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Monthly Archives: August 2025
9 years after Panama Papers: offshore holdings
I am reproducing an April 2025 update on progress of countries who acted on ICIJ diligent research: Protesters in Iceland rallied for multiple days in a row in April 2016, holding up red cards for their prime minister who ultimately … Continue reading
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Tagged accountants, arrogance, choosing not to prosecute, criminality, danger, discrimination, elite, enablers, GDP, government complicity, international oversight, investigative journalism, lawyers, London, offshore tax havens, opaque trusts, Panama, property, regulation, shell companies, tax evasion, threat, wealth
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Being born after World War Two: friends and foes
On February 9, 1942 crowds gathered at New York City’s pier 88 to witness a spectacle. The largest ocean liner in the world was on fire. Fire fighting efforts successfully contained the fire after five and a half hours of effort, … Continue reading
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Tagged america, boss of bosses, bribes, casinos, CIA, construction industry, economy, extortion, gangsters, legalised gambling, mob, organized crime, OSS, poverty, rackets, Russia, the boss, threats, victims, waste disposal, wealth, world economy
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Alaska
From Christopher Armitage List of Actions of Trump administration since Jan 2025: See Christopher Armitage, Substack Trump and Putin chose to meet in Alaska, Aug 15th 2025 Looking up the history now as Trump sometimes made it sound like Putin … Continue reading
Religious Mafia
I am reproducing a Substack piece by Chris Hedges: When Religious Mafia & Rightwing Extremists Take Over (w/ Rollo Romig) | The Chris Hedges Report The 2017 murder of Gauri Lankesh, an Indian journalist and activist, is indicative of … Continue reading
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Tagged america, assassinations, cruelty, cults, exclusion, India, israel, journalism, land grab. poverty, murder, oersecution, othering, religious mafia, right wing extremism, targetting, torment, wealth
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Exception now, will America accept it as the rule?
I am reproducing Michael D Sellars Substack:
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Tagged emergency?, fealty. Democratic states, imposition, new laws, police state, protecting America?, rules
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Repurposing political leverage: beware the Ides of March
The US administration tried to pass a ruling through FEMA to withold Federal funding for aid following a disaster, if the state refused to back the US support for Israel’s Netanyahu policy on Gaza. FEMA admitted this week that it … Continue reading
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Tagged ceasar, destruction, disaster relief, fealty, FEMA, Gaza, hope, humanity, malevolent intent, US citizens, US foreign policy, US weapons
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Ukraine ‘on the menu’ ?
From a Ukrainian viewpoint, Lev Parnas writes (on Substack); And I ask: Is a newly broken America on the Putin menu too?
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Tagged broken America. mob, conflict, corruption, Europe, fossil fuels, gangsterism, petro-funds, tariff- game, ukraine, war
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Killing a country
I read this recently on a Substack: The night before I read this, I had been watching the excellent TV series, Babylon Berlin: Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden … Continue reading
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Tagged brown shirts, cruelty, detention, exploitation, fear mongering, gangs, inequality, mobs, no due process, poverty, thugs, USA
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Draining our energy and fresh water capacity
Following from a previous blog: https://borderslynn.com/2025/05/29/data-centres-energy-and-water-consumption-do-we-ask-too-much-of-our-planet/ South Memphis (99.5 percent Black) experience of asthma increased due to smog generated by the Musk built, unregulated datacenter: Here is a glimpse of current exponential construction of datacentres: 500 data centres in UK, … Continue reading
Strong ties
Previous Mint Press articles I have taken extracts from, revealed the link between Les Wexner (who co-founded MEGA with Ronald Lauder) and Mr Lauder’s close friendship, since they were at Wharton College together, with Donald Trump. Ronald Lauder Birthday: February 26, 1944 … Continue reading
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Tagged Austria, Donald Trump, enablers, Europe, funders, israel, Jeffrey Epstein, Les Wexner, MEGA, middle east, Ronald Lauder, sex trafficking
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