Tech Waste. An Existential Threat? "Climate Change" is more popular and financially rewarding.

Scientific American: Tech Waste Is a Danger to Us All.

Hardware in general, and smartphones in particular, have taken over our lives so quickly that few of us have had the chance to think about what happens to them when we no longer use them. The answer is that they become a huge environmental and health problem in the Global South’s landfill sites.

We don’t hear much about this problem because it is out of sight, out of mind.

Electronic waste is currently 5 percent of all global waste, and it is set to increase exponentially as more of us own multiple smartphones, laptops and power banks—few of which are likely to be repaired or recycled at the end of their lives.
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There is an almost limitless consumer demand for hardware, and governments do not have bottomless pockets, especially when their green policies are focused on more high-profile issues like carbon emissions.
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Only the manufacturers can fix this, by creating a circular hardware economy.

No, this is not a problem that "only manufacturers can fix". Not any different than blaming manufacturers of plastic and the hysteria of the pearl-clutching-crowd crying for bans on plastic bags and bottles. People use and buy based on their wants, needs and what they feel is a good return for their money. Much of it is packed with plastic.

Do you want that plastic band around your ice cream container so you're assured no one the super market, opened it, licked it and returned it to the freezer? I'm betting no matter how much you hate and want to ban plastic, you like that plastic band.

Look around your house. How much plastic is there is in everything? I'm betting, at some point in their journey, fossil fuels were used in transporting those items to your home. Plastic is versatile and affordable, same for fossil fuel.

Consumers play a large part in tech waste. The question is, is the Tech-Obsessed-Must-Have-the-Latest-Device-Crowd willing to do their part? And a circular hardware economy has a limit, it's not an endless loop.

Tech Waste can wait. We have to solve the Existential Threat of Climate Change first.

I've referenced the stories below in the past and I'll use them again:

Amnesty.org: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries.

GreenTech Media: With demand for cobalt and lithium surging, companies need to be aware of where they’re sourcing from.
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(Feb. 17, 2020 typo fix "is" to "in")

White People Caused Cyclone Idai ?????

Pindula News: White People Caused Cyclone Idai- BLF.

Black First Land First (BLF) said in a statement on Friday that Tropical Cyclone Idai  is not a natural disaster but a direct consequence of the white, Western system of ecological assault for profits.

BLF called on the African Union (AU) to demand reparations and relief from the European Union (EU) and the US for Cyclone Idai. Part of the statement reads:

    Those who pollute and destroy our ecosystems must pay ecological reparations to those who suffer as a consequence of their irresponsible actions. It’s no longer speculation – even the white man’s own science corroborates what we blacks know: Africa is paying a heavy price for the actions of the white world. The West pollutes and the West must pay. Part of driving their conspiracy of recolonisation [sic] is to profit from disasters. The West has no incentive to stop destroying our planet. The West knows only one value and that is to make profits. If the West is not stopped soon, then we should prepare for the extinction of our species.

    #CycloneIdai was created by whites and therefore the West must pay
    https://t.co/8rHxMsd0RS pic.twitter.com/jdx8FdIORq

    — Black First Land First (BLF) (@BLF_SouthAfrica) March 22, 2019

News 24 (at the link, scroll down the pop-up "support" page, click "I choose not to support News 24" and the article will appear):  White people caused cyclone Idai.

BLF called on the African Union (AU) to demand reparations and relief from the European Union (EU) and the US for Cyclone Idai.

"Africa is tired of carrying the burden of the destructive behaviour of the global white system of power and consumption," the statement read.

On Friday, BBC reported that rescue workers were continuing the search for survivors of Cyclone Idai, which destroyed towns and villages in its path.

"Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have been affected by what the UN says could be 'one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere'," its report stated.

    #CycloneIdai was created by whites and therefore the West must pay https://t.co/8rHxMsd0RS pic.twitter.com/jdx8FdIORq
    — Black First Land First (BLF) (@BLF_SouthAfrica) March 22, 2019

Yes, because as we all know, Western Civilization is populated only by white people. Africa would be a conflict-free continent, if it weren't for white people.

