Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost and perestroika began the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. There were also some disasters this decade, including the eruption of Mount St. Helens, the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez, the Ethiopian famine, a huge poison gas leak in Bhopal, and the scourge of AIDS. Culturally, the 1980s saw the introduction of the mesmerizing Rubik’s Cube, the Pac-Man video game, and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. CNN, the first 24-hour cable news network debuted. One would best remember 1980s as the decade of MTV, Pac-Man, and MASH. While music and entertainment were fantastic over these years, it was also an era of economic development and international relations.
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NBC News Report: Clouded Judgement: Do Jet Contrails Increase Cloud Cover?
JOHN CHANCELLOR, anchor: On clear days, you can often see long white lines being traced high in the sky. They are contrails of jet aircraft. They’re actually long, slender clouds. Other men are finding them especially fascinating because the theory is being developed that those long, white lines may be changing our weather for the better. Details from Roger O’Neil. ROGER O’NEIL, reporting: The exhaust from ...
Bayh–Dole Act Becomes Law Giving Universities Rights to Patents Generated from Federal Funding
The Bayh-Dole Act also provides the U.S. government “march-in” rights which allow the federal agency, in special circumstances, to require the patent owner to grant a “nonexclusive, partially exclusive, or exclusive license in any field of use to a responsible applicant or applicants.” In other words, the federal government can “march in” with a compulsory license for research funded by the federal grant. In situations where ...
Assassination of John Lennon (The Beatles): Was his Killer Under MK-Ultra Mind Control? Who Ordered the Hit?
Contrary to all reports about a lone drifter named Mark David Chapman who allegedly shot John Lennon in the back December 8, 1980, there is seemingly ample evidence in the back issues of Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Report magazines to suggest otherwise. Namely, that John Lennon was, not only politically assassinated, but that Chapman, the assassin, was a victim of MK Ultra mind control as a brainwashed ...
1980 Camarate air Crash: Assassination of Portuguese Defense Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa, who Planned to Expose the October Surprise
This is widely suspected to have been an assassination of Portuguese Defense Minister Adelino Amaro da Costa, who was planning to expose the October surprise conspiracy. This was not well understood at the time and the first few investigations declared it an accident. The incident was subject to many investigations, which established an official narrative that the crash was an accident caused by a lack of fuel in one of the ...
The October Surprise Of 1980 – news of the pending release of the 50 American hostages in Tehran
Ever since the 1972 election when Henry Kissinger announced that "peace is at hand" during a press conference on October 26, 1972, with reference to the Vietnam War, thus boosting Nixon's re-election, The October Surprise has been synonymous with election campaigns. And in 1980 the October Surprise came in the form of a rumored pending release of the 50 American hostages held in Iran the better part ...
Bombing of Bologna Railway Station in Italy as part of Operation Gladio by the MI6 and CIA
On the morning of August 2, 1980, Italy experienced its worst-ever terrorist attack at Bologna train station, which killed 85 people, and wounded more than 200 others. A long and complicated investigation was undertaken, and eventually, a trial began. In 1988, four right-wing terrorists were sentenced to life in prison. Two other defendants were convicted of slandering the investigation, “Francesco Pazienza, a former financier linked to ...
Smallpox was Officially Declared Eradicated by WHO While Clinically Identical Monkeypox, Whitepox, & Camelpox Rise. A Renamed Psyop?
As smallpox is declared eradicated (in a vaccination psyop to fool the public that vaccines work) there are drastic rises in other various pox viruses (monkeypox, whitepox, camelpox) that are indistinguishable from the smallpox virus in the laboratory. In 1967, The World Health Organization (WHO) began a campaign to eradicate smallpox, a campaign that was carefully monitored. In 1979 Arita and Breman wrote “Interhuman transmission of ...
The Georgia Guidestones, a New World Order Monument with their 10 Commandments, Including a 90% Population Reduction, is Erected
On the mysterious monument are carved ten “commandments” for a “New Age of Reason”. The first commandment? Maintaining the world population under 500 million people. Another sinister fact: the authors of what we now call the American Stonehenge are still a “mystery”… except for those in the know. The enigmatic granite monument is situated in Elbert County, Georgia. Also known as the American Stonehenge, the gigantic ...
Famed Civil Rights and Anti-War Activist, Allard Lowenstein is Killed by Student he Mentored and Who Claimed to be Microchip Implanted
Dennis Sweeney, a student activist murdered Allard Lowenstein, the famed civil rights and anti-war activist. Lowenstein was suspected by many of fronting for the CIA. A Yale graduate, he marched in the Freedom Summer of 1964 in Mississippi, campaigned for Adlai Stevenson and Robert Kennedy. Yet he was a close friend of William F. Buckley, the garrulous CIA asset and Lowenstein's conservative counterpart. He qualified for ...
Colonel Edward Cutolo Published an Affidavit Exposing Operation Watchtower about the CIA’s Drug Trafficking
Operation Watchtower was one of many drug trafficking operations from Central America consisting of the placement and operation of low frequency radio beacons to guide low-flying pilots from Colombia to Panama. It also consisted of making available to the pilots the radio frequencies and schedules of drug interdiction aircraft so as to avoid detection. Because of the extremely low altitude these drug-laden aircraft flew, often less ...
