ISRAEL MOURNS MERON MOUNT TRAGEDY.

ICHEOKU says it has defied civilization as the only thing that is somewhat resolutely constant and admits of no reformation and has remained so for thousands of years since its inception. Religion is an addiction to those who are supremely adherent and they do not accommodate  any improvement as to the mode of worship. It has largely remained the same way since it was handed over to them, over the so many millenniums past, by their forebears. It was the way their forebears did it as it was the way their God ordered it to be done, so they must as a duty follow the same pattern, regardless of any associated risk to injury or even life which it might pose. 

The Jewish orthodoxy is one religion that is uncompromisingly resolute and which practices are somewhat irrevocably set in stone. To date, they still observe, carry out and perform all the traditional rituals associated with Judaism which dates so many centuries, including the pilgrimage to Mount Meron during the Lag b'Omer holiday in celebration of the birthday of Rabbis Shimon Bar Yochai, a second century sage and mystic figure who was buried at the foot of the mountain. His tomb is a holy site for the Jewish orthodoxy and it was during this pilgrimage that a stampede ensued while they were coming down from the mountain. 

The stampede has so far claimed the ives of over forty worshippers and wounded more than one hundred others. It is a terrible loss to people of Israel, Our heart goes out to them and we pray that God grant the departed rest and for their mourning families, the fortitude to bear their loss. To the entire Jewish nation of Israel, ICHEOKU says we mourn with you. May God comfort you among other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Shalom. 

 

GEORGE FLOYD SQUARE: A RED ALERT TO WOKE WHITE PEOPLE.

ICHEOKU says George Floyd's Segregation Zone is an indication of what white people will face in a Black Lives Matter's reimagined and reengineered America. The revealed manifesto is a synopsis of the clear and present danger facing white people in a BLM controlled America, should it ever come to fruition. A perilous, bone chilling, anti white people agenda which every white person, whether woke or not, including those who have actively aided and abetted the BLM madness, will find themselves burdened with eternally. 

The problem which BLM has with white people is their white skin. So, it does not matter the type of politics which a white person plays or the huge benevolence of their heart, like a bull seeing red, BLM sees their white skin as the oppressive color.  BLM is under one fanatic impression and to some extent total and complete conviction that every white person is a racist. As far as BLM is concerned every white person is automatically guilty of racism by reason of their white skin color. So, until each white person proves their innocence or in some other way establish that their own white skin is somewhat different, they are born that way and remains racist.

It is this default mindset of Black Lives Matter that white people are collectively guilty of racism which led to the spelt out code of acceptable behavior for white people visiting the George Floyd's Segregation Zone in Minneapolis Minnesota without any exception whatsoever. They did not care that so many white people participated in the protest march for what happened to George Floyd and that so many of them were truly revulsed by what Derek Chauvin did to George Floyd. No, it was a general brush painting of the entire white race as racists who must conform to a particular code of conduct at the George Floyd's Square. 

Every white person is forbidden and put under strict order to conform to specific set of instructions; warned not to behave as other non white people. The implication being that on the day of reckoning, whenever that day might be, there will be no discrimination. Anyone whose skin is white, including those whose blackness is questionable, either because they are not black enough or their mixed race background made them not trustworthy enough to be completely down with the struggle, will be fair game for the same level of retribution. 

ICHEOKU says those white people who are supporting the Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA partners upheaval against America will eventually regret their stupidity when they find out that the problem is the white skin and nothing else. BLM did not differentiate in their rigid stipulations of what white people must conform to in the George Floyd's square. They did not exempt woke white people or political correctness spouting white people or white people who are down with the struggle or white people who feel they are black. They simply said "white people" are not allowed irrespective of the type of white people or their degree of wokeness. It was a one cap fits all white skin color and once you have such, you are implicated. 

It reminds ICHEOKU of the 1992 Los Angeles Rodney King's riot when an ordinary white truck driver, who possibly did not even know that Rodney King was beaten up or that the six police thugs who beat him up were even tried talkless of being set free, was dragged down from his rig and nearly lynched. That he survived after that severe beating was by itself a miracle. Then other unfortunate white people who were not as lucky as the truck driver were killed as well. The rioters did not first check to ask if their white victims participated in the beating; all they knew was that six white police officers beat Rodney King and as a result all white people are to be held responsible for the beating. 

It is the same thing now with the BLM and ANTIFA anarchists. What they see that is wrong with America is white people; and provided your skin is pale enough, you are part of the problem. For them, the white problem needs to be solved and anything done to any white person is a step in the direction of fixing the problem. When their revolution eventually comes, they will not spare any white person. American people are standing aloof and watching, probably intimidated and cowered, as BLM is imposing their blackish will on the entire nation, instilling fear in the people as nobody wants to be branded a racist for opposing their outlandish anti America agenda. 

Their agenda is gradually becoming mainstream as so many unthinking white people and woke corporations have ignorantly jumped on the BLM bandwagon to remake America in their utopian image. These white people forgot that their offsprings will still live in America and might some day become the new endangered minority, who will be placed at the mercy of these BLM anarchists. It is simply idiotic for a people to accept a narrative which is targeted against their interest and which is capable of jeopardizing their prime holding in America. There is no place throughout the world where the minority rules the majority or where they force the majority to accept to degrade their status in order to accommodate their own foibles. 

BLM agenda against white people does not discriminate between those white people who have already capitulated and since submitted to the BLM wishes from those white people who are still proudly standing tall in defense of their race. So, it does not matter where any white person stands in the current BLM's attempt to upturn America, when eventually stuff hits the ceiling, there will be no discrimination in the viciousness which they will visit on every person whose skin is pale. This is evident in the manifesto of the George Floyd's Square Segregation Zone and by extension Black Lives Matter anarchistic overall agenda in America. They want to displace and replace white people from their lofty positions of authority, completely take over America and impose their lifestyle on the entire nation. 

The George Floyd's Segregation Zone is described as a place to 'connect and grieve as caring humans, where white people are specifically asked to decenter, come to listen, learn, mourn and witness; to support and not to be supported, to contribute to the energy of the space, rather than drain it, that any processing must be brought to other white folks so that black and indigenous people of color are not harmed, that if white visitors see their fellow white folks doing problematic things they are encouraged to speak up with compassion to take the burden off black folks, their siblings and other people of color whenever appropriate; and to engage rather than escalate so that it can be a learning moment rather than a disruption.' 

This begs the question, why only white people and not people in general. It is a harbinger of the dangers ahead for white people in America when eventually they become minority or BLM had successfully imposed their will on America. To prevent this from becoming the future of America is worth fighting for and white people must realize this and rise in unison to say enough of the BLM madness and fight for their own future generations yet unborn. Enough of the bending over backwards and enough of being afraid to be called a name just because you don't want your race to be decimated or to be shamed into accepting to be pushed aside in a country largely built by white caucasians. 

ICHEOKU says if black people and other minorities of America in fact, truly built America, why then is Africa and other countries that produced these minorities not a paradise. But their intimidation and skewed analysis which is steadily gaining grounds because white people allowed it, wants us to believe that we poached all their best "nation builders" out of Africa and other places to develop America. ICHEOKU says white people must refused to be intimidated; at least not any more. Enough of the racial blackmail.

JOE BIDEN'S FIRST ADDRESS TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS: OBSERVATIONS.

