By Ballew, on May 9th, 2010 | 5:45 pm  Egypt and the United States have sought to draft a joint proposal for a Middle Eastfree of nuclear weapons.
Officials and analysts said President Barack Obama has approved efforts of a joint resolution as a means of pressuring Israelto give up its purported nuclear arsenal. They said the resolution was not meant against Iran, which has denied a nuclear weapons program.
“The president is not happy with Israel’s nuclear capabilities,” former U.S. envoy to the United Nations, John Bolton, said. “I think he would be delighted if Israel gave up its nuclear weapons.”
via Obama, Egypt strategizing for nuke-free Israel.
By Ballew, on May 5th, 2010 | 9:30 pm 
Osama bin Laden may be the most wanted man on the planet, but Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he has an idea where the terrorist leader is holed up: not a damp cave in the Middle East, but some far cozier setting in Washington, D.C.
Iran’s president quips that the terrorist leader is holed up in Washington, D.C.
The apparently sarcastic quip came during an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos as Ahmadinejad responded to a claim in new documentary “Feathered Cocaine” that bin Laden has been living comfortably in Tehran, Iran, for years.
via Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Osama Bin Laden Is in Washington, D.C. – ABC News.
By Ballew, on May 4th, 2010 | 6:56 am  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dismissed Ahmadinejad’s comments as the “same tired, false and sometimes wild accusations” and urged nations to focus on efforts to bring Iran to heel over its nuclear program.In keeping with past practice during annual U.N. General Assembly gatherings, the delegations of the United States, Britain, France, Germany and others walked out of the chamber during Ahmadinejad’s fiery speech.
via Iran: Punish U.S. for shameful nuclear threats | Reuters.
By Max Venom, on May 2nd, 2010 | 9:42 am  "Soviet-era Art Revival" A young composer from St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city, has written a symphony in honor of the Shtokman gas condensate field in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea, the Sinemafonika producer company said on Friday.
The symphony is a part of “The Industrial Trilogy” dedicated to Russia’s major industrial projects of the beginning of the 21st century – the development of the Shtokman gas condensate field, the construction of Europe’s largest railway bridge across the Yuribei River in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District and the Sakhalin oil and gas projects in Russia’s Far East.
“The author’s task is to form an artistic image of Russia’s industrial power,” Sinemafonika said in a press release.
The first two parts of the symphony (Yuribei and Sakhalin) will be recorded in St. Petersburg on April 11. The idea behind the symphony is reminiscent of Soviet-era “Socialist Art.”
Full Story at Ria Novosti
By Max Venom, on April 5th, 2010 | 10:04 pm Discussing his approach to nuclear security the day before formally releasing his new strategy, Mr. Obama described his policy as part of a broader effort to edge the world toward making nuclear weapons obsolete, and to create incentives for countries to give up any nuclear ambitions. To set an example, the new strategy renounces the development of any new nuclear weapons, overruling the initial position of his own defense secretary. (NYT)
President Obama has just opened the door to possible preemptive nuclear strike. The U.S. ICBM inventory is already over 40 years old. And as our inventory ages, the Russians are replacing their inventory with next generation Stealth ICBM’s for use under a new Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine. And Obama’s new doctrine ties lady liberties arms behind her back. This is insanity. Is anyone awake at the Pentagon, Congress, anywhere?
Allowing our ICBM’s to age into extinction, while dismantling our overseas missile defense shield, and halting SDI, is turning the U.S. into one big easy target. And for what…. ’setting an example?’. This is the definition of BLIND-INSANITY.
By Max Venom, on March 27th, 2010 | 10:29 pm
The new Russian-U.S. strategic arms reduction treaty to be signed soon, contains no clauses making it easier for the U.S. to build a missile shield posing a threat to Russia. ”Nothing in this treaty contains clauses which would make it easier for the U.S. to develop a missile shield which would pose a risk to Russia,” Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said during an interview on Russian TV.
Russia and the United States have been negotiating a strategic arms control pact since the two countries’ presidents met in April last year, but the work on the document has dragged on, with U.S. plans for missile defense in Europe a particular sticking point.
