Thursday, July 15, 2021
THE POPE IS OUT OF HOSPITAL: HURRAY.
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
LET THE PROTEST PLAY ITSELF OUT: NO AMERICAN MILITARY BOOTS IN CUBA.
ICHEOKU says suddenly the war mongering crowd in the media are amplifying the protest in Havana and demanding that Joe Biden divert the withdrawn American troops from Afghanistan straight into Cuba. But why should America do this, one may ask; except that the Deep State military industrial complex are eager to find a new theater of conflict where to continue with their war profiteering business. Now, the protest in Cuba seems to be a promising avenue to secure a potential venture frontier, hence the drumming of support for a military incursion in Cuba by their media underlings.
ICHEOKU condemns the current growing calls by some media personalities, in their effort to help the Deep State achieve their objective, to continue the American war business in Cuba. ICHEOKU urges Joe Biden not to commit American troops in another un-winnable war in Cuba as the country has not even begin to recover from the Afghanistan and Iraq adventures; and must avoid additional waste of scarce resources in another Jackboot adventure in the Caribbean. American troops should be allowed to rest up or better still sent to Africa where various terrorists groups are regrouping and establishing many proven grounds in effort to restart and continue their global campaign of terror. That will be a more prudent use of American troops rather than sending them to Cuba.
Citizens of many countries protest regularly against their governments as was witnessed last 2020 summer in America, when Black Lives Matter captured many American streets and nearly conquered many of American cities. No foreign country intervened to force Washington DC to comply with the protesters demands and eventually the protests resolved themselves. French people, the yellow jackets, also protested their government for a very long time but no foreign country sent troops to Paris demanding that President Emmanuel Macron comply with the demands of the protesters. From Russia to Iran to Iraq to Egypt to Nigeria to Brazil and even Mexico, there have been series of protests by the citizens against their governments and neither America nor any other country ever sent in troops to these countries to demand and enforce the issue. So, why should Cuba be any exception?
Protesting a government is a civic exercise which citizens regularly engage in as they dare entitled to do as a matter of right. Those governments being protested also have a duty to maintain law and order by preventing such protests from getting out of control and also actively ensure their own survival as a government. Recall that not too long ago, there was the EndSARS protest in Nigeria which lasted for several days before the government forcefully quelled it. ICHEOKU did not remember hearing any of these media personalities Cuban apologists who are now urging for an American military intervention in Cuba, express the same opinion that the Marines should be sent into Nigeria to enforce the EndSARS protesters' demands of the Muhammadu Buhari government. So, why now Cuba?
Protest is an internal affairs matter of any country and should be allowed to resolve themselves internally in an acceptable manner without any foreign military intervention. The most any outside country can do is to urge restraint on the part of the government and encourage them not to use excessive force to muscle their way through quelling the protest. Therefore there is no reason or justification whatsoever to act differently in the matter of the ongoing protest in Havana by sending in American troops to Cuba. Good enough Cuba is very close to America and it will be very easy to monitor how the government in Havana handles the protesters and ensure that they are not manhandled and that no excessive use of force was applied in quelling the protest.
It is also important that the Cuban protesters remain peaceful and must not be destructive as is currently the case in South Africa, where hooligans have been looting, burning and destroying properties and businesses under the false flag of protest against Jacob Zuma's imprisonment, which have so far cost over 70 people their lives. Which reminds ICHEOKU, where are these American media personalities Cuban apologists call for American troops to be sent to South Africa, since from their present Cuban disposition, America is a world's policeman whose troops must be sent into countries with any internal disputations and disagreements including citizens protests.
Meanwhile, Haiti which is bedeviled with real security problems resulting from the assassination of its president and whose authorities have asked for American military assistance to help secure the country is yet to receive a favorable response from Washington DC. It is also noteworthy that these American media personalities Cuban apologists have no revved up interest in the Haiti crisis such as would make them also be as vocal in urging Joe Biden to render the sort help to Haiti. Possibly, because Haiti is black and Cuba ain't black, the reason for the dichotomy of views on where American troops should be sent as a matter of urgency.