ICHEOKU says at least he successfully managed it right through to the end without any major gaffes or mistake or his famous stammering bouts and for this ICHEOKU gives him a passing score. He also looked much healthier as he freely mingled and interacted with some of the members of  Congress following the conclusion of the address. ICHEOKU also noted that he did not observe the required social distancing rule and had several up and close mouth to ear whispering conservations and also shook hands with Senator Rob Portman of Ohio in complete disregard of Dr Anthony Fauci's prohibitive injunction against shaking hands. 

But it was a good sign and a clear evidence that America has in fact truly turned the corner and is now on a one way uptick trajectory forward, having put the Chinese coronavirus effectively behind them. With what was seen at the Capitol, American people can now freely go about their daily lives as mask will just do, where needed; because if Joe Biden can do it so could millions of other Americans.  However Joe Biden spent a greater part of his address touting the gains in the fight against coronavirus, emphasizing his distribution and dispensation prowess, but failed to acknowledge the man, President Donald John Trump, whose drive accelerated the vaccines developments. 

It is also worth taking note of that Joe Biden continues to pile up tasks on Kamala Harris's desk without first asking how the previous ones were executed, if they were at all. He added the supervision of his new infrastructural redevelopment of America to Kamala Harris already bludgeoning tasks, despite the fact that she has not even visited the Southern border illegal immigration ground zero pursuant to her previous assigned task as the new Immigration Tsar or rather Tsarina of the Biden/Harris administration. ICHEOKU says what then is left for Joe Biden to do when everything is being shifted and assigned to Kamala Harris. May be theirs is a division of labor where Joe Biden is merely the face of the administration while Kamala Harris is the task master or the worker bee.

Joe Biden wants American dollars to be used to buy American products made in America by American workers to help create American jobs. He also wants an increase in minimum wage, right of workers to unionize although he kept mum when Amazon workers fought to unionize in Alabama. He also wants equal pay for women, mentioned violence against women but did not  acknowledge that men themselves are often victims of women inflicted violence. He enumerated a lot of other goodies but did not assertively say whether his planned tax increases will be enough to offset the largesse he wants to hand out. 

He was silent on the rising cost of gasoline and other fuels; he did not mention the resumed Iranian Republican Guards harassment of US Navy in the Persian Gulf.  Although he mentioned Russia and China as places where repression of the people is rising, he failed to also mention what is currently unfolding in Nigeria under Muhammadu Buhari where insecurity is now the order of the day with many nationalities threatening to secede and where a sitting minister is a jihadist terrorists sympathizer.

Senator Ted Cruz was noticeably dozing on and off throughout the speech, begging the question whether it was that too boring that the Texas hard charging MAGAnite couldn't stand it. Notably missing at the event was the effant terrible Congresswoman from New York Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, whose junior status made it impossible to accommodate in the sparse coronavirus sensitive Congressional audience. But with the way they interacted and mingled so closely with one another after the address, casts doubt to whatever reason that made them not to allow a full participation of members of Congress. 

Kamala Harris fashion statement did not go down well; it was quite off. Her golden ensemble was somewhat tacky and the sleeves were too long. But Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi nailed her own ensemble down as the great fashionista of note she is. Everything about her fashion statement was stellar. Love it. It is also to be noted that it was the first time in history that two women sat on the podium and good enough too, Nancy Pelosi did not rip apart her House copy of the speech. 

So whether Joe Biden has indeed restarted the engines of America and engaged its gear to put it on the move again will be determined within the next few months once the country is fully and completely opened up. But so far, he has been holding his own since the last one hundred days the Deep State installed him in the White House. He has not gotten worser than he was and every other thing should be counted as a welcome improvement. But his claim that "we are now on Mars discovering vaccines" will surely get him a pinocchio point. Overall, he performed above expectations and aced it since the benchmark for rating him is so low that it will take a completely flattened performance to ever judge his effort a failure. But so far so good, at least he has not mumbled or jumbled anything beyond expectation. It was a good performance and his demeanor was calm, balmy and soothing. Nice job Joey.

FRANCE MUST MAN UP AND END ISLAMISTS TERRORISM OR FOREVER BE VICTIMIZED.

ICHEOKU says it has now become a recurring decimal for lunatic Islamists terrorists to visit their bloody violence on the hapless French people. They are readily getting away with it and so continuously, that it is has somewhat developed into a pattern for them. Getting away with it is not about what happens after the fact, but the very fact that they successfully murder French people each time they strike. It is therefore imperative that the French government now do more, including taking even drastic actions, to protect the French people from these Islamists maniacs  ravaging their country.  If a person cannot be safe in their own country, where else; especially if their peril is being caused by strangers who they admitted in their country in the first place? 

It is akin to a guest causing trouble in a home or trying to order the home owner to change the paint of his building or replace the furniture or dictate how the owner should lie on his bed or that the owner must not snore during sleep. Such ridiculousness should be met with an immediate ejection and declaration of a persona non grata in such home, with the visitor sent to the streets or back to wherever they came from. There is no rationality whatsoever to justify conceding certain rights to people who are not native French people to the extent of superseding the rights of native French people. It is simply an inexplicable idiocy  which any government that accommodates it deserves to be voted out of office as soon as practicable. Such troublesome people's rights, if any, should begin where the rights of their host natives ends; but under no condition whatsoever should it interfere with it. 

If those Islamists fanatics who are murdering French people so much love their way of live under Islam, why did they migrate to France. Why did they not stay in their native born Islamic country where they sprouted or better still migrate to other Islamic States instead of Western countries. Why did they not even pack up from France and relocate to Islamic enclaves such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, the Gulf States and their North African counterparts. But no, they would rather move to the West only to want to forcibly change Western values and culture and to impose their neanderthal ideology on the rest of the society. They intimidate, harass, maim and viciously kill people to put fear in the society as they try to enforce archaic values and religious belief. Their desire is to displace local values and replace them with their own; and it was supposedly the orthodoxy made them to flee from their home countries in search of succor in the West. 

ICHEOKU says the French government should be ashamed of itself that the recurring Islamist terrorism in their country has not been checkmated. They are watching as the country which was handed over to them by their forebears, who spent blood and treasure to make it a viable political entity is fast ebbing away and devolving into an acrimonious state of anarchy. What would French greats and other nationalistic French figures do, were they alive today, seeing their beloved France become the butt of a joke as an Islamists terrorists infested cesspool. How many more French people has to be sacrificed in the hands of these murderous Islamists terrorists before the French government reads the riots act for them and declare enough! 

One day it was a 65 year old woman being thrown out from the window of her apartment to her death many feet below. The other day it was a High School teacher being publicly beheaded near the school where he once taught. Another day it was a police woman on her lunch break that was brutally stabbed to death with her head nearly decapitated. Then add the Bataclan and Charlie Hebdo massacres and the number of innocent French people who have been lost to these murderous Islamists terrorists rises to the stratosphere. The manner in which these animals savagely kill their victims is shuddering, from beheading, to stabbing, to eyes gouging, to castration, to slicing up, to all manners of mutilation, to pre-sexual acts, to disemboweling, to one case in which the father of the victim claimed that they castrated his son and fed his testicles into his mouth. 

