Shattering the mirror doesn’t change what is reflected.

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Cake day: June 16th, 2024

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  • “Russia is ready to resume dialogue with the United States on nuclear arms reduction if appropriate conditions are on the table,” the Russian diplomat said. “In order to form conditions for such a dialogue, Russia has announced its readiness to continue adhering to the central quantitative restrictions under the New START Treaty for another year after February 5, 2026.” “This measure will be viable only if the United States acts correspondingly and does not resort to measures that undermine the balance of existing deterrence capabilities. After all, ‘it takes two to tango’,” the diplomat noted. “We believe that this issue will be on the agenda of the next session of the Conference on Disarmament, slated for January 2026,” Gatilov added.

    The comments here reflect a level of vitriol Reagan couldn’t fathom. Either we take a leap of faith or live with the fact that global nuclear holocaust is closer than climate extinction.



  • US proposals reportedly include recognition of Russian sovereignty over Donbass and Crimea, which have joined the Russian Federation by popular vote… Moscow maintains that it is open to authentic negotiations, but insists that any agreement has to address the security concerns that led to its 2022 military operation in Ukraine, launched after Kiev failed to implement previous Minsk accords and continued to pursue NATO integration.


  • The landlord in retail property struck me, and I don’t know how residential works there, but I recall a young couple I once knew wanting to buy a mobile home on about a quarter acre of property, several decades ago. The bank put a lower value on the property because it was a ten year old double wide manufactured home but the couple “needed” (I am not speaking for or against the veracity of need) an additional sum to move into their next dwelling, so the buyers of the first property got a mortgage for the value the bank would lend, then signed an unofficial contact for the balance the sellers needed. This always stuck with me, because if the sold home would have burned, flooded or otherwise become unlivable, that couple would be stuck with whatever the insurance didn’t pay on two contracts. This was probably 40 years so the insurance companies weren’t as greedy, then.