1989
 ( 1980s: )  1989   | |
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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.
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Savings & Load fraud
- Full article: Savings and loan 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.[1]
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. One exception to the rule was Romania, where Nicolae Ceaușescu's government was toppled 8 days after the military, police and Securitate shot anti-government demonstrators.
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 | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Operation Paperclip | A transfer of top German scientists to USA. | |
| Cold War | 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 | ||
| Operation Condor | ||
| Inslaw | The Inslaw affair was a complex financial/political fraud the full dimensions of which were never uncovered, but some of which were forced onto the official record. | |
| Project STARGATE | Project STARGATE aimed to gain domination over entire nations by making them cede their autonomy and privacy to the controlling person or group. | |
| 1980s Afghan war | ||
| Al-Yamamah arms deal | 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 | "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 | ||
| Caracazo | ||
| Bilderberg/1989 | 34th Bilderberg meeting | |
| UTA Flight 772 | ||
| Avianca Flight 203 |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Independent Media Institute |  | Non-profit | |
| Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism |  | Think tank | |
| New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority | | ||
| Council for the National Interest | | ||
| 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. |
| Adbusters |  | ||
| Social Market Foundation | | Think tank | |
| Bruges Group |  | Officially, a eurosceptic think tank. | |
| 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 | |
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 | | ||
| Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism | |
Deaths
Births
| Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seth Rich | 3 January 1989 | 10 July 2016 | Programmer | A Washington DC staffer who was murder for unclear reasons, and whom Julian Assange hinted may have been a source for Wikileaks. | |
| 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 | |||
| Damilola Taylor | 7 December 1989 | Nigeria Lagos | 27 November 2000 | Student |
