan Işık	1916	2 July 1989			Diplomat Politician	Turkish diplomat and politician who attended the 1975 Bilderberg meeting.
Pieter Lieftinck	30 September 1902	9 July 1989	The Hague		Politician Academic Businessperson	Dutch politician who worked for the World Bank and IMF. Attended the February 1957 Bilderberg Meeting
Sidney Hook	20 December 1902	12 July 1989	California Stanford University		Philosopher	American philosopher and anti-communist activist.
Irving Brown	5 October 1911	14 July 1989	France Paris		Spook Union organizer	US Trade unionist and and consigliere for the CIA who attended the 1956 Bilderberg
Colin Crowe	7 September 1913	19 July 1989			Diplomat	British diplomat who was stationed in Egypt at a critical period, and afterwards was ambassador to Saudi Arabia, high commissioner to Canada and permanent representative at the United Nations.
Dolf Sternberger	28 July 1907	27 July 1989	Germany Frankfurt		Philosopher Academic	German Political Science academic who attended the third and fourth Bilderbergs
Michael Harrington	24 February 1928	31 July 1989			Author Activist Academic	US democratic socialist whi write The Other America.
Paolo Baffi	5 August 1911	4 August 1989	Italy Rome		Central banker
Hubert Beuve-Mery	5 January 1902	6 August 1989			Journalist Editor	Founder of Le Monde. Attended Bilderberg 1970. Directed Agence France-Presse 1970-1978
James Markham	7 March 1943	9 August 1989	France Paris	Shot with air rifle	Journalist Iran-Contra/Premature death	New York Times foreign correspondent who allegedly killed himself with air rifle while investigating leads in the Iran-Contra affair.
H. Montgomery Hyde	14 August 1907	10 August 1989	United Kingdom Kent		Author Spook Politician Lawyer	Spooky UK politician and lawyer who attended the first Bilderberg and one more.
Robert Anderson	4 June 1910	14 August 1989	New York United States Manhattan		Politician Businessperson	Le Cercle, Bilderberg,
Jose Rivera	1911	16 August 1989		Cancer
Joseph Alsop	10 October 1910	28 August 1989			Journalist	Influential journalist very close to the CIA
Anton Lubowski	3 February 1952	12 September 1989	Namibia Windhoek	Gunshot	Activist Politician Lawyer	Namibian anti-apartheid activist assassinated by South Africa's Civil Cooperation Bureau
Bruno Heck	20 January 1917	16 September 1989	Germany Blaubeuren		Politician	Founder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, member of Le Cercle
Ferdinand Marcos	11 September 1917	28 September 1989	United States Hawaii Honolulu		Politician Kleptocrat
Frederick Hoyer Millar	6 June 1900	16 October 1989			Diplomat
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Carla Gregory	1989			Politician
Emad al-Swealmeen	1989		14 November 2021	Failed asylum seeker
Marcus Decker	1989			Activist
Seth Rich	3 January 1989		10 July 2016	Programmer Clinton body count	A Washington DC staffer who was murdered for unclear reasons, and whom Julian Assange hinted may have been a source for Wikileaks. The FBI claimed for 4 years they had no data on him, later admitting that they had thousands of pages of documents and his laptop.
Martin Sellner	8 January 1989	Vienna		Activist COVID-19/Dissident	Right wing activist from Austria
Nina Jankowicz	10 March 1989			Spook Propagandist Censorship Deep state operative	An Integrity Initiative's Inner Core member who styled herself "The Mary Poppins of disinformation", nominal head of a US DoDS internet censorship project in 2022 which was disbanded amid condemnation and ridicule. In 2024 she resurfaced as head of the "American Sunlight Project".
Hannah Giles	15 March 1989			Journalist Activist
Gabriel Attal	16 March 1989	France Clamart		Politician	A "rising star" of French politics who attended the 2023 Bilderberg meeting, before being put in charge of the French education system.
Christopher Wylie	19 June 1989			Whistleblower
Jessica Mauboy	4 August 1989	Australia Darwin Northern Territory		Actor Singer	Australian singer,
William McNeilly	10 August 1989			Whistleblower Mariner	Blew the whistle on manifold failures of the Trident nuclear weapons system. Arrested. Dishonourably discharged.
Salah Abdeslam	15 September 1989	Belgium Brussels
Ilya Zhitomirskiy	12 October 1989		12 November 2011	Hacker Businessperson	Russian hacker who co-developed Diaspora, a distributed social network which was marketed as a Facebook killer. Officially a suicide.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	13 October 1989			Politician	American politician, member of the Democratic Socialists of America - but not afraid to create an impression of being like Marie Antoinette.
PewDiePie	24 October 1989	Sweden Gothenburg		YouTuber	One of the most famous YouTubers. He has been a target of the Anti-Defamation League.
Ronan Burtenshaw	December 1989			Journalist Activist Editor
Damilola Taylor	7 December 1989	Nigeria Lagos	27 November 2000	Student

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