OUTRAGE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: MUELLER'S CASE IS CLOSED - MCCONNELL.

"It's now been more than six weeks since special counsel Bob Mueller, the former FBI director, concluded his investigation into Russia's interference in our 2016 election and delivered his findings to the Justice Department. It's been two weeks since Attorney General William Barr made the 450-page report public. This investigation went on for two years. It's finally over. 

Many Americans were waiting to see how their elected officials would respond. With an exhaustive investigation complete, would the country finally unify to confront the real challenges before us? Would we finally be able to move on from partisan paralysis and breathless conspiracy theorizing, or would we remain consumed by unhinged partisanship and keep dividing ourselves to the point that Putin and his agents need only stand on the sidelines and watch us as their job is actually done for them? 

Regrettably, the answer is pretty obvious. So that's what I want to discuss this morning. Russia's interference in American elections, the work of the special counsel and the attorney general, and how we can finally end this Groundhog Day spectacle, stop endlessly re-litigating a two and a half-year-old election result and move forward for the American people. Now, Madam President, it bears remember what this investigation was actually supposed to be about: Russian interference in 2016. For many of the president's opponent opponents had quickly morphed into something else. The last hope that maybe they'd never have to come to terms with the American people's choice of a president. 

In some corners, special counsel Mueller came to be regarded as a kind of secular saint, destined to rescue the country from the inconvenient truth that the American people actually elected Donald Trump. For two years many of the president's opponents seemed to be hoping the worst conspiracy theories were actually true. They seemed to be hoping for a national crisis for the sake of their own politics. Now look, I will say it was at least heartening, heartening to see many of my Democratic colleagues and the media abruptly awaken to the dangers of Russian aggression. An awakening to the dangers of Russian aggression. Remember not long ago Democrats mocked, mocked Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney for warning about the dangers posed by Putin's Russia. 

Remember President Obama's quip back in 2012 when then-governor Romney emphasized his concerns with Russia. Here's what President Obama said when Mitt Romney emphasized his concerns with Russia back in 2012. Direct quote: "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back." That was President Obama in 2012. 

Well, look, I think many of us now see that President Obama's approach to Russia could have used some more of the 1980s, more Ronald Reagan, and less Jimmy Carter. We would have been better off if the Obama administration hadn't swept Putin's invasion and occupation of Georgia under the rug or looked away as Russia forced out Western NGOs and cracked down on civil society. If President Obama hadn't let Assad trample his "red line" in Syria or embraced Putin's fake deal on chemical weapons. If the Obama administration had responded firmly to Putin's invasion and occupation of Ukraine in 2014 to the assassination of Boris Nemtsov in 2015 and to Russian intervention in Syria. 

May be stronger leadership would have left the Kremlin less emboldened. Maybe tampering with our democracy wouldn't have seemed so very tempting. Instead, the previous administration sent the Kremlin the signal they could get away with almost anything, almost anything. So is it surprising that we got the brazen interference detailed in special counsel Mueller's report? A concerted effort to divide Americans through social media campaigns, hacking into the e-mail accounts and networks of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party. Thanks to the investigation, we know more about these tactics. Thanks to the investigation, 13 Russians, three Russian companies, and 12 more Russian intelligence officers have been indicted. 

These are the people who really did seek to undermine our democracy. Yet curiously many of our Democratic colleagues and most of the news media don't seem to really care about that. New insight into defending America, Russian nationals indicted doesn't seem to interest my colleagues across the aisle. No interest. Just like there's been little interest in the steps this administration has taken to make Russia pay for its interference and strengthen America's hand. Election interference was just one part in Russia's strategy to undercut the United States. And this administration has taken the problem head-on. 

We have a new coherent national security strategy and national defense strategy that actually take the threat seriously. We have new sanctions. We've provided Georgia and Ukraine with weapons to better defend themselves, capabilities the previous administration denied our partners -- now listen to this -- out of fear of provoking Russia. We've worked against pipeline projects like Nord Stream Two that would further expand Putin's influence. We strengthened and reformed NATO so the alliance can present a united front. We improved Russia's compliance with the I.N.F. and walked away from a treaty that Moscow had turned into a sham. And the Trump administration has over Russian objections twice enforced President Obama's red line in Syria after Assad's use of chemical weapons. 

Now with respect to election security, Congress appropriated hundreds of millions of dollars to state governments to shore up their systems. The administration increased information sharing from the Department of Homeland Security in cooperation with the states. And according to press reports, the Department of Defense has expanded its capabilities and authorities to thwart cyber threats to our democracy. No longer will we just hope, hope Moscow respects our sovereignty. We will now defend it. 

These are just a few examples, Madam President, and there's already evidence they're having an effect. We just had the 2018 mid-term elections. Thanks to this administration's leadership, all 50 states and more than 1,400 local election jurisdictions focused on election security like never before. DHS provided resources to localities for better cybersecurity and private social media companies monitored their own platforms for foreign intelligence. Thanks to efforts across the federal government in 2018, we were ready. That clearly is progress. 

The Mueller report will help us. So will the upcoming report from the Select Committee on Intelligence, these threats and challenges are real. Our responsibility to strengthen America is serious and it requires serious work. 

But speaking of serious, seriousness is not what we've seen from the Democratic Party in recent days. Not serious. What we've seen is a meltdown, an absolute meltdown, an inability to accept the bottom line conclusion on Russian interference from the special counsel's report, which said the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities. That's the conclusion. Two years of exhaustive investigation and nothing to establish the fanciful conspiracy theories that Democratic politicians and TV talking heads had treated like a foregone conclusion. 

They told everyone there had been a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, yet on this central question, the special counsel's finding is clear: Case closed. Case closed. 

This ought to be good news for everyone, but my Democratic colleagues seem to be publicly working through the five stages of grief. First stage is denial. Remember what happened when the attorney general released his preliminary letter describing the special counsel's bottom line legal conclusion? Denial. 

Immediately, totally baseless speculation that perhaps Attorney General Barr hadn't quoted the report properly. But then, madam president, come stage two. Anger. Anger. Welcome to Washington in recent days. The Democrats are angry, angry that the facts disappointed them. Angry that our legal system will not magically undo the 2016 election for them. And they've opted to channel all their partisan anger on to the attorney general. They seem to be angrier at Bill Barr for doing his job than they are at Vladimir Putin. This is a distinguished public servant whose career stretches back almost 50 years. He's widely respected. Nobody claims he has any prior personal allegiance to this particular president. 

And why are they angry? Why are they angry? Did the attorney general fire the special counsel? Or force him to wind down prematurely? No. Did he sit on the Mueller report? Keep it secret? No. He reported out his bottom line legal conclusions and then released as much as possible for the world to see. Did he use redactions? Did he use redactions to mislead the public? No. Working with the special counsel team, he released as much as possible within standard, standard safeguards. 

