Monthly Archives: February 2025

Keeping tabs on where the money went (Ukraine)

Posted on February 26, 2025 by borderslynn

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/ You can’t make it up! Also see Statista, chart of percentage of Gross National Product by country: https://www.statista.com/ Weapons of war have been designed and manufactured by the US since Eisenhower, after WW2. But he warned, in his final … Continue reading →

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Nader: Gaza Body Count

Posted on February 24, 2025 by borderslynn

I’m reproducing the newsletter of Ralph Nader, 22nd Feb 2025:

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, collective punishment, cover up, destruction, disinformation, Gaza deaths, genocide, Hamas, IDF, israel, journalists, lies, media, Palestine | Leave a comment

New World Experiment in Democracy

Posted on February 17, 2025 by borderslynn

This diagram below has been helpfully put together because digitisation enables such quick overviews. Thanks to digitisation we have given away our personal information believing it was held securely, TRUSTING the systems which held the data. It has now been … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged abuse of power, administrations, alliances, arrogance, contempt, cyber security, disdain, innocence, Munich, power, public trust, responsible protection, securing data, testing laws of the land, wrecking bar | Leave a comment

Insult upon insult

Posted on February 9, 2025 by borderslynn

Each of us has either lost our homeland, knows of family who has, or doesn’t know their ancestors did so in recent centuries. But all of us have origins from thousands of years ago back in pre- Christian times, when … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Sin

Posted on February 9, 2025 by borderslynn

So now I’m reading ‘Burn Book’, by Kara Fisher. As I was passionate about computers in education back in 1981, this book has great resonance for me. Kara Fisher began as a journalist, intrigued by the young start-ups in Silicon … Continue reading →

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Eurasian World History

Posted on February 5, 2025 by borderslynn

I have a 1978 copy of The Times Atlas of World History. I’ve taken these photos of some of its pages: I treasure this book. Its then editor was Geoffrey Barraclough, formerly Stevenson Research Professor of International History, University of … Continue reading →

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