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The explosion of the airship Hindenburg on May 6th 1937, which cause the end of the airship era.

One of three related Oklahoma drought refugee families on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, going to Roswell to chop cotton. (May 1937)

Marijuana Tax Act

In USA, the Marijuana Tax Act was introduced, which levied a huge tax on marijuana, an early foreshadowing of the "war on drugs".

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Great Depression	1929	1939	A huge impoverishment of the US citizens, resulting from market manipulations by The Money Trust
Operation Bootstrap	1930	1970	Between 1930 and 1970, around one third of all women in the US territory of Puerto Rico were sterilized
Tuskegee syphilis experiment	1932	1972	A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
The New Deal	1933	1939	Populist social reform package enacted by Franklin D. Roosevelt against the opposition of the Money Trust
FDR/Presidency	4 March 1933	12 April 1945	The administration of president Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945
Spanish civil war	17 July 1936	1 April 1939
Marco Polo incident	7 July 1937	9 July 1937	The official start of the Asian theatre of World War 2, and chronologically, World War 2 as a whole.

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
Pepperdine University		Research Military ranks	Private university in California wit deep state ties
Friends of Democracy
Tribune
Norwegian Police Security Service			The intelligence agency of the Norwegian police
Volkswagen			German multinational corporation and industrial powerhouse, which after it's 2015 emissions scandal, is about to be cut down.
Renmin University			one of the leading humanities and social science-focused universities in China

 

A Group that was Wound Up

Group	Image
McCormack-Dickstein Committee

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
Elihu Root	15 February 1845	7 February 1937	New York		Lawyer Deep politician	US deep politician. A member of J. P. Morgan's Corsair Club.
Lewis Thompson Preston Sr.	27 November 1899	9 February 1937	New York US		Athlete	US establishment, father of Lewis Thompson Preston who went on to be President of the World Bank Group.
Henry Birchenough	7 March 1853	12 May 1937			Deep state operative Businessperson	UK deep state operative
Philip Snowden	18 July 1864	15 May 1937			Politician
John D. Rockefeller	8 July 1839	23 May 1937	Florida The Casements Ormond Beach		Businessperson	Co-founder of the massively influential Standard Oil Company, and patriarch of the Rockefeller family which played a central role in the US deep state for more than a century.
Madison Grant	19 November 1865	30 May 1937	New York		Lawyer Eugenics Zoologist	"Hitler's American guru"
Juliet Poyntz	25 November 1886	June 1937			Spook
Eric Geddes	6 September 1875	22 June 1937			Politician Businessperson	During the First World War Geddes was one of the "men of push and go" brought into government service by Minister of Munitions David Lloyd George.
Frank Vanderlip	17 November 1864	30 June 1937			Journalist Banker Deep state operative	Member of The Money Trust
Andrew Mellon	24 March 1855	26 August 1937	New York US Southampton		Politician Banker
Walter Rothschild	8 February 1868	27 August 1937
Pierre Quesnay	1895	8 September 1937	Saint-Léomer	Drowning	Banker	The first General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements.
Felix Warburg	14 January 1871	20 September 1937	New York US		Financier Deep politician	Super wealthy financier and deep politician.
Grayson Murphy	19 December 1878	18 October 1937	New York US Manhattan		Financier Deep state operative	US deep state operative who was implicated in the Business Plot and died in 1937
Ramsay MacDonald	12 October 1866	9 November 1937	Atlantic Ocean		Journalist Politician
Frank B. Kellogg	22 December 1856	21 December 1937	Minnesota St. Paul		Politician Lawyer	US Secretary of State 1925-29