All of these countries, living in total Kumbaya and harmony, for centuries. But along came the "whites".

History Guy: Current Wars of Africa.

What's news? Some old, some new.

A mix of current events and news all crammed into one post.

It's amazing that, in what is over four weeks old, no one can identify the two people in VA DEMOCRAT Gov Ralph "Klansman or Blackface" Northam. No one. No one from the class(es) included in the yearbook, none of the others appearing in other pictures, the staff, the editors. No one.

It's not amazing he hasn't resigned or been forced out of office. The racism of Dems...oh, that's easily overlooked by the party of the KKK. When a political party created from the formation of the KKK rears its ugly head of racism...they receive a "Get out of Racism Charges Free" Card. We learned this long ago with Dem/KKK Grand Kleagle Robert "White Nigger" Byrd. He died in June, 2010. I enjoyed reading his obituary.

VA Dem Gov Ralph "It's me, it's not me in Blackface or KKK"  

Northam and wife Pam "Here, have some cotton" Northam.

Then, Mrs. Ralph Northam, hands out cotton to Black students, asking them to "imagine being a slave." This is the second, most stupid woman on earth. The Queen of Stupid is Joyless Behar. But Mrs. Northam, well, she's really trying to overtake Behar's Number One Spot. Maybe on Passover, April 20, Pam Northam can hand out Swastikas to some Jewish children and ask them to "imagine what it's like being in a concentration camp."

R.Kelly's cries and whining made me laugh! Histrionics...the obvious and expected reactions of an innocent person. R. Kelly...what a little bitch.

Fair Use 107

Anyone hear from Jussie Smollett recently? He's off the MSM radar coverage cycle. The MSM can't and won't continue reporting on a "minority" who stages his own hate attack, blaming it on the political climate and supporters of President Donald Trump.

Nanny Pelosi invokes The Constitution. Who knew she knew about this document? Amazing. Well, live and learn.

An AOC staffer, and maybe AOC too, were photographed eating hamberders. She fumed and became defensive when this news hit the media.

And AOC is under scrutiny for staff mismanagement of campaign funds. She's so brilliant and educated that it's difficult to believe she didn't know, and isn't aware, of the legal ramifications of this.

The satanic Denver International Airport, the center of the NWO, has a talking, interactive gargoyle. What better way for the NWO'ers and Illuminati to hide their agenda in plain sight. I'd like to interact with the gargoyle and ask him it if it approves of child sacrifices and if his/its father is George Soros, aka Gyorgy Schwartz. 'Ya ever notice his first actual birth-name ends in the letters "orgy"?

A doppelganger of sHrillary Clinton spoke at Selma, Alabama. We know it was a doppelganger because she flapped those fat lips of hers for over six minutes, somehow managing to avoid her chronic and usual coughing spells. She didn't lapse into her "spasm zone" either. Well, it wasn't Hillary, it was her doppelganger.

Speaking of Mrs. Clinton, still - somewhere, someone out there - is in possession of her missing emails. They are out there somewhere. They have to be. She also gets a "Get Out of Racism Free Card" because she's a Lib. Her using the term "sand nigger", oh, her party and the MSM spend no time covering this. Is racism subjective dependent upon one's political party affiliation?

From: Hillary Clinton To: Robert Russo Date: 2012-03-05 02:55 Subject: FYI, FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
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"And now the guys in the van are perhaps not quite as nice before, because it is getting late and they want to get back and wonder what have they done to have deserved copping this sand nigger and what are they going to do with him now."

Her using racist terms is nothing new. But she's never held accountable for it.

