Tag Archives: oppression

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Apple Daily, autocratic clampdown, British subject, China, critical thinking, fear, honesty, Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai, journalism, openness, oppression, truth | Leave a comment

You who are on the wrong side of history

Posted on February 8, 2026 by borderslynn

When we get a power cut, it can be 6 days before it gets fixed. If it is during deep winter, that means it is difficult to stay warm. But we know the fault will be fixed soon. Living in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged allies, bribery, deal making, defying international law, energy infrastructure, Epstein files, extreme pain, fossil fuels, history records, inflicting death by freezing, invasion, land grabs, oppression, Putin, renewables, Russia, sovereignty, toying with victims, Trump, ukraine, United States, war crime | Leave a comment

Peace or War

Posted on January 23, 2026 by borderslynn

Just monitoring early comments about the ‘Board of Peace’ which President Trump unveiled at Davos 2026, and who invited Putin to join. Trump is the Gatekeeper. Here is an extract from a Substack musing by Michael D Sellers: Just as … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged oppression, fossil fuels, elitism, carbon emissions, threat, United Nations, extremism, aggression, inhumane, suppression, Peace Board Charter, compliance, energy and tech oligarchs, vindictiveness, IPC, International Peace Charter | Leave a comment

Authoritarian innovation

Posted on December 25, 2025 by borderslynn

Ruth Ben-Ghiat has contributed an essay on Substack, here is an extract: DOGE may seem like a failure, if we take on good faith Elon Musk’s claim that its agenda was greater government efficiency and savings. The architects of DOGE … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, authoritarian capture, civil servant pain, Collosus, digital power, DOGE, dominance, Elon Musk, indifference. sadism, innovation, intentional harm, oppression, psychopathic regime, white supremacy, world suffering | Leave a comment

Blue collar or white collar? Is it universal?

Posted on August 17, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.payscale.com/career-advice/salary-comparison-blue-collar-white-collar/ Reading the above, created in 2009, it is interesting to see their comparisons of salaries. This was as the world was trying to recover from the sub prime mortgage risk lending catastrophe which resulted in a global financial crisis. … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blue collar, careers, conflict, education, fulfilment, middle class, occupation, opportunity, oppression, poverty, salaries, trades, training, upper class, wealth, white collar | Leave a comment

Jamal Kashoggi

Posted on April 12, 2024 by borderslynn

Many of us remember how Jamal Kashoggi was tortured to death in the most slow and medically precise way by a top Saudi surgeon with a team of assistants. It is believed MBS instructed this manner of death to the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged amnesty international, Azerbaijan, blackmail, corruption, human rights abuses, imprisonment, journalists, murder, NSO credentials, oppression, Rmenia, Saudi Arabia, spyware, truth to power, Vardanyan | Leave a comment

Pro Human Rights North African Journalists targeted by malware infection

Posted on April 4, 2024 by borderslynn

The Pegasus book (by Richard and Rigaud) describes the Kafkaesque experience of a young Moroccan investigative journalist, Omar Radi. June 22, 2020: Forbidden Stories posted a story of the Pegasus attack on Omar Radi…..2 days later, Omar was summoned to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Amazigh, atlas mountains, autocrats, Berbers, dictators, earthquake region, exploitation, human rights, human water shortages, industrial water use, journalists, land grabs, malware, mining, Omar Radi, oppression, Pegasus phone infection, poor protection, profit before people, spyware | Leave a comment

Pegasus continually updated

Posted on March 23, 2024 by borderslynn

2019: WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists’ phones https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/29/whatsapp-sues-israeli-firm-accusing-it-of-hacking-activists-phones ……August 5, 2020, from somebody in senior management at the NSO Group. Cherie Blair, former First Lady of the United Kingdom, longtime barrister, noted advocate for women entrepreneurs … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blacklisted, Covid, democracy, human rights, israel, journalists targeted, malware, opponents targeted, oppression, Pegasus, software sales, Tel Aviv, thoughts targeted, tracking | Leave a comment

Consequences of Spyware use: Track, torture, execute

Posted on March 22, 2024 by borderslynn

Here are some extracts from the current book I’ve begun reading about the spread of an evolved spyware application, Pegasus. The authors describe earlier spyware consequences and now believe each and every one of us who has a phone is … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Algeria, Amesys, Amysis, Arab Spring, colonial repression, coup, cyber weapons, egypt, france, Gadhafi, middle east, Muslim Brotherhood, oppression, Pegasus, Sisi, spyware, United Arab Emirates | 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