So it's hard to see, Madam President, the source of the anger. Maybe our Democrat colleagues are thinking of some strange new kind of cover-up where you take the entire thing you're supposedly covering up and post it on the internet. The claims get more and more utterly absurd. Baseless accusations of perjury, laughable threats of impeachment look, we all know what's going on here. This whole angry barrage the Democrats had prepared to unleash on President Trump, except the facts let them down. 

And so the left has swung all these cannons around and fired them at the attorney general. Not for any legitimate reason. Just because he is a convenient target. So look, Madam President, there is this outrage industrial complex that spans from Capitol press conferences to cable news. 

They are grieving. They are grieving that the national crisis they spent two years wishing for did not materialize. But for the rest of the country, this is good news. Bad news for the outrage industrial complex. But good news for the country. So now they are slandering a distinguished public servant because the real world has disappointed them. Instead of taking a deep breath and coming back to reality, our colleagues across the aisle want to shoot the messenger and keep the perpetual outrage machine right on on going. Even undermining the institution of the attorney general itself in the process. 

So remember, Russia set out to sow discord, to create chaos in American politics, and undermine confidence in our democracy. But on that front, given the less total fixation on delegitimizing the president, the president Americans chose and shooting any messenger who tells them inconvenient truths, I'm afraid the Russians hardly need to lift a finger. Hardly need to lift a finger. Well, madam president, the last stage of grief is acceptance. For the country's sake, I hope my Democratic friends will get there sometime soon." - Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader.

IT'S A BOY: CONGRATULATIONS!

ICHEOKU say hearty congratulations to the new mom and dad, Duchess Meghan Merkel and Duke Harry of Sussex, as they welcome their new baby boy, the newest princely addition to the British Royal Family. What an epochal development as history is continuously being made by the maverick British Prince and Duke of Sussex Harry, who has thus far, broken so many records of long held British traditions. 

First he married a foreigner, a black, a non virgin, a divorcee and a woman who is older than him and now has produced a black prince and possible heir to the British throne. This is such a trail blazing developments that, with a black prince now added to the British Royal Family, Britain might some day wake up to a black King, courtesy of Meghan and Harry fairly tale crossing of paths. 

ICHEOKU says the yet to be named prince is now 7th in the line of succession to the British Throne. Although his chances of ever mounting the throne is a distant and remote possibility, but miracles do sometimes happen, so, it is still possible that Britain could one day have a black King. The new prince and his mother, Duchess Meghan are doing well, according to an elated dad and husband Prince Harry. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the family.

FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP OF FREE SPEECH: NOT PROGRESSIVE.

ICHEOKU says Mark Zuckerberg is increasingly acting like a despot who hates to hear differing opinions and by selectively banning some people from his portal, has made it clear that he is averse to people holding opinions which he does not agree with and therefore deemed unacceptable. 

It is the stuff despots are made of, the reason journalists are killed and imprisoned all over the world, including in Malta, Africa, Russia and China, simply because they wrote what despotic governments did not want written. If Mark Zuckerberg could do this, wield such absolute power with his Facebook, imagine what he will morph into, were he to ever become president; may be turn America into an autocratic society with him as the absolute maximum ruler. Exactly what an abuse of power really looks like, that were Facebook a public utility, many would have since rushed to court to challenge such an overkill. 

But what is free speech anyway if people are not allowed to freely express their thoughts themselves and hold contrarian's opinions. How would Marck Zuckerberg have felt if when he was starting his Facebook, he was banned by mainstream media, as a threatening contrarian, who will not only disrupt their business, but will also hold different opinions and introduce different ways of disseminating news. Query, who determines what constitutes unacceptable opinion for purposes of not invoking the wrath of Mark Zuckerberg and meeting his Facebook threshold? For example, it is not everyone that agrees and likes views expressed in favor of homosexuality, abortions and illegal immigrations; yet nobody who is advocating and championing these viewpoints was banned by Mark Zuckerberg for disseminating "dangerous viewpoints"; but others are banned for expressing viewpoints which Mark and his group does not like. Really?

What makes a society rich and free is the diversity of opinions, especially a society like America with diverse human beings. Therefore ICHEOKU says Mark Zuckerberg, by banning Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and Infowars, have introduced a new dimension of censorship into American free society and a sure threat to American free speech. It is condemnable and it should be condemned by every freedom loving individual, who does not want to live or exist in a gulag society, where only what Mark Zuckerberg wants to see on his Facebook is what is written or allowed and permitted on Facebook. 

Such banning is petty and quite belittling of a man who has such a huge profile and is capable of becoming a real world leader and should be able to live above board of petty partisanship and crass intolerance. Who is he to decide what is good for the world and what parameters did he use to determine that, afterall one man's meat could be another man's poison. How will Mark Zuckerberg feel if the government decides to ban Facebook or the Internet administrators decide to unhook and take Facebook off the World Wide Web net. 

As always, anybody could be a demon depending on who is doing the judging and making the assessment. Mark Zuckerberg forgot that the people he banned from Facebook have millions of people who are their followers and who could no longer get their version of news and entertainment because Mark Zuckerberg made a determination that what are offered to them is not kosher and good enough for them. Meanwhile, by so doing, he is assuming that these people lack the capacity to make their own decisions and decide what is good for them. 

Nelson Mandela was once deemed a terrorist by white South African apartheid government and their British, European and American supporters; but to his people of South Africa, he was and remains a hero. Ditto Martin Luther King Jr who the then FBI director John Edgar Hoover considered an enemy of the State, but who black Americans saw as a liberator and savor. Mahatma Gandhi was similarly once seen by British colonialists as a terrorist, but he liberated India from British occupation and entered the annals of history as an Indian heroic figure; and the story goes on of so many such people who were viewed differently, depending on who was doing the viewing. 

Mark Zuckerberg should have remained above the fray of snow flakes partisanship and see himself as an impartial arbiter, sort of a father figure of the social media world, and not take sides in the battle of ideology and allow the superior argument to win. Why ban people for speaking their minds, instead of defeating their opinion with superior counter opinions. It is like the court, you go there to argue your case and a judge does not ban a party to the case because the judge disagrees with their case, rather the judge listens to both sides of the argument and rule for the superior side to eventually win. 

ICHEOKU therefore calls on Mark Zuckerberg to review his decision and unban the banned. It is called fairness and those contrarians' were not even given the opportunity to defend their opinions before the ban. No justice, no peace. Such differing opinions enriches Facebook more than it diminishes it, because without them, content of Facebook will be too generic and too boring and its growth would have been stunted. 