These are the fate which French citizens are allowed to suffer in the hands of guests in France, regardless of how long their migration has been or the change in their immigration status; they are still not native French people. Why does any government tolerate this and not having become since mad as hell to infect do something about it. Have enough French people not been killed yet by these animals to force a drastic response? At what stage in this murderous orgy will the French government put their feet down and solve the problem. When will it become safe again for the French people and their visitors alike finally feel free to enjoy the streets of France without being needlessly tensed as they do not know when these Islamist terrorists might strike and cut them down. Whatever is possibly doable to do to put an end to this madness needs to have been done since yesterday and it cannot be allowed to continue to envelope France like a San Francisco summer fog in July. 

ICHEOKU says strongly believes that Islamists terrorism can be easily routed out in France if only there is a strong will to do what needs to be done to get it done, without regard to whatever political correctness or wokeism that is currently also bedeviling France. It has to be very drastic and ruthlessly executed; and anyone who disagrees with it should be given a tax payers paid one way ticket out of France. The law of any society is clearly spelt out and it is either you conform to a certain standard of acceptable behavior or you are removed from the society, imprisoned, banished or executed. But to allow these animals to continuous kill French people whenever they like and however manner they chose is an aberration which should not be tolerated by any civilized society. The families of their victims are hurt and their families ought to also hurt by punishing them for the crimes of their wards.

Therefore, it is about time Champ Elysee` read the emergency act to every Islamist family in France to either do away with their blood letting or be prepared to be ruthlessly dealt with, including through extra judicial extermination. By any and all means necessary and whatever it takes, including the Israeli solution which has so far put an end to Islamists terrorism in Israel. The sky will not fall if any family that produces the terrorist is made to lose their French citizenship as well as the privilege of living in France. Israeli government demolishes such people's homes and the French government should consider adopting such ruthlessness in order to end the repeat madness which has claimed so many French lives. Those islamist terrorists love their families and some of their families get paid each time their ward attacks a target and kills an "infidel", so why can't they be also punished.

If these terrorists know that their families will be brutally punished following a terrorist attack, it might change the mindset which drives their fanaticism. That a French person cannot step out of their home to go to work or the groceries store or even take a walk in the park without knowing whether they will make it back home because of an Islamist terrorist attack is unacceptable. The anxiety inducing blood pressure alone is enough to compromise one's health. If it means bugging all communications in France, especially within the many Muslim enclaves in France where Islamism has become so entrenched that it feels like Little Kabul and Little Lahore, so be it. These terrorists are animals and animals do not have rights or in the alternative, those in the community who honestly do not support terrorism should pony up the bad ones and as soon as they see the first signs of disgruntlement against France.

ICHEOKU says Bataclan was not a one off incident as these wild beasts might be planning on how to smuggle another cache of assault rifles into France to outdo themselves the next time. They are not reasonable or rational and they admit of no other logical commonsensical  approach short of donning their ruthlessness toga to march them. The only thing they understand is maximum savagery and only a drastic solution will force a change of heart in them. Some of their home countries leaders are ruthlessly evil; they skin alive such terrorists and wipe off their entire generations including their unborn future generation. Such maximum ruthlessness is the solution that works and the West should consider wearing the mask of evil when confronting evil because they are relentless and get crueler with every strike.

They know that their family will be safe and not touched, the reason they are easily persuaded to go out a martyr. This is fueling the never ending cycle of violence which they wreck on the West, especially the French society. What France has become and which their leaders have been tolerating all these years is troubling. Their guarded response only seems to embolden these Islamist mad dogs. If nothing is done to seriously put the fear of God into this people, which will force a rethinking in them, an attack which will make the Bataclan massacre look like a child's play might one day be pulled off by them. 

French leaders should not make Charles De-Gaulle to turn in his grave, wondering what has become of his once beloved France. They should please rise up and save the French people by cleansing France of its Islamists infestation before it is too late. A group of retired generals have already issued a dire warning about a steadily unraveling France and no other soothsayer is needed to telegraph a France in danger. If it means their mass deportations, or one strike and your family is deported,  jailing them for 100 years,  banishing their generations and even kill them off, whatever will put an end to their idiotic impetuousness should be considered good enough. If extant laws need to be tweaked or completely rewritten, so be it; but whatever needed tools the government wants to rid France of Islamist terrorism should not be denied them. Vive France!

JOHN KERRY: A SECURITY RISK TO AMERICA.

ICHEOKU says John Kerry is a security risk to this nation, especially in matters appertaining to Iran. His daughter Vanessa is married to an Iranian medical doctor whose best man during their wedding is the son of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. As a father in-law to the son of one of those mullahs in Tehran, John Kerry has the need to always maintain a friendly rather than a foe posture to the Iranians. It is possible that the Iranian Intelligence agency are pulling his heart strings through his daughter and many fathers in his position would be similarly vulnerable. 

Further, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarrif has no reason to lie about communications he had with John Kerry because both men are friends and have been for quite some time now. This much was evident when John Kerry was manning the Department of State and through the further bond of matrimony. 

So, yes, ICHEOKU is convinced that John Kerry told the Iranians to wait-out the Trump government and not to cave in to his sanctions; and it is also true that John Kerry is a snitch who told the Iranians about Israeli covet operations inside Syria. His denying it is a bold faced shameless lie and an attempt to pull wool over the eyes of American people. Therefore, Joe Biden should relieve him of whatever duty he is serving in the current administration and the FBI should also investigate John Kerry to determine the extent he has mortgaged America's security interest to Tehran. John Kerry did it and he should at least quit insulting our general intelligence by not denying it any further. 

LETS SEND KAMALA HARRIS TO INDIA.

ICHEOKU says Joe Biden will do the afflicted people of India one heck of good if only he could send their daughter Kamala Harris to visit them as a show of support in this time of great tribulation in their country. India could use some of her charm as a coping mechanism in this moment as they try to cope with the Chinese coronavirus tsunami which is pummeling their country. Although it will be a tall order to "mission accomplish", as the Drama Queen Kamala, who refused to even visit the Southern border illegal immigration ground zero, will not be easily persuaded to make such a trip to her India, especially not at this time as she will be deathly afraid of catching the virus. 

But hey, her people are suffering and she should at least go there to comfort them, call it a charm or a consolation diplomacy offensive for all ICHEOKU cares, but it is a thing worth experimenting on. She can even accompany the vaccines and other palliatives which America will be donating to India to give it more impetus and India will be definitely happy to see their daughter come home to visit. But to the Joe Biden's cry "who shall I send", will Kamala answer, "Joe, here I am, send me." ICHEOKU says is watching, ditto is the rest of the world. To all our Indian people out there, please fight the coronavirus like your life is depended on it because it does. Namaste. 

WILL FACEBOOK LIFT THEIR SUSPENSION ON PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP?

ICHEOKU says the recent failure by the globalist viewpoints minders and speech police of Facebook to reach a decision on whether to lift the platform's suspension of President Donald John Trump or forever ban him therefrom is indeed rattling. It is the craziness of the time we live in presently that the Facebook's politburo were deadlocked on such a matter, given the speed with which they suspended the president from the platform. 

The problem is that they rushed their decision to suspend the president based on a frivolous reason that the president instigated the January 6th Capitol riot. But the fallacy has since been irrefutably debunked as evidence abound that the riot was preplanned by some knuckleheads several weeks and days earlier, ahead of the president's January 6th Save America Speech and that the speech had nothing whatsoever to do with the riot. 

