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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

PROMIS to Pegasus: enablers of horror

Posted on March 22, 2024 by borderslynn

1933: the stirrings of WWII and opportunities for lucrative trade emerging. I refer you to the book (published 2001) by Edwin Black ‘IBM and the Holocaust’. It is a magnificent piece of work and reveals the integral aspect of trade … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged computers, holocaust, IBM, international trade, Intifada, israel, Nazis, Palestinians, profit before people, Promis, spyware, technology, US corporate trade | 1 Comment

Normalizing relations

Posted on March 21, 2024 by borderslynn

Trade has played a major role in human benefits where mutual agreements occur. The expansion of the Roman Empire created great wealth and power through trade. Military prowess protected gains more for the Romans than those who traded under Roman … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged archives, arms and spyware sales, hedge funds, history, human rights trading partners, intelligence services, London, Maxwell, MI5, military prowess, Mossad, Novalpina, NSO spyware, Promis, Rothschild dynasty, vetting, war strategy | Leave a comment

Finite Resources: land grabs – is it all about oil?

Posted on December 30, 2023 by borderslynn

As we humans covet what fossil fuels still lie in the ground, we literally battle to obtain them, no matter what doom laden messages COP28 might proclaim about incurring a planet on fire. Apparently we are now ‘transitioning’ away from … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged banking investments, Chevron, climate change, conflict, death and destruction, demand and supply, fossil fuels, genocide, human greed, human rights, industry, inhumanity, mediterranean, murder, oil extraction, plastic, refining applications, scandal, Shell, war, warming planet | Leave a comment

Military Expansion and pre-meditated Genocide

Posted on December 28, 2023 by borderslynn

I recently read in the World Atlas that before the region now known as China, it was the Qing dynasty (1636 to 1912) in power and they constantly used military strength to expand over lands around them with a dream … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, control, empires, fear as a weapon, genocide, Han, military expansion, Mongols, murder of innocents, occupation, oppression, psychological warfare, Qing dynasty, resistance, subjugation, terrorist label, Uyghurs | Leave a comment

Genocidal attempts: Yazidis

Posted on December 18, 2023 by borderslynn

The Genocide Convention is an international treaty approved in 1948 with the intent to prevent genocides in the future. It defines genocide as “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged community outsiders, Daeth, female, GBV, gender, gender based crime, ISIS, Lafarge Cement Company, murder of women and children, northern Iraq, patriarchy, rape, religion, slavery, women, Yazidi | Leave a comment

Deforestation and Mining, last gasp of the planet

Posted on December 17, 2023 by borderslynn

Countries that benefit from profits from mining and agricultural produce grown in the deforested Amazon should be prosecuted for Ecocide. But the momentum of destruction goes on to provide a short lived benefit of maintaining quality living standards for those … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazon, banking, contamination, corporates, destruction, gold, greed, intimidation, land defenders, legality, minining, murder, rainforest, rivers, short term profit | Leave a comment

2013 American Perspective on Israel

Posted on December 14, 2023 by borderslynn

These graphs produced by Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/10/01/chapter-5-connection-with-and-attitudes-towards-israel This research was carried out when President Obama was in office. Here is an extract from an article in The Guardian newspaper: Obama and Netanyahu had a testy meeting at the White … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 2013, america, attitudes, beliefs, Democrat, israel, Palestine, pew research, Republican | Leave a comment

Ralph Nader’s Perspective on Dec 2023 Israel-Hamas War

Posted on December 10, 2023 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this letter from: https://nader.org/2023/12/08/israeli-governments-war-crimes-enabled-defended-by-biden-congress Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress Share on FacebookFacebook 𝕏Share on TwitterTwitter Share on RedditReddit Share on EmailEmail Share on PrintPrint By Ralph Nader December 8, 2023 … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged collective punishment, conflict, death, destruction, economics of war, human aggression, innocents, international law, land theft, mental illness, murder, occupation, perceptions, perceptions of power, savagery, war, war crimes, weapon sales | Leave a comment

Flags of Convenience

Posted on November 27, 2023 by borderslynn

About 90% of the world’s commodities and goods are transported by sea through the shipping industry. Supplementary regulations and current international law that stipulates that any maritime vessel carrying paying passengers or cargo must be registered to a country. About 40 … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged billionaire shipping magnates, disasters, ecology, exploitation, flag of convenience, global crime, human trafficking, impoverished countries, maritime law, sanction avoidance, shipping industry, smuggling | Leave a comment

Valuing Human Life

Posted on November 23, 2023 by borderslynn

As humans became more sophisticated after thousands of years evolving, they became conquerors of land when explorers sailed to new lands and staked rights to it in the name of their monarchs. Vasco da Gama was one such explorer trying … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged apartheid, culture, discrimination, ethnicity, hierarchies, human value, land rights, land theft, Palestine, religion, respect, South Africa, Tibet, violence | Leave a comment

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About borderslynn

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