Tag Archives: austerity

‘Bleeding the Beast’ 2.

Posted on July 17, 2026 by borderslynn

UK shameful waste of tax payers funds in defense spending: Example 2022: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-mods-300bn-waste-of-public-money/ Drone construction waste: 46 In service from August 2014 Watchkeeper is a large unarmed drone operated by the British Army rather than the RAF. It is assigned … Continue reading →

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When the UK has to fund war: see what happened for the Great War

Posted on June 19, 2026 by borderslynn

We, the UK, are expected to suffer austerity yet again to fund a war. Researchers have put together an understanding of the desperate measures taken to fund their part in the Great War, which began in 1914. Here is an … Continue reading →

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Globalisation and Gangsterism

Posted on April 2, 2025 by borderslynn

The post-Second World War order began to crumble in the first half of the 1980s. Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; communist Hungary’s … Continue reading →

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Cast off the Debt Burden

Posted on April 26, 2023 by borderslynn

Being free of debt, whether it be an individual or a nation, is a fantasy. Well, so we have been brainwashed to believe. In fact we have been: ‘bamboozled’ into allowing a small financial elite to create colossal quantities of … Continue reading →

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Weaponising interest rates, inducing negativity caused by austerity

Posted on March 25, 2023 by borderslynn

Continuing on from the previous blog, here are some further extracts from ‘The Production of Money’ by Ann Pettifor: Wielding the weapon of interest, finance capital effectively holds societies, governments and industries, but also the entire ecosystem, to ransom over … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged addiction, assets, austerity, bank interest, city of london, deflation, democracy, financiers, gambling, harm, impunity, MBA, rates, rent, social harm, Wall Street | Leave a comment