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
John Stockwell	1937	US Texas Angleton		Author Whistleblower Spook CIA whistleblower	An early and prominent critic of the CIA with a fairly high ranking position.
André Lévy-Lang	1937	Egypt Alexandria		Academic Banker Businessperson	French banker on the Bilderberg Steering committee, 11 Bilderbergs, Le Siècle
Silvia Duran	1937	Mexico			Witness in the Cuban consul's office in Mexico City.
Silvia Odio	1937	Cuba
Larrie Schmidt	1937	US Nebraska
Gaetano Scardocchia	1937	Italy Campobasso	1993	Editor	Italian editor of La Stampa, one Bilderberg, died aged 56
Emre Gönensay	1937			Politician	Technocrat who privatized the Turkish economy, then Turkish Foreign Minister.
Peter Krogh	1937	US California		Academic administrator	Became Dean of the Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University at age 32, which provides the personnel backbone for the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense,State Department, and other organs of the national security state. Got job possibly after attending Bilderberg/1969. Also attended Bilderberg/1970 and at end of career Bilderberg/1994.
Rolf Tophoven	1937			Journalist "Terror expert"
Gerhard Güllich	1937
Peter Buxtun	1937	Prague		Researcher Whistleblower	Blew the whistle on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
Pieter Bottelier	1937			Banker	Dutch banker who attended the 1996 Bilderberg
Hikmet Çetin	1937	Turkey Lice Diyarbakır Province		Politician	Turkish transatlantic politician
Al Flood	1937			Banker	Canadian banker of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce who failed upwards. Bilderberg/1996
Frances Stockdale Symms	1937		28 March 2018
Phillip Corwin	1937		2009		UN official including during the war in Bosnia in 1995.
Gianfranco Battelli	1937	Italy La Spezia	March 2022	Spook Mariner	SISMI Director on 9-11, who reports that he refused to cooperate in kidnapping terrorist suspects for the CIA.
Guillermo Kirkpatrick	1937			Diplomat	Little known Cercle visitor.
George Nelson	1937			Soldier	Colonel Nelson was a leading part of a large network of US Military veterans, pilots and engineers who challenged the official narrative of 9-11.
Mohamed Benaissa	January 1937		28 February 2025		Moroccan politician who co-signed the Twenty-Seven Foreign Ministers Issue Call for United Nations to Coordinate Global COVID-19 Response
James Petras	17 January 1937			Academic	His decades of writing has focused on social justice, anti-imperialism, Latin-America,Zionism and similar subjects. He is not afraid to touch on the deeper machinations of empire.
John Hume	18 January 1937	Northern Ireland Derry		Politician
Joseph Nye	19 January 1937	US New Jersey South Orange		Academic Deep state operative	US deep state connected academic who wrote in June 2021 that Vaccinating the world against Covid-19 is in America’s national interest
Gerry Gable	27 January 1937			Editor	Long time editor and publisher of the anti-fascist Searchlight magazine
Joe Fernandez	1 February 1937		3 December 2020	Spook	CIA station chief in Costa Rica and a figure in Iran-Contra.
John MacGregor	4 February 1937	London UK		Politician	Given responsibility for the privatisation of British Rail
Peter Jay	7 February 1937	London UK	22 September 2024	Diplomat Broadcaster Economist	British journalist who was an early advocate for neoliberal economics. As ambassador, played tennis with Director of the CIA and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Ola Teigen	11 February 1937	Narvik Northern Norway	28 July 1970	Politician	Leader of the Norwegian Labour Party's youth wing, who resigned after it was revealed the youth wing received funding from the Central Intelligence Agency.
Boris Pugo	19 February 1937	Russia Soviet Union Kalinin	22 August 1991
Harald V	21 February 1937	Norway Skaugum Akershus		Norway/Royalty	Norwegian King, attended the 1984 Bilderberg
Gunter Huonker	24 February 1937	Germany Schwenningen am Neckar	29 November 2021	Politician	Parliamentary state secretary to Chancellor Helmut Schmidt from 1979 to 1982, when he attended the 1980 Bilderberg meeting.
Bob Schieffer	25 February 1937	US Texas Austin		Journalist Anchor
Gerry Patrick Hemming	1 March 1937		29 January 2008	Spook Soldier Pilot	A member of Operation 40 who established Interpen
Leslie Gelb	4 March 1937		31 August 2019	Journalist Deep state actor	President of the Council on Foreign Relations and opinion-making New York Times journalist.
Ivan Boesky	6 March 1937	Michigan Detroit			American stock trader
Juvenal Habyarimana	8 March 1937	Ruanda-Urundi	6 April 1994	Soldier Politician	President of Rwanda whose assassination reportedly helped spark the Rwandan genocide.
Thomas McInerney	15 March 1937	US Maryland Havre de Grace		Soldier Pilot Deep state functionary	Retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General who worked for the American Center for Democracy.
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst	18 March 1937	Netherlands Zwolle		Politician Lawyer	Dutch politician & lawyer who attended the 1970 and 1974 Bilderbergs
Bernard Nussbaum	23 March 1937	New York US		Lawyer	White House Counsel 1993-1994
Robert Gallo	23 March 1937			Researcher
Jens Kampmann	30 March 1937	Denmark Frederiksberg		Politician Businessperson	Danish politician and son of former PM.
Sergio Siracusa	1 April 1937	Italy Naples		Spook	SISMI/Director 1994-1996
Colin Powell	5 April 1937	New York US	18 October 2021	Soldier Politician Deep state operative	US officer and politician heavily involved in the deep state Iran-contra affair. He is particularly remembered for his dramatic lies in the UN Security Council before the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, claiming Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
Maryanne Trump Barry	5 April 1937	New York US	13 November 2023	Lawyer Judge	the eldest sister of Donald Trump
Seymour Hersh	8 April 1937	US Chicago Illinois		Journalist
Michael Armacost	15 April 1937	US Ohio Cleveland	8 March 2025	Deep state operative	President of the Brookings Institution, Acting US Secretary of State for 5 days in 1989
Sterling Seagrave	15 April 1937	Ohio Columbus	1 May 2017	Author Historian	Author of numerous other books which address unofficial and clandestine aspects of the 20th-century political history of countries in the Far East.
Colette Flesch	16 April 1937	Luxembourg Dudelange		Politician Athlete	Luxembourgish politician. 3 Bilderbergs
Juanita Nielsen	22 April 1937			Activist	Australian activist and newspaper publisher killed in 1975, with strong suspicions of the involvement of organized crime and police corruption.
Saddam Hussein	28 April 1937	Iraq Al-Awja Saladin Province	30 December 2006	Politician Puppet leader	A brutal dictator who enjoyed US support until he ceased following their orders.
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