Anyone who cannot stand a differing viewpoint should please not read the differing viewpoint, period. They should just turn to another WALL and read whatever makes them happy and comfortable. ICHEOKU has never visited any of those fellas' WALLS nor is a fan of theirs; but fairness and justice demand that they too be allowed on Facebook and their opinions, no matter how seemingly reprehensible, be allowed to fertilize the minds which savor them. For example, CNN is not a good news network and suffers abysmal viewership rating, but nobody has banned CNN from conducting its business. It is called change the channel. If you cannot stand the heat in the kitchen, take a break, walk away and go to the living room or patio or backyard; but do not turn off the stove, otherwise dinner will not be served.  

Enough of this lingering pandering to the leftist snow flakes because they do not own this world, admitted many of them are having their moment in the sun with the Internet driven social media. But before them, were the Ford, the Edison, the Vanderbilt, the Carnegie, the Waltons and none of these pioneers ever dictated who bought their products or was allowed into their business premises to conduct commerce, so why now Facebook? Every person must not first live a life of conformity to the snow flakes peculiar idiosyncrasy to be acceptable. We are not all the same people and therefore our thinking must not be forcibly synchronized into a chorister. Variety is vitality and without these supposed "horrible" people, the world will not appreciate the good people. 

Evil exists for good to be appreciated. God did not ban evil, but allowed a co-existence of both evil and good so that people could appreciate the good and thereby glorify God. If one has never been poor, he will never appreciate richness when he gets there. You get hungry in order to appreciate food, otherwise it will lose its value. Mark Zuckerberg must therefore be able to tolerate people who are not like him nor thinks like him and who express different thoughts. 

Anybody who cannot stand or tolerate contrary opinions has some complex problem, as a "my way or the highway" is a mark of despotism by those who lack self confidence and who cannot stand a challenge to their authority. Such intolerance leads to dictatorship and eventually foists a group think and is dangerous for innovation, as it is inimical to adventure of thoughts. North Korea, China and Russia as well as a lot of African dictatorships have such constrained thought syndrome; and unless Mark Zuckerberg is telegraphing a message that there is now a full blown Facebook dictatorship, this ban is BAD and dangerously so and must be undone.

Therefore Mark Zuckerberg must prove himself to be above all these pettiness and allow contrarians to also exist on Facebook. The diversity of thought is good for a complete and well rounded exposition. Mark Zuckerberg cannot be advocating for a diverse American society, while simultaneously muffling diversity of thoughts within the same American society. Anyone who does not like what those contrarians say, should steal their thunder by saying their own better and louder, in order to override and eclipse them; but not through unfair action such as banning them. Facebook rose to where it is today because of competition; they gave the world what the world likes and the world accepted them; otherwise where is MYSPACE today? 

Imagine if Facebook was banned then because it was contrary to MYSPACE or expressed viewpoints considered not good for society, will there be a global phenom known as Facebook today. How can Facebook be preaching bringing the world together and yet pushing millions of people out from the world of Facebook; and away from the expressed desired unity; or is Facebook's idea of a unified world only for the adherents of Facebook religion of Mark Zuckerberg an this gospel of only acceptable viewpoint doctrine. It simply does not make sense wielding the big sledgehammer on a few people on a platform that has billions of people. It is petty and it is an overkill and therefore avoidable. Mark Zuckerberg should be bigger than this and therefore should immediately unban the banned. 

MUELLER FOUND NOTHING, CASE CLOSED - PRESIDENT TRUMP.

"Everything he wanted he got; no expenses was spared and no cap to his spending was fixed, even though I didn't have to. All the witnesses he wanted to interview, I let him even though I didn't have to. I also did not invoke any executive privilege either, even though I had it but did not use it. I gave him 1.4 million documents, even though I didn't have to. I let him interview White House counsel for over 30 hours, even though I could have not allowed it, but I didn't. 

I did all these not because I am foolhardy, but because I am convinced of my innocence and have nothing to hide. I did not do any of the things which I was accused of doing and I know that there was nothing there for them to find and they did not find anything. A full and complete exculpation, no COLLUSION and no OBSTRUCTION, case closed. Now, it is time to get back to work, doing what we have been doing for the American people since January 2017 inauguration; making America Great Again. Great job numbers." - President Donald John Trump.

EMPEROR NARUHITO: VERY REGAL

ICHEOKU says may his reign over Japan, steering the Yamoto Dynasty, sitting on the Chrysanthemum Throne on his Reiwa Era, last long. ICHEOKU says congratulations His Majesty, Emperor Naruhito of Japan.

JAPAN HAS A NEW EMPEROR: HURRAY!

ICHEOKU says a country steeped in traditions dating back thousands of years and still proudly holding on to them, has transitioned into a new Reiwa era with a new emperor. Emperor Naruhito takes over from his retired father and former Emperor Akihito as the 126th Emperor and successor to the Chrysanthemum Royal Throne of Japan, founded in 660 BC and reputedly the world's longest lasting hereditary monarchy that has remained unbroken for more than two thousands years. 

He is 59 years old and ascended to the throne following his father's abdication due to failing old age. This now leaves British Queen Eliza as the oldest monarch in the world who has refused to yield the crown, thus left Prince Charles wondering what he did wrong. Even Pope Benedict abdicated the papacy to make way for Pope Francis to step in. 

The new Emperor said that he will follow in his father's foot steps and make the pursuit of peace and staying close to his subjects his cardinal aspiration. According to him, a leader should always be praying for peace and sharing joys and sorrows of his people, while also showing compassion. In his own words, Emperor Naruhito said, "When I think about the important responsibility I have assumed, I am filled with a sense of solemnity. I sincerely pray for the happiness of the people and the further development of the nation as well as the peace of the world. 

Japan a purely male dominant society, where masculinity exemplified in the Samurai warrior tradition, still reigns supreme; the reason their society is efficiently run and functionally top notch. His wife and daughter, Empress Masako and daughter, 17-year-old Princess Aiko were not allowed to witness his investiture ceremony, which only adult male members of the Royal Family participated in. He was given a mirror, a sword and a gem as symbols of his new authority; centuries old ritual empowerment symbols which has not left the Japanese Royal family since its inception. 

The new Emperor has no son of his own and by extension has no direct heir apparent; making his younger brother, Crown Prince Akishino, 53, and the brother's 12-year-old son, his nephew, Prince Hisahito, both line successors to the Chrysanthemum Throne. His daughter, 17 year old Princess Aiko is out of luck. 

The new Emperor will now carry on with the Japanese monarchy as the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people, becoming His Majesty in the Imperial House of Japan, traditionally known as Yamoto Dynasty. ICHEOKU wishes him well and prays, may whatever he believes in provide him guidance and protection as his Reiwa era now gets underway.

BERNIE SANDERS: ALREADY RIGGED OUT AGAIN?