So with their theory laid to waste, one had expected Facebook to immediately reinstate the president back on its platform. But a Woke Facebook decided to pass the buck to its speech police, who are now stranded, between doing what is right by lifting the suspension and continuously holding unto their non existent argument to continuously keep the president in the cold doldrum, dog house of social media. It is possible they want to ban him permanently from the platform but they have to first find a reason to do so, as the one they previously propounded went burst as it was a lie from the pit bottom of hell. 

Facebook has now found itself straddled between saving their face by holding unto the president's suspension and doing the right thing by lifting the suspension since it was meritless in the first place since the president did not do what they accused him of doing which led to the initial suspension. ICHEOKU calls on Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook committee of speech police to quickly restore the president on their platform as the president did nothing wrong to warrant his continuing blackout on the platform. 

It is regrettable that Mark Zuckerberg turned out to be such a mean fella after all the accommodations which the president extended to him while in the White House including many hosted dinners. Anyway, the world is waiting and watching, especially the MAGA nation; and hopefully it will sink into Facebook's cranium that wielding power wrongly is very dangerous as it often times backfires. #LiftTheSuspensionNow! 

INDIA IS FACING THEIR WORST CORONAVIRUS UPHEAVAL

ICHEOKU says our prayers go out to the Indian people as they face their own scourge of the dreadful Chinese contagion which they heartlessly exported to the world. They shall overcome. Luckily for them, their own upheaval came when the pressure are beginning to lift off in Western nations including the United States of America, so they will be able to get some needed palliatives much quickly. With a lovable Prime Minister like Narendra Modi, mobilizing help from friendly countries will not be too difficult. All the best Indians. Namaste.

INDIA'S CORONAVIRUS CRISIS: A DELAYED PERFECT STORM FINALLY COME.

ICHEOKU says it was long overdue as every logical person knows that the right conditions exist in India to make it a serious coronavirus hotbed. So, it was not necessarily a question of whether it would happen, but when it would happen and it has now happened. It was a known, easily anticipatable inevitability which finally arrived and like a Santa Anna wildfire is causing wanton havoc among the Indian population. 

So, the two real issues which need to be forensically examined are what took the coronavirus so long in reaching crisis level in India and why the authorities in India were not prepared enough in anticipation of the crisis. India is a perfect Petri dish for COViD-19 disaster but has had a lucky escape so far until now. ICHEOKU says is even surprised that the dreadful Chinese contagion export to the world has not claimed many more lives in India so far, at least one million lives all things considered; which is another indicator that they have been lucky thus far. Also their reputed medical expertise might have helped them too. But from all indications, every condition necessary was just about right in India for coronavirus to wreck great havoc there. 

Even the United States of America with its superior standards in nearly everything was devastated by the coronavirus and you wonder why India is dirtier, overcrowded, unhygienic and with heavily polluted air got spared until now. Coronavirus is a respiratory disease and the environment is a factor affecting respiratory conditions, yet India was got much luckier break than America in the toll exacted by the dreadful Chinese Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. So, many people were thankfully surprised that the coronavirus did not provide the lighting fuse of an already combustible situation which is present in India as it was bound to thrive in such an environment.

After watching "Slum Dog Millionaire" thirteen years ago, only to find out later that the movie was not staged on a set, but a point and shoot real life situation of the slums of Mumbai, ICHEOKU too additional steps to confirm the acuity of the depicted scenes. The findings confirmed that the poverty rate and inhospitable and inhabitable environment in which some millions of Indians live was not overly exaggerated in the movie. ICHEOKU reached out to some Indian friends, one Sikh, one Hindu and one Dalit to get their different perspectives on the real living conditions in India cross-referenced to the movie. The Dalit confirmed it while the Sikh and Hindu protested it as a racist hit piece on India. 

ICHEOKU very recently revisited the issue, in an attempt to understand the real life living situation in India really looks like by watching documentaries on India, including traveling blogs on Youtube of actual people who showcased the streets and neighborhoods of India while traveling in India. The last Youtube video which ICHEOKU watched on this subject was a blog by one fella from Kyrgyzstan who did a travel blog on Varanasi, the religious capital of India. It left a  riveting impression concerning the debilitating poverty and living conditions in which some people actually lives in some places in India. Then add the monkeys and cows freely mixing with human beings environment and the potpourri is complete. 

However, the poverty rate and abject living conditions of over 300 million Indians is not the subject of this article. The stray is to highlight it and give some necessary background on why coronavirus eventually found a proven grounds in India and presently causing the devastation being witnessed. If America with much higher standards of living, better medical services, sanitation as well as better quality of breathable air could suffer the heavy toll of over 500,000 lost lives, it is still a miracle and a feat that India's losses so far is still nothing close to what America has recorded. It is either they are lucky or their population is very resilient; except of course their Ganga River protected them from the scourge all these while. 

But whatever it was that protected them until now, the government must now take the mantle and do their part. The government must also find an acceptable way to try and encourage their population to take it easy on child bearing as a way of controlling their population or at least bring it down to much manageable numbers below one billion people. Indian population is astronomically too high, the reason all the effort being made by their government and rich and wealthy people to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions in India have not panned out as anticipated or reflected significantly. 

Also, Indians must try and modernize their manner of cadaver disposition by encouraging incinerators and crematoriums as recent videos out of their wood burning of dead bodies is not reflective of modernity. Moreso, the increased numbers of dead bodies as a result of the coronavirus has heightened the task of finding enough woods and spaces to dispose the dead bodies and all the smoke are going into the environment and being breath in by Indians. So, yes, it is their religion tinged, but even religion should be able to make necessary accommodations for some evolving fine-tuning, especially in matters concerning air quality and environmental pollution.

ICHEOKU says the land that gave the world Mahatma Gandhi, the ebullient and much beloved Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as doyens of Silicon Valley deserves better and should do better. India was a perfect storm of coronavirus which was merely late in arrival but not that nobody had expected it. So, those in authority in Delhi should have anticipated this day to come and made necessary preparations to meet the challenge. But unfortunately, it seems that they slept on their oars, thinking that they had dodged the bullet, only for their country men and women to be facing their worst coronavirus nightmare presently. They must now do the needful and face it squarely like any other challenge which they have faced as one united determined and indefatigable nation and kick the Chinese gift to the world back into the sewers where it belong. 

ICHEOKU says is optimistic that Prime Minister Narendra Modi shall rise to the occasion and help help his people get through this crushing phase of the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging his country. He is capable and competent; and being much loved by his people, it will be very easy for him to mobilize them into action to do the necessary things required to tame the pandemic. ICHEOKU is a fan and alongside millions of his other admirers all over the world, are praying for India to quickly get over their present coronavirus hurricane. All the best to the wonderful people of India and may the coronavirus be wrestled down as quickly as possible. America had it worse, but luckily for them, the virus has now been largely contained and life is beginning to return to normal and so will India. ICHEOKU says Namaskar to all the Indians out there!

UFC 261: USMAN KNOCKS OUT MASVIDAL.

ICHEOKU says a Round 2 knock out it was as Kamaru Usman confirmed his superiority over Jorge Masvidal, having defeated him previously in their first meet. Usman knocked him out cold and the referee had to physically intervene to save Masvidal from further punishment in the hands of Usman. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the Nigerian Nightmare. 

