The Casper Tribune reported on major events of the day, but what drew my attention was the horse packing plant. I was completely unaware that Casper had every had one.
What happened to it?
Of interest on this story, the plant was owned by Hill Milling Company, which still exists. It's Hill's Pet Nutrition today. Apparently in the 1930s it was a major supplier of horse meat to Europe.
The Soviet Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars.established Gostrudsberkassy, the savings bank for workers in the Soviet Union.
On the same day, the USSR and the Emirate of Afghanistan went to war over control of the island of Urta Tagay.
The small war over the island resulted from Imperial Russian troops having to abandon the island in 1920 in order to aid the White cause, with the island, long claimed by Afghanistan, then occupied. The fight drew the attention of western nations, and amazingly Afghanistan won.
The Reichstag approved the Locarno Treaties.
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The Madrid Accords between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania set out six principles which would end Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara and arrange a temporary administration in the area pending a referendum.
Israeli troops pulled back from their positions in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the peace treat arranged in September. As part of this they turned over the Ras Suhr oil fields captured in 1967 to the United Nations. The US agreed to pay Israel $350,000,000 for the loss of oil revenue.
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The massive Great Lakes freighter went down with all 29 hands.
The ballad commemorating the ships loss would come out the following year.
Italy and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Osimo resolving the long running dispute over Trieste.
The Communists forces of the MPLA defeated the FNLA in a battle over the capital of Angola, Luanda.
The United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 equating Zionism with racism. The Resolution would be revoked in 1991.
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Preliminary and Secret Treaty between the French Republic and His Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, Concerning the Aggrandizement of His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma in Italy and the Retrocession of Louisiana.
His Catholic Majesty having always manifested an earnest desire to procure for His Royal Highness the Duke of Parma an aggrandizement which would place his domains on a footing more consonant with his dignity; and the French Republic on its part having long since made known to His Majesty the King of Spain its desire to be again placed in possession of the colony of Louisiana; and the two Governments having exchanged their views on these two subjects of common interest, and circumstances permitting them to assume obligations in this regard which, so far as depends on them, win assure mutual satisfaction, they have authorized for this purpose the foUowinz: the French Republic, the Citizen Alexandre Berthier General in Chief, and His Catholic Majesty, Don Mariano Luis de Urquijo, knight of the Order of Charles III, and of that of St. John of Jerusalem, a Counselor of State, his Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary appointed near the Batavian Republic, and his First Secretary of State ad interim, who, having exchanged their powers, have agreed upon the following articles, subject to ratification.ARTICLE 1The French Republic undertakes to procure for His Royal Highness the Infant Duke of Parma an aggrandizement of territory which shad increase the population of his domains to one minion inhabitants, with the title of King and with all the rights which attach to the royal dignity; and the French Republic undertakes to obtain in this regard the assent of His Majesty the Emperor and King and that of the other interested states' BO that His Highness the Infant Duke of Parma may be put into possession of the said territories without opposition upon the conclusion of the peace to be made between the French Republic and His Imperial Majesty.ARTICLE 2The aggrandizement to be given to His Royal Highness the Duke of Parma may consist of Tuscany, in case the present negotiations of the French Government with His Imperial Majesty shall permit that Government to dispose thereof; or it may consist of the three Roman legations or of any other continental provinces of Italy which form a rounded state.ARTICLE 3His Catholic Majesty promises and undertakes on his part to retrocede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the above conditions and provisions regarding His Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it ought to be according to the treaties subsequently concluded between Spain and other states.ARTICLE 4His Catholic Majesty will give the necessary orders for the occupation of Louisiana by France as soon as the territories which are to form the arrandizement of the Duke of Parma shall be placed in the hands of His Royal Highness. The French Republic may, according to its convenience, postpone the taking of possession; when that is to be executed, the states directly or indirectly interested will agree upon such further conditions as their common interests and the interest of the respective inhabitants require.ARTICLE 5His Catholic Majesty undertakes to deliver to the French Republic in Spanish ports in Europe, one month after the execution of the provision with regard to the Duke of Parma, six ships of war in good condition built for seventy-four guns, armed and equipped and ready to receive French crews and supplies.ARTICLE 6As the provisions of the present treaty have no prejudicial object and leave intact the rights of an, it is not to be supposed that they win give offense to any power. However, if the contrary shall happen and if the two states, because of the execution thereof, shall be attacked or threatened, the two powers agree to make common cause not only to repel the aggression but also to take conciliatory measures prosper for the maintenance of peace with all their neighbors.ARTICLE 7The obligations contained in the present treaty derogate in no respect from those which are expressed in the Treaty of Alliance signed at San Ildefonso on the 2d Fructidor, year 4 (August 19, 1796); on the contrary they unite anew the interests of the two powers and assure the guaranties stipulated in the Treaty of Alliance for all cases in which they should be applied.ARTICLE 8The ratifications of these preliminary articles shall be effected and exchanged within the period of one month, or sooner if possible, counting from the day of the signature of the present treaty.In faith whereof we, the undersigned Ministers Plenipotentiary of the French Republic and of His Catholic Majesty, in virtue of our respective powers, have signed these preliminary articles and have affixed thereto our seals.Done at San Ildefonso the 9th Vendemiaire, 9th year of the French Republic (October 1, 1800)[Seal] ALEXANDRE BIRTHIER[Seal] MARIANO LUIS DE URQUIJO
American aircraft were arriving in Japan with troops at the rate of 300 per day.