ICHEOKU says for a man who just entered the race for nomination of the Democratic  Party's presidential candidate for 2020, to assertively be campaigning against a sitting president, without first demolishing the 19 other Democrats seeking the same party's presidential nomination is either the height of a condescending arrogance or the fix is already in, to rig the primaries in his favor. 

And yes, former Vice President Joe Biden is as an insider establishment candidate as it can get; as no other person currently marshaled out and running for the coveted flag bearer position of the party is as entrenched as a man who has spent 44 years and counting in Washington DC. Now, instead of first fighting to survive the Democratic Party's nomination primaries, Joe Biden is talking as if he has the nomination already securely tucked away in his pocket and only looking forward to taking on President Donald John Trump. 

ICHEOKU says once beaten, twice shy; and as former President George W. Bush once reminded Americans, 'fool me once, shame on you; but fool me twice, shame on me'; begging the question, will Bernie Sanders accept to be had twice by the Democratic Party establishment without a fight? The last time, it was against Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee rigged the primaries against him and in favor of Hillary Clinton. This time, it is looking like a repeat of what happened then is likely to happen again and you ask yourself, will he accept the same DNC rigging of the primaries against him and in favor of Joe Biden? This is the $64,000 question and unless Bernie Sanders is prepared to display his usual ever loyal party man attitude and agree to step out of the way for Joe Biden, there will be trouble in paradise as Bernie Babies will not accept it, at least not this time and not after what they suffered in 2015/6. 

Unfortunately, Bernie Sanders was given an opportunity on Anderson Cooper 360 to react to what is apparently a gathering conspiracy against him which pushed Joe Biden's candidacy upfront, but he shied away from it. Instead of answering the question he became coy about it, saying that beating President Donald John Trump is paramount and more important than any other thing. It was the same way he blew an opportunity for a lifeline in 2016 when he was asked about Hillary Clinton's emails and instead of taking the lead and running with it, dismissively said that Americans are tired of hearing about the emails and that everybody should move on from it. That was the day he unofficially lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton and it seems a similar loss is now threatening him by his not standing firm against a Democratic Party that is bent on not allowing him to fly their presidential ticket flag come 2020. 

Why the Democratic Party which is supposed to be democratic as their name suggests do this to Bernie Sanders is beyond ICHEOKU; except to guess it is possibly because he is not a member of the Democratic Party, but an Independent who caucuses with and votes alongside Democrats. Moreso, Bernie Sanders is rather too extreme left wing for the mainstream Democrats who do not want to stay idly by and watch as Bernie Sanders drags their middle of the centre party off the cliff and into a full blown socialism cum communism. So, call it the fear of Bernie Sanders if you like, but there is something about Bernie that indeed scares the Democrats so much that they are not prepared to risk their presidential candidacy with him. 

ICHEOKU says but watching Joe Biden's first campaign stop today in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and hearing him say "folks, if I’m going to be able to beat Donald Trump in 2020, it’s going to happen here", suggests that he has already obtained the assurances of the party honchos that he will be the party's nominee in 2020. He steadily speaks and acts like a man who has been told not to worry about Bernie Sanders and the other wanna be presidential candidates; and should concentrate his attacks on President Donald John Trump. ICHEOKU says how could this be possible without him first vanquishing other contenders including Bernie Sanders, before fixing his eyes on the president, except he has been assured of the nomination of the party. A guy who is playing fairly and within the same set of rules, should by now be talking about taking on the other candidates who are also gunning for the ticket and explaining why he is the best of them all. But instead, he is already talking and acting as if he is the CHOSEN ONE and that Bernie Sanders and others do not exist or are no contenders and stand no chance whatsoever at clinching the nomination. 

Anyway, Joe Biden will definitely present the least resistance to President Donald John Trump reelection 2020 effort. He is frail, tired, old and looking so worn out and will not withstand the rigors of a nearly two year long running presidential campaign. Also, he is part of the Barack Obama lackluster presidency which dug America into the hole which President Donald John Trump is laboring to dig it out of. So, with nothing new under his belt, except the rehash of what Americans have since rejected and moved on from, it is going to be another Hillary Clinton experience come November 3, 2020. ICHEOKU says the question now is whether Bernie Sanders will allow the Democrats to once again shaft him by denying him his moment in the sun to fly the Democratic Party's presidential flag; otherwise head or tail, Biden or Sanders, Trump wins 2020. 

The president succinctly captured this essence when he tweeted “I’m only here because of Biden & Obama. They didn’t do the job and now you have Trump, who is getting it done – big time!” Further, Trump defeated the person who defeated Sanders in the primaries, so both silver haired grandpas are very weak candidates and they will stand no chance squaring up with President Donald John Trump come 2020. Why they are running is beyond ICHEOKU, but at least Bernie Sanders has a strong motivated base and he has more energy than Joe Biden and is in all fairness a better candidate than Joe Biden, the two compared. But Bernie Sanders must strive not to allow the Democrats National Committee to once again steal the nomination by pushing him aside again. At least not this time, definitely the last chance he will ever get at running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, his advanced old age considered. Go Bernie.

RUSSIAN COLLUSION DELUSION IS OVER - TRUMP

ICHEOKU says agrees. Only that the Democrats and their media hordes have not accepted that they ran on fumes for nearly two years and only came out clutching the wind of their obsession. What a pitiful wastage of time, resources and energy. #MAGA2020. Salute.

MEULLER REPORT: A RUSSIAN COLLUSION ILLUSION, SIMPLY DELUSIONAL.

ICHEOKU says no group of people have been as shamelessly dishonorable as the extreme far left wing of the Democratic Party. A people who have refused to MOVE-ON from the November 8, 2016 presidential election, which their Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton lost, fair and square, despite it being hers for the grab. A group of maniacally dysfunctional nut jobs, who have refused to accept the result of an election, which they once cried wolf that the then candidate Donald John Trump was threatening America's democracy by saying that he will not "accept" the result of the election, if it is not fair. But now, they are the ones still holding out, nearly three years after, and have been inventing all manners of indescribables just to continue to protest the result of an election which their very incompetent and much loathed candidate lost. 

It is also incredible to note that it was the same people who formed the MOVEON.ORG back in the 1998 to urge Americans to move on from the then President Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. But they will not themselves and have refused to now MOVE-ON, in a like manner, from a non existent Russian Collusion and Obstruction of Justice allegation against President Donald John Trump, which the Robert S. Mueller's investigation has conclusively ruled did not occur. What an irony. A case of the hypocritical Pharisee who preaches "do what I say, but not what I do", as leadership by example is not their strongest suit; otherwise why won't they concede that an election was held and that they lost it. That there is a duly elected president of the United States of America and that his name is Donald John Trump and not Hillary Clinton. 