UFC 261 was also a testament that America has finally turned the corner and has emerged from the cold doldrums where the lockdown held it. It showed that the coronavirus scourge now in their rearview mirror, as a 15,000 person packed VyStar arena in Jackson Florida with a real live crowd, physically cheered on throughout the night. What a big relief from the over one year debilitating lockdown. 

UFC President, Dana White, has shown how to successfully manage sports activities through the coronavirus crisis and he has helped bring America back, from the zero person Abu Dhabi Yas Fight Island to few spectators in Las Vegas and to now a completely sold out full VyStar arena in Jacksonville Florida. What a successful come back kid America is and hopefully every other sector of the economy and life as we know it, can now begin to return back to its pre-coronavirus activity level. Dana White has shown the way and others has no choice but to follow. What a night to was. Once again congratulations to Kamaru Usman and the rest of participants in UFC 261, both winners and losers. It is sports and fans were entertained. 

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOTED: HOW ABOUT BIAFRAN GENOCIDE AND OTHERS?

ICHEOKU says the United States of America has finally acknowledged that former Othman Empire, the present day Turkey, carried out a genocide against the Armenian people. It was a long overdue admission of a historical fact of that  heinous man's inhumanity to man; an evil, which was supposed to be called by its rightful name a very long time ago. However, it is still better late than never and for this, ICHEOKU commends Joe Biden for rising up to the occasion, 106 years later. 

So with the Armenian genocide now finally given its deserving place in the annals of historical genocides, alongside the Jewish Holocaust and Rwanda Tutsis ethnic group cleansing, two other widely acknowledged genocides, when will the other similarly deliberate attempts at exterminating other various ethnic groups around the world be given their rightful names. When will their own similar circumstances be given their proper names too, as in to call a spade a spade and damn the consequences just like Joe Biden did with Armenia. It was a bold move and one day has passed following the pronouncement and the sky is still holding up firmly in the sky and the earth is neither rumbling or boiling as a result. 

The aboriginals of Australia were nearly wiped out in order for the British and other Europeans to settle on their land. The Maoris of New Zealand were similarly nearly killed off before the British and other Europeans displaced and replaced them in their motherland. The Portuguese did the same thing in Brazil and of course there was the 1967 to 1970 Biafran genocide in Nigeria wherein over 3 million Biafrans were slaughtered by the Nigerian government, aided by Britain, Russia, Egypt and America to some extent. When will all these genocides be also similarly acknowledged for what they were so that the real healing can indeed begin. Then add the Indians of America who were hunted to near extinction by the same European settlers as well. 

So, there is enough blame to go round and Turkey reserves the right to also call the Indian American experience a genocide as well if Recep Tayyip Erdogan so choses. Although nobody is seeking retribution, but it is the right thing to do to properly acknowledge these tragedies as doing so will provide some succor to the victims' surviving descendants and help them in their healing. A skewed history is better righted and it is good that Armenia eventually got their awful experience finally rightfully acknowledged by the United States of America. It gives hope to these other victims of similar experiences that some day their own horrible experiences might see the light of the day and also be properly identified for what they are, pure evil. 

ICHEOKU says it was another right step in the right direction and it will favorably count in the column of Joe Biden's legacy, provided it is properly gazetted as law and not subject to a next president's executive order override, whenever that may be. Armenia have something significant to celebrate on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the infamy which claimed 1.3 million of their people. It is an anniversary gift of inestimable value. Now, let the Armenia slaughtered finally rest. If such pronouncement will help thaw the relationship between Turkey and Armenia, that will be an additional gift, admitted it is a tall order which will be difficult, if not impossible, to realize. 

But hey, Joe Biden braved it and the deed is done and that was the only thing that counts here; every other thing now is but the shouting. It was a good gesture, regardless of how Ankara feels about it. Germany is not fretting that Adolf Hitler's nearly wiped out the Jews, so Turkey should not sweat that part of their ignominious history that rightly belongs in their rearview mirror. It is time to move on and everybody and every party involved should look on to better days ahead and leave the past alone. Enough of the bitter clinging to what happened more than one century ago. It was a good right move by Joe Biden. Well done Joe.

GEORGE FLOYD'S WRONGFUL DEATH SETTLEMENT: WAS HE WORTH $27 MILLION?

ICHEOKU says what is a life really worth afterall, especially the life of a drug addict who was ordinarily nearing his death before finally dying in the hands of the police or rather under the knee of a police officer. But a political correctness City of Minneapolis, in furtherance of being Woke, decided to enrich his family to the tune of $27 million. The City  wanted to make his family whole because of the trauma they suffered from the manner of his death. They also wanted to appease Black Lives Matter and their ANTIFA collaborators in order to get into their good book, so they made it rain for George Floyd's family and it poured $27 million into their coffers.

In short, the City literary emptied it's treasury as Minneapolis is not all that a very big city and could not have such a deep pocket where the removal of a whopping $27 million will not be felt. Now you understand why so many American cities are perpetually broke and always hand in cap seeking funds from Washington DC; it is because they mismanage their resources. If the City of Minneapolis could dole out such a staggering amount of money to settle just one man's wrongful death, imagine how much they have doled out in the past, will dole out in one year and will dole out in many more years to come. A wrongful death lawsuit was threatened by George Floyd's family and it was immediately settled and for such a very huge amount of money, begging the question, what is the legal department and City attorney of Minneapolis doing; or is it to just collect salary and allowances and speedily settle cases. 

ICHEOKU says if a case merits to be settled instead of being litigated, are there no longer acceptable capped ceilings for what a reasonable amount of compensation should be? Was it the manner of his death that was settled or his actual death that commanded such a huge amount of money? What indices were used to calculate his life's worth? Was it his net worth or life expectancy? How much was his last IRS filed tax, if indeed he even filed one? Was there any financial statement on record attesting to his worth that made the $27 million payment appropriate? How much support did he provide to his children and baby mama; or was he a debit dad? What type of luxurious life were his family used to as a result of what he provided for hem which they will miss and be deprived of by reason of his death and for continuity necessitated the huge amount paid? 

He was a drug addict and from the autopsy report was literary a dead man walking until the intervention of now convicted murderer Derek Chauvin promptly ended it for him. Like a catalyst, the former police officer merely quickened George Floyd's death as he would have died ordinarily within a short future time due to his complicated health condition exacerbated by his excessive drug use. Even in the video of him which the world saw preceding his death, he was not looking too good health-wise and he did not look like a financially stable person, talkless of being a rich or wealthy individual. So, on what basis was his life determined to be worth so much that $27 million was assessed as its fair value, admitted some punitive damages may have come in addition. What was his ability and capacity, which wrongful death cut short, that weighed so much in reaching the amount handed to his family. 

But the City of Minneapolis is not telling us; rather they told the world that they have settled the wrongful lawsuit with George Floyd's family in the amount of $27 million dollars. ICHEOKU says really? If George Floyd could fetch $27 million for his family, what then will the family of Duante Wright ask for, $54 million? Afterall he is much younger, much healthier and had much more potential for future earning capacity than George Floyd, who had nearly spent all his credit on earth and was already on his way out when Derek Chauvin fast forwarded it and brought his life  to immediate end. According to his necropsy, his heart was bloated, he was hypertensive, his kidney had problems and his lungs too, all in part due to his excessive drug use which had damaged them. Yet his life was determined to be worth $27 million?

