Tag: planned obsolescence

Demonstration Updates: ‘The Storm’ In All Its Forms [videos] ~ December 16, 2018


 

Organized protests in France in November sparked by the Fuel Tax promised by the Macron government – Image source: https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/map-shows-locations-of-planned-fuel-price-protests-in-france

Weekends are about demonstrations and protests. That’s a fact of life at the moment, and if we’re “woke”, we are probably interested in the movement to take power away from the corrupt, tyrannical governments and return it to the People—where it belongs. It’s like a contagion now, spreading virally throughout the world; the voices of dissent too raucous to be ignored.

Love him or hate him, trust him or not, President Trump appears to have been a major catalyst in this surge to reverse something that is not in the best interests of Humanity and could well mean it’s utter destruction; the New World Order’s agenda.

The Yellow Vest Movement is a massive, multi-national one—organized but leaderless. It’s a matter of survival. People get that now. If they don’t halt the goosestepping of the New World Order in their streets and make the necessary changes now, the window of opportunity will close and the situation on our planet will progress to the point of no return. This is the end game, and Humanity must act and prove they are worth saving.

As you will see from the following video, it is not only about the fuel tax as the lamestream media would have us believe. The globalists have destroyed all things sacred and the surreptitious creep of their insidous plan to subjugate and destroy us affects every aspect of our lives.

If it sounds overly dramatic, perhaps that is what is needed for the unwitting to grasp the gravity of the situation. It IS a matter of life and death at this point, as anyone familiar with the grand plan can attest.

Offical Charter – 25 Demands of Yellow Vest Movement (English)

The Britons are not standing down and promise more widespread protests and a massive revolution if the government continues to ram the EU down their throats. They want none of it, and are determined to take back control of the government and their country. They know they deserve better than what’s been dished out—as do we all.

‘We are NOT Europeans!’ Furious Brexiteer warns of ‘REVOLUTION’ if May fails to deliver

None of this is a surprise to many of us. The writing was on the wall and the New World Order’s agenda was known to us. It seems it had to come to a head before the People en masse could feel the pain enough to react strongly; to know that they had to DO something about it.

Like an alcoholic who has to hit rock bottom before they can seize the reins and realize they are not worthless and find the strength to take control again, The People of Earth are seeing with new eyes amidst the tears of their pain and finding the strength to attack the root of the problem to take down the Beast.

The Brexit Mess Planned All Along To Thwart The Will Of The People – David Icke

Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change and his source in Paris tell us the true situation in France and Paris with respect to the ongoing revolt since the MSM does not represent it accurately or without spin and filters.

Billy Joyce tells us more about the Nova Scotia rally about the Compact for Global Migration just signed this week by the Canadian government and provides footage of a few people who showed up and held conversations about their grievances. It started small, but like the Christmas morning celebration in Whoville, it will probably swell and grow into quite a din and take on a life of its own. Keep going, Canada.

Billy tells us even a local news crew member knew nothing about the Compact for Global Migration.

The governments of the world want us to believe they’re Santa when they’re really a demonic Grinch, stealing our rights, our choice, our abundance and resources, and even our voices—and until just recently—in full stealth mode. They will do anything to silence us, because they cannot afford for the entire world to wake up to the reality.

#YellowVest Rally Report – Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada ! #WWG1WGA

Only a handful of yellow vests here, but there was also a demonstration at the US/Mexico border to demand the funding of the wall President Trump promised and featured in his campaign platform to protect the nation and the American people.

Humanity ~ Consumption Zombies ~ November 20, 2018


George Monbiot, The Guardian

There’s nothing they need, nothing they don’t own already, nothing they even want. So you buy them a solar-powered waving queen; a belly button brush; a silver-plated ice cream tub holder; a “hilarious” inflatable zimmer frame; a confection of plastic and electronics called Terry the Swearing Turtle; or – and somehow I find this significant – a Scratch Off World wall map.

They seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third. By the twelfth they’re in landfill. For thirty seconds of dubious entertainment, or a hedonic stimulus that lasts no longer than a nicotine hit, we commission the use of materials whose impacts will ramify for generations.

Researching her film The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard discovered that of the materials flowing through the consumer economy, only 1% remain in use six months after sale(1). Even the goods we might have expected to hold onto are soon condemned to destruction through either planned obsolescence (breaking quickly) or perceived obsolesence (becoming unfashionable).

But many of the products we buy, especially for Christmas, cannot become obsolescent. The term implies a loss of utility, but they had no utility in the first place. An electronic drum-machine t-shirt; a Darth Vader talking piggy bank; an ear-shaped i-phone case; an individual beer can chiller; an electronic wine breather; a sonic screwdriver remote control; bacon toothpaste; a dancing dog: no one is expected to use them, or even look at them, after Christmas Day. They are designed to elicit thanks, perhaps a snigger or two, and then be thrown away.

The fatuity of the products is matched by the profundity of the impacts. Rare materials, complex electronics, the energy needed for manufacture and transport are extracted and refined and combined into compounds of utter pointlessness. When you take account of the fossil fuels whose use we commission in other countries, manufacturing and consumption are responsible for more than half of our carbon dioxide production(2). We are screwing the planet to make solar-powered bath thermometers and desktop crazy golfers.

People in eastern Congo are massacred to facilitate smart phone upgrades of ever diminishing marginal utility(3). Forests are felled to make “personalised heart-shaped wooden cheese board sets”. Rivers are poisoned to manufacture talking fish. This is pathological consumption: a world-consuming epidemic of collective madness, rendered so normal by advertising and the media that we scarcely notice what has happened to us.

In 2007, the journalist Adam Welz records, 13 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa. This year, so far, 585 have been shot(4). No one is entirely sure why. But one answer is that very rich people in Vietnam are now sprinkling ground rhino horn on their food or snorting it like cocaine to display their wealth. It’s grotesque, but it scarcely differs from what almost everyone in industrialised nations is doing: trashing the living world through pointless consumption.

This boom has not happened by accident. Our lives have been corralled and shaped in order to encourage it. World trade rules force countries to participate in the festival of junk. Governments cut taxes, deregulate business, manipulate interest rates to stimulate spending. But seldom do the engineers of these policies stop and ask “spending on what?”. When every conceivable want and need has been met (among those who have disposable money), growth depends on selling the utterly useless. The solemnity of the state, its might and majesty, are harnessed to the task of delivering Terry the Swearing Turtle to our doors.

Grown men and women devote their lives to manufacturing and marketing this rubbish, and dissing the idea of living without it. “I always knit my gifts”, says a woman in a television ad for an electronics outlet. “Well you shouldn’t,” replies the narrator(5). An advertisement for Google’s latest tablet shows a father and son camping in the woods. Their enjoyment depends on the Nexus 7’s special features(6). The best things in life are free, but we’ve found a way of selling them to you.

The growth of inequality that has accompanied the consumer boom ensures that the rising economic tide no longer lifts all boats. In the US in 2010 a remarkable 93% of the growth in incomes accrued to the top 1% of the population(7). The old excuse, that we must trash the planet to help the poor, simply does not wash. For a few decades of extra enrichment for those who already possess more money than they know how to spend, the prospects of everyone else who will live on this earth are diminished.

So effectively have governments, the media and advertisers associated consumption with prosperity and happiness that to say these things is to expose yourself to opprobrium and ridicule. Witness last week’s Moral Maze programme, in which most of the panel lined up to decry the idea of consuming less, and to associate it, somehow, with authoritarianism(8). When the world goes mad, those who resist are denounced as lunatics.

Bake them a cake, write them a poem, give them a kiss, tell them a joke, but for god’s sake stop trashing the planet to tell someone you care. All it shows is that you don’t

 

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