LAROV article
The play by play of ‘high stakes chess’ that has rapidly eroded U.S. nuclear superiority;
In September 2009, President Obama scrapped the U.S. Missile Defense Shield in Europe. The White House opted for a sea-based intercept program designed to detect and intercept missiles from Iran. In making this decision, White House officials stated the Bush-era defense shield was designed ‘principally’ to confront Iran. However, during the Bush administration, the missile defense shield was conceived as a deterrent against ‘rogue states’ to protect not only eastern parts of the United States, but also many of its European allies (Brussels (AFP) March 9, 2007). Problems with the defense shield started in 2007 with objections made by Putin, followed by House Democrats severely cutting program funding.
Prior to scrapping the shield, U.S. and Russia commenced talks in April to renegotiate the START treaty set to expire December 2009. In December, Putin took a hard line with the U.S. by demanding U.S. missile shield telemetry data in order to give Russian missile defenses the telemetry ‘codes’ necessary to defeat the U.S. missile shield. Putin stated that the United States “should give us all the information about the missile defense (telemetry), and we will be ready then to provide some information about offensive weapons.” (Catch Putin’s wording… its ‘All” for “Some”)
On Friday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said the treaty would not prevent the U.S. from “improving and deploying” its missile defense elements in Europe. To what extent remains unclear, however in view of Russia’s successful bid in linking U.S. missile defenses to nuclear arms reduction, the U.S. missile shield is in fact compromised. Russia has made it clear that any U.S. missile shield used for defensive purposes poses a direct threat to Russia. On that issue the Russians haven’t blinked. And since both sides have now come to an agreement on a new arms reduction treaty, it can be stated with all clarity that President Obama agrees with the Russian view that a U.S. missile shield (a defensive system) is a ‘direct threat’ to Russia’s security.
This is very unnerving for world peace. The only reason we have avoided nuclear war is due to U.S. nuclear superiority and the whole idea of Mutual Assured Destruction. The moment we weaken our defenses to the point that a well armed nuclear state (Russia, China, NK, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, etc..) would consider a first strike is the day we open ourselves up to strategic nuclear attack. The fact that U.S. ICMB’s are 40 years old with no funded next-generation replacements, while Russia is replacing Soviet ERA ICBM’s with superior ICBM’s designed with stealth technology is a very worrisome prospect, and begs the question, if Russian stealth ICBM’s can evade a U.S. missile shield, then why has the U.S. scrapped a system that wasn’t intended to counter Russian threats? And why has the U.S. agreed to hand over telemetry data on SM-3 missile systems deployed against rogue states? There can be no logical or strategic reason for this. Russia is proving to be a far superior chess player in the game of global dominance that is rooted in the history of the Soviet-Bloc.
Americans need to know exactly what this administration is giving up in order to appease the Russians. This issue is the real “Game Changer” ignored by a liberal media that equates “Nobel Peace Prize” with a utopian world without nuclear weapons. So that in about 10 years from now, with the scale severely tipped in Russia and China’s favor, the U.S. will somehow be ‘fully’ prepared to deal with 800 Russian stealth ICBM’s flying over the Arctic circle.
Oh the good old days of the Cold War.
Max Venom is a freelance writer for The Inside Straight
Published 27 March 2010
By The OttO Show, on March 7th, 2010 | 9:22 am 
Communist Party chiefs led a procession of largely elderly people across Red Square on the 57th anniversary of Stalin’s death, laying flowers at his grave by the Kremlin wall.
The solemn visit is an annual tradition for communists steeped in nostalgia for the Soviet era. But this year, it comes as Russia’s bitter debate over Stalin’s legacy sharpens ahead of May 9 celebrations marking 65 years since the Nazi defeat.
For the first time in decades, Stalin’s image may appear among the banners and posters that Moscow authorities put up for Victory Day, which will draw foreign leaders to Moscow as guests of the government.
City plans to set up 10 information stands describing Stalin’s role in the war have deepened animus between Russians who loathe him and their compatriots who love him.
“Today … the greatness of Stalin’s era is self-evident even to his most furious haters,” Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said after laying flowers at Stalin’s grave.
“We liberated the whole world, … we built a nuclear shield, we were the first to fly into space, and we created this (nuclear) parity that ensured stable peace for nearly 50 years.”
Critics call Stalin a murderer for the millions of deaths in his forced collectivization and Gulag prison camps. They say victory in the war came despite mistakes that contributed to the devastating death toll of some 27 million Soviet citizens.
via Liberals rap Kremlin as Stalin is worshipped | Reuters.
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