ICHEOKU says while Haiti has a real problem, Cuba does not; as they still have a government in place and even an improved version of the same one which they have had for several decades. The only fear now is that feeling spooked by the protest which was coordinated using the Internet and social media, the government in Havana might be forced to pull back some of the recently granted freedoms being enjoyed in Cuba. If that happens, it will be a real setback which Cubans inadvertently brought upon themselves, but even that still does not rise to the level of emergency for calling for American troops deployment in Cuba.
Such a move will have adverse consequences as it might force Russians back in that hemisphere. Even Venezuelans, Iranians and the Chinese might be drawn into that geopolitical space, further compounding the problem. Such congregation of proven American adversaries will not bode well for regional peace, safety and security of the Caribbean and of course America. The Syria experience is an example of what a Cuba "invaded" by America might and up looking like and nobody wants that in this hemisphere. Therefore, it is better that America does not open the pandora's box or break the Cuban fragile State because the over 11 million Cubans might be too many immigrants to contend with at the Florida border.
Therefore, we must say no to another American military intervention in Cuba and let Cubans and their government sort their protest out. American troops have earned their well deserved temporary rest from waging war and should be allowed to enjoy their reprieve from Afghanistan until another justifiable theater of war opens up somewhere, but definitely not in Cuba. Please Joe Biden stand firm and resolute and not succumb to the Deep State military industrial complex to provide them with another theater of conflict. #NoMoreWars and not in Cuba.
MISSING A PENALTY KICK NOT A NOVELTY: MANY FOOTBALL GREATS MISSED TOO.
Therefore, Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho should not be singled out and pilloried just because they were unlucky and couldn't convert their penalty kicks during the England v Italy UEFA EURO 2020 finals. It was not deliberate and it was not for lack of patriotism or lack of love for their English side; they played their hearts out, came a long way in the tournament and they hungered to win the championship just like any other English person including those knuckleheads who are now bullying them for their unlucky kicks.
Stuff do happen and sometimes even the best in a field does not have the best day and so were the three great English players. It happened that their lucky star dimmed at that very crucial moment when they approached the ball and took the kick respectively. Those decrepitudes harassing these three players should understand that it was only a game, nobody died and that losing a game is not worth lynching anybody on social media for. Those people should be happy that England even made it all the way to the finals, their repeated come back from goal down, considered.
It is good that these hate filled people are in the minority, but it goes to show that the fight against racism should be taken into the greater English society and not merely reflected in the fleeting seconds example of kneeling on the field. ICHEOKU agrees with Southgate that games are won and lost together. Say no to racism; reject and condemn the attacks on those three black players because despite the color of their skin, they are still English and they love their country. ICHEOKU says remain strong Marcus Rashford, Bukayo Saka and Jadon Sancho as what they went through, many got it worse and some were in fact even actually lynched, but the good new is that progress in still on course. It is well.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
HAITI STILL MISSING THE POINT: HOW COULD SUCH A THING EVER HAPPEN?
Why were surrounding points of entry and exit around the president's home not cordoned off, with police controlling and checking vehicular movements in and out of the area and some on stationed at mounted roadblocks. What was the level of security provided for a Haitian president, especially the roiling insecurity problem in their country considered, such that a band of "mercenaries" came in and assassinated a sitting president and now the Haitian authorities are trying to convince the world that they are working to "solve" the assassination, having arrested many and killed some of the perpetrators and now have found a "doc" from Florida who sponsored the assassination. What a story.
How could such "gang" of assassins so easily infiltrate Haiti, penetrate the home of the president and kill him on his bed without being discovered, confronted and possible neutralized much earlier. How could they even easily planned everything without a whiff of it being captured by Haiti security and intelligence agencies. It is a sad commentary on them really. It was not only the president that was killed by this assassination, the entire Haitian security apparatus were also "assassinated" because if they could not protect the president, who else is safe in Haiti. What use are they anyway? How was it possible to violate Haiti in such a manner and to the level of assassinating their president inside his own home and on his own bed.
