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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.

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		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		A US/Deep state backed child prostitution ring centered around Larry King that was partially exposed
Caracazo
Hillsborough disaster
Bilderberg/1989		37th Bilderberg meeting, 110 guests
UTA Flight 772
Avianca Flight 203

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Center for the Study of Democracy
Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism		Think tank
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Jose Rivera	1911	16 August 1989		Cancer
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

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
Carla Gregory	1989			Politician
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
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

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