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.

Thursday, July 8, 2021

PRESIDENTS DO NOT JUST GET KILLED LIKE THAT: SO, WHAT HAPPENED IN HAITI?

ICHEOKU says was it with the approval of the White House that President Moise of Haiti was assassinated and if not, where were his country's equivalent of the Secret Service and presidential protection details when he was murdered right inside his own home. A sitting president of any country do not ordinarily just get killed unless a powerful foreign country wanted him or her gone, signed off on it and also supplied necessary logistics to carry out the hit. A sitting president can also sometimes lose his life in a bloody military coup staged against his government, mostly if he puts up resistance and refuses the first offer to resign. There was no military coup in Haiti unless there was an internal palace coup by his government officials, disguised as "foreign assassins" which took out the president. What exactly took place in Port-Au-Prince or was it the United States of American government that wanted the Haiti leader out of power and had him killed? 

Such a high profile hit job requires extensive planning, training, coordination and logistics. Contingency arrangements must have also been made on how to quickly get the assassins out of Haiti. All these must have involved a lot of communications among the conspirators and a large amount of money most likely exchanged hands through international money transfers and other forms of payments, including cryptocurrency. So, with the amount of communications and huge amount of money that will be needed to pull off the assassination of a president, one would expect the United States of America National Security Agencies to have had at least a whiff of the impending assassination from all the message intercepts and call monitoring they are involved in as well as their keeping tab on huge monetary transfers in their fight against money laundering. 

Why did these agencies not get wind of the planned assassination of President Jovenel Moise of Haiti and if not, was it deliberate or due to incompetency. Did they willfully keep a deaf ear to the scheme or were they caught unaware just like millions of other people throughout the world, who are demanding answers and had thought that assassinating presidents is no longer possible in today's world. This is not an effort at holding brief of any kind for the assassinated president, but that the Caribbean region is within the United States of America sphere of influence and naturally, under their special eavesdropping and surveillance coverage area and to a large extent, under the protection of the United States of America as a correlative. So why a president of a country within this premise be assassinated just like that?

America's intelligence agencies definitely scoops information and communications being exchanged within the Caribbean region, principally because of the war on drugs and to keep a lid over any foreign adversary's interference and encroachment in the region. These agencies have extensive coverage and reach globally and tip countries off about planned bad activities by bad players within their country. Russia have severally benefitted from it including when such tip off led to the arrest of terrorists who were about to unleash terrorist attacks both in Moscow and St Petersburg. So if a country as far away as Russia could benefit from information and communications gathering technology of the United States of America intelligence agencies, how then could an assassination plot be incubated within America's backyard, their Caribbean neighbors, and no hint of it was scooped? 

It is a sad commentary on the United States of America that such a dastardly murder of an elected and sitting president could happen inside its area of influence and geopolitical territory without either knowing about it or preventing it. Why has no presidents of satellite countries of Russia and China ever been assassinated? Not even in Africa recently because assassinations of presidents are no longer cool nor very easy these days. So, the whole world is seeking answers to what happened in Haiti, how such is still possible in this 2021 and who approved the hit; because a country's president is the most protected citizen of any country and such a high value individual cannot just be murdered in that way, at least not without hundreds of his also killed bodyguards to show for it. 

If it was a palace coup because of the political impasse in that country, why was other means of getting him out of power not considered instead of going to the most extreme means of assassinating him. His murder will bring back the sad memories of the 80s and 90s when such assassinations were practically a way of changing presidents of countries who was not acceptable to Washington DC. It is despicable assassinating a sitting president of a country regardless of his offense, including as some rumors have it, drug trafficking. He should have been abducted like Noriega and bundled back to the US, tried and sent to prison, rather than just kill him. 

Haiti has suffered enough already and does not need any such additional trauma on the psyche of a people, who would easily pass for the most traumatized people on earth and millions of who are suffering from undiagnosed nor treated PTSD, admitted ignorantly. But from the way they frequently act out and erupt into unimaginable violence, it does not need an expert or professional to determine that Haitians are indeed heavily traumatized. If it is not a devastating earthquake, it is hurricane, mismanagement, hunger, diseases and sicknesses, depravity, economic malaise, lack of basics of life such as good drinking water and of course a demented political class that is rather busy planning how to relocate to Miami after a ruinous governance than building Haiti back better up and into a livable country where prosperity can endure, attracting investors and tourists. It seems too that their voodoo is powerless in the face of these adversities to prevent them or may be it is even the cause of them. 

It is sad that there is no functional country being governed by black people throughout the face of the earth; not Haiti, not Nigeria and not even South Africa which has begun its own steady descent into the abyss of a failed state like so many other black governed political spaces in the world. Even many American previously great cities have been smitten by this spell and have since nose dived into failing cities. Chicago and San Francisco used to wonderful livable and safe cities in America but not any more, due to black ultra liberalism which condones crimes, pursues less policing, shows too much unnecessary empathy and to some degree, inadvertently encourages laziness. 

Something is definitely wrong when a country of 95% black population cannot seem to get its acts together, with the people loving each other to a degree that forging a nation that is enduring becomes their goal. Such a self hating attitude needs to change, it should be condemned and concerted effort made to fix it. Haitians have no white people breathing down their necks and ordering them about, so what then is the problem that is inhibiting them from coming together and building their nation. Is the black person cursed and is it Haiti that is particularly under a spell that these many tragedies became their portion, so close to each other. Why is it that black people cannot seem to get their acts together and do right for their people, whether in Africa or the Caribbean. Although Ghana is showing some signs of a rebirth, but who knows whether it will outlive their current president and become institutionalized in order to be sustainable. 

If Nigeria, the biggest collection of black people on earth had its acts together, they would have immediately sent a contingent to Port-Au-Prince, with or without Paris or Washington DC approval, although better if they did, to go help stabilize the country, help conduct an immediate election and supervise a transition of power. A yawning vacuum has been created with the murder of President Jovenel Mosie and it might snowball into another 1994 Rwanda if not properly managed. If only America's foreign policy was driven by geopolitical interest and considerations, all the Caribbean countries and territories would have been flourishing today. But sadly it is not, the reason a president could be assassinated just like that in Haiti. Imagine the level of development, both in manpower and infrastructures, which the trillions of dollars wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq would have brought in the Caribbean. 

Hopefully, the FBI will assist Haiti authorities unravel what happened and find out how a sitting president was murdered with such ease. It will also be nice if America will help prevent an implosion of Haiti using every means possible, including sending in the Marines to help protect the country. Immediate election should also be conducted in order to avoid a power vacuum and prevent some bad elements from seizing the authority of the Haitian State. The investigation into the assassination should also take a serious look into his wife on how she survived the assassination and whether their marriage was cordial. Some of their pictures did not show a wife with happy face and the late president did not look like he was having the best of marital life either, his gaunt look and melancholic face considered. It is sad. May his soul now rest. Adieu Mr President. 

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