Supreme Allied Command was established in Tokyo.
Organized Japanese forces in the Philippines completed surrendering.
Japanese forces on Marcus Island surrendered.
The US and USSR reestablished diplomatic relations with Finland.
France ratified the UN Charter.
Field Marshal Brauchitsch and Field Marshal von Manstein were arrested by Allied authorities.
George Ivan "Van" Morrison was born in Belfast.
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You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Matthew, Chapter 24.
When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.
Albert Camus, The Plague.
And so, we have the spectacle of a dipshit who never served his country trying to negotiate a peace with a former spy, who served his in that capacity, while ignoring the leader of a country that's put up a titanic fight against an invasion for the past two years.
And we're going to do it on American soil that once belonged to the Russian Empire.
What could go wrong?
August 10, 2028
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Predictable, and quite correct:
KYIV REJECTS CEDING TERRITORY
Ukraine also demanded that Europe be included, which it should be since the United States has ceded its status as a serious nation.
Regarding this meeting, the BBC noted:
Trump announced the 15 August meeting on social media and it was later confirmed by a Kremlin spokesperson, who said the location was "quite logical" given Alaska's relative proximity to Russia.
Nowhere in Alaska is close to Moscow, or Washington D.C.
August 11, 2025
Israel v. Hamas
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Sunday that Israel “has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas.”
On Gaza, Wyoming Congressman Harriet Hageman did the following:
Reinforcing House Republicans' Commitment to Israel |
On Thursday, I joined Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) and 14 of our House Republican colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Bessent, urging his department to review whether Ireland’s proposed boycott of Israel violates U.S. anti-boycott laws. As you may know, the Irish government recently introduced legislation aimed at prohibiting the import of goods and services originating from territories under Israeli “occupation.” This proposal aligns with the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to economically isolate Israel. These policies not only promote economic discrimination but also introduce legal uncertainty for U.S. companies operating in Ireland. Under Section 999 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or the Ribicoff Amendment, the Treasury Department is required to maintain a list of countries that condition commercial activity on participation in unsanctioned international boycotts. Countries on this list trigger specific tax reporting requirements and potential penalties for U.S. individuals and businesses involved in certain activities within those jurisdictions. Our letter urges Secretary Bessent to investigate whether Ireland meets the criteria for inclusion on this list, ensuring that U.S. companies are aware of their legal obligations and protected from unintended exposure. As your representative, I remain firmly committed to combating antisemitism and standing up for our Jewish communities both here at home and around the world. |
This came before Israel's announcement that it was going to invade and occupy Gaza. The war in Gaza is demonstrating Yeoman's Fifth Law of History pretty ably. Whatever a person thinks of the initial Israeli action, Israel can't find a way to end the war. The current idea is obviously to completely occupy the Gaza Strip and then hope that some Arab nations are willing to turn it over to a non Hamas entity. There's a fair amount of desperation in that concept.
Also, at this point, Israel has leveled Gaza completely and whatever the original justifications for the invasion were, and Israel had after all sustained a terrible terrorist attack, it's now gone too far.
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Meet the Press and Face the Nation were interesting on this in that they had guests who seemed tapped into the meeting that will occur this Friday in Anchorage.
Lindsey Graham, who just played golf with Trump, claimed the VP was really tapped into events and reiterated the "exchange of territory" line that Trump had earlier. Ukraine's ambassador to the US was on Face the Nation and noted that the territory of Ukraine is described in its constitution and nobody has the authority inside the Ukrainian government to negotiate it away. Basically, that'd be like negotiating Texas away, which while negotiating Texas away might be a good idea, it's illegal.
A fair question, fwiw, is why poor Alaska, with its early Russian heritage, has to suffer through this?
There will be some changes in land ... Russia has taken some very prime territory. They've taken largely ocean -- in real estate we call it oceanfront property. That's always the most valuable property.
Trump's frame of reference is amazingly narrow. He looks at everything like a real estate developer.
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US Domestic Strife.
Trump ordered 800 National Guardsmen to deploy to Washington, D.C., on Monday. There's utterly no need to do so.
He also threatened other cities with the same.
August 14, 2025
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Trump is reportedly going to offer Putin a rare earth minerals deal for Russia in Alaska if Russia ends the war in Ukraine.
WTF?
August 15, 2025.
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A headline in the CST:
Land swap deal with Russia would be illegal in Ukraine
I've already noted that on one of these threads.
By the way, the ICC has an arrest warrant out for Putin.