Ilhan Omar

We should all feel really sorry for Minnesota's radical Islamist-Terrorist sympathizer Congresswohman Ilhan Omar, the anti-Semite elected by the 5th congressional district of Minnesota, which includes the city of Minneapolis. She feels she's being picked on. Oh, The Horrah! The 5th district must be so proud of her. Same for all the Far-Left leaning Jews who live in her district. Yes, 5th district, you elected the cream of the crop with Omar. You get the anti-Semites you elect. Now, live with it.

Bernie Sanders, presidential candidate for the party of Karl Marx, recently demonstrated the Liberal wealth-envy ideology by saying he didn't have a wealthy father - a comparison to Trump's father. Bernie's dad sold paint. Nothing wrong with that. There's also nothing wrong with being a real estate developer.

Bernie is envious that he hasn't accumulated the same amount of wealth as has President Trump. Maybe that's because while Citizen Trump was working (actually working) in developing a successful real estate business, Bernie was actively writing pornography about how women fantasize about being gang raped by several men. Bernie gets a pass on his writings because he's a Commie.

"Rape is Okay", by Bernard Sanders

The Insane Liberal Clown Posse (the ILCP) and their Green New Deal (GND) looks forward to a day without airplanes, hamberders, the internal combustion engine and the use of fossil fuels.

Let's all pretend the ILCP, their GND and all the global warming global cooling climate change data is real, factual and un-rebuttable. In keeping with eliminating those "luxuries", shouldn't the ILCP shut down the entire entertainment industry? Movies, music, concerts, television, theater?

The entertainment industry consumes fossil fuels like Ted Kennedy drank Irish Whiskey. Do we really need movies, television, music? Do we really need computers, cell phones, iPhones? Again, no one - especially this new group of self-righteous pubescent and pre-pubescent crowd who subscribe to the "environmental sky is falling" mentality - bothers to address the issue of child slave labor mining lithium and cobalt. No...the enemy is fossil fuels. Child slave labor? Expendable. "Drill, Baby Drill" is entirely appropriate, for the ILCP, as long as it's cobalt and lithium.

MN Gov Timmy "Celebrity Canned Ham Head" Waltz, Uber-Lib, is making the most of his new-found celebrity-hood as the state's highest elected official. I don't think a day has gone by since he was sworn into office where he hasn't made an appearance somewhere, spouting some silly, hackneyed, rhetoric, that his mug hasn't found its way to a camera.

Timmy is doing all he can do in advancing the confiscation of firearms of legal gun owners. So all you MN Dems who claim you believe in the Second Amendment (who also hunt and competition sport-shoot, which has nothing to do with the Second Amendment anyway), you just keep voting for the candidate with a "D" behind their names because that's how your parents and grandparents voted. Vote for a Republican? They're only for the rich and business sector. Thankfully, the majority-Republican MN Senate should reject any bill seeking to infringe on our Constitutional Right. Or not. I never underestimate the ability of any Republican voting like a Democrat.

Here's a question for the Gun Control Crowd: What common sense gun legislation would you advise that will prevent an active, serving, law enforcement officer from illegally selling guns to gang members?

Every supporter of the Second Amendment needs to view two videos at the Gun Blog Black List (GBBL). The first video is on H.R. 1112 and the second video H.R. 1263.

No food in Venezuela

Not sure what I believe is going on in Venezuela. Is the no-food available anywhere political optics for the world stage? Because other reports show food is plentiful and available.

Those of us who want no part of the ILCP should refrain from calling for resignations or censures of the likes of Minnesota's Pillow Case Congresswohman, Michigan's Talalaia Tlaib or the former NY bartender who now gets to play "Big People" job. Let them run free. Let them speak. Distribute their remarks. Their words and actions work so well against the Libs, let them bury themselves.

A man, illegally carrying a gun - a .9mm - holstered it in the front of, and inside, his pants. He went to adjust it, it fired, the bullet entered just above his penis and exited through his scrotum. Just a reminder that using your crotch as a holster isn't a good choice.

Sharia Law Patrol has been up and running in NYC. Coming soon to a neighborhood like yours. But Libs will be  supportive of this because at least no one will be wearing MAGA hats.

