Author Archives: borderslynn

About borderslynn

Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers. In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917

Poland: Lech Walesa letter to Trump

Posted on March 6, 2025 by borderslynn

March 3, 2025 – text of letter: Your Excellency, Mr. President, We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with fear and distaste. We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show respect … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged all for one, betrayal, defense, democracy, Europe, history, insult, lech walesa letter, memories, NATO, one for all, oval office, pain, Poland, protection of sovereign state, Russian aggression, sovereignty, victimisation, Zelensky | Leave a comment

Since Isabella of Spain, the Inquisition, Opus Dei expanded extremist Catholicism

Posted on March 5, 2025 by borderslynn

I wrote a few blogs about the 15th century Iberian Peninsula back in 2017, such as: https://borderslynn.com/2017/06/13/forceful-woman And, in reading the piece below, I have learned those extremist Catholic beliefs have never been extinguished. The Opus Dei cult has evolved … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1928, belief systems, cult, Curtis Yarvin, democracy v autocracy, extreme Catholicism, extreme conservatism, foreign policy, Franco, global religion, inquisition, Opus Dei, Rome, Russia, secretive, spain, US | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1948, allies, balance if power, cost of war, Eisenhower, enemies, Europe, israel, military industrial complex, percentage of GDP, quid pro quo, Russia, sovereign country, tracking costs, transactions, ukraine, USA, weapons supplied | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, Gaza, homeland, Jews, land grabs, occupation, Palestine, real estate, refugee in own land, terrorist, wealth | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Brutality, capitalism, cruelty, disrupters, globalisation, human behaviour, human suffering, influence, politics, silicon valley, technology, US, vulnerability | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged atlas, cartography, description, early civilisations, education, Eurasia, faith, genetics. ethnicity, international, Phoenicians, pre Christianity, research, world history | Leave a comment

Captagon

Posted on January 14, 2025 by borderslynn

After Assad fled, one news item stayed in my head. A warehouse filled to the ceiling with the drug, Captagon. The comment was that this was the favourite drug of Jihadists. So today I found out more, reading this link: … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Assad, brain damage, Brutality, butchery, cannabis, captagon, drug fuelled barbarism, drug money laundering industry, drugs, Hamas, human killing machines, India, ISIS, israel, jihadists, ketamine, Lebanon, Maronites, massacres, Nigeria, opioids, Palestinian refugees, Phalanges, Pharma, religious factions, RSF, Russia, Sahel, sudan, Syria, UK, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes, West Africa, youth addiction | Leave a comment

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t

Posted on January 12, 2025 by borderslynn

As fierce and unprecedented wildfires bring calamity to thousands of people, thousands of gallons of toxic retardant are dropped from special air tankers on the racing fires below to try to stop the fires spreading to valuable property. And, as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged air tankers, building in resilience, building materials, climate change, community, drought, emissions warming climate, eucalyptus tree fire risk, fire resistant homes, first responders, forests, fossil fuels, freshwater, Grenfell Tower, groundwater, human habitation, human vulnerability, hurricane force winds, inferno, insurance nonsense, nature, opportunities, pacific, plastics, portugal, retardant drops, Santa Ana winds, soil, threats, tree burning emissions, warming oceans, weather patterns, wild space, wildfires, wildlife | Leave a comment

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