All it will do going forward is to put an idea into some knuckleheads and encourage them to get creative and invest for their families through police confrontation. People who typically have nothing to provide their family and loved ones while they are alive or things to bequeath them upon death, might decide to take a shortcut at making the impossible, possible; by providing for them bountifully, posthumously. What stops a crackhead with nothing to lose deciding to intentionally confront the police, forcing them to shoot, aware that some lawyers will hustle some large amounts of money for their families through a threat of a wrongful death lawsuit. If George Floyd could fetch such an amount of money in his state of affairs at the time he died, it will automatically open a whole lot of possibilities for others out there to try and cash in.

ICHEOKU is not saying that when a person is wrongfully killed by the police officers of a City that the City should not pony up. No, only that they should seriously determine what a fair amount of compensation is or the reasonable value of the life taken before cutting that check. But they are often too quick to reach a settlement because it is the public's money and Uncle Sam is always there in Washington DC to bail them out if need be. Some might argue that a jury can never be predicted and that they might decide to empty a City's coffers through a giant pay day award if the matter goes to trial. But this is exactly the reason that should force Cities to always take such cases to trial, especially when the family is being too unreasonable with their demand amount since the jury is unpredictable. They could go either way, too.

Most times wrongful death lawsuit lawyers bluff with their threat to sue, aware that Cities frequently settles such cases rather than going to trial. These lawyers are not usually ready or prepared to invest the amount of time and resources which such trial normally demands. They only want to hustle out as many settlements as possible to keep their practices going and will rather not be bogged down in a lengthy expensive trial. So, it is in their interest to settle as many such lawsuits as they could possible gather, instead of being mired down with trying them in the court at cost, both financially and time; since most family retain them on a percentage, recover and get paid, basis. So, yes, even where an unreasonable jury awards an excessive damages, such decision could still be appealed right up to the Supreme Court if need be, for a reduced judgment amount. 

If the City of Minneapolis had called the bluff of George Floyd's family and at best offered them plus minus $5  million, they would have accepted it; and if otherwise, the City could have spent $2 million with a defense lawyer and defended the lawsuit. At most, the jury could have awarded the family about $11 million and thus saved the City about $16 million; and in any other event, the City could have spent additional $3 million in appealing the jury's award. So, no matter how it was diced, including the matter reaching the Supreme Court, a lesser amount than the $27 million would have in the end been paid to George Floyd's family. But they choked in cowardice and handed $27 million public money to the family and have now opened the door for more lawyers to begin to set a new benchmark of what their clients will settle for in any future wrongful death lawsuit. It may also lead to more crackheads playing chicken with the police in the hope that their family and loved ones may become rich following their death at the hands of the police. 

And yes, what Derek Chauvin did was horrible but it was not the entire City of Minneapolis that did it, admitted he was their agent. The people of Minneapolis collectively own the money which was doled out to George Floyd's family and they are the ones who would have sat in the jury, had the wrongful death lawsuit proceeded to trial. They would have been more frugal in disbursing their commonwealth than what the managers did. Even the fact that the City did not wait to first see how the criminal prosecution went before settling the lawsuit is by itself very perplexing. If this pattern of rushed settlement of wrongful death lawsuits continues and Cities continues to recklessly dole out their funds in this manner, they will eventually all go bankrupt as Uncle Sam cannot continuously be expected to come to the rescue each time they recklessly spend themselves into pennilessness. There will be more lawyers threatening such lawsuits and there will be more people dying in the hands of the police and their families, as clients.

Such a huge settlement amount is capable of influencing behavior, especially with people who have nothing more to look forward to and have somewhat become suicidal and have chosen the police as their executioner. Cities should start defending all these cases and where they must  settle, start their offer from the lowest figure possible. If the City's insurance forces their hands to quickly settle only to later turn around and increase their premiums, they should threaten a change of insurance company and see what happens. There should be a value attached to every life, but a drug addict and a medical doctor or a Rocket scientist's life should not command the same settlement amount. 

ICHEOKU therefore is emphatic that George Floyd's life is not worth $27 million, admitted that the agony which he was put through before he died could have weighed towards a high settlement amount, but it should never have been this high, regardless. Anyway, his death has brought his family a fortune, a financial windfall sort of and for it, there was something somewhat positive that came from his death. It is also worth noting that all those his family members who suddenly showed up following his death, apparently were not very much in his life while he lived. Judging his haggardly appearance and the fact that his drug addiction reached such a life threatening peak, a crisis level, it is rather surprised that he had that many well to do looking family members. 

ICHEOKU wonders the type of relationship which they had with him before his death. If he was down on his luck like many people often times are, how much help did he get from them. Did they assist him before and eventually gave up because he was not forthcoming? Was it that he was an adult and should take care of himself, when they were aware that drug addiction is a disease and that a sick person is not left on their own to take care of themselves because they can't. Why did they not pull together to help set him free of his drugs demons through treatments and rehabilitations; and finding him a real job with which to support himself and family. But immediately he was killed and sensing a moment in the sun, everyone of them crawled out from whatever burrow they were inside to declare me too, I am a member of his family member. Although they did good by fighting for their brother, but it should have been before the fact and not after the fact. Life is cruel. May George Floyd's soul continue to rest. 

KRI NANGGALA-402: INDONESIA DOES NOT NEED SUBMARINES?

ICHEOKU says what does Indonesia need submarines for. Who are their rivals in their archipelago neck of the wood that they want to spar with underwater? Are they planning on taking on China by firing missiles from under water into Beijing?  Why do they need submarines in addition to other water going surface vessels which are not as risky to operate as submarines. 

But like people, some countries too sometimes have their priorities screwed up big time. Now they have sent 53 of their Naval personnels to their early watery graves and it was an otherwise avoidable human toll. Before asking Germany to build them the 44 year old submarine KRI Nanggala-402, didn't they also ask them how to ensure that it performs its maneuvers safely, diving and rising from deep waters without any glitches. Why is the old submarine still ocean worthy and it was recently refitted in South Korea and you wonder why they did not send it back to Germany, the builders, to do the refitting. Anyway, may the souls of the now presumed dead seamen now rest. It is sad.

VLADIMIR PUTIN BEATS A RETREAT: SHOW OF GOODWILL?

ICHEOKU says is it a case of the calm before the storm or the ocean suddenly receding before the tsunami strikes. What made Russia Vladimir Putin to suddenly order his troops to withdraw from the Ukrainian border where they had amassed and so soon after he had threatened the world with a redline which must not be crossed. Is he up to another surprise or did he just cave in to international pressure or acted as a show of good will. 

As the world awaits his next move, ICHEOKU says kudos is in order to Vladimir Putin for at least bringing down the temperature which he raised by sending his troops to the Ukrainian border through the latest retreat. But the Kremlin strongman usually has a bag of tricks, so we can only wait, watch and pray. 

THROW THE GUY SOME BONE OF RECIPROCITY.

ICHEOKU says German Chancellor Angel Merkel reportedly helped broker the Russia withdrawal of its amassed troops from the border with Ukraine. She should be commended for doing this; and of course, for agreeing to it the Kremlin strongman also deserves commendation as well. By doing it, at least the rising tension in that part of the world which would have bode nobody any good has been deflated. 

