Sure. But when you say something like “Hell, the majority of business that dealt in the sales of African slaves in the US were Jewish owned,” it does sort of imply exactly that.
We agree here. There were certainly Jews involved with the slave trade, and Jews who themselves owned slaves, more specifically in Brazil and Jamaica. Why no one ever points these things out about the Dutch or Portuguese or French, who seemed to have played an exponentially larger role in the slave trade, is sort of what I’m getting at.
As a quick and informal test- Googling the phrase french african slavery will get you 13.5 million hits. Doing the same for jewish or jew african slavery gets 83.4 million, with the top links being to antisemetic websites (Jew Watch, Rense, davidduke.com etc).
My point being that Jews playing a prominent roll in American slavery is a meme which has been repeated quite a bit, but is not necessarily historically accurate.
It’s resolution as stated in trade magazine of sorts, by the American Historical Association. It is the largest such organization in the country, and the largest group of historians. If you would like something with detailed citations, the majority of this book can be read for free via google, and there’s something shorter here.
lol@back-pedaling. What is it about the internet that prevents people from saying, “Hmm. I did not know that. My bad.” and keep it moving? Instead you get “What I meant was the exact opposite of what I actually typed!”
From what I understand, the CIGS printed solar panel is the current applied method at the commercial level already. Companies like Nanosolar already SELL this stuff for commercial applications and are achieving the 15% range since 2009 (IIRC they recently achieved 17% in a lab environment, but that isn’t real-world application so I’m dismissing that).
I think the bigger problem with solar up until CIGS was invented wasn’t the lack of efficiency, but the PRICE that was put on it for that efficiency. Looking at the cost per kwh generated from the traditional photovoltaic panel vs. the CIGS sheets coupled with the massive boost in efficiency makes this idea quite lucrative when its printing capabilities are boosted for consumer level manufacturing, and unlike the photovoltaics, are actually in a consumer price range that doesn’t require you to open another mortgage, only to see it not pay for itself for a good 15-20 years.
From what I remember, the consumer production idea was to make solar shingles that would replace standard ones. This is not only a great way to fully utilize every square inch of a surface you’d otherwise never touch, but hides it well for those communities who bitch about it being “ugly” (like my city: they won’t allow solar panels pretty much anywhere on homes “because it it looks bad”). The only reason they haven’t started up a consumer production, as far as I can tell, is they are prioritizing commercial applications with their limited production capabilities. I fully expect to see this shit take off when they are able to invest in enough production to supply consumers with the same tech.
I don’t ever see solar replacing most forms of energy generation, but I can definitely see home power not just getting a solar supplement, but as its primary power source, with the obvious backups in place, as there is always the flaw of long times of low-exposure during the winter that will eat up reserves and whatnot. Looking at where it is now, I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to see it explode in popularity within the next 10 years.
The problem with the high efficiency cells is the fact that they require Indium. It is a metal that is even rarer than gold and the only reason it is somewhat affordable right now is because there is no demand.
Basically it is physically impossible to produce enough of those cells. So research is looking more at organic based cells.
It seems to me, though I have no way to confirm this, is that nuclear power has a lot of potential, but the way the game is played makes it not so worth it? Also, it seems to me that you have to do a lot of bureaucratic backflips before you can get any work done while doing the engineering design which leads to absurd amount of man-hours which drives up the budget necessary for capital investment? Am I wrong? What’s your input?
It seems they are salvaging quite a bit of energy while not producing any significant amount of emissions. Something like, “The plants run so cleanly that many times more dioxin is now released from home fireplaces and backyard barbecues than from incineration.”
They can leave and do what, exactly? Taxes are the lowest they’ve been in 60 fucking years, and the economy is still in the toilet. Rich people are plenty happy with where this country is, and even if we raised taxes back to where they were when Clinton was in office, the rich would still be rich. If anything, the entitled mother fuckers are the wealthy who said that Obama raising taxes was the equivalent of Hitler occupying Poland during World War II.
Isn’t that exactly what you did by bringing up inflation? With respect, inflation isn’t just the only issue. Last I checked, wages have stayed stagnant for decreased for the middle class over the last 30 years, while they’ve skyrocketed for the rich. There are a fuck ton of real legitimate issues that aren’t one word answers as you’ve suggested.
Wow way to take a post way out of context when that post was dealing with things like slavery. I wasn’t trying to over simplify, but one of the things no one ever bothers to talk about is the fact the dollar today is damn near worthless compared to what it use to be.
Look at minimum wage over the last 10 years. It has increased by $2 since 2000. Yet somehow we are even poorer now than we were then even though we are technically making more money. Hell the average house hold income has gone up because both parents are working more often than they did in the 90s and early 2000s.
The thing is though when it comes to economics it isn’t about how much money you have, but rather how valuable the money you have is. If you compare the average income vs the average expense you start to see the problem.
I could actually list a ton of things, but I only have so much forum space and time. Anyone who claims a single problem is the cause of all of this is ignorant. We are in for economic problems that haven’t been seen since the great depression.
My favorite part of America is how we make what should be tons of money, but we pay a shit ton more for the same services that other people pay in other countries.
but that isn’t enough money. I make more money picking up trucks, sending trash to giant fields to be dumped, then sorting out the trash, then dumping the trash in giant holes, then building more holes dumping it.
the AC vid was discussed on my friend’s (late 30s dude) feed. he and his friends agree w/ the sentiment. one of his friend said this:
on point. but i’m still gonna go in on them for shitting on an entire generation. American culture reproduces self-entitlement. it’s silly to shit on the young’ns coming up after them. also silly to completely dismiss OWS. despite its flaws, it’s a decent start. and it’s better than silence and/or apathy.
Anything is better than a generation of fucking lackwits who believe that insisting upon their rights is self-entitlement, but lobbied interests, complete and utter non-disclosure of banks, federal bailouts with taxpayer money, and government not being held accountable to the people it is supposed to serve, for its actions at home and abroad, is just.
The world doesn’t hate America.
It hates greed and stupidity.
Much like OWS.
Each and every person in this country who would defend the rapine exploitation rape and pillaging of the 99% by the 1% is the fucking problem - each and every one - be they the 1% or the intellectual flatlines admist the 99% who defend them.