It is not as if presidents have not been assassinated elsewhere before including in Egypt, Nigeria and even in America. But to carry out such a dastardly act inside the president's home and not it being a somewhat "crime of opportunity" tripped by movement outside the president's abode, his fortress, have just topped every imaginable possible such scenario of presidential assassinations. How many were these "gang" members or rather mercenaries and what caliber of weapons did they come with to have easily overpowered the president's security and protection unit. An issue made more concerning because Haiti has not told the world if any other person was killed, other than the president. So, how many of the president's protection details lost their lives trying to protect and defend the president?
From the bullet riddled walls and vehicles seen on video, it seems that so many shots were fired and the operation possibly lasted for at least thirty minutes; so where was the reinforcement and where was the backup rushed to the president's home following the invasion. But instead of explaining what everybody wants to understand, the Haitian authority or whatever is left of it, are busy now introducing yet another "DOC" in their lexicon. This time, an "Adult Doc" from Florida who they just told the world was the mastermind of the assassination, triggering a flashback of the harried memories of Baby Doc; and you wonder whether "docs" nightmare will ever end in Haiti and what has "docs" got to do with Haiti.
So, as the world continues its wait for the unfolding tragic drama in Port-Au-Prince to fully give up its contents, ICHEOKU says the authorities in Haiti should concentrate their effort more on the inside baseball of the assassination and not dwell too much on who the players are that allegedly carried it out, admitted they are indispensable in the whole equation. It is not about who wanted it to happen but who allowed it to happen. Who among Haiti military and security outfits participated in the assassination since no "doc" whether from Florida or not, adult or baby, could successfully kill the president unless Haitian security signed off on the plot. If there is a name worse than "third world country" and "banana republic", Haiti has earned and now richly deserves such a moniker. What happened in Haiti has topped every madness ever possible in a failed State and which now puts Haiti on a life support. #WhoKilledPresidentMoise.
BLACK LIVES MATTER'S FRANCHISE BERTHS IN SOUTH AFRICA?
Now, their South African franchise is looting, burning, destroying and even added killing of people for a good measure; all because a man who was duly convicted for contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months in prison shouldn't be in prison. But good enough democrats reminded everyone that no one is above the law and Jacob Zuma is not above the law.
ICHEOKU says waiting to see their own teeshirt equivalent of "Black Lives Matter" or rather "Jacob Zuma is Above the Law" and/or "Jacob Zuma Shouldn't be in Prison." But who amongst them even learned it from the other or is it the story of the egg and the chicken, afterall they are both angry and mad and using intimidation of the society to make a point.
Anyway, good enough South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is not susceptible to WOKEISM and has already since declared a martial law and now soldiers have been ordered to restore law and order with immediate effect. Instead of carrying placards to their Justice Department's building or even to the prison holding Jacob Zuma, it is peoples shops and businesses that they are busy looting, which shows that they learned very well from BLM activities in 2020. It is sad.
Monday, July 12, 2021
JOE BIDEN IS RIGHT: AFGHANISTAN MISSION HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
But ten additional years later on, some blood thirsty urchins are still campaigning for an extension of American troops presence in Afghanistan and you ask yourself why? What else will be a reasonable amount of more time for these people, short of an indefinite stay of American troops in Afghanistan. What else do these people want American troops to achieve in Afghanistan within the extended time they are canvassing for, which has not already been achieved? Except of course they will allow the Talibans to be completely nuked and forgotten with, otherwise there is no other meaningful reason to continue with the Afghanistan engagement. Therefore, bringing the troops home now is the only way to correct an anomaly which should have been corrected since May 3rd, 2011.
