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.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

IRAN SHOT DOWN OF UKRAINIAN PLANE: ANY RUSSIAN CULPABILITY?

ICHEOKU says Iran was reckless in firing missiles into the sky while planes were taking off and landing, without taking adequate precaution. Any responsible country or its military would have anticipated the likelihood of accidentally hitting a wrong unintended target and therefore guarded against it.  They would have either closed their airspace or be extremely careful with targeting objects in their skies and extremely cautious with pushing the launch button of their anti aircraft defenses. 

But they were extremely nervous and fidgety that America will attack them in response to their firing of missiles into America's military bases and wanted to guard against it. Their hysteria was such that they pushed the button and dispatched two missiles to meet an object which appeared on their radar without proper identification and verification of the object. They also did not properly assess the threat and struck a wrong target, a Ukrainian Airlines passenger plane, killing 180 people. People who were escaping Iran to avoid being killed when and if America strikes, but ended up dying anyway; while the people they left behind who have neither the means nor the wherewithal to escape, are now conducting their funerals and mourning them. It is this thing called life and it plays a huge joke on people; it tricks people into thinking that they are in control and have answers to everything. What a cruel irony. 

Iran was reckless in not analyzing their data properly in order to see the trajectory of the object, the Ukrainian passenger plane; otherwise they would have seen that it was outbound and not inbound; and therefore not an imminent threat to warrant any defensive counter measures, including locking on it with their radar and firing off missiles to destroy it. Is it also possible that the antiquated non HDR screen in which they were monitoring their skies made it impossible for them to in fact properly decode certain facts, which would have resulted in a different outcome. Thankfully though, they have finally admitted to their wrong doing in shooting down the plane after severally denying it. What is left now is to determine how much compensation Iran will pay to both the families of the 176 victims and the Ukrainian Airlines, which suffered loss of crew members and business as a result of the unfortunate but otherwise avoidable disaster. 

The Ukrainian Airlines passenger plane is now the fourth time a country shot down a passenger plane belonging to another country. On September 1, 1983 the then Soviet Union shot down a Korean Airline Flight 007 enroute Seoul from New York, over the Sea of Japan killing all the 268 passengers and crew on board, including a United States of American Congressman from Georgia Larry McDonald. On July 3rd 1988 the United States of America shot down an Iranian Airline Flight 655 flying from Tehran to Dubai over the Strait of Hormuz killing all the 290 passengers and crew. On July 17 2014, Russia backed rebels in Eastern Ukraine shot down a Malaysia Airline Flight MH17 flying to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam over Donetsk. And now the latest of such incidents involving Iran which on January 8, 2020 shot down Ukrainian Airline Flight 752 which took off from Tehran and going to Kiev, over Tehran, killing all the 180 passengers and crew. 

ICHEOKU says why the world is not mad at such happenstances is beyond comprehension; but when Boeing's plane malfunctions and crashes, people go bunkers. Here are deliberate actions of States, shooting down planes out of the skies, killing hundreds, yet there is no wide indignation and condemnation of such countries which are causing these mayhem. Query, why is it not okay for a malfunctioned plane to crash, but seemingly okay for a functioning plane to be shot out of the skies, killing hundreds. Where is the incensed society up in arms against the governments which engage in this reckless life costing deliberate acts. Why is Boeing being held accountable for plane crashes, but not these governments and State actors. 

It is about time these State actors are made to account for their misconducts and forced to pay for their wrongful behaviors, through payment of punitive damages and compensations to their victims survivors as well as the victimized Airline. America paid nearly 64 million to Iranians in 1988; but Russia never paid any compensation to either South Koreans or Malaysians victims. Russia is not an honest broker nor does it play right within the international community; but continuously acts like a rogue State, seeking to cause trouble and ferment problems for America. Russia often engage in distributing dangerous weapons to countries which should not have them just to spite America. Now, Russia has once again given Iran weapons which Iran does not know how to manage and operate properly, the result being the unintended consequence of a passenger plane with 180 people being shot out of the skies. 

Imagine the cruel coincidences:- Russia and Ukraine are in a face off over Eastern Ukraine region of Donbas as well as for seizing Crimea. Russia sold SAM 15 surface to air ballistic missiles to Iran. With the missiles, Iran shoots down Ukrainian Airlines passenger plane killing all the 180 people onboard. Majority of the victims of the disaster were Iranian students, children of elites who were escaping an expected imminent American attack on Iran. They did not want to die or even wish to stay and fight for their fatherland because they are privileged. Their plan was to come back after hostilities have ended to resume their elitist life, lording it over the rest of the Iranian society. But their plan was not God's plan and things turned out differently. This thing called life is filled with cruel ironies, such that at the end of the day, nobody really knows how things will eventually turn out, admitted sometimes projections do come through. 

What a dizzying week it has been which saw Iran holding the short end of the stick. They came awfully short of the bargain: their Qassem Soleimani was killed; they fired dozen of missiles at American military bases but couldn't kill even one American; more economic sanctions were imposed on them by President Donald John Trump; they shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane killing all 180 people on board, including many of their own citizens; they denied responsibility only to later eat their humble pie by admitting that they shot down the plane. What a PR disaster it has been for them as the world will view them harsher now than before; their formerly practically non existent credibility has further taken a dive for the worse. Who will believe anything Iran says going forward, including their denial that they do not seek nuclear weapons with their nuclear program. Overall, the crisis left Iran bloodied, foolish, incompetent and poor bargainers who traded all these smackdowns for nothing. It is a shame and it is sad; but will Russia ever be held to account for its mischief.

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