Monthly Archives: August 2024

Save the Pacific and we will save ourselves

Posted on August 27, 2024 by borderslynn

Back in 2021 the alarm was raised about sinking of Pacific Islands 14 Islands Threatened by Climate Change By Katherine Butler Updated June 29, 2021 https://www.treehugger.com/island-nations-threatened-by-climate-change-4869275 One of the 14 was Kiribati: The Pacific Ocean holds the nation of Kiribati, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged carbon emissions, carbon footprint, catastrophic loss, climate change, human evacuations, sea level rises, sinking Pacific islands, WMO report | Leave a comment

US Sanctions and Economic Aggression

Posted on August 25, 2024 by borderslynn

Here I present more extracts from Saleh Mohsin’ excellent book, ‘Paper Soldiers’ which has helped me understand the history of ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ dollar through the eyes of US Treasury secretaries. The United States started freezing assets as a method … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aluminium, global repercussions, job losses, metals markets, mining, oligarch, Rusal, Saleh Mohsin, sanctions, share prices, strong or weak dollar, weaponisation of the dollar | Leave a comment

Blue collar or white collar? Is it universal?

Posted on August 17, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.payscale.com/career-advice/salary-comparison-blue-collar-white-collar/ Reading the above, created in 2009, it is interesting to see their comparisons of salaries. This was as the world was trying to recover from the sub prime mortgage risk lending catastrophe which resulted in a global financial crisis. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blue collar, careers, conflict, education, fulfilment, middle class, occupation, opportunity, oppression, poverty, salaries, trades, training, upper class, wealth, white collar | Leave a comment

A world not reliant on the dollar

Posted on August 15, 2024 by borderslynn

I wrote a blog, 8 years ago, trying to understand the impact of the Romans on our evolving monetary, military and trading history. https://borderslynn.com/2017/07/16/from-roman-empire-to-the-new-world Now I’ve reached the modern day, and I’m now asking about the mysteries of the global … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, cheap imports, China, cooperation, debt, offshored cheap labour, opportunities, politics, Roman Empire, rumour mill, sanctions, securities, semantics, stock exchange, tariffs, threats, trade, treasury bonds, US Dollar, value for money, world economy | Leave a comment

Poisonous Words spread by Elon Musk inciting hatred and violence

Posted on August 8, 2024 by borderslynn

We in Britain are proud of our tradition of welcoming and including immigrants in our society. The world has seen, through media outlets, how some poisoned hearts and minds have used social media to attack the fair and just immigration … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged asylum seekers, billionaires, Britain, community, conflict, criminal behaviour, Elon Musk, far-right, fear, Government, hate, hate crimes, immigrants, laws, love, mobs, murder, one percent, playing God, police, protection, protest, Starmer, thugs, violence, war, wealth, welcoming migrants | Leave a comment

Globalization Casualties

Posted on August 3, 2024 by borderslynn

I’m reading ‘Paper Soldiers: How weaponization of the dollar changed the world’ by Saleha Mohsin. I am most grateful to the author, for it has taken me until now to learn the history behind what led to Globalization being caused … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 2008 financial crisis, authoritarian control, banks, capitalism, China, corporates, developing nations, dollar, economy, england, free trade, globalization, high risk, industrialization, manufacturing, mining, open borders, poverty, Scottish Borders, strong dollar, toxic loans, Treasury, UK, USA, wealth | Leave a comment

1918: Peace not War

Posted on August 2, 2024 by borderslynn

After the horrors of WW1 many countries tried to come together to forge peace. But, somehow, along the way, those who saw the possibility of weapons manufacturing as a means to create jobs and bring wealth, won the arguments. Now, … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged arms trade, banks, carnage, contamination, death, destruction, genocide, harm, human rights, international, investors, jobs, land grab, law, murder, occupation, returns, uninhabitable, wealth | Leave a comment