They cried foul when then candidate Donald John Trump conditioned his acceptance of the election result on it being fair; with their former President Barack Obama chiding Donald John Trump for saying that he will not accept the election result if rigged. It is on record that then President Barack Hussein Obama assured Americans that American presidential election is rig-proof and cannot be rigged by anyone, including the Russians, due to the staggered nature of the election which is primarily controlled by individual States respectively. Following which, every manner of curve balls were thrown on the path of Donald John Trump to derail his campaign and make him unelectable. His campaign was spied on, with findings possibly being fed to the Hillary Clinton's campaign. Bill Clinton was also caught meeting with the Attorney General Lauretta Lynch in Arizona and against all acceptable practice standards, while his wife and then Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI for deleting and bleach washing 33,000 thousand emails. 

The world media led by American media piled on candidate Donald John Trump, alongside the Democratic Party, a sitting president and his government, the Never Trumpers wing of the Republican Party led by the Bush family, some world leaders including then president of France and even the pope, in their collective bid to stop Donald John Trump from the White House and save their new world order. But against all odds, his message percolated and resonated among real American people and they rose up in unison to usher him into their White House and saved America from an erosion which threatened its foundational existence. Defeated and ashamed, and without any meaningful explanation for their humiliating defeat, they had to shamelessly invent a narrative that the Russians helped Donald John Trump win the election; and without any evidence, went ahead to set up the Robert S. Mueller investigation to find a Russian Collusion nonsense which never existed. 

After nearly two years of uninhibited access to whoever witness and whatever documents they desired and wanted, including reviewing over one million documents from the president's White House, his campaign and the Trump Organization, they came up empty, because there was nothing there to find. But to every decent human being's chagrin, the same Mueller that conclusively determined that there was no Collusion with the Russians, refused to rule decisively on whether there was Obstruction of Justice by the President. A matter which he further complicated by adding that his investigation could not exonerate President Donald John Trump either, leading to the question, when did a criminal investigation in America become an exonerating of the accused exercise? 

ICHEOKU says America's Criminal Justice system is designed to prove a crime beyond reasonable doubt; hence any investigation leading up to a charge must establish and collect evidence with which this threshold will be met in a court of law. This is the reason  an accused person is presumed innocent until proved guilty and for a conviction, the guilt must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Therefore, once the accused is not proved guilt as required, beyond reasonable doubt, regardless of whether or not the accused might have committed the crime, the accused walks. The accused is not deemed guilty until proved innocent nor is he or she required to prove his or her innocence before they can be set free. That will be an inquisition and America does not practice that; rather America prosecutes, based on evidence, aided by fair hearing, before an accused can be found guilty. 

So, ICHEOKU says which offense or "sin" was Robert S Mueller unable to exonerate the president from; or did Mueller already conclude that the president was guilty of something, before setting forth to find the evidence to support it; and failing which, he was still possessed of the mindset that the president was guilty of something, only that he could not find the evidence of it. Such arbitrariness is exactly what inquisitions are made of and such wandering off the justice system straight and narrow path by the Robert Mueller investigation team should give every good human being a cause to be wary. If it is President Donald John Trump today, for who will the bell toll tomorrow and may be a person or even another president who might not have the strength to fight back as President Trump successfully did.  

Such an abuse of prosecutorial powers should not be treated so cavalierly or dismissed as no big deal because it is. It should also not be addressed as a partisan issue because what goes around comes around and the table could turn tomorrow. It could be a Democratic president that will be sitting at the firing range of such a biased inquisition by a set of angry Republicans investigators. This is the reason, what happened with the Mueller's report, especially its veering off the prosecutorial track should be reined in immediately. By the prosecutor exonerating or not exonerating a person, it presupposes that the person was presumed guilty at the onset of the investigation from which he was finally exonerated, which unfortunately, is not the way our criminal justice system operates. The reaching of a verdict of guilty or not guilty and not "exoneration" is reserved for the courts, either the judge or the jury. It is the court and not the prosecutor that determines the accused's culpability, either guilty or not guilty; but cannot exonerate or not exonerate them because they are primarily innocent, until the verdict says otherwise. 

But regrettably, Robert S. Mueller and his team of Democrat investigators wanted to change the standard rule just because it is President Donald John Trump that is involved, without regards to the fundamental criminal prosecution standards governing America. They tried for nearly two years, spent more than $35 million of taxpayers money, had access to every documents and witnesses they demanded and asked for; no executive privilege was ever invoked to stop their prying eyes and members of the investigating team were largely Democrats, people who with beef to grind with President Donald John Trump. But at the end they could not find any evidence of Collusion with the Russians by the Trump's campaign or Organization. If there was something to find, they would have found it; but did not find because there was nothing there to find. So, without the foundational crime of Collusion, every other thing built on it automatically collapses, but they had to put the suspense of "couldn't exonerate" the president just to continue the narrative. 

They could not find that the president obstructed the investigation because Mueller was generously uninhibited in doing his assigned job; and the investigation of a crime which never generally existed cannot be obstructed. Collusion was the alleged crime and for obstruction to be present, there has to be a real crime under investigation, which was not the case here. Nobody can obstruct an investigation of a crime which did not exist. But rather than so stating and calling off the hound dogs, the Robert S. Mueller Report went rogue to add that they could not "exonerate" Trump from the "obstruction of justice" crime. ICHEOKU says if Mueller could not exonerate the president, why did he not incriminate him; since criminal prosecution is a black and white and/or situation, as opposed to the equivocated sitting on the fence conclusion by the Mueller team. Their mandate was to find evidence of the crime of obstruction and recommend prosecution accordingly, but not to act as a judge or jury or even an "exonerator." 

It was definitely a too far gone frolic by the Mueller squad and every right thinking American, regardless of party affiliation, should be afraid that some people are heralding such an overreach, as worthy of a second look. If they couldn't reach a decision on the crime, it means that they did not find evidence of the crime; therefore the criminal investigation was unsuccessful in finding evidence of the alleged crime and should have ended the process pronto. But the wandering off the reservation of what is allowable leeway of the the criminal justice system by offering opinion of equivocation is what is troubling to ICHEOKU and is condemnable; and is hereby condemned as an overreach. It is not good for our criminal justice system. 

SLEEPY JOE BIDEN: NOT THE RIGHT FIT, HIS TIME HAS GONE.

ICHEOKU says will this be a case of the third time is the charm or will he soon fizzle out just like he did on the other two previous occasions, when he also ran for president but failed? If the later, will he thereafter, call it quit with politics and retire for good from a political life which started some 46 long years ago. Speaking of a Washington DC establishment insider and member emeritus, a swamp dweller extraordinaire and definitely a candidate of the establishment order. ICHEOKU is emphatic that you cannot easily find anyone nor ask for someone else who is more deeply entrenched in the Washington DC power hub than a man who has been part of it for nearly 50 years. 

