I have nothing against wolf hunting, but there's no excuse for behavior like thiss.
Rod Miller of the Cowboy State Daily wrote an op-ed about it:
In it, he stated the following:
I agree.
Roberts would really do the state a favor if he just left it, permanently.
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.
I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
Chief Joseph upon his surrender, 1877.
March 6, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
The Ukrainians sank the Russian patrol ship Sergey Kotov with a drone strike.
It's clear that Black Sea is not safe for the Russian Navy.
March 8, 2024
Hamas Israeli War
The U.S. is setting up an artificial port on the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid.
Russo Ukrainian War
As s direct result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Sweden has entered NATO, ending centuries of neutrality.
March 9, 2024
Indian/Chinese Border
Indian is sending an additional 10,000 troops to its border with China.
March 10, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
Pope Francis stated in an interview with a Swiss journalist:
In Ucraina c’è chi chiede il coraggio della resa, della bandiera bianca. Ma altri dicono che così si legittimerebbe il più forte. Cosa pensa?
“È un’interpretazione. Ma credo che è più forte chi vede la situazione, chi pensa al popolo, chi ha il coraggio della bandiera bianca, di negoziare. E oggi si può negoziare con l’aiuto delle potenze internazionali. La parola negoziare è una parola coraggiosa. Quando vedi che sei sconfitto, che le cose non vanno, occorre avere il coraggio di negoziare. Hai vergogna, ma con quante morti finirà? Negoziare in tempo, cercare qualche paese che faccia da mediatore. Oggi, per esempio nella guerra in Ucraina, ci sono tanti che vogliono fare da mediatore. La Turchia, si è offerta per questo. E altri. Non abbiate vergogna di negoziare prima che la cosa sia peggiore”.
Anche lei stesso si è proposto per negoziare?
“Io sono qui, punto. Ho inviato una lettera agli ebrei di Israele, per riflettere su questa situazione. Il negoziato non è mai una resa. È il coraggio per non portare il paese al suicidio. Gli ucraini, con la storia che hanno, poveretti, gli ucraini al tempo di Stalin quanto hanno sofferto….”.
Translated:
In Ukraine there are those who ask for the courage of surrender, of the white flag. But others say that this would legitimize the strongest. What do you think?
“It's an interpretation. But I believe that those who see the situation, those who think about the people, those who have the courage to raise the white flag and to negotiate are stronger. And today it can be negotiated with the help of international powers. The word negotiate is a courageous word. When you see that you are defeated, that things are not going well, you need to have the courage to negotiate. You are ashamed, but with how many deaths will it end? Negotiate in time, look for some country to act as a mediator. Today, for example in the war in Ukraine, there are many who want to act as mediators. Turkey offered itself for this. And other. Don't be ashamed to negotiate before things get worse.
Have you also offered to negotiate?
“I'm here, period. I sent a letter to the Jews of Israel to reflect on this situation. Negotiation is never a surrender. It is the courage not to lead the country to suicide. The Ukrainians, with the history that they have, poor things, the Ukrainians at Stalin's time, how much they suffered...”.
This has been reported, in accurately, as the Pope calling upon the Ukrainians to surrender, which isn't exactly what he said.
The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was in the US, calling up Congress to free up support for Ukraine.
Hamas Israeli War
Israel has built a road bisecting Gaza.
March 11, 2024
Haiti
Haiti is in internal turmoil as gangs threaten to topple the government. The US has sent in additional forces to its embassy.
Russo Ukrainian War
The Pope's comments of yesterday have brought rebuke.
March 12, 2024
Hezbollah v. Israel
Israel struck Hezbollah targets from the air yesterday.
March 13, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
The Pentagon is sending $300,000,000 in weapons to Ukraine, but also revealed its $10B overdrawn in replenishing weapons it has sent already.
Democrats are using the discharge petition process to go around Donald Tump controlled Mike Johnson for funding in the House.
The All-Russian pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), Freedom of Russia Legion (LSR), and Siberian Battalion a limited cross-border raid into Belgorod and Kursk oblasts yesterday.
Ukraine hit an oil refinery with drones.
Haiti
Haiti's prime minister resigned. It's largely expected that the gangs that control the capital will play a role in choosing the next government.
Hamas Israeli War
Hamas Political Bureau Chairman Ismail Haniyeh presented Hamas’ delusional demands in ceasefire and hostage negotiations in a speech marking the start of Ramadan on March 10. They included a comprehensive ceasefire, the complete withdrawal of the IDF from the Gaza Strip, the complete return of displaced Gazans, and the resolution of humanitarian issues, and ending restrictions on the movement of people and goods out of the Gaza Strip.
