The three-day protest of Kentucky coal miners who blocked a railroad track in fury over unpaid wages ended Wednesday night in a victory for the few miners who remained, with the company paying all wages demanded by a small band of miners in Pike County who blocked a train and drew national attention to their cause.
Dylan Davidson, a mining machine operator and roof bolter for American Resources Corporation, and one of the few miners who remained Wednesday, said the small group of protesting miners packed up and left at nightfall after receiving payment for overtime pay, vacation days and all other money owed to them for work they had already completed.
How to Build a Kilowatt Wind Turbine for Under $30
This is a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine which uses wind energy to drive things like an alternator/generator for producing electricity, or air and water pumps for cooling, irrigation and similar.
The turbine uses the 35-40% mechanically efficient Lenz2 lift+drag design. It is made almost entirely from scrap materials, and should cost about $15-$30 for the six vane version, which can be made by two people in four hours without much effort.
The three vane version has been successfully survival tested to 80 km/h sustained winds and the six vane version to 105 km. Both will do more, but exactly how much has not yet been ascertained. The current longest running version has been up since early 2014, through reasonable storms, with no noticeable wear and tear as of yet.
I got this submission, and it really goes to show you the issue with history. People only look at the events that happen, and not the history that preceded them. This persecution of Christians doesn’t come out of nowhere, historically in places where christians have been “persecuted”, this is because the church has almost always allied with the previous state, and has justified and committed atrocities with the word of god as an excuse. The Spanish church crucified their people, and worked closely with Franco. The Pope didn’t mind Mussolini.
Under the Russian Empire, the church had many privileges, until Lenin separated Church and State, and made them lose a lot of influence. Then the civil war hit, and a lot of orthodox leaders backed the white army, which was backed by 14 imperialist nations. If you join on the opposite side of the communists on a war, like most war you might end up killed.
I have personally expressed resentment toward Christianity because I am surrounded by christians and 9 times out of 10 they’re reactionary as fuck. No part of me wants to deny christians the right to practice their religion; but at the least, the doctrine would need to be significantly reinterpreted so that Americans stop thinking that Jesus shot free market capitalism out of his holy cock and blessed us with it.
