GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

BORIS NEMSTOV, RUSSIAN OPPOSITION FIGURE WHACKED?

'In Russia, everybody knows everything' including who the boss is and what happens to people who crosses him. So the  rule of the thumb, if you want to stay alive is to simply shut up and tag along.' That was now the late Boris Newstov speaking to CNN Anthony Bourdain last year and he was whacked for not abiding by his own admonition. Instead he talked and talked and talked about the same boss who must be feared but who he personally refused to fear, until it was too late. Bori Nemstov was shot to death on Friday night, February 27, 2015 while crossing Bolshoy Moskvoretshy Bridge near Kremlin Moscow by assailants.

ICHEOKU does not know what got the better part of him as he neither improved on his personal security nor zipped his mouth as any marked person would do; and today unfortunately he is entombed six feet under. Like other prior critics of the boss who met their respective violent ends including Sergey Yushenkov, Yuri Shchekochikhin, Paul Klebnikov, Anna Politkovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko and Boris Berezovsky, Boris Nemstov has now joined the list of those to be now known as former late critics of the boss. One good thing is that they refused to be intimidated, did not cower nor trembled by reason of the deathly threats that came their way until it became too late. It did not help his case either that he was dating a 23 year old Ukraine model named Anna Duritskaya, who might possibly be spying for Kiev? It is equally arguable that his opposition to the war in Eastern Ukraine was induced by a genuine concern emanating from matters of the heart. It would also appear that Boris Nemstov somehow foretold his death when he spoke to a Russian news website Sobesednik on February 10, 2015, quoting him, "I'm afraid Putin will kill me. I believe he was the one who unleashed the war in the Ukraine, I couldn't dislike him (Putin) more."

ICHEOKU queries does it mean that Russia is gradually sliding back to the days of the all powerful Tsars who neither tolerated descent nor criticism? Tsars, whose will must be obeyed, no questions asked? Icheoku asks is the history book ever going to someday in the no distant future record that in Russia once lived a tsar named Vladimir Putin? When that future finally comes, how would the then generation of Russians view the present happening in Russia in retrospect and with the knowledge that once on the political stage of Russia, lived a man named Vladimir Putin, who struggled and aspired to be a tsar and that he had zero tolerance for criticism? ICHEOKU says only the future hold the answer to this question as predicting or foretelling what the future holds does not factor into Icheoku's work load and/or description. 

However Icheoku laments that the fact of grave consequence that the cold hands of death keep on snatching anyone and everyone who disagrees or happens not to fall in line in today's Putin's Russia, leaves much to be desired? While most developed and many developing countries alike are encouraging limitless freedom of speech and expression for their people, in Russia, people are now living in fear and imbibing the habit of looking over their shoulders just to stay off the radar of marked for elimination and this is happening in this new millennium 2015? It is indeed a very sad commentary that in today's modern day Russia that it is a grave risk to be in the opposition, who are gradually being intimidated into silence of the graveyard? Now they know better not to sing or open their mouth against or about the big boss. This certainly  does not bode well for a transforming Russia, neither does it do the image of Russia any good. Vladimir Putin, ICHEOKU says please let freedom ring!

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