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 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. 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 | 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 | The sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland which flared into serious sustained violence through the summer of 1969 | |
| Operation Condor | US-backed campaign of assassination and terrorisation carried out in South America. | |
| Inslaw | 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 | ||
| Contaminated blood affair | For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands. | |
| McMartin Preschool | The day care scandal that started the so-called "satanic panic" of the 80s. Covered up. | |
| 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 | A US/Deep state backed child prostitution ring centered around Larry King that was partially exposed | |
| Caracazo | Police massacre of 2-3000 people after protest against collapsing neoliberal economy. | |
| Hillsborough disaster | ||
| Bilderberg/1989 | 37th Bilderberg meeting, 110 guests | |
| UTA Flight 772 | ||
| Avianca Flight 203 | ||
| United States invasion of Panama | US war of aggression in 1989 |
New Groups
| Group | Image | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | |
| 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 |  | anti-consumerist NGO | |
| Social Market Foundation | | Think tank | |
| 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. |
| 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 | |
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 | |
==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 | |||
| John Layton | 28 September 1912 | 23 January 1989 | Businessperson | |||
| Gustavo Alvarez Martinez | 12 December 1937 | 25 January 1989 | Soldier | |||
| Gustavo Alverez | 12 December 1937 | 25 January 1989 | Soldier | |||
| William Stephenson | 23 January 1897 | 31 January 1989 | Paget Bermuda | Spook Pilot Businessperson | ||
| Chadbourne Gilpatric | 1 February 1989 | Spook | ||||
| Pat Finucane | 1949 | 12 February 1989 | ||||
| Alfred Dallinger | 7 November 1926 | 23 February 1989 | Rorschach | Politician Businessperson | 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, 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 | ||
| Alof de Louvencourt | 31 March 1911 | 11 March 1989 | Férolles-Attilly | Deep politician | First President of Le Siecle | |
| 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) | ||
| Frank Cluskey | 8 April 1930 | 7 May 1989 | Dublin Eire | |||
| Howard Corcoran | 25 January 1906 | 11 May 1989 | Lawyer Judge | |||
| Donald Hiss | 15 December 1906 | 18 May 1989 | Spook | |||
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| Karl Bendetsen | 11 October 1907 | 28 June 1989 | Architect of the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. 1971 Bilderberg | |||
| 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 | ||
| Irving Brown | 5 October 1911 | 14 July 1989 | France Paris | Spook Union organizer | US Trade unionist who attended the 1956 Bilderberg | |
| Dolf Sternberger | 28 July 1907 | 27 July 1989 | Philosopher Academic | German academic who attended the third and fourth Bilderbergs | ||
| 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 | ||
| H. Montgomery Hyde | 14 August 1907 | 10 August 1989 | Kent England | 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 Manhattan U.S. | 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 | ||
| Ferdinand Marcos | 11 September 1917 | 28 September 1989 | Hawaii Honolulu U.S. | Politician Kleptocrat | ||
| Frederick Hoyer Millar | 6 June 1900 | 16 October 1989 | Diplomat | |||
| Craig Spence | 1941 | 10 November 1989 | Journalist Lobbyist Franklin child prostitution ring/Premature death Deep state actor Blackmailer? | A lobbyist who ran a call-boy ring for purposes of sexual blackmail, also implicated in the Franklin child prostitution ring. Died suddenly. | ||
| Hans Günther Sohl | 2 May 1906 | 13 November 1989 | Germany Düsseldorf | Businessperson | Head of Europe's biggest steel maker. Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s | |
| Morrice James | 30 April 1916 | 26 November 1989 | Diplomat | British diplomat to Pakistan and India | ||
| Alfred Herrhausen | 30 January 1930 | 30 November 1989 | German | Bombing | Banker | Multi Bilderberg, Chairman of Deutsche Bank. Promoted the cancellation of unpayable debt. Assassinated in 1989 "in a military operation of a complexity without precedent" |
| Johan Melander | 27 April 1910 | 1 December 1989 | Financier Deep state actor | Norwegian financier who attended the 1960 and 1965 Bilderbergs as CEO of Den norske Creditbank. | ||
| Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen | 8 February 1924 | 19 December 1989 | Shipping magnate | |||
| Nicolae Ceaușescu | 26 January 1918 | 25 December 1989 | Romania Târgoviște Dâmbovița | Politician | ||
| Gerhard Schröder (CDU) | 11 September 1910 | 31 December 1989 | Politician | West Germany Foreign Minister in the 1960s |
Births
| Title | Born | Place of birth | Died | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carla Gregory | 1989 | Politician | |||
| Emad al-Swealmeen | 1989 | 14 November 2021 | Failed asylum seeker | ||
| Seth Rich | 3 January 1989 | 10 July 2016 | Premature death 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. | |
| 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 | ||
| PewDiePie | 24 October 1989 | Sweden Gothenburg | YouTuber | One of the most famous YouTubers. He has been a target of the Anti-Defamation League. | |
| Damilola Taylor | 7 December 1989 | Nigeria Lagos | 27 November 2000 | Student |