Potential Dem 2020 Prez Candidate Gropin' Joe Biden sure is creepy. You do know Social Climbing Joe, (turns age 78 in November 2020), received FIVE deferments for military service for asthma.

While his asthma kept him out of Vietnam, his asthma, strangely, did not prevent him from playing football, baseball and lifeguard duty. And Biden lied, and continues lying, that the driver who struck and killed his first wife was driving under the influence of alcohol. This is a wholly manufactured lie on Biden's part. That he continues perpetuating this fiction is shameful. But, no one has ever accurately assessed that Liberals are remotely familiar with shame.

Sometimes, while I think Roseanne Barr is "a little too far out there", I think she makes a lot of sense here.

"Carlos Danger" aka Anthony Weiner

Why haven't we heard of any progress on the seized laptop of Huma Abedin and her hubby Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner? (Carlos Danger...). Last I recall reports of what was on that laptop made hardened, NYC cops sick and nauseated by what they viewed. Weiner served only a 15-month prison term. He was granted early release for good behavior. Well, that must be one of the perks in being a Liberal and Clinton loyalist.

The above are just a few of the stories I let sink in over the past few weeks. I guess, maybe, avoiding daily and regular updating eventually leads to long, and perhaps, boring updates like this one.

I'll be back to updating on a more regular basis, but will wait a few days. I know reading something this lengthy sucks. If you've managed to make it through this, you're a far better reader than I am a writer.

Is Hillary president yet?

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How many Dems will condemn Tim Cook's earnings?

Answer to post title: None.

This Is Money: Apple boss Tim Cook's BIGGEST BONUS EVER.

Apple boss Tim Cook collected his biggest ever bonus just weeks before the iPhone maker cut production due to poor sales.

The 58-year-old trousered £12.3million in 2018, including a £2.4million salary and a £9.4million bonus.

It was a 22 per cent pay rise for a year that saw Apple post record revenue and profit.

But it came just weeks before it dropped a bombshell, saying demand for its latest iPhones failed to meet expectations.

I have no problem with any CEO making a ton of money. I do have a problem with corporations with business ties in countries that exploit and use forced child labor for mining cobalt and lithium and any other resource. Don't tell me these companies "don't know". Years ago, Apple had to install suicide nets in their China manufacturing facilities because workers preferred leaping to their deaths rather than work at their job.

Green Tech Media: The Hidden Risks of Batteries: Child Labor, Modern Slavery.

Shockingly, 40,000 children are estimated to be employed in artisanal mines in southern DR Congo, including in cobalt extraction. Verisk Maplecroft’s cobalt risk assessment -- part of its commodity risk service -- reveals that human rights abuses are widespread in the sector and can occur within both industrial and artisanal mines.

Bloomberg: 2018: Apple negotiating to buy cobalt direct from miners in DR Congo.

The price of cobalt has more than tripled in the past 18 months to trade above $80,000 a metric ton. Two-thirds of supplies come from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there has never been a peaceful transition of power and child labor is still used in parts of the mining industry.

Apple isn't the only maker of electronics that obtains cobalt and lithium from countries and sources that use forced child labor. Conducting business with countries and companies that deliberately look the other way on all types of child labor is appalling and must be stopped. What is Tim Cook going to do about it? What are you/we going to do about it? Yes, there's lithium and cobalt in your, and my, lap top, desk top, IPad, phone and everything else. What degree of responsibility belongs to those of us who use these devices?

While all activity or work contains some degree of risk, (simply being alive carries with it the inherent risk of death), and while we can each rationalize what we do in life and assess various degrees of risk we are willing to take, profit should never come at the expense of human life and health. This is mantra to every reasonable, free-thinking individual. But it is held in absolute holy righteousness by The Left. So, why am I not surprised that The Left maintains a silent vigil on this issue when it comes to Tech?

One could correctly call the cobalt and lithium industry the "new" Exxon or Standard Oil. But The Left never will.