Israel isn't going to agree to that.
March 14, 2024
Haiti
Florida is deploying 250 law enforcement officers and an air-and-sea fleet to address a potential wave of Haitian immigrants.
March 15, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev called for the total elimination of the Ukrainian state and its absorption into the Russian Federation.
Hamas Israeli War
Hamas killed the head of the Palestinian Dughmush clan, claiming it had stolen humanitarian aid and cooperated with Israel. The armed clan vowed to retaliate.
March 17, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
The Ukrainian State Security Service (SBU) conducted a series of successful drone strikes against Russian oil refineries in Samara Oblast.
March 23, 2024
ISIS v. Russia, Russia v. Ukraine, Syrian Civil War
ISIS launched a major terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk on the same day that it launched the largest series of combined drone and missile strikes targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure since the start of the war against Ukraine.
The ISIL attack was a reprisal for Russia supporting the Syrian state.
The ISIL terrorist attack was horrific, and directed against civilians, which can be also said of much of Russia's airborne campaign against Ukraine. Essentially, a terrorist entity has attacked a terrorist state.
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Casualties from the ISIL attack in Russia are now at 153.
March 26, 2024
Afghanistan
The Taliban, whom Donald Trump surrendered to in 2019, is going to start stoning women to death for adultery.
March 27, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
The Ukrainians struck the Konstantin Olshansky, which was formerly a Ukrainian Navy ship that was taken into Russian custody in 2014, with an anti shipping missile.
And of interest:
Ukraine destroys unique Russian ‘Doomsday Tank’
March 29, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
And this while Ukraine fights for its life.
Hamas Israeli War
The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to open up more corridors for relief in Gaza.
March 30, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
In an absolutely shocking action, The World Russian People’s Council, chaired by Patriarch Kirill, who reportedly worked undercover for the KGB during the Soviet era, declared the war in Ukraine “sacred" and called for its completely dominance under Russia.
Hamas Israeli War
The US, which can't get its act together due to the Trumpite dominated House of Representatives and Trump's admiration of Vlad Putin, is sending Israel more arms and ammunition, including more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs.
How we can somehow manage one, and not the other, is beyond me, particularly as the Ukrainian need is greater.
April 1, 2024
Hamas Israeli War
Huge protests occured yesterday in Israel over the war.
The War Against ISIL
Retired Marine Corps general Frank McKenzie appeared on this week to warn that ISIL strikes in the US are inevitable, and put the blame squarely on the Trump surrender in Afghanistan.
April 2, 2024
Hamas Israeli War
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to attempt to legislatively shut down Al Jazeera broadcasts in Israel. It accuses the news organization of agitating Palestinians.
Iran v Israel
Israel killed Iranian senior military commanders in Syria Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi and some of his top subordinates in an airstrike in Damascus.
The building hit was next to the Iranian Embassy.
Russia v The West
A joint investigation by 60 Minutes, the Insider, and Der Spiegel strongly suggests that the Kremlin has waged a sustained kinetic campaign directly targeting US government personnel both in the United States and internationally for a decade, with the likely objective of physically incapacitating US government personnel. The investigation, which the outlets published on March 31, indicates that the infamous Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU) Unit 29155 (the same unit whose operatives attempted to assassinate Sergei Skripal with the Novichok nerve agent in the United Kingdom in 2018) may be using nonlethal directed energy or acoustic weapons to target a large number of US government personnel, each of whom has reported experiencing an “anomalous health incident” (also called “Havana Syndrome”) of varying severity between 2014 and as recently as 2023.[1] The investigation cites intercepted Russian intelligence documents, travel logs, call metadata, and eyewitness testimony that places GRU Unit 29155 operatives at many of the locations where US officials experienced Havana Syndrome, either shortly before or during each attack. The investigation suggested that GRU operatives conducted a directed energy attack against an FBI agent in Florida a few months after the agent interviewed detained undercover GRU officer Vitaliy Kovalev at some point between June and December 2020.[2] Other US government officials claimed they were attacked by the directed energy weapons while they were in the United States, including in Washington, DC. The joint investigation interviewed US Army Colonel Greg Edgreen, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)’s working group investigating Havana Syndrome, who believes that Russia is behind the Havana Syndrome incidents and that the incidents consistently have a “Russia nexus.”[3] Edgreen stated that the incidents all targeted the top five to ten percent “performing DIA officers” and that the victims were either experts on Russia or had otherwise worked to defend US national security interests against Russia. The investigation noted that many affected personnel were assigned to roles aimed at countering Russia following the 2014 invasion of Ukraine after these personnel had previously worked on other portfolios. The investigation reported that these incidents have affected senior US personnel, including a senior official in the National Security Council who served at some point in 2020-2024 and CIA Director Bill Burns’ then-deputy chief of staff who experienced an anomalous health incident in September 2021 in Delhi. Several of the US officials who experienced Havana Syndrome have severe life-altering and career-ending injuries. Many US officials’ spouses and children also experienced Havana Syndrome while deployed overseas.