But his moment in the sun has definitely since passed and what he could not achieve in his much younger, youthful and vibrant years, he cannot now achieve. So, as the Amtrak-riding, poor boy from Scranton makes yet another attempt at the presidency, his third, ICHEOKU says he is embarking on a mission impossible which will at best earn him the honorable mention of the best president which America never had nor will ever have. Joe Biden is simply too old, too tired and of course too sleepy to be entrusted with America's presidential leadership and by extension, the leadership of the rest of the world. 

Former Vice President of the United States of America for 8 years under President Barack Hussein Obama and also a former Senator who represented the Great State of Delaware for 36 years, Joseph Robinette Biden, has finally thrown his hat into the ring of an already crowded Democratic presidential wanna bes for the 2020 election. His formal announcement has now swelled the wildebeests' number to 20 and you ask yourself what are all of them doing, seeking the office of the presidency. Only in Democratic Party America and the battle of ideologies, one which is extreme far left and the other which is somewhat marginally in the middle, are these many gladiators marshaled out and you wonder how the Democrats will break. 

But can Joe Biden convince the discordant motley crew that is the Democratic Party, that he is the right guy to fly the party's flag against President Donald John Trump, come 2020. Is the Democratic Party ready to pull the lever and go all out far left or will it maintain a lid over their much vocal and very disruptive socialism-leaning base, the extreme far left nut jobs. This is where Joe Biden comes in and will seek to make the case that a middle of the road is better; and will seek to nudge the Democratic Party back closer to the middle ground than the extremist far left where it is today. But will those leftist crazies, led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, let Joe have his way? The jury is still out on the question and will be answered in due course.

So, as Biden takes the plunge into the already murky and muddled waters of the Democratic Party presidential nomination process, he must act speedily and swiftly, aware that the party is fast losing its appeal to majority of Americans because of their far left unrealistic crave for stupidity and some other unattainable euphoria.

However, whether Joe Biden is the right guy at this time remains to be seen, his many shortcomings factored in. First, he is simply too old, tired and worn out and looks it really. He will be 78 years old by the time he takes office in 2021, assuming that highly improbable happenstance becomes somehow realized. Second, he had a brain surgery not too long ago and whether he has fully recovered from it is debatable, his far too many gaffes considered. Some critics also argue that Biden frequently manifests symptoms of memory loss induced forgetfulness and delayed lapses in recollection. Third, Uncle Joe is physically drained and depleted; and might not even muster the energy needed to run a president campaign, talkless as serve as America president and by extension, the leader of the free world at large. 

Also, Joe Biden had committed so many faux pas and blunders, including taking pride that his State of Delaware was a slave State; that Barack Obama was the only clean, articulate black person to ever run for the presidential office; that 711 convenient stores somewhat requires an Indian accent to work or buy things there; telling a wheelchair bound paraplegic Missouri State's Senator Chuck Graham to please stand up; plagiarized British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock's speech and also a Fordham Law Review, lifting an entire five pages therefrom for a law review article which he wrote in his first year at Law School, without acknowledging their sources. 

Like his friend John McCain, academic excellence was also not his strongest suit either, as he received poor grades both in college and in law school, graduating 76th out of a class of 85, with grades of Cs and Ds. His penchant for invading other peoples' spaces, especially women, might also add to his Archils heels going forward. 

ICHEOKU says although Joe Biden prides himself as ''a middle-class guy who makes mistakes, but tells the truth', it is going to require more than just telling the truth for him to secure the Democratic Party's ticket because the party does give a damn about truth as it is populated by people who do not care about truthfully speaking. Therefore, baring another rigged primaries for him, just like Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton nomination was rigged against Bernie Sanders, Uncle Joe stands on shaky grounds in his bid to secure the nomination of the presidential ticket of the party. The anarchists leftists and feminist females wing of the party will resolutely resist his candidacy because Uncle Joe is not a female, but just another grey old white male who belongs to yesterday and for not being liberal enough. 

Joe Biden, according to Robert Byrd, is a man of good intentions who means well for America and has great credibility", but according to ICHEOKU, intentions alone, uncoupled with actions, does not a thing accomplish. Americans prefer those who back their intentions up by actions and they will readily break for President Donald John Trump in 2020. A president, who has by actions and deeds, repeatedly proved that he not only says what he will do, but also does what he says, in a say what you mean and mean what you say fashion. Unlike many others, who are merely arrogant, President Donald John Trump is just confident; and as Mohammed Ali would put it, it is not arrogant but confident when you can back it up. 

President Donald John Trump is a man of action; an action hero for America sort of and Americans are loving their rebirth under President Donald John Trump and they will readily reward him with a second term come 2020.   

ICHEOKU says Uncle Joe is also guilty of oftentimes speaking from the two sides of his mouth, as evidenced in his once saying that he was very concerned about the civil rights movement of the 60's, but when confronted with his not doing anything about it, fended off by saying that he was not an activist. Therefore, begging the question, how could Joe have been "very concerned", yet failed to work his concerns into action. Joe's biggest only claim to fame of helping with the black struggle seems to be that he worked at a black swimming pool in East Wilmington Delaware's black neighborhood, otherwise Joe was not down with the struggle, admitted he now wishes he had a better pro black credentials to parade before the black voting bloc of America. 

Joe Biden was not marching; Joe was not down in Selma or Montgomery either; as Joe was just a suburbanite white kid who only had an inkling of what was happening to black people in 60's America, but instead of helping out to change it, just cashed in on his white privileges and rode on. But when asked why he stood aloof when many others, including some white kids, were helping out with the struggle, Joe said, ''When I was at Syracuse, I was married, I was in law school, I wore sports coats. You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am. I'm not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that's not me."  ICHEOKU says you heard it from the arrogant good ole white boy Joe, who is too bigly white privileged to identify with ordinary black people and their issues. 

ICHEOKU says equally of note on the many hurdles strewn across the path on Joe Biden's third bid for the Democratic Party's nomination is that a great segment of the feminist females of Democratic Party America have not forgiven him for how he managed Anita Hill during the Justice Clarence Thomas Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1991. A matter made worse by Anita Hill's refusal to accept Joe Biden's belatedly no apology, apology; for what she went through during the hearing before a Judiciary Committee chaired by Joe Biden, who failed to protect her from badgering and allowed committee members Senators to make a mince meat out of Anita Hill. According to Anita Hill, Joe Biden merely saying that he is sorry now for what he did then or rather failed to do, without more, is not enough. 