American forces were sent to Afghanistan in the hunt for terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden and his lieutenants who attacked America on 9/11. The troops killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011 and have to a large extent also neutralized many of Osama bin Laden's operating officers. Their mission ended or should have ended immediately soon thereafter and any discovered terrorist can always be hunted down from anywhere, without the need of having the troops in Afghanistan. The ten years extended stay of the troops in Afghanistan, post Osama bin Laden's killing, was only due to Deep State's military/industrial complex machination as there was no actual need for it. They wanted a prolongation of their war profiteering business and ten years should be enough already; and no more blackmailing of the White House into any further extension.
Therefore, a complete withdrawal of every remaining American troop from Afghanistan by the set date of August 31st 2021 is quite in order. America have mission accomplished its objective in Afghanistan and no longer has any business remaining in another people's country. American troops are not the policemen of Afghanistan nor should their original mission be changed from the hunt for Osama bin Laden into nation building of Afghanistan. Enough of the losses in treasure and blood; and like Joe Biden rightly argued, how many more American lives must be wasted in Afghanistan and how much billions of dollars is worth expending further in such a place that has no direct benefit to the wellbeing of the United States of America. ICHEOKU says not another life and not a dollar more.
Afghanis are very ungrateful and unappreciative of America's sacrifices in their country and do not deserve any further assistance or protection from America. They have shown so much hostilities to America, both by words and actions; killing American soldiers and military contractors including an American General. Their former President Hamid Karzai especially, was particularly very hostile to America and has been running his foul mouth against America, instead of showing a servile gratitude for all that America sacrificed for his country. His acerbic utterances alone are even enough to wish Afghanistan bad, but that will not be necessary. Let them take care of their business and at least prove that they have earned the right to have a country. Afghanistan is for Afghanis and they must protect and defend it for their benefit.
They do not deserve any further and continuing America's protection, especially not indefinitely; as a child born twenty years ago in 2001 when American troops were first sent into Afghanistan is now already an adult and possibly, a parent as well. It is time for Afghanis to mature into real grown ups and do what is necessarily needed to defend their country from a band of Taliban bandits; and if they cannot, let them lose their country to them. America have wasted enough resources, both financial and human; and time to cut the losses and scamper the hell out of that desolate country, even came ten years ago. Many of American fighting men and women are within the age range of 18 and 20 years, so the twenty years of America's presence in Afghanistan should have produced enough Afghanis fighting men and women to protect and defend their country.
If the nearly 40 million Afghanis, give and take 20 million of them adults, cannot protect themselves and country from a band of power grabbing Taliban, so be it. Better still, they should ink some contract with Blackwater's Mr Erik Prince who is probably less occupied at the moment, to carry on with where American troops have now stopped and help them kill off those remaining Taliban irritants. But unfortunately, Afghanis apparently love their Talibans and majority of them love that way of life, the reason they have allowed Talibans to run amok in their country. The Talibans are Afghanis and so are those American trained Afghani soldiers who were sabotaging America and killing American troops when they were in Afghanistan; and the same soldiers are now surrendering to the Taliban and joining forces with them.
Joe Biden made the right call and by far the best foreign policy decision of his administration as no more American life deserves to be wasted in Afghanistan. Twenty years was more than enough. Even an arrangement such as America has with South Korea and Japan will not be viable as a possible alternative with Afghanistan because Afghanistan is an impoverished country and cannot afford to pay for America's open-ended stay and protection of their country. Also, unlike the South Korea and Japan experience which is geared against foreign invasion, Afghanis are killing themselves in a quasi civil war and America cannot afford to be caught in the middle of such internecine war between people who are just killing themselves. If being ruled by the Taliban is what the majority of Afghanis prefer, so be it; otherwise let them rise up and defend themselves.
Thankfully, Joe Biden is standing firm and refusing to buck under the pressure of the Deep State military industrial complex to reverse himself on the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. But they are relentless and not giving up and purposefully, desperately overhyping and over-sensitizing the Taliban resumption of attacks, in their attempt to whip up enough sentiments to force a reversal of policy on troops withdrawal. ICHEOKU says Joe Biden must stand his ground as history will vindicate him and uphold his decision to end that American nightmare called American troops overstay in Afghanistan. It is not every country that must practice democracy as theocracy is also an acceptable form of government. So, if Talibans insist that Afghanistan must also become a theocracy just as the Vatican and Iran are, it will not be the end of the world.