ISW
April 4, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
Ukraine has dropped its conscription age from 27 to 25.
Both of those are, I'd note, remarkably high conscription ages.
On March 30-31, 2024, the Russian Army launched its largest armored assault of the war but was repulsed with significant losses.
According to Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, during "the last couple of months that Russia has almost completely reconstituted militarily".
A Ukrainian drone struck a Russian Shahed 136 drone production facility in Tatarstan, over 1,100km from Ukraine.
Wow.
Iran vs. Everyone
An Iranian militia is threatening a major expansion in Jordan.
April 7, 2024
Ecuador v. Mexico
Ecuador raided the Mexican embassy in their country and arrested the former Vice President. Mexico responded by severing diplomatic relations with Ecuador.
Ajerbaijan v. Aremenia
There have been exchanges of artillery fire, apparently, recently although I don't really have the details.
Romania
Romania is about to pass a law allowing for military intervention outside of Romania to protect Romanian citizens. Moldova would be the only logical place for the application of such a law, or perhaps Ukraine.
April 8, 2024
Hamas v. Israel
Israel has withdrawn from Khan Younis bringing its troop presence in Gaza to one of the lowest levels since the war began. This is likely in preparation for entering Rafah.
April 10, 2024
Hamas v. Israel
An Iranian official, in a press interview, threatened the UAE, which maintains diplomatic relations with Israel, trying to pressure it to sever relations with the country.
Russo Ukrainian War
The US is supplying parts for the Ukrainian Hawk missle defense system on an emergency basis.
April 11, 2024
Japan told us today to get our act together:
I detect an undercurrent of self-doubt among some Americans about what your role in the world should be...At a time when our world is at history's turning point...Freedom and democracy are currently under threat around the globe.
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida addressing Congress
April 13, 2024
Iran v Israel
Iran is really saber-rattling in regard to Israel, and its warning the US as part of that. The US has warned it back.
It appears almost certain that the war that started with the Hamas terrorist raid is about to expand.
Russo Ukrainian War
The U.S. and U.K. will begin restricting the trade of new Russian-origin metals including aluminum, copper and nickel.
China, yes, China, is supplying huge numbers of drones to Ukraine, showing that China isn't as pro Russian as might be imagined. China's drones are much cheaper and less technological, and hence less susceptible to electronic interference, than American ones.
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Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future.
Dave Freudenthal, former Governor of Wyoming/
January 2, 2024
The Energy Information Administration’s Short Term Energy Outlook Report states that combined generation from wind and solar will overtake generation from coal by more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours this year.
US coal production will drop to its lowest amount since the 1960s, with it taking more miners per ton to produce in the 60s than it does now.
Pennsylvania's Flying Fish Brewing Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
January 11, 2024
January 17, 2024
From the Trib:
According to a report put out by the Wyoming State Geological Survey this month, the state’s oil production has not yet surpassed its 2019 high, while nationwide oil production has surpassed pre-pandemic levels.
More than 95 million barrels of oil are expected to be produced in Wyoming in 2023, which is about 3 million more barrels than in 2022. The drilling of new oil wells has helped greatly.
In the first half of 2023, a total of 110 newly drilled oil wells were completed, most of them in the Powder River Basin. This is in line with the first half of 2022, when 118 oil wells were completed.
January 22, 2024
Flying Fish Brewing has declared bankruptcy.
January 23, 2024
U.S. oil production has been holding at or near record highs since October, topping the previous peak from 2020, even though the number of active domestic oil drilling rigs is down by nearly 30% from four years ago.
New technology is the reason why there is higher production with fewer rigs.
And also:
The U.S. set a new annual oil production record on December 15, based on data from the Energy Information Administration. Although the official monthly numbers from the EIA won’t be released for a couple of months, we can calculate that a new record has been set based on the following analysis.
Prices at the pump have been declining.