ICHEOKU says completely agrees with Anita Hill that Joe Biden's pretended mea culpa is rather too little too late, as he had several opportunities to do so before now but simply shrugged it off. Joe Biden's apology is not coming from a really contrite heart, otherwise what took him this long. Why did he wait for 28 long years to pass before now in 2019 offering his apology to Anita Hill for an incident which took place in 1991? ICHEOKU says if Joe Biden was not running for president again for the third time and opinions sampling made it imperative for him to reach out to her and offer an apology, Joe Biden would not have apologized to her. 

ICHEOKU says does not think that he would have because he severally ran for office as Senator of Delaware between the said incident in 1991 until he retired from the Senate in 2009, but never deemed it necessary to reach out to Anita Hill to say that he was sorry. Joe Biden also ran for president in 2009 for the second time, the first being in 1988, but did not find it appropriate to apologize to Anita Hill either. May be because his State of Delaware put black people in chains and he felt he was too good a white ole boy to apologize to a black person, especially one who is a female. Not even while running as Vice Presidential candidate with black Barack Obama, who he would have also put in chains back in the days, did he consider ever reaching out to Anita Hill. 

But suddenly, he had an epiphany and now realizes that what he did then, by not protecting Anita Hill from a seemingly Senate Judiciary Committee hearing turned into  badgering, was not perceived well by the leftist feminist females of the Democratic Party, hence the faked reach out to Anita Hill. It was not from his heart, rather it was a ploy to hoodwink as shrew politicians know how best to do. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden is just another typical politician, playing the game of politics and he has been in Washington for far too long to understand that pandering is the art of politics. Politicians, they do not mean what they say and they do not say what they mean; as Joe Biden wanted to cash in on Anita Hill's forgiveness to enable him secure the support of a particular group of the Democratic Party, but he unfortunately struck out. Thankfully, Anita Hill saw through the shallowness of his charade and hedged her reaction appropriately.

ICHEOKU says although likes Joe Biden, especially his straight talking, not being too corrupt, happy go lucky carefree personality, but regrettably, his time has since passed. His political sun, especially for the presidency, set with his last attempt in 2009 and he is now no longer an acceptable candidate for the office. America is a forward looking country, which does not recycle tired and old politicians like people do in Third World countries and will not start with old Uncle Joey. Joe Biden must therefore understand this very consequential fact and act on it fast, before he is shamefully disgraced out of contention and driven into eternal political irrelevance. 

Joe Biden should retire back to his Delaware country side and enjoy his remaining time as a great statesman. He must not allow vested interests who are goading him on and literary forcing him to run to now mess it all up for his legacy's sake. He gave it his all, 46 years of service to country and you wonder what else is there for him to prove. Joe Biden has had more than enough time of service, for any just one man to have; and it is time for he to take the final bow and quit the stage. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden shouldn't have joined the race to begin with, but  should consider pulling out now before he is disgraced out once again. 

Moreso, whatever he could have done, offered or achieved politically and/or while running for president, he has already accomplished. Now his political fuel tank is nearly completely exhausted and only fumes are left therein. Therefore, he must leave the stage now while he still can, with his honor still intact, in order to avoid being disgraced out as a loser; and for the up and coming new generation to try their hands at elected offices. Joe Biden has been in Washington since 1973, long before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was even born; he retired from the Senate after 36 long years years of service and did another 8 years gig in Washington DC as Barack Hussein Obama's Vice President and should stay retired. 

Joe Biden's attempt at resurgence is not good for the Democratic Party and certainly not good for American democracy, as America cannot revert now to recycling tired and old politicians who should be in senior citizens homes, living out their golden years. Good enough, the leader of the Democratic Party's far left anarchists wing,  Congresswoman from New York 6th District, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has weighed in to say that America will not move backwards with Joe Biden and ICHEOKU totally agrees with AOC's position that forward ever is better. 

The current flooded line up of Democratic presidential candidat's is somewhat akin to what Americans witnessed in 2015 with 19 Republicans jostling for the same Republican presidential ticket. It is instructive to mention that such a very crowded scene usually ends up producing a very well rounded up candidate who is prepared for the challenges of taking on the other side's guy. Hopefully the story will be the same this time, provided the Grinch of the Democratic Party does not intervene again to steal it for their favored chosen candidate. It was the unassailable democratic credentials of the Republican Party, which is always fair and open, that made it possible for their best candidate then, Donald John Trump, to emerge; proving himself the wonder kid of American politics. 

That passing through the crucible of intra party presidential nomination contest did a lot to prepare the then newbie candidate Donald John Trump for both the eventual debate and campaign for the office, which he has fortunately excelled in today. He has since proved that he was the right choice for the office and that his nomination was rightly merited, having equated himself excellently in the office. Therefore, only such a replication in the now crowded Democratic field, will help to bring a breath of fresh air and competitiveness out of the party. So that at the end, whoever emerges as the presidential candidate, based on a well earned victory at the primaries, will give President Donald John Trump a run for his money come 2020. Such a novelty is what will grant the Democratic Party a fighting chance against President Donald John Trump come 2020. 

Americans must have a convincing strong reason not to reelect the president for a second term come 2020, as his second term is but a fait accompli. The Democrat must therefore offer Americans something totally new, something totally different, something totally exciting, something totally promising and of course something totally optimistic in order to win their attention and possibly draw them away from President Donald John Trump. But the doom and gloom pictures of two tired and old, sickly and haggardly looking, silver haired white males, grandpas Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, will not just cut it. America desires and deserves better than this two senior citizens, fixtures of the Democratic Party for too long; and the Democratic Party must take this into cognizance or have their lunch eaten again by the president come 2020. 

Although America is not yet ready for a female president as they rejected Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton in 2016; but whether they are even ready for a female Vice President is equally debatable. Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro 1984 and of recent John McCain and Sarah Palin 2009 presidential tickets were both rejected and some school of political thinking claimed that both men were rejected because of their choice of vice presidential candidates, especially John McCain and his choice of the beautiful but brainless Sarah from Alaska who can see Russia from her balcony. But could the newly invigorated feminists movement of America provide a fresh impetus for a another push at such possibility, especially in  this era of ME-TOO anarchists? ICHEOKU says nobody really knows and everybody has to wait until it is delivered and becomes a reality to find out. 

With that in mind, ICHEOKU says the presidential ticket of Pete Buttigieg and Kamara Harris will therefore be the most exciting ticket for the Democrats to float, if they seriously want to capture the attention of Americans in 2020. Pete is gay, youthful, eloquent and of course white; so the three important constituencies for the Democratic Party are checked. Kamara on the other hand, is a feminist far left liberal nut job, a female, has no child and also black; so she checks another four vital and indispensable constituencies of the Democratic Party. So, seven out of ten is an excellent result and no other combination candidates comes any closer to this two perfect coupling.