Like a puppy which is intermittently rewarded with a treat each time it behaves well or complies to an instruction, Vladimir Putin deserves to be acknowledged for taking the first step towards deescalation. The West, especially the United States of America, should consider reviewing some of the sanctions which it recently imposed on Russia as a reciprocal gesture of their goodwill too. That way the message will be strongly reinforced that only good behavior from Kremlin will be rewarded and it will also encourage the continuing thawing of the now almost refrozen relationship between both parties. Please America, throw the dog some bone as Vladimir Putin deserves some credit.

LATEST WITHDRAWAL DATE FOR TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN: SIMPLY WISHFUL.

ICHEOKU says it would have been a very good thing if only it could, be at last, finally achieved.  But it will not happen because the same Deep State which installed Joe Biden in the White House are deeply invested in the weapons and war economy and Afghanistan is one heck of a profitable venture. They are used to their mouth watering omelette and they will not just stand idly by and watch Joe Biden kill the golden goose that lays the necessary eggs. The over twenty years running military adventure in Afghanistan is very good for business and the return on investment is profitably quite high too. So, suddenly drying up such a juicy source will not be tolerated by those fat cats who binge on American taxpayers money, spent on weapons and wars. Their appetite is greedily huge and they need to continuously feed it 

Joe Biden will not be the first White House resident to set such a benchmark date of complete and total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan. Recall that one other president even added the closure of Guantanamo Bay in his to do list, but he was not allowed to do any of them throughout his eight years in the White House. Even President Donald John Trump wanted to do it but even the generals he put in positions in the Pentagon bucked him on that. So, Joe Biden will not be an exception as he too will fail because the forces amassed against closing the Afghanistan money maker are far greater than just one man in the White House. It cuts across a very large swathe of American Deep Staters, including members of both Democratic Party and Republican Party, as well as the retired and serving military and security community. Moving against them will be a very uphill task for Joe Biden to successfully accomplish and they will use every means necessarily possible to force him to back down or they will actively frustrate it. 

Therefore the September 11th 2021, 9/11 anniversary, newly set date for the final return of American troops from Afghanistan will not be mission accomplished. As other previously similarly set dates came and passed, so will it also come and pass and American troops will still be stationed in Afghanistan. The Deep State will muscle Joe Biden into submission and force him into not fulfilling that promised withdrawal and in the alternative, to just dilly-dally and tarry along until he leaves office. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden will, some time very close to his September 11th 2021 set date, appear on television to tell Americans and the rest of the world that certain developments in Afghanistan has made it imperative that American troops extend their stay in the country. That his well intended decision to have all American troops withdrawn from Afghanistan has been frustrated by some unforeseen circumstances beyond his control and that in the interest of America's security, he has decided to defer the withdrawal date until further notice. 

The total withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would have happened a very long time ago if indeed the Deep State and the Pentagon wanted it to happen, immediately following the killing of Osama Bin Laden when America would have declared a real "mission accomplished" and beat it out of the desolate parch of earth. In fact, Afghanistan has no viable utility to America as to warrant the expenditure of the humongous amount of American blood and treasure that went into it. So, the withdrawal decision is a good and commendable thing which time came a very long time ago, even though it has remained unfulfilled and hopefully this time will be different. If Joe Biden can pull it off, it will count favorably in his column as the fella who finally accomplished what many before him only dreamt they had achieved. It will bode well for his legacy and will definitely win him some converts, especially among military families who will be relieved from their wards' over extended stay in that part of the world has finally come to end.

ICHEOKU says no amount of time spent in Afghanistan will ever be enough to accomplish whatever "mission goals" that demanded it, because it is the Afghani society that is troubled and not necessarily the Talibans or any other terrorist groups operating there. If the society was functional enough, those terrorists groups will not find it such a conducive place for their operational base. But it is a permanently failed State and no amount of American presence there, no matter how elongated, will ever right their ship of State. It has everything to do with the brand of ultra conservative Islamism being practiced there, which is entirely anti Western civilization. This makes it difficult if not impossible to have a safe workable tradeoffs that will be acceptable to America and the mullahs in charge of the Islamic orthodoxy to warrant a safe  withdrawal. America wants a Western value based Afghanistan, but the mullahs of Kabul prefer the country's full return to their annihilistic Islamism and nothing else.

So, as long as the breeding madrassas which churn out millions of Islamist fanatics, who are completely brained and steeped in their brand of ancient Islamism, continue to thrive in Afghanistan, that long will Afghanistan be burrowing deeper into absolute Islamic orthodoxy. A matter made worse because nearly the entire population want it that way and majority always carries the vote. Whether America leaves on September 11th, 2021 or one hundred years later on September 11th, 2121, Afghanistan will still revert to their brand of extreme Islamism and also instal a Taliban government in Kabul. There is no other way around it. So, unless America is ready to completely annex Afghanistan as a territory or have an irrevocable permanent military base there built there to guard them in perpetuity, it will be better to cut the losses now and beat it. Afghanistan will never change or abandon its ideological extremism and will forever remain  an extremists infested parch of desolate earth. 

If Afghanistan's neighbors and other countries around that hemisphere are comfortable with it becoming a failed state in the event of American troops final withdrawal, so be it. If Afghanistan implodes, it is a crisis which America can watch from a afar and can always timely mount a response should America become threatened as a result. American troops were not in Afghanistan before September 11th, 2001 and they can always go back to kill off any terrorists should they ever threaten or dare strike at America again. America has been defending itself from so many foes including Russia, North Korea and Iran without American troops being stationed in those countries. So, the argument that terrorists from Afghanistan will strike at America again if the troops are withdrawn is simply a hogwash and not a reason to station them there indefinitely. But if not now, when? If not in September 11th 2021, when? Will September 11th, 2121 be any better? Just bring the troops home and September 11th, 2021 will be just fine.

CAN WE PLEASE NOT MAKE VLADIMIR PUTIN MADDER: ENOUGH ALREADY.

ICHEOKU says the West should and must introduce a new approach in their dealing with Russia's Vladimir Putin as what is, seems not to be working so well or well enough. This is in order to avoid an un-bargained for sudden cataclysmic event which might prove very fatal to mankind. So yes, Vladimir Putin is a dictator but so also are China's Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. But the West is not threatening them as they seem to repeatedly often do with Vladimir Putin. Why is Vladimir Putin being singled out particularly in this manner as there should have been a one cap fits all approach to all dictators, but not one special cap for Vladimir and different caps for Jinping and Jong Un. 

At least, Vladimir Putin's Russia is somewhat free, with limited opposition and limited press freedom, unlike Xi Jinping China and Kim Jong Un's North Korea with absolutely zero freedom for the opposition and the press. In North Korea, such attempt is ruthless put down by feeding suspected non compliant people alive to purposely starved rabid wild dogs. China also ruthlessly puts them down and have now crushed democracy in Hong Kong and menacingly threatening to do the same in Taiwan. So why single Vladimir Putin out for a separate treatment. He is still European, a white man; and has more to gain with a peaceful Europe than an Europe devastated by fissile materials. He is apparently fully invested in the preservation of the white race and their continuous survival as a people. Therefore, he will be more amenable to reaching a detente with the West and such opening should be exploited for good. 

