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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Financial crimes
- 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 termed 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. In contrast the report of the 1989 Bilderberg predicted that “The political stability of Eastern Europe will continue into the nineties.” [2] 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 [3]
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 |
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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 |
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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. | |
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. | ||
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 |
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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 |
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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 Minister of Finance for 7 years just after WW2. 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 |
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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 |