Further, since the Democrats are angling for a female president and since they have already accepted their narrative that a transgendered male qualifies as a female, if they cannot get an outright biological female as candidate, they can settle for a wired in the head man, who sees himself as a female and then channel their love for female equivalency through him. They should accept Pete Buttigieg as a female candidate, since he is a wife and married to a husband, another man named Chasten Glezman. That way, it will be a win win situation for the Democrats, somewhat like killing two birds with one stone. By doing so, they will get a gay homosexual who is also a female as their presidential candidate and successfully appease the two crazy wings of their party, the homosexuals and the feminists females. 

Therefore, if paired together, Pete Buttigieg and Kamara Harris will mount a very serious challenge to the president, although they will not stand a chance with the peoples' President Donald John Trump. But they will acquit themselves very well and make it an assured springboard for another go at it come 2024 when there will no longer be no  President Donald John Trump to contend with. Anyway, ICHEOKU wishes Joe Biden well for trying, but laments that he is not the right fit for the position, his time has sadly passed, He belongs to yesterday. But should the Democratic Party's entrenched interests impose him on the party, the internal revolt they will witness will be so cataclysmic that they would have so effortlessly handed President Donald John Trump an automatic second term without even a fight. To the poor boy from Scranton who rides Amtrak train, ICHEOKU says all the best. 

APOSTLE SULEIMAN: JOINS THE CLUB OF PRIVATE PLANE OWNER PASTORS.

ICHEOKU says Apostle Johnson Suleiman, the General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministries has joined other mega rich pastor-prenuers of Nigeria, including David Oyedepo, Enoch Adeboye, Sam Adeyemi and Ayo Oritsejafor, in the private plane club of Nigerian men of "God' who are living large and against the teachings of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ. Instead of feeding their flock, they are the ones being fat fed by their flock, many of who are hungry and angry that their own "miracle" of riches has not yet manifested despite so many years of fasting and praying, paying tithes, making contributions and donations to their General Overseer. 

Jesus gave the wedding guests in Cana wine to drink; Jesus fed the multitudes with five loaves of bread and two fishes; Jesus brought a lot of fishes into Peter's net; even the donkey Jesus rode into Jerusalem with was borrowed, as he had nothing to his name whatsoever. But here are men, who supposedly are following in the footsteps of Jesus, but instead of denying themselves for the benefit of their flock, are excessively indulging their earthly bodies so much as to suggest that the race for heaven is not for them. It is rather unfortunate that while thousands of their members cannot afford to eat nice meals, pay their children's school fees without great discomfort, pay their hospital bills, with many of them jobless youths, it is worldly treasures that they soak themselves in. 

Imagine the thousands of jobs and empowerment, the cost of maintaining this life of luxury would have created in a country where millions of youths, including thousand of their members, are wallowing in joblessness and abject poverty. Imagine the world class hospital which such money would have built and equipped in Nigeria, an additional  revenue source and a panacea to the shameful medical tourism of affluent Nigerians led by President Muhammadu Buhari. Imagine the number of cottage industries which the money could also have set up for Nigerian unemployed youths to have something to do. But no, they want it all for themselves, while they continuously promise their yawning members that their own turn is coming. 

ICHEOKU says blames only those who freely give to their GOs as prompted by their own version of "Holy Spirit", admitted many of these people, without knowing it, are under hypnotic influence and occult voodoo command and control. They are captive of powers beyond their reckoning and have become oblivious of the primary reason there is Christianity, the race for heaven. Now, it is all about Mammon and Beelzebub  the prince of darkness, that one will go to "church" seeking riches an despite the warnings spelt out by the Lord and Master Jesus, including the camel passing through the eye of the needle parable, enunciating the difficulty for a rich man or woman to enter the Kingdom of God. ICHEOKU says does it mean that these people have decided that the Kingdom of Earth is better for them or do they only pontificate Jesus Christ without meaning it. 

Just one other thing, remember that anything which thrives in Nigeria is not usually clear and free of dubiousness. It seems that the Nigerian government has banned committing 419 against Oyibo people, but looks the other way as her citizens are constantly being 419ed by these fraudulent con-men masquerading as men of "God"; and you ask them, who actually anointed them, was it Samuel and whether they are from the tribe of Levi. ICHEOKU says unless the teachings of Jesus Christ is not real or there is no heaven and hell, all these fraudulent 419 supposed men of "God" are all headed to the pit of hell where they will burn and gnash their teeth, because when Jesus was hungry they did not provide him food to eat; was in prison they did not visit him; was naked they did not cloth him, because they were busy living it up. 

It is SAD and it is pitiful, the level of decay in the Nigerian society, considering that the proliferation of these business centers which are passing off as "churches' are proportional to the level of criminality in the society; and you wonder why all their teachings are not having positive ameliorative impact on the society. ICHEOKU says if ICHEOKU had his way, most of them will be taxed out of existence or out rightly banned; alongside any other religion that is not orthodoxy, including Shiites Islam. 

SIRI LANKA BOMBINGS: WAS THE GOVERNMENT COMPLICIT?

ICHEOKU says that a government would receive intelligence report ten days prior, that some Islamists fundamentalists were planning to bomb churches and not act on it or at least inform churches to be vigilant, is the crux of the entire church bombings in Siri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Like they say to follow the money, a forensic follow up on this single evidence will unearth the conspiracy that went into successfully detonating eight bombs, which yielded such mass casualties of 300 dead and 500 wounded. It is sad, especially for a government that in 2008 bombed a Christian convent, showing that it is a government somehow at war with Christianity. It is SAD and it is lamentable regrettable.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; ZELENSKY DEFEATS POROSHENKO.

ICHEOKU says and he is only 41 years old, a political newbie who has never held any political office in his life, but defeated an incumbent somewhat troublesome president, who has been creating needless worries between Ukraine and their brother neighbor Russia. 

It is also instructive that the outgoing President Petro Poroshenko colluded with the campaign of Queen Crooked Hillary Clinton to defeat then candidate Donald John Trump and has had a frosty relationship with the White House ever since. That he is also antagonistic to President Vladimir Putin did not help matters as his Ukrainian people decided to offload him rather than continue on the path that could trigger a real armed confrontation with the much stronger Russia army. 

Now, a made for television face comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been elected as president of Ukraine. Hopefully, he can charm both Putin and Trump back into seeing Ukraine for what it is - a stuck in the middle friend to the West and also a brother to Russia and with it, restore peace and normalcy to Eastern Ukraine and also negotiate the lasting fate of Crimea. 

ICHEOKU wishes the newly elected boyish faced president of Ukraine all the best and observes that he looks very much like former British Prime Minister David Cameron. At 41 years old, he is now the youngest world leader as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at 47 years, is much older. What a transition he had from playing a president on the screen to now the real thing; a real president, in a real presidential mansion, with its real challenges, powers and authority. All the best President Volodymyr Zelensky. Congratulations.