But the decision to checkmate them and prevent such an outcome is entirely for the majority of Afghanis to make. If the Talibans are the majority, then they can march straight unto Kabul for all ICHEOKU cares and establish their Talibanized theocracy. Americans cannot pretend to love Afghanistan more than Afghanis themselves and be the ones dying and losing countless treasure in defense of Afghanistan from the Talibans. If Afghanis want a different lifestyle from the Taliban styled way of life, then let them prove it by defending their preferred lifestyle. Afghanistan is for Afghanis and it is their burden to protect their country from all enemies foreign and domestic, including the Taliban. They have enough able bodied men and women to defend their homeland, but if they choose otherwise, it means that their country is not worthy dying for and therefore not worthy of existence.
Therefore, let the Talibans take them hostage and do with them whatever they pleases. The United Nations Organization can also move in there and continue from where America has just stopped or better still, let their neighboring countries worry about any impending implosion. But under no account or pressure of the Deep State military industrial complex as well as some other third party countries, who are trying to blackmail Joe Biden into reversing course, must the withdrawal be aborted or even extended by another day past the scheduled August 31st, 2021 due date. America has borne the burden of the world for far too long while other huge powers and large economies such as China and Germany have been enjoying a free ride, freeloading on America's largess and growing exponentially. Enough of the unfairness and now is time to bring all the troops home. So long Afghanistan and that mission is now archived as accomplished.
RICHARD BRONSON MAKES IT TO EDGE OF SPACE.
But please before you even start, spare ICHEOKU the name calling, as Richard Bronson and all the other space enthusiast billionaires could spend their excess money on the humanity that is in dire need and begging for urgent help. Such anti humanity endeavors makes many people question the stories about heaven and hell and wonder if these billionaires ever heard any of them. But it is their money and they are entitled to spend it however they see fit and in this case, on egotistic space expedition.
ICHEOKU says many of them, if they could, would summarily abandon this earth for some exclusive planet elsewhere and of course, would have since bought off death if possible so that they can live forever. Call it selfishness or lack of care and willful indifference to humanity problems including dire need. Imagine the millions of vials of coronavirus the money wasted in this space flight could have purchased for some impoverished third world countries. Anyway, 55 miles above the earth is a whole lot of distance up there, compared to the 6 miles flying height of normal passenger planes. ICHEOKU says congratulations to the first billionaire to make it to the edge of space and experienced weightlessness of space.
ITALY IS EURO 2020 CHAMPION: BEATS ENGLAND 3:2 IN A PENALTY SHOOTOUT.
It shares something in common with the 2021 COPA America championship in that the winning side defeated the losing side on their home turf. Argentina came to Brazil's Rio de Janeiro and defeated Brazil just like the Italians has now defeated the English side inside their Wembley Stadium in London. It was somewhat humiliating being beaten inside one's soccer cathedral, Wembley and Maracana stadia respectively. But hey, it was just a game and no life was lost as each side now lives to fight another day. Congratulations to the boys in blue, ben fatto.
Sunday, July 11, 2021
UFC 264: POIRIER DEFEATS MCGREGOR THE SECOND TIME: CONGRATULATIONS.
ICHEOKU says a win is a win just like a loss is a loss, regardless of how it resulted, provided it was within the rule of engagement. It could come by way of a technical knockout as in this case, an accidental breaking of the leg. Mixed Martial Arts is a combat sports and broken limbs and sometimes even death are acceptable risks involved in it. Irish bad boy Conor McGregor fully understood the risks when he went into the ring to battle Dustin Poirier. Nobody ever said that such an injury will not occur as similar injuries have occurred in the past, his just got added to the list. So, with UFC 264, Poirier has now defeated the Irish irascible fella for the second time and in their battle of supremacy, it is Dustin Poirier 2 and Conor McGregor 1; begging the question are their fans ready for yet another encounter between them, the fourth time, that is.