January 25, 2024
In spite of repeated Republican declarations about how bad the economy is doing, the economy grew 4.9% in the third quarter of 2023, for which the latest figures are out. This grossly exceeds expectations.
This is interesting for a lot of reasons, one of which the "bad economy" is a consistent theme of Republicans in the current election cycle, when in fact this is a classic "good economy". It's frankly bizarre.
Some of that might reflect, however, an ongoing retention of a return to the 1945-1975 economy by Rust Belt voters, and anxiety over an inevitable decline in the fossil fuel economy in the West. The post-war economy is of course never returning, and the change in the direction in the energy economy cannot be arrested, although it too is doing well right now.
January 28, 2024
The Administration plans on providing billions for microchip subsidies for US producers to assure production can be made in the US.
It's worth noting that with war looming with China, there's more than one reason to do this.
The Biden Administration has paused all pending export licenses for liquified national gas (LNG) to consider the climate impacts.
February 8, 2024
February 10, 2024
US Credit Card debt is at an all-time high.
February 11, 2024
Wyoming Gets a Big Win in Court for Coal
CHEYENNE, Wyo. –Wyoming’s coal industry’s earned a
long-awaited legal win today, as three Ninth Circuit judges unanimously sided
with Wyoming’s arguments in support of the continuation of the federal
coal-leasing program. The decision vacated a lower court order that reinstated
Obama-era coal-leasing restrictions and required federal officials to perform
duplicative National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis.
“This ruling is an unequivocal win for our coal industry and a
reminder that the Biden Administration has to follow the law,” Governor Mark
Gordon said. “The Department of Interior now has one less excuse to thwart its
federal coal leasing responsibilities. I appreciate the Attorney General and
her staff for their excellent work on this case.”
The complicated case spanned seven years and involved conflicting
orders issued by former Interior Secretaries, in which Secretary Jewel issued
an order to cease federal coal leasing and conduct a Programmatic Environmental
Statement on the entire coal leasing program. Before that review was complete,
Secretary Zinke rescinded the Jewel Order so coal leasing could resume; lastly
Secretary Haaland rescinded the Zinke order. The district court ruled that the
Department of the Interior needed to conduct additional NEPA analysis before
resuming coal leasing under its existing authorities. Wyoming argued that
the case was moot, because the Zinke order was rescinded by Secretary Haaland.
Litigation costs for Wyoming were covered by the Federal Natural
Resource Policy Account as directed by Governor Gordon.
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March 15, 2024
Nippon Steel proposes to take over U.S. Steel.
March 17, 2024
Tyson, the giant chicken corporation, announced that it's closing a plant in Iowa in June which will result in 1200 people, 15% of the entire town, losing their jobs. Simultaneously, the company is working with an asylum advocate group to hire 2,500 asylum seekers who are cleared to work elsewhere.
Um. . . we've been running a series on our companion blog entitled An Agrarian Manifesto. . . might be worth reading, perhaps particularly these:
March 21, 2024
Reddit is going public.
March 22, 2024
The Justice Department is suing Apple for Antitrust violations arising from its iPhones.
March 26, 2024
Trader Joe's is raising the price of bananas for the first time in twenty years.
March 27, 2024
Texas based and 7-11 owned USA Gasoline stores have closed in Wyoming.
March 28, 2024
Only the Northern Arapaho Tribe and the city of Cheyenne applied for portions of the $4.6 billion Federal fund to reduce reliance on carbon emissions-heavy energy sources and to become more economically resilient.
Fisker is cutting the prices of its electric Ocean SUV by 39%.
April 1, 2024
Gold hit $2,262.19/oz.
April 8, 2024
The price of oil dropped 1%.
April 11, 2024
The Aerodrome: “It stinks, like bad medicine going down, it’s a h...: So stated a Casper City Councilman about extending an additional $400,000 to SkyWest Delta to anchor the flight to Salt Lake City from Caspe...
April 12, 2024
April 13, 2024
And gold hit a record again.
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The First Battle of Târgu Frumos, the attempted Soviet invasion of Romania, which the Soviets and Russians don't really agree was attempted, ended in Axis victory.
On the same day, the Germans began withdrawing from Crimea, which was rapidly falling far behind Soviet lines. The Red Army occupied Tiraspol, northwest of Odessa.
The evacuation was by sea, and it was one of the most significant operations of the Romanian Navy during World War Two, with both the Romanian and German navies taking part. In spite of Soviet efforts, 7,000 German and Romanian troops from Crimea in phase one of the operation, and 113,000 would ultimately be taken out. This was impressive, but has to be balanced against the decision in error not to withdraw from Crimea earlier, which was due to Hilter's instance that it not occur. Axis personnel losses during the evacuation were in fact massive.