This day, of course, will be marked by international war criminal Vlad Putin meeting convicted felon Donald Trump. In normal times, both of these men would be people that you wouldn't read about.
Trump has been campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize even though there's not to his credit to warrant it. Having promised originally to end the war between Ukraine and Russia within 24 hours of being nominated for President, and then as soon as he was elected, he hasn't been able to effect the peace process at all. For that matter, Gaza, where he claimed credit for peace, is about to be re-invaded by Israel.
Trump fancies himself a great negotiator, but all he really is, is a large-scale real estate developer who was born into wealth. Indeed, it's frequently asserted that while being born into the middle class means that its almost impossible to fall out of it permanently, family wealth of the wealthy simply doesn't last. Seventy percent of wealthy families lose their wealth by the second generation and 90 percent of families lose their wealth by the third generation, or so its claimed (there are those who outright dispute this claim).
Trump is, as is often noted, the descendant of German immigrant Frederick Trump, a Lutheran Bavarian who had to leave the country after having returned to it after marrying fellow Bavarian Elizabeth Christ due to his failure to perform mandatory military service. He became wealthy in the US, wealth inherited by his father, Fred Trump, who built it further, and on to Donald Trump. Nobody really knows how wealth Donald Trump is, but he demonstrates all the classic traits of those who inherit wealth and then lose it. Having said that, he's the third generation, and he's wealthy.
And he caters enormously to the wealthy.
He also is deeply amoral and doesn't grasp the world beyond transactions. He seemingly is unable to understand the world beyond that which means in matters of war and peace, and diplomacy, he's singularly poorly suited to engage in it. He's likely to approach this whole thing as a land deal.
Indeed, if early reports are correct, he'll likely propose land swaps between Ukraine and Russia, which Ukraine cannot legally do, and they are not even at the table, and he'll grant Russia minerals concessions in Russia. If Russia agrees, he'll try to force those down on Ukraine. The minerals concessions, whatever they are, will be disavowed by some future administration.
August 13, 2025
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Trump files all the way from Washington D.C.
Putin all the way from Moscow.
Conference already over, and we still have a war.
Is there somebody who actually still takes this clown's promises seriously?
Some history (not that Trump would appreciate it).
New Yorker Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the end of the Russo Japanese War, from the US, from August 9, 1905, through August 30, 1905.
But then, Roosevelt was a genuine article.
August 16, 2025
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy will fly to Washington D.C. to meet with Trump on Monday.
I wonder if J. D. Vance will be available to berate him for not wearing a suit?
August 17, 2025
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Trump had stated "we're close to a deal", but leakers have provided Putin's demands, which basically amount to a complete surrender. Ukraine cedes territory, including presently unoccupied territory, and Russia gives a "security guaranty".
That's not going to happen.
What needs to happen is to find a way to bring Russia to its knees, but of course Donny is a Putin fanboy, which makes that difficult.
Military Occupation of Washington D.C.
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A Trump tweet would appear to place Trump pathetically fully in the Putin camp today:
Basically this means Ukraine can end the war by surrendering, to the extent its capable of being deciphered.
If Trump was a drinking man, which he's not, this would look like a drunk tweet.
August 18, 2025.
US Domestic Strife.
Some National Guardsmen in D.C. are going to be issued arms.
South Carolina, Ohio and West Virginia are supplying National Guardsmen to the Trump municipal takeover.
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Ukraine's president and the heads of various European states will be in D.C. today following Trump's failed meeting with Putin. It'll be a momentous day, no matter what.
Apparently Giorgia Meloni will be one of those present. A populist herself, but an intelligent one, I suspect she might be the one person in the room capable of calling Trump a dumbass to his face and Trump not being able to handle it.
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The Helsinki Accords were signed by the leaders of 35 nations in Finland, including the 15 member states of NATO and the 7 Warsaw Pact nations.
The text: The Helsinki Accords.
The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment commenced in India. It brought television for the first time to 2,500 villages in six Indian states and territories.
"KNM ER 3733", a woman of the species Homo ergaster, assuming that's a distinct from homo erectus, which it probably is not, was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo. She'd passed away 1,750,000 prior.
The Republic of Cabinda declared independence, ineffectively.
The United States Senate ratified the Bretton Woods Agreement.
Encircled Japanese units in Burma begin an all out effort to breakout.
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After a flurry of cables from Japan, Japan's Ambassador to the Soviet Union Naotake Sato met with Molotov in a peace feeler through the still neutral Soviet Union.
The Berlin municipal council confiscated all property held by members of the Nazi Party.
The U.S. took responsibility for the sinking of the Japanese hospital ship Awa Maru on April 1, but cited it as an error, which it was.
Gen. Eisenhower issued a farewell message to the AEF.
World War Two American internment camps were shutting down.
Today in World War II History—July 13, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—July 13, 1945: US War Relocation Authority announces all but one internment camp for Japanese-Americans (Tule Lake) are to close by December 15.
Ben Chifley was chosen as Australian Prime Minister
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