it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there
art museum websites when the artist was a communist: ...he continued to paint, despite the fact that every time someone in Soviet Russia made abstract art Joe Stalin would personally storm into their studio and start tearing apart the canvas with his teeth
art museum websites when the artist was a nazi: ...his work flourished from 1937â1945, a time where nothing particularly notable happened, and then he emigrated to the united states where he designed buildings for private universities
On this day, 5 July 1777, the word âscabâ, meaning âstrikebreakerâ, was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary!
By the late 16th century the word "scab" had come to be used as an English insult, somewhat akin to "lowlife" or "scoundrel". But at some point it began to be used by workers in industrial disputes as a label for workers who crossed picket lines and worked while their colleagues were striking for better pay or conditions.
It first appeared in print in the Bonner and Middletonâs Bristol Journal, during a strike of shoemakers, where it reported: "The Conflict would not been so sharp had not there been so many dirty Scabs".
On scabs, author Jack London famously wrote the following: âAfter God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, the vampire, He had some awful substance left with which He made a scab. A scab is a two-legged animal with a cork-screw soul, a water-logged brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles."
This quotation is illustrated in one of our July T-Shirts of the Month, made by a workers' cooperative and supporting grassroots unions in South Asia. Available here with global shipping: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/search?q=scab
Anyway, today, July 4th, is Yugoslav fighter's day! On this day in 1941 the Yugoslav Communist Party decided to formally launch an uprising against the German occupation of Yugoslavia. Smrt faĆĄizmu, sloboda narodu!
A major surplus in solar power in Spain has caused the value of solar parks to plummet, with investors looking to jump ship.
As the Trump administration continues to debilitate the United Statesâ path to green power, other parts of the world are all-in on renewable energy.
In fact, some countries have ramped up green energy generation so much that prices are dropping precipitously â and venture capitalists are unhappy as their margins take a big hit.
As Bloomberg reports, investors, utilities, and banks have invested over $80 billion in renewable energy in Spain. As a result, a major surplus in electricity has caused the value of solar parks to plummet, with investors looking to jump ship.
Spain even experienced negative energy prices last summer, an unusual but increasingly common phenomenon that turns the economics of green energy on their head. This year is no different, with the country already exceeding its annual record for the time producers end up paying customers to take on all that excess energy in the first six months.
While most Americans can only dream of that kind of scenario, California notwithstanding, negative energy prices can have ripple effects, slowing down the adoption of renewable energy â a regrettable misalignment between financial pressure and the shared goal of addressing a growing climate crisis.
At least four solar parks have been put up for sale in the country, with owners getting lowball offers from potential buyers. Meanwhile, short sellers are looking to bet on their demise, adding to the industryâs woes.
One persistent problem is the lack of energy storage for all of that renewable power, with solar energy utilities making steep investments in battery facilities that can stockpile electricity during the day when thereâs an excess of solar generation, saving it for nighttime or when the skies are cloudy.
Another pain point is the national grid, which has to quickly adapt to fluctuating rates of solar power generation, according to Bloomberg. The government is now scrambling to keep investors happy by promising grid upgrades and financial support for battery storage.
In short, on the surface, a glut of renewable energy sounds like an excellent problem to have. Residents in Spain enjoy some of the cheapest electricity rates in Europe. Yet a venture capitalist system hellbent on squeezing as much profit out of clean electricity as possible isnât looking like a viable solution in the long term.
a really clear example of how sometimes technoloical development will outgrow the current socio-economic model, necessitating a shift to a new model.
If only there was a way to associate a physical length with a number. Like, maybe we could put marks on a long piece of tape or something, evenly spaced, and then you could, like, count how many marks long something is?
I'm probably not making any sense, this is a dumb idea, sorry (/s)
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