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.

Sunday, January 23, 2022

PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SHOULD BE SMART ABOUT IT AND AVOID THE LOOMING WAR.

ICHEOKU says it is possible that the world is giving President Vladimir Putin too much credit for what he is really worth. Is it possible that the larger than life story weaved around him is somewhat misplaced, and overly exaggerated, that it could pass for a flattery gone too far. His admirers believe that he is smart, clever, a tactician and a survivor; and that he usually plays for the long haul. 

If all these attributes are true, why then is he  trying to crash and burn everything. Is President Vladimir Putin not aware that a full blown war in his neighborhood will not end well for him and his lording it over Russia. Why is he fixated on  recovering Ukraine, aware that any move made in that direction will be an open invitation for Western war profiteers to descend on the region, as vultures do on rotten carcasses. Why does he want to provide the West, particularly America, an opportunity to open up a new theater of war so very close to him. 

A war without timetable, which is capable of outlasting the Afghanistan war, and which will most likely, ultimately result in his own end. He is aware that any such war can only beget one assured outcome, a victory for the West; and with it, will come a very stiff price for him of loss of power, imprisonment as a convicted war criminal or even his summarily execution, which would be fed to the world as "he committed suicide" to avoid capture. They could also put him through a charade of a trial, like they did to Saddam Hussein, just for the heck of it appearing as if they gave him his human rights due process.

Where is Russian FIS and how good and efficient is their foreign intelligence gathering capabilities, for them not to appreciate that America's military industrial complex is frantically looking to open a new theater of conflict. The American military is not currently engaged in any major war and this has so impacted the bottomline of the MIC that they are prepared to exploit any loophole provided to them by Russia in Ukraine. They have to make a living from double dealing the American taxpayers by profiteering from weapons and ammunition sales, as well as milking other aspects of war.

Why would a thinking and strategy-savvy President Vladimir Putin want to fall into this trap and attract these merchants of war and harbingers of death, destruction and misery to his neck of the woods. Is he not aware that once he gives them a reason to move into Ukraine, that they will be there for a very long time, either as war advisers or under the ruse of training and helping Ukraine rebuild its military. Which reasonable person fetches ants infested firewoods, aware that lizards will come to feast on the ants. President Vladimir Putin must therefore think very fast about the repercussions of such an open season invitation and put a hard break on his misguided and irrational plan. He must do it now before the West mounts a false flag operation to manufacture a reason to invite themselves in. 

President Vladimir Putin does not look like a man on a suicide mission; and exudes the aura of a man who is still enjoying his power hold over Russians. He should not throw everything away just because his ego is at stake. He needs to beat it right away before he crosses a line of danger from where a retreat will not be possible. Also the toll on human lives from such a war, particularly on his soldiers, will be too catastrophic, that expending such many lives and in a war which he will not be allowed to win, will be foolhardy and stupid. Let's hope that his common sense and risk assessment quotient will eventually prevail and make him pull his troops back and away from a confrontation with the West. Enough of the brinkmanship.

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