This is imperative because despite what was clearly a first round domination and better performance by Dustin Poirier, Conor McGregor claimed otherwise, insisting that it ain't over yet; somewhat insinuating that he only succumbed to his broken leg and not the fire power of Poirier. ICHEOKU says the leg was definitely broken for a reason, something made it break and it couldn't have broken unless Poirier forced the issue. Poirier even stated as much, that McGregor initially fractured the leg when he blocked his kick at the beginning of their fight and then he leaned on it afterwards which caused it to completely come apart with seconds left to go in their first round.
Conor McGregor was unable to get up afterwards and couldn't continue with the fight. It was obvious too that Dustin Poirier controlled the first round, protected himself very well from McGregor's kicks and landed several of his own kicks on McGregor. He took McGregor to the canvass and landed more punches and threw many elbows on McGregor. He also knocked Mcgregor down again towards the final seconds of their first round before McGregor's lower left finally gave way. So, Dustin Poirier clearly defeated Conor McGregor and the only thing Mcgregor can be furious at is his leg and no one else. When he recovers and still wants to have another go at it, as Dana White has already indicated, there could be a McGregor v Poirier IV and hopefully he will not allow Poirier to break his leg again.
However, ICHEOKU disagrees with UFC President Dana White that there is any particular way of finishing a fight, the reason there is TKO. His sentiments of preferring to watch the two gladiators go all the way or even for a McGregor victory notwithstanding, the fight got finished and it finished in a way some fights do finish, through a TKO, this time by reason of an accidental leg break. The only question now is whether there will fans' fatigue for another Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier encounter; and if not, how soon will Conor McGregor be ready for another showdown with Dustin Poirier. So until then, ICHEOKU says congratulations to Dustin Poirier, the now obvious tamer of the Irish wild cat. ICHEOKU wishes him a quick recovery and yes, the peoples president, President Donald John Trump was at UFC264 as well.
MESSI BEATS NYEMAR TO LIFT 2021 COPA AMERICA CHAMPIONSHIP FOR ARGENTINA.
ICHEOKU says congratulations to Messi and his boys and kudos to Brazil for successfully hosting the championship despite the Chinese coronavirus ravaging their country. One aside though is that Messi was almost as big as the trophy and if not for the lightweight of the material, would have labored to carry it. But hey, he has shown that his petite size is not a barrier to achieving laurels. Congratulations champ!
Saturday, July 10, 2021
ZAILA AVANT-GARDE: SPELLS HERSELF INTO HISTORY WITH THE WORD MURRAYA.
ICHEOKU says she is so cute and her personality so lovable that she is simply adorable. Speaking of Scripps National Spelling Bee 2021 winner Zaila Avant-Garde; needless to add that she has a very unique and special name as well. The winning word was MURRAYA. She is the stuff geniuses are made of and in fact, she is actually one. She is a multi talented individual who at just 14 years have already previously won herself into Guinness Book of World records joggling the most basketballs and this Bee champion is yet another laurel for the Guinness Book.
The Louisiana native is the first African American to ever win the Scripps National Spelling Bee championship since its inception 96 years ago. What a great feat and she did it with such a panache. A proud nation has not heard the last of her and her black life really matters being a positive example to millions of other black kids on what is possible outside the streets. Her parents too deserve to share in the moment for guiding their child in the right path. She is both joyful and joyous and ICHEOKU celebrates her. Congratulations ZAG.
HAITIAN AUTHORITIES: WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?
A president is a president 24 hours, regardless of his location, so where was his presidential security when some alleged "gang" members killed him on his sleeping bed? Even if as they presently claim that those killers lied their way through to the president's bedroom by claiming that they are DEA officers, was there no procedure in place for first verifying their story and identities, and at worse, escorting or accompanying them to go and meet with the president, especially the ungodly hour of the night when they called, considered.