America and other Western European nations as well as Australia and New Zealand should explore some ways to meet Vladimir Putin half way and see how to provide him with some necessary accommodations in order to sooth his ego, towards achieving a more peaceful, non confrontational, co-existence with Russia's Vladimir Putin. The approach of the last two decades of constantly pillorying Vladimir Putin does not seem to have worked or at least worked as anticipated. He has been in power since 2000 and nothing seems to have changed in his operational behavioral pattern and mode of conduct. So, why continue on the same pathway that has led to no where with a change in his behavior; or must the West be so stubborn,  continuously powering along a pathway to no where, except of course their primary intention is not to reform Vladimir Putin but to continuously portray him in the light which he seems to now relish and glow.  

ICHEOKU is emphatic that it is about time a different solution is put to the problem in order to bring Vladimir Putin closer than to continuously scare him off and eventually back him into a corner, where feeling trapped and left with no option he might spring like a cobra and ask out angrily and devastatingly. Although the West might think that they can win a full scale shooting war against Russia, which is debatable; but it will come at a very grave cost which the West might not be prepared to pay. This begs the question, why not explore the less expensive option, a way to achieve a more acceptable result which will forever free the world of the never ending phobia of Russia and what possibly Vladimir Putin is up to and might do if push ever comes to shove. 

But it seems that the continuous hot rhetorics and sanctions against Russia and Vladimir Putin is the agreed upon accepted template and the West latches unto it for a reason, to maximize an agenda. They want to continuously make out Vladimir Putin as the bogey man who the rest of the world must be wary of and in order to protect themselves from him, they need to continuously stockpile up weapons of war to defend themselves from Vladimir Putin's possible invasion of their territories. A signature of the military industrial complex, their tried and tested modus operandi, since fear always works. They love stoking it, so that they can continue plying their weapons sales and war trade. 

It might not end well for everyone should Vladimir Putin feel seriously threatened and forced to snap. His latest State of the Russian Nation address to his people seems to suggest that he is trending this way. He seems to be steadily getting very anxious and agitated, feeling about to be ensnared and being gradually boxed in. He has warned against the West crossing certain redlines but failed to describe which things constitute the deadlines which the West must not cross, thus making them his sole exclusive determination as what they are. Such open ended threat is ominous as nobody knows what in particular will trigger his reaction. It is a fluidly developing situation and it does not bode well for world peace. Mankind's survival is at stake as a reactionary Vladimir Putin will readily first explode those stockpiled nuclear weapons in his arsenal than succumb or marched out from Kremlin in handcuffs. 

But all these angst can easily end today if the West will allow Russia to be fully integrated into Europe as a bona fide member of the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization as well as other world and regional bodies as an accepted, equal and full partner. Thereafter, he could be made to conform with existing norms within those bodies which sustains peaceful neighborliness. With that, he can also be made to disarm since he will no longer feel threatened and the need to defend himself and protect his position. It is worth exploring and in fact, the West owe the world the duty of peace to explore this solution. ICHEOKU strongly believes that it is exactly what Vladimir Putin is waiting for and there is no harm in trying everything and anything that would ensure that nuclear bombs are not ever dropped again on the humanity which inhabit this world. Enough of the avoidable tensive world of confrontation against Russia and they Vladimir Putin. 

PANTAMI: A NIGERIA MINISTER IS A TERRORISTS SYMPATHIZER.

"We are happy whenever unbelievers are killed. September 11th was a good thing. I mourn Osama Bin Laden and Abubakar al Baghdadi. They are martyrs and my heroes. All those fighting are not terrorists, they are fighting for the cause. I will volunteer to fight jihad against the West." - Ali Isa Pantami, Nigeria's Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. 

ICHEOKU says these are some of the things said by this man who is currently serving in Nigeria's government as a Minister or as America would call it a Secretary. So, what is Washington DC waiting before sanctioning Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria for providing safe territory for terrorists and terrorists sympathizers in his government? When will Joe Biden read the riots act to Muhamadu Buhari for parleying with terrorists sympathizers by allowing them to serve in his government. Better still, let the CIA just drone him and get it over with. Three thousand Americans lost their lives on 9/11. Never Again! #ResignNowPantami.

DEREK CHAUVIN'S CONVICTION: AMERICA WAS SAVED BY THE BELL OF A CORRECT VERDICT.

ICHEOKU says no other outcome would have been accepted or sufficient to save America from disastrous riots which would have engulfed the country and possibly rocked its foundations. But the jury rose up to the occasion, did the right thing by returning the correct and right verdict of guilty. Now, America lives to fight another day in the never ending battle of racial discord afflicting America. ICHEOKU says the verdict is evident that never again would an OJ Simpson style of "not guilty" verdict or a Rodney King's type of police brutality and the "not guilty" verdict of the police officers involved be tolerated or accepted in America. 

It is also a testament that violence induced fear always works in some situations to achieve a desired outcome, as those who make peaceful change impossible often times make violent change inevitable. Yes, black folks have been taking it by the chin and stoically for so long, but they have risen in unison to say not any more. They took to the streets last summer following the murder of George Floyd and America took notice. America became really afraid of the level of violence which black people were capable and able to unleash; and they do not want a repeat of that experience, not any more. The jurors are representatives of the American society and they took that specific knowledge with them into the jury room and came out, ten hours later, to say "Yes, we got it" by handing Derek Chauvin a guilty verdict on all the three counts charge. 

Their verdict is a strong message to all the police officers in America that their brutality will no longer be tolerated nor go unpunished. Hopefully, it will help moderate their interactions and encounters with the general public going forward, particularly black and colored people of America. Last summers George Floyd's death triggered riots cost 12 Americans their lives and caused $2 billion in property damages. This figures would have tripled had a wrong verdict been rendered in this case, triggering yet another riot. So, the juror somehow saved America much pain and agony, both in human toll as well as an otherwise cost overruns. Their guilty verdict was balmy and it helped soothe and calm down frayed nerves. ICHEOKU says America would have burned, but thankfully, it was spared the nightmare, saved by the bell of a right verdict. 

The case was an open and shut one anyway, as there was no better, more credible and stronger witness in the case than the video recording which captured Derek Chauvin in the act. The murder was captured on video and it took a long nine minutes to fully execute. The video could have easily successfully pass for a "res ipsa loquitur" and sufficient by itself to persuade the verdict. The rest of the presentations, witnesses and testimonies, were mere prosecutorial formalities, just extras and add-ons. Nobody is to blame for the verdict but Derek Chauvin himself, who arrogantly and intentionally murdered George Floyd in front of a recording video camera. The whole world watched the traumatizing gory spectacle as it unfolded and agreed in unison that the then Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd. Thankfully, the jurors have concurred and the matter should now rest. 

ICHEOKU says kudos to the no nonsense Judge Peter Cahill for studiously managing the case to its very successful conclusion. He was exceptional in making sure that the case does not run off course or morph into a theater of absurdity. He avoided unnecessary delays by denying the defendant's motion to dismiss and refusing their motion for a change of venue, as according to him, even the residents of Mars, if any, were aware of the case and there is no safer place to move the trial to than in Minneapolis Minnesota. Boy that judge was right, he is simply magisterial and he is a very stand up umpire in the temple of justice. Neither the prosecutors nor the defense made any special impact on ICHEOKU, so no opinion about them. 

Now, as the nation awaits Derek Chauvin's sentencing, lets hope that the judge will be mindful by giving him a commensurate lengthy prison term, otherwise the bullet which was dodged now might ricochet to strike America following a slap on the wrist sentence. ICHEOKU says kudos to the jurors for saving America further pains from the George Floyd's saga, which hopefully now ends. May his soul continue to rest.