Friday, March 15, 1946. Soviets in Iran.

The phony baloney Soviet constitution as amended to increase the number of republics in the U.S.S.R. from 11 to 16, and to give the head of each republic a position in the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, meaning nothing whatsoever.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee declared in the House of Commons the government's intention to grant British India its independence, stating. 

India herself must choose as to what will be her future situation and her position in the world", said Attlee, adding that "If ... she elects for independence—and in our view she has a right to do so—it will be for us to help make the transition as smooth and easy as possible.

The UK was, at this time, in the advance stages of divesting itself of its empire while causing its former Imperial subjects to believe that they were forcing it.  To this day, Indian likes to give the UK a guilt trip, which perhaps its entitled to do, but its not like they forced the British out.  The British sprinted out.

Truman exhibited confidence about the Soviets over Iran.

This is quite the contrast to Donny, who loves Putin almost as much as he loves himself.

And:

Seriously, Hemingway, why even bother?

Surplus was proving a problem:

Some interesting back country ski boots were offered. These were much like telemarking boots when I took that up in the 1980s, save for the bindings.  And these were pretty much like what my mother, who learned to ski in the 30s and 40s, used her whole life.

From Uncle Mike:

March 15, 1946: The Arrest of "Axis Sally"

Last edition:

Wednesday, March 13, 1946. Strikes end.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Gambling, Iran, Strike Wave of 1945-1946, The Cold War, United States, USSR

Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part 1.

The word "beer" in Saxon, as it appears in Beowulf.

January 1, 2025

Wyoming wise, brewing seems to be the most distributist business going.

Cygnet Brewing Company opened in downtown Casper last night, joining Skull Tree, Oil City Brewing, Gruner Brothers, Frontier Brewing, Mountain Hops, Stahoos, and Bull Horn as Casper breweries, and larger Wyoming regional brewery Black Tooth.

Rent shaming is breaking out in various parts of the country to attack absurdly high rents.

January 9, 2025

President Joe Biden blocked the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel.

January 10, 2025

BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is leaving the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative under pressure from Republican politicians, which believes that man made climate change is a fib.

Ironically, Republicans trying to justify the demented ravings o. president elect Donald Trump have stated that we need it for the sea lanes once the ice melts.

The Ski Patrol strike at Park City, Utah, ended after the resort agreed to raise their pay by $2 an hour.

January 18, 2025

TikTok will go dark tomorrow.

Good riddance.

January 21, 2025

If the President does choose to proceed with tariffs on Canada, Canada will respond, and everything is on the table.

Prime Minister Trudeau.

Trump's going to wreck the economy after having not even been in office for a month.

January 28, 2025

Welcome to the Trump Economy:

Columbia refused to accept U.S. military flights carrying Columbian deportees.

I don't blame it for refusing military flights.  Would we accept military flights?

So now we're slapping 25%, going to 50%, tariffs on Columbian goods.

27% of US coffee comes from Columbia.

Double digit inflation, here we come.

And runs on coffee?  Yep.  I'm buying some coffee tomorrow, I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Oh, on that, the price of coffee went up today.

Coffee

346.67

1.53

0.44%

5.19%

85.44%

Jan/24

Things we get from Columbia.

January 27, 2025

Columbian amazingly backed down and the tariffs are off.

January 31, 2025

25% tariffs kick on on Canadian and Mexican imports tomorrow.

This is insane.

February 1, 2025

The Insurrectionist signed an executive order imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China.

This horrible person isn't legally the President now.  Congress needs to do something.

Cont:

Canada hit back with tariffs.  A trade war is on, and the United States will lose it, and deserve to lose it.

Invoke the 25th Amendment now.  Trump is insane.

This is absolutely reprehensible. Trump belonged in prison to start with. Now we'll all pay the price for his not being.'

Cont:

Oh, and Mexico too.  They're also imposing tariffs.

Thanks MAGA.  Great job there.

Last edition:

Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. A return to Pre Covid status

Labels: 2010s, 2019, 2020s, 2024, Canada, Coronavirus Pandemic, deflation, Economics, inflation, Mexico, People's Republic of China, Petroleum, Taxes, The Liz Cheney Maxim, Wyoming's boom and bust economy

Thursday, February 22, 1923. Aircraft carrier milestone.

Life came out with a cover illustration of a female skiier.

The first aircraft landing on a purpose built aircraft carrier, the Imperial Japanese Navy carrier Hōshō,

The aircraft were Mitsubishi IMF's, which were British designed, and the pilot was a British pilot, showing the then ongoing cooperation between the United Kingdom and Imperial Japan, something that predated the Russo Japanese War.  Japan had been, of course, an Allied Power in the Great War.

In the Territory of Alaska, the Seward newspaper warned of Soviet intents.

Blog Mirror: Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Who Will Make Me These Old Skis?

Southern Rockies Nature Blog: Who Will Make Me These Old Skis?: Skis from 1300 years ago ( Secrets of the Ice. ) I have always enjoyed messing around with old cross-country ski gear. In high school, I pic...

Way cool.

And probably the user would recognize my Fischer 99s more readily than the skis out on the cross country track these days. 

Saturday, January 7, 1911. The first downhill skiing race took place at Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

The first downhill skiing race took place at  Crans-Montana, Switzerland.

Last edition:

Monday, January 2, 1911. "Ahí te van las hojas, mándame más tamales"

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Joseph M. Carey, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Pascual Orozco, Porfirio Díaz, Wyoming