King Victor Emmanuel announced plans to step down from office and appoint Crown Prince Umberto of Piedmont "Lieutenant of the Realm" upon the Allies taking Rome, which they were having trouble doing.
The I-174 was sunk off of Truk by a B-24.
The National Religious Broadcasters Association was founded in Columbus, Ohio following the Federal Council of Churches proposing to ban paid religious programming and limit broadcast personalities to individuals approved by their denominations which would have effectively removed Evangelicals from the airwaves. The Association sought to preserve Evangelical access to the airwaves.
Religious broadcasting was different at the time. While there was some Catholic broadcasting, it was really quite limited and would remain so until the establishment of EWTN in 1981. Most broadcasting was accordingly Protestant.
1940s, 1944, 3/4 ton, 4x4, Dodge, Dodge WC, Dodge Weapons Carrier, U.S. Army, World War Two
The Summer Lake State Game Management Area was established by the State of Oregon.
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The Chief Radio Operator of the USS Arizona discovered 19 year old prostitute Madeline Blair on board the ship when she lingered too long on deck at a water cooler, called a scuttlebutt, while the ship was off of Balboa, Panama, getting ready to pass through the canal.
She had been allowed to stow away and hide on board by sympathetic sialors who bought her sad tale of poverty and the need to go to California. On board she was hidden in an unused genetaror compartment and charged $10.00/day for lodging and meals, a huge sum at the time, by ship's cooks and she plied her trade at $3.00 per trick.
Going on deck only at night, and dressing in dungarees and blue sailor's work shirt, she'd been earlier discovered by a sailor while watching a movie from a searchlight platform when he'd reached into the breast pocket of the shirt she was wearing and detected her correct anatomy. While shocked, that sailor had kept his discovery to himself. The Chief Radio Operator did not. She was put ashore and then returned to New York on hte Panama Railway Company SS Cristobal, which charged the Navy for her fare.
Twenty-three sailors would be court-martialed and Blair would write her story for The San Francisco Examiner in 1928.
Dawes met with Mussolini, who expressed support for the Dawes Plan.
The House passed the Japanese Exclusion Act.
How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your TV; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.
Edward Abbey
An RAF Mosquito raid destroys the Central Population Registry building in The Hague, destroying the records of the Gestapo.
The Red Army captures Dzhankoy and Kerch, Crimea.
The USS Redfin sank the Akigumo.
The U-108 was destroyed in its pen at Stettin in a U.S. Army Air Force air raid.
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Japan, through its U.S. delegation, warned the US that grave consequences would occur if the Senate passed the Immigration Act of 1924 which limited immigration from Asian nations.
The noted was passed to the Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, LeBaron B. Colt.
On April 19, the U.S. Senate voted, 62 to 6, to pass the bill, which had already passed the House.
Arizona closed its border with California as part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease.
4,000 Germans staged a demonstration in Breslau in favor of Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, to return to Germany as Kaiser Wilhelm III. On the same day, the German Association of Industry released a statement expressing approval of the Dawes Plan.
Casper was no longer blue.
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That's how many rounds Chicago police shot, and the time it took to shoot them, in the traffic stop that resulted in the killing of Dexter Reed.
This demonstrates something we've noted here before. It's seemingly urban police who really present a danger with their firearms. They rely on volume, apparently, as a tactic. I don't know if a western policeman would have shot in this case, but I'm certain that 96 shots wouldn't have been fired.
And it's perhaps time to reconsider what policemen are allowed to carry. This could only occur as they were carrying automatics with high capacity magazines. I'm not arguing for magazine restrictions in general, but I do think that perhaps it's time to put revolvers back in the hands of policemen. Relying on an old argument that warned against certain arms being issued to soldiers, which was in error given their role, if you can only shoot six times before you have to engage in a somewhat complicated reloading process, maybe you would be less likely to blaze away.
The Red Army took Odessa. 24,000 German and Romanian troops were evacuated, although many of them were wounded, along with 55,000 tons of supplies.
The RAF dropped 3,600 tons of bombs in a single raid that included Germany, France and Belgium. It was a record.
Gen. William Slim ordered an offensive to relieve Kohima and into Japanese territory.
The U-68 and U-515 were sunk in the Atlantic by U.S. aircraft flying from the USS Guadalcanal.
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