Pastor, son and shared mistress conspire and murder?!

MAYRA BELTRÁN : chronicle DAY IN COURT: William Fuller is escorted out of courtroom during a break after he testified in the capital murder case of his father, Tracy Bernard Burleson. Photo: Mayra Beltran / © 2011 Houston Chronicle

Just when you think that people cannot do anything immorally extreme and beyond what we constantly see and read about, I come across this appalling story. A pastor (Rev. Tracy Burleson, 44), his son (Darnell Fuller, 20) and their shared mistress (Tyonne Palmer, 31) are accused of conspiring and successfully murdering Pauletta Burleson, 56, (wife of the pastor) in the pastor's home at northeast Harris County, near Houston, Texas.

Pastor Tracy Bernard "T.B." Burleson during his capital murder trial in the 185th District Court at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, in Houston. Burleson on trial for the murder of wife Pauletta Burleson where his son William Fuller and mistress Tyonne Palmer were involved. The 46 year-old Burleson faces life in prison without parole in convicted. Photo: Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran / © 2011 Houston Chronicle

Darnell Fuller testified Tuesday, 27 September against his father, Burleson, and former friend/lover, Palmer, in a hearing against his father and narrated how he was convinced and manipulated into shooting and killing his abusive stepmother in the back of her head execution style. Fuller narrated episodes of physical and mental abuse that he suffered under both his parents for years and how his father forced him to eventually kill his stepmother so that he (his father) could marry Fuller's off and on lover and his father's mistress, Ms. Palmer.

Palmer is accused of aiding and abetting in the conspiracy as she allegedly picked Fuller up after the murder and tried to help in disposing the murder weapon. The trial is on-going but all I can say is it stinks to hell in every direction.

Fuller gets a lesser conviction for his cooperation with the District Attorney's office as his father is also being accused of previously burning down his own church for insurance benefits.

Is Patriotism Taught or Nurtured?

With the rise (against governments) of so many people in different countries occurring, I think there is no better time to ask this question. The whole world watched as the Americans bonded and banded together more than once any time a major crisis happened to put country first (every time except the debt ceiling debacle) and that has always baffled me. The United States is a country of multiple races, religions, cultures etc. and it is not free of discrimination against minority cultures, races, religions and sexuality either but yet, the moment she needs her people or she is physically threatened all those oppressed put aside their differences and become Americans again. A lot of countries show patriotism but I have never seen love and pride for country at this measure. That begs the questions, "is patriotism taught or nurtured and how can other countries replicate it"?

There is uprising in Northern Africa and the Middle East; is it for their individual freedom or for their country? I cannot tell just yet, but I sense that like most of Africa's history, the people who will replace the ousted will in time forget about country and begin to enrich themselves (I pray I am wrong). The real issue is if we can genuinely love our country and it's people we will not massacre them and bury them in mass graves as we have just discovered that Ghaddafi may also be guilty of, or enrich our Swiss accounts while people starve less than hundred meters from our mansions. We would strive to enable our people excel and compete in our new and very experimental global economy. 

Is there a lesson to be taught to our children in kindergarten or is it in the U.S.A's pledge of allegiance?

Should we all teach our kids their allegiance pledge or just inculcate the words into our own?
Is it their comic heroes? Does every country need to create it's own version of Superman and Captain America draped in the country's flag colors and promoting the country's ideals and values?

What would make an oppressed Black man wear the American military uniform and fight in WW2 just to return home and be discriminated against again, or a gay soldier discharged shamefully for his orientation immediately reenlist the moment the ban is lifted just to be shipped to Afghanistan? I love my birth country but I don't see myself sacrificing that much for her especially when I believe she does not sacrifice for me but they would.

I'd love to get your opinion on this matter and even if you disagree with my portrayal of them and their patriotism please speak and educate me as to where and why I am wrong.

An Overview of Events!

