The Place of Realisation
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One learns each day of the uniqueness that exists with personal individuality.  By reason of simple understanding of why one exists. Alot that has hitherto not been understood becomes quiet clear. We deal with the larger world outside our smaller world each day and we grow wiser in our dealings based upon how much experience and knowledge can be gleaned on each encounter.
It is vitally important that we percieve the direction we choose to take our lives in or allow our lives to go. We believe that certain influences around us are positive and progressive. We might also see them initially as agenda free. It comes down to us making the hard call once in awhile and surgically dissect certain relationships to discover where the real benefit lies and how self-serving certain relationships have been over the years. And then develop the necessary backbone and true courage to cessate from such relationships permanently.  Never easy but satisfyingly profitable.

Returning with a new Quill

The Chairman's Suite.

It's been awhile that The Writers' Desk has featured on my blog. It's been on my Facebook page and has received quite a following there. Now that a new quill has been presented there will be a resurgence here of that vigour and verve that this column was renowned for five years ago.

Presently we have arrived at a crossroads of sorts on the International political scene. Five years ago Mr David Cameron and Mr Nick Clegg were Premier and Deputy in the United Kingdom in a coalition between Conservative and Liberal Democratic. Last year Mr Cameron who had since won a majority in the next general election had called for a referendum to decide if the United Kingdom was to stay in the European Union or to exit it by way of triggering Article 50.
On the 23rd of June last, we voted unanimously to leave the Union and the concentric shocks of that result are being felt to this very day. Apart from a premature resignation from office and resignation from Parliament for Mr Cameron the face of the political landscape in the UK keeps on changing. Over the next few articles we are going to try and piece together what might be the way forward after the shock decision to leave almost six months ago.

Its Really Upsetting that Savages Rule

Wording for the title might be a tad harsh but I do not apologise for it. I have just been reading the blog of a very dear friend and she has been updating on a story that she has been running with that has been in the news for the last week. it is the story of the little known young student who was "gang-raped" and filmed while the despicable act was on for several hours by five colleagues.
This is taking place on a campus in Abia State of Nigeria. I thought someone was having a laugh initially and then decided to do some digging of my own to be appalled at what I found. I heard that the police eventually arrested two guys "on which intel I have no idea" an after accosting them set them free.....simply because the guys in question said they were not the only ones bearing that name on campus.
Don't know how and why we have policemen who do not know the meaning of the words to "protect and serve" they understand how to "hound and terrorise" alot better. Anyway since they have joined the larger voice of individuals denying it ever happened because they cannot or rather choose not find evidence of wrongdoing unfortunately this unholy and dastardly act will continue to be pepertrated and go unpunished in future. it can be attributed to the fact that we have savages in government anyway over there. The only thing they are interested in is making as much money in public office and they do not give a monkeys to what happens afterwards.
We still see sovereign protective government in the giant of Africa ...........but it is not yet uhuru.

News International has murdered sleep..............the Murdochs shall sleep no more

It was an empire that took four decades to reach the epitome of power and might. it was whispered that the broker at the head of the empire was a kingmaker indeed, he had untold influence that went beyond the borders of his vast media empire, But then like the colossus that he is known to be Rupert Murdoch and his news empire is in free fall at the moment.
 When I wrote  Retributive Justice - Storm on the horizon of News International, on my blog in January it all seemed so far-fetched and distant that anything or anyone will be able to scratch the surface of the powerful conglomerate that we know as News International. But of recent that all seems to have changed. Somehow the storm has finally broken over the empire and it is echoing beyond the empire in terms of collateral damage.
 Being a bit more specific, lets take stock of has has happened so far. We have had the News of the World on of the most powerful and feared weekend tabloids close after 168 years in existence and most of its staff hung out to dry. Even the ultra powerful protege of Rupert Murdoch, Rebekah Brooks after rubbing in the fact that News Of theWorld staff were out of a job but she wasn't, had to bow to overwhelming pressure of the snowballing Phone Hacking Scandal as it is know popularly being known and resign. Collateral damage as I earlier mentioned has of late been the top two police officers in the Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Stephenson and his deputy John Yates have had to resign because their roles in the Force have been compromised by their proximity to the Murdoch empire.
The Murdochs have had to attend a Parliamentary hearing into the scandal and there is going to be judicial inquiry into the Scandal, not to limit issues to this side of the Atlantic, our cousins across the water are taking it rather badly as well since they have discovered that phones of victims of the 9/11 tragedy were also allegedly hacked into, not making the Murdochs very well thought of in their adopted home.
And with the wounded of the Murdoch empire baying for blood it can be said that this is only the very beginning of storm we do not know what state this empire will be in by the time it is over. One thing is sure it has seen its best and brightest day over the last forty year when it stood seemingly tall and untouchable.

The World without Osama Bin Laden - A safer place?

So it comes to an end finally. It has been confirmed and now days on the world is getting use to the feeling of the world where Osama Bin Laden is no longer one of its living occupants. Justified in as many ways possible by evidence of all the horrific terror acts that he committed past, present and possibly future from information recovered at the scene of his demise.