Why would a presidential security detail allow armed men into the president's home and at such very late hour of the night? Even if they had claimed that the White House sent them, talkless of passing off as an American drug agency, this was a president of another country for crying out loud. Why did the presidential security fumble the ball and so stupidly as not to make the safety and security of the president paramount and above anything else. Why did they not refuse their request to see the president at such a late time of night and what was their explanation for being fully armed? Did they not think about disarming them, arresting and holding them until day break so that they can carry out further investigation about their alleged mission.
Even the arrest of Noriega was resisted and not this stupidly managed. Even if they had claimed that the president was a drug dealer or laundering money for drug dealers and needed to be taken into custody, what were they doing with all the firepower they had for a president who has already retired to bed for the night. Why did the guards not force them to wait until morning in order to get further clarifications or was there no echelon or chain of command in Haiti's presidential guard in Port-Au-Prince to have put necessary calls to before allowing the violation of the country's president's security. This is a president and not just any other citizen Joe that was accessed to in this cavalier manner.
It just does not make sense that a presidential security will be this so careless and reckless in their only assignment which is to defend and protect the president, even with their lives, if need be. So why was there such a lapse in judgement and under whose authority or order or instruction did they stand down and watch as the president was assassinated right inside his bedroom in his home. The world needs some answers and when will the Haitian authorities inform the world on the actual conspiracy that MURDERED their president and spare us all of the after the fact cock and bull story about "killing and arresting" of "gang" members who killed their president.
The world wants to know the truth of what actually happened; why President Jovenel Moise was rendered so vulnerable and was so exposed to the danger of losing his life in such a violent manner and in fact did lose his life in that manner. The world is not that necessarily interested in what happened after the fact or what the authorities in Haiti are doing to finding the president's killers and bringing them to book. Why was it not prevented? So, until Port-Au-Prince is prepared to come clean and level with the world on who signed off on the murder, they can kill even a thousand "gang" members and/or arrest a million of "gang" members as "killers" of President Jovenel Moise, but will still not clear the fog surrounding his assassination.
A full investigation is called for to unravel how a country's president was just killed like that while asleep on his bed, in his bedroom, inside his home. Whatever it takes to solve this puzzle should be welcome by those presently managing the affairs of Haiti. They should request and accept help from every where, including the United States of America, to help them get to the root of the assassination. Thankfully the White House has agreed to send some FBI officials down to Port-Au-Prince to see what they can find out. However, ICHEOKU says other third party countries should be brought in as well to help with the investigation just in case the whodunnit is within the hemisphere to help prevent any coverup from being easily pulled off with a restricted investigation. The entire world is waiting for some urgent answers and Haitians must provide them asap. #WhoKilledPresidentMoise.
Friday, July 9, 2021
MICHAEL AVENATTI SENT TO PRISON FOR ATTEMPTED EXTORTION OF NIKE.
ICHEOKU says creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti, whose rise to fame from relative obscurity was by taking on a sitting United States President Donald John Trump has been sent to prison. Recall that he used information from his infamous client, hooker Stormy Daniels, in perpetuating his attacks on the president. He later attempted to extort Nike of $25 million, using another client coach Gary Franklin's claim, for which he has now been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison. He will also do additional three years of supervised release upon the completion of the two and half years sentence. HIs fall was epicurean as he went from being cable televisions and social media darling straight to being a pariah who nobody wants to be seen with or associated with in a twinkle of eye.
He was obsessed with power of the television and in fact became infatuated with it that he couldn't have enough of the attention which came with it. It became a drug of choice for him and to get a sizable does of it, he obsessively piled on the president, cursing, huffing, puffing and sometimes even believing that he is already the next rightful occupant of the White House. It indeed got so much into his head that he lost his sense of reasoning as a lawyer by not weighing the pros and cons of his actions. He relished it so much to the point of becoming reckless and it ended him like a punctured balloon. He was completely deflated, lost everything and by the time he finishes his prison term, both the already sentenced and the three more likely to come, he would have been a completely spent man with nothing else holding him up.