I have literally been absent for over 7 months and in my absence a lot of the same has happened. Obama has been under attack from the right-wing for being anything and nothing at all, Nigerian terrorism from the Islamic extremist sect, Boko Haram continues, Libya is still highly restive, Egypt has seceded power to it's people, Syria is killing it's people who oppose the regime, the global economy is at the brink of another recession and the only obvious change is that Sudan is finally and officially 2 states.

From the United States the most noticeable and prominent story came from the stand-off between Republican controlled congress, the president and debt ceiling. With the United States owing trillions of dollars and constantly in need of more to fund their multiple wars, social programs and fattening the pockets of the wealthiest, sorry, "job creators", with the Bush tax cuts, the United States was at the brink of defaulting on the debt ceiling and losing it's AAA rating (that enables her to borrow vast amounts) as the House Republicans and Speaker/chief negotiator, John Boehner refused to budge demanding that 100% of his mostly ill-advised impositions be taken up. As you all probably know, the U. S. did not default on the deadline but they still lost their AAA rating down to AA+ from one of the numerous rating agencies. All this happened just as the presidential campaigns were just kicking off. With Obama having to give in to almost every demand the Republicans driven by the Tea Party force to make the deal pass, his approval rating is seeing it's lowest decline so far in the 40 percentage and the Republicans are trying to find a worthy candidate to represent their at this time undefined ideals, this will certainly prove to be a race worth watching.

In Nigeria, the new fast growing breeding ground of terrorism ideology, Boko Haram, have stepped up their campaign of violence in the country's capital and other northern towns and cities. In mid-June an explosion rocked the police headquarters in Abuja killing at least 6 and injuring dozens more. It was originally thought to be a suicide bomber as the culprit allegedly exploded with bomb. However, after security forces reviewed the CCTV footage they concluded that the explosion was premature and the culprit wasn't meant to explode with the device but rather to plant it and escape.

Suicide bombing at Nigerian police headquarters
Police Headquarters bombing not a suicide attack!

Again in August, a higher profile location was targeted when the United Nations building in Abuja was rocked with a similar style explosive killing an uncertain number of people, as reports range from 20 killed (reported by media) to over a hundred as recorded by eyewitnesses. Once again credit was taken by the Boko Haram sect who have been linked to Al Qaeda for training, ideology and funding.

The Nigerian government currently has detained and indited multiple suspects in the bombing but with allegations of several Islamic extremist groups working individually and using the Boko Haram name as an umbrella the crises is far from resolved.

UN Building targeted by suicide bomber in Abuja
UN names 21 victims of Abuja bombing
UN express concern over security as alleged culprits are taken to court

Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt led to a change in regime and it quickly spread to other Northern African and Middle Eastern states demanding for the same thing but without success so far. Libya and it's capital Tripoli are currently under the control of the NATO assisted rebels who have successfully sent the ruler for over 40 years, Maummar Gaddhafi, into hiding and have been recognized by most of the United Nations and other states as the legitimate government even though the body is yet to be defined and delegated. The president in hiding has vowed to fight to death and we are yet to see the end of this. Likewise, their Middle Eastern counterparts, Syria, have been defying curfews, assassinations and much more to demonstrate on the streets calling for the desolation of their "democratic monarchy" under President Bashar al-Assad and his late father before him. He has been accused of crimes against humanity and has also received condemnation from other Middle Eastern and Arab nations for the maltreatment of his people.

Gaddhafi denies fleeing to Niger
Gaddhafi vows to fight on
Obama says the president of Syria is standing in the way of it's people
Syrian opposition vows to protest until president is ousted

And finally, on the bright side, the genocide in Sudan may finally be over with South Sudan becoming a state independent from Sudan on July 9, 2011. This marks the manifestation of the vote to create a free state earlier this year. As every new state is, it is still very volatile in many sensing but there is finally hope and a bright future for many of the formerly oppressed Sudanese people.


Government of the Republic of South Sudan
South Sudan Profile on BBC News

If this election fails should Nigeria finally split?