I remember somewhere along the line a very long time ago that some important government official somewhere said on camera that the world would be a safer place when we are rid of the likes of Osama. Looking at what is following in the wake of his death, I do not see any single government going on to believe that we can sleep safer in our beds at night with the thought solidly in mind that he is no more.

In fact most of the nations who actively hunted him down as a fugitive from justice are on very high security alert. With ominous words sounding that we should expect reprisals in some form from his supporters or groups sympathetic to his causes, that is a bit scary when you consider that he single-handedly spawned an entire generation of terrorists who took global terror to a whole new level.

They have become very inventive and adaptable in their urban terror and they are taking the fight to the big security outfits who have out-thought them up-to-date, thereby thwarting almost every  major terror attack. The future looks bleak now,with governments now forced to downsize because of the economic recession, valuable resources and assets are being done away with to seek political gain and balance the books so to say.

How safe the world really is will be a question we will keep asking ourselves until we see where the choose to strike next and exactly when and how, one thing I can assure is I don't feel any safer even though Osama is gone, do you?

Two sides to the Mirror of Terror

Yesterday it was reported to the entire world by the President of the United States of America that the elusive leader of the Al-Queada Movement Worldwide Osama Bin Laden had been located,trapped,caught,captured and eventually after resisting to be taken had been killed and eventually been buried at sea. So comes the end of an era, as so many said that justice had been served for so many who died at Ground Zero almost a decade ago - one side of the mirror.

The Al- Quaeda movement has gone beyond their late mythical leader and of all terrorists groups known in the recent past, the only reason why they are so feared is because of the scale on which they practised their weird art. They brought an entirely new definition to the word Global Terror after initial attacks on diplomatic missions in Africa belonging to the United States they made an eternal statement on 11th September,2001 when they hijacked four local American jetliners and flew two into the World Trade Centre( more specifically one each into the Two Towers). One into the Defence Headquarters the Pentagon and the fourth was crash landed by the passengers onboard who wrestled their captors and made sure that the jetliner did not reach it's destination which was the White House.

That brought the understanding of terror all the way into the 21st century and the War against Terror was born. Unfortunately with the demise of of their fabled leader yesterday one is led to believe true to their reputation they will strike again so looking into the mirror of terror when you believe that one side of it has been smashed we are now going to learn how potent the other side is without the mien of Bin Laden hanging over it.

For every city where he left his terror signature, the security outfits here will not sleep to easy not for any other reason than Osama Bin Laden was very successful in spawning a generation of individuals who might eventually turn out to be a lot more potent than he who has just been eliminated.......... we need to be ready.

The Whirllwind of Revolution - The Aftermath 1 The Refugee Crisis

Looking back at what has swept the North African coast in the last three to four weeks, one wonders at when the phenomenon will finally blow itself out and allow the world to take stock. To quickly review, Tunisia was the first nation to be swallowed in the path of this nation devouring whirlwind. It's people demanded that their president stand down and he ultimately had no choice but to do so. After three weeks of clinging on it was reported that his prime minister resigned yesterday. As Tunisia was crumbling, protests started going off simultaneously in Morocco,Jordan,Libya,Algeria, Bahrain and Egypt. The largest Arabic nation on the planet was the next to catch fire, protesters going head to head with armed soldiers and eventually carrying the day when their sit-in protest in Tahir Square pushed Mr Hosni Mubarak out of power after ruling for 31 years. Like a smooth relay race it became a choice between Bahrain or Libya. The Crown Prince in Bahrain being a more humane individual that most of his fellow rulers decided after clashing with protesters and forcibly using the Armed Forces to eject them from the Square they chose to occupy, heeded. International advice and decided to dialogue with the opposition after allowing them to reclaim the Square from armed occupation.

I guess he decided that he had a lot more to lose if he continued to go head-to-head with popular opinion,not so the most infamous terrorist leader on the planet Colonel Muhammar Ghaddafi who collected the baton from Egypt and almost immediately went on the offensive killing anyone and anything that got in his way. We have been at it for almost two weeks now and it has ballooned into a full grown refugee crisis. The media had live footage of thousands coming through both borders this morning Libyan-Egyptian and Libyan-Tunisian they were of all different nationalities.

Stuck in nation where things are not functioning at 100% because of the turmoil there too that has yet to settle. So it is fast growing into a crisis of which if not looked into soon promises to make breaking news of it's own. Developed nations have been hospitable in evacuating their own nationals alongside any others who needed to leave. But the real question is what happens when all these evacuations cease. The military ships and Hercules C130 planes that stand as a beacon of hope. Make their final trips to Tripoli and Malta? Scary withnthe kind of things we hear happening inside Libya in Gadaffi controlled territory.

The international community is awash with various kind of sanctions from creating trade blockades to enforcing no-fly zones,and they are just as determined that this time Ghadaffi has come to the end of the last of his several lives. This time they are telling him there is no where to. With assets worth £1 billion seized and frozen in the UK alone things are looking bleak for the "Strongman of Libya". The UN have a job to assist the NGO's who are already on the ground helping with the developing refugee crisis. And they need ton move soon.