There was no television opportunity which he refused or even thought twice before saying yes to and at a time, he was rumored to be actively lobbying for his own show on CNN, believing that he has become "too popular" that his show will be an instant smash hit. He was wearing thousands of dollars designer suits, apparels and expensive leather Italian shoes and adorning ultra expensive wrist watches just to look the part. As it turned out he was not rich as most of his lifestyle were purchased on credit and with his personal debts piling up, he became more desperate on how to keep on funding his assumed lifestyle.
The accumulating debt has to be paid off, so he got more creative on how to make quick and easy money, leading to so many frauds including the attempted blackmail of Nike into paying him $25 million as hush money. As the judge said, his conduct was simply outrageous in hijacking his client's claims and using them to further his own financial gains agenda, making money regardless of the propriety.
The convicted and now sentenced Stormy Daniels' lawyer has three other criminal cases which are awaiting trial, including one on July 20th, 2021 in California for stealing almost $10 million from five former clients including a paraplegic; and another for bankruptcy, bank fraud and tax fraud. Thereafter, it is back to New York where another criminal case awaits him in January 2022 for cheating his infamous client Stormy Daniels of #300,000 proceeds from her book contract.
As one writer described him, Michael Avenatti is "a once obscure lawyer who in 2018 became a cable news and social media fixture, disparaging then President Donald John Trump." Good enough he is now receiving the rewards of his bargained notoriety, which he achieved by his desperate pursuit of fame and stardom. He deliberately violated his oath and ethically duty as lawyer, which he owed his client Stormy Daniel as well as to the legal profession, by litigating a non disclosure agreement just to get on television. Other unprofessional conducts followed and he ended up in criminalities. Now, who laughs last between him and the president as he goes to prison for two and half years; and will be likely also convicted on the other three remaining criminal charges which aggravated will surely get him a lengthy term.
Addressing the court before his sentencing, Michael Avenatti said: "TV and Twitter means nothing. Everyone wants to ride in a limo with you but only a very few are willing to take a sit next to you on a bus. Even fewer are willing to take your calls from prison. I alone have destroyed my career, my relationships and my life. And there is no doubt I need to pay. I am truly sorry for all of the pain I caused to Mr. Franklin and others. I lost my way. I betrayed my own values, my friends, my family and myself. I betrayed my profession. I became driven by the things that don’t matter in life. Over the past two years, I have thought to myself, why did this need to happen. I’ve learned that all the fame, money notoriety in the world is meaningless. Most people want their children to be proud of their fathers, but in the case of my own three children, I want them to be ashamed of me, because that will mean that their moral compass is exactly what it should be."
ICHEOKU says if only he had thought these thoughts earlier and before he drank the cooled of CNN may be people would empathize with him. But no, he was possessed by the demon of limelight and he saw the availability of lights, camera and action as a golden parachute to land in the White House and he grabbed it with his two hands. Now, it is time to pay the price for his notoriety and like he rightly admitted, he is entirely on his own now. He brought it upon himself and it was deliberative. Hopefully CNN will still be around when he completes his prison sentences so that he can come and share his prison experience on the network or go there to introduce a book he wrote about life in behind bars. ICHEOKU says all the best Micky.
Thursday, July 8, 2021
PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA TURNS HIMSELF IN WITHOUT ANY RUCKUS: GOOD PLAY.
The essence of the whole contempt of court proceeding is to establish that no one is above the law and that respect to court process is imperative. Leadership is about showing the led how to be a good citizen and the former president have now acquitted himself very well. He is now compliant and should be granted bail, message sent and received. Well done Mr President.
TRUMP SUES FACEBOOK.
ICHEOKU says President Donald John Trump has brought a class action lawsuit against the three major social media platforms, Facebook, Google and Twitter; alleging violations of his fundamental First Amendment right of free speech. Will he succeed or will the lawsuit be thrown out for lack of merit. ICHEOKU is not presently offering any opinion on the matter and wishes the peoples president the best of luck.
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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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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