Nigeria is the most populated Black nation on earth with an estimated 150 million plus people inhabiting it. A country just over 50 years since it's independence from her colonial masters, the United Kingdom, is the union of over 250 ethnic groups speaking over 500 languages between them. Nigeria has an almost 50/50 division in religious population between the Muslims and Christians and has undergone years of distrust and in fighting for almost as long as she has been independent.

With at least 5 successful military coups between the 1960s and 1990s and as many or even more botched attempted coups, Nigeria has never really seen political stability up until 1999 when she begun practicing what some might call 'American style' democracy. That democracy headed by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, a former military dictator himself (he won two tenures as president and exhausted his eligibility as stated in the constitution), has held on against all odds and alleged attempts to topple it so far.

Past elections held have been rife with allegations of electoral fraud but with a reputation for corruption, it has never been fully investigated or prosecuted up until recent years (a lot of elections have been annulled or overturned on the gubernatorial and lesser levels in recent times by the Nigerian courts).

The question at hand is "Will the April 2011 elections shape or break Nigeria?"

In the oil rich south of the country, militancy has evolved to terrorism with kidnappings, vandalization, bombings, assassinations and other forms of intimidation being perpetrated by these militants who initially were welcomed by the people for their struggle over the unequal distribution of the oil wealth which is primarily drilled from the south. And more recently the bombings in the capital city, Abuja, that took lives and injured many have made them enemies of the state and most of the people.

Also see: Violence in Jos and Borno!!!
              President Jonathan vs Vice President Atiku

In the north, a sect of extremist Islamist have resolved to similar tactics including a bombing in one of the country's military cantonments to discourage the introduction of what they call "Westernization" of their religion and culture.

Jos, a once vast tourist city has become ground zero of continuous religious and ethnic genocide between the ethnic inhabitants and the naturalized inhabitants and as it so happens, one sect is Christian and the other Muslim.

Nigeria is not new to religious and ethnic divide. This way of life has made reprisals several times in it's 5 decades as a country and it peaked during the 'Biafra war' (the country's only civil war) in the late 1960s.

A lot of it's indigenes are calling for the country to split between the mostly Muslim north and mostly Christian south and they blame the British, particularly Lord Frederick Lugard for amalgamating the country in 1914 and only see a peaceful country if it were two states. For others, this April's elections will be the final straw and litmus test of whether the country can stand as a united entity.

With Sudan's electoral mandate that suggests that the people have overwhelmingly decided to split to end the war and killings, many Nigerians who are currently living at home and abroad believe that that is the way that Africa's most populated nation should go.

Do you think that Nigeria should follow the path that Sudan has set?
Leave your comments below:

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A Week of Natural and Man-Made Disasters!

So far, 2011 has promised more violence and natural disasters! In a very busy week for the press, everyday there seemed to be a troubling event taking place somewhere in the world. Starting with the near fatal tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and many others leaving 6 people dead, among the dead a 9 year old girl, the week seemed to take a down turn from there.

Australia experienced a devastating flood caused by rainfall, which is being described as one of biblical proportions leaving at least 16 people dead and among them a 13 year old boy who sacrificed his life to save his younger brother, after a rescuer tried to help him out of the flood but he directed him to his brother instead. The brother was rescued but the young hero, Jordan Rice, and his mother were swept away by the current before they could be rescued.

As if taking cue from Australia, Brazil also experienced deadly flooding and mudslides caused by extreme rainfall and if the Australian floods are biblical, this one should be termed apocalyptic! At least 500 hundred people are confirmed dead and hundreds more missing. The flood which happened in the dead of the night, took the Brazilians by surprise and hampered rescue efforts, seriously damaging lives and property! Search and rescue efforts are still underway but with forecast of more rainfall in both Brazil and Australia we can only hope that worst is behind us.

Related news on natural events in Australia and Brazil

Then we have violence in the North African state of Tunisia, where a coup d'etat has occurred ousting the president of 23 years. The frustrations in the country reached a height that forced it's people to demonstrate on the streets and riots broke out as a result. Clashes