The Median Empire and the Ancient Near East, c. 600 BCE
A map illustrating the rise and expansion of the Median Empire in the wake of the Bronze Age Collapse and the disintegration of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (c. 609 BCE). While the Neo-Babylonian Empire engulfed the Fertile Crescent from the Levantine coast to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the Median influence stretched far north towards the Black and Caspian Seas, as far east as the Indus River, and into the vast uplands of Asia Minor.
First Solar, the largest American solar panel maker, today announced
that it will invest up to $1.2 billion to ramp up production of US-made
solar panels. The announcement follows the passing of the Inflation
Reduction Act two weeks ago, which incentivizes domestic clean energy
manufacturing.
First Solar’s new factory will be its fourth in the US. The company
says the factory will be fully vertically integrated, have an annual
capacity of 3.5 gigawatts (GWdc), and will be sited somewhere in the US
Southeast. It’s expected to commence operations in 2025.
The Tempe, Arizona-headquartered company is the only US-headquartered company among the world’s 10 largest solar manufacturers.
The new investment is forecast to expand First Solar’s ability to
produce US-made solar modules for the domestic solar market to more than
10 GWdc by 2025. …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Tuesday it had uncovered efforts to obstruct its investigation into the discovery of classified documents at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, saying “government records were likely concealed and removed” from a storage room at the property.
The assertion was made in a court filing Tuesday night that lays out the most detailed chronology to date of interactions between Justice Department officials and Trump representatives over the presence of the documents at Mar-a-Lago.
The department says Trump’s lawyers told them in June that all the records that had come from the White House were stored in one location — a Mar-a-Lago storage room — and that “there were no other records stored in any private office space or other location at the Premises and that all available boxes were searched.”
In their search earlier this month, however, agents found classified documents both in the storage room as well as in the former president’s office – including three classified documents found not in boxes, but in office desks.
The filing responds to a request from the Trump legal team for a special master to review the documents seized during the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to hear arguments on the matter.
On this day, 31 August 1972, a meeting of striking building workers in the Chester and North Wales Action Committee was held at the Bull & Stirrup pub in Chester, North West England. During this meeting, it was decided to send six coaches of striking building workers to Shrewsbury the following week to picket construction sites which hadn’t yet come out on strike. That day would prove fateful for a number of building worker activists (and the wider trade union movement) as, despite no violence being reported by the dozens of police who followed the pickets all day, 24 workers would be arrested months later on bogus charges of ‘conspiracy’ to intimidate.
Learn more about the dispute in our podcast episodes 65-66 with Ricky Tomlinson, actor and one of the Shrewsbury 24: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e65-66-building-workers-strike-w-ricky-tomlinson/
Pic: The strikers in Shrewsbury, photo by Dave Bagnall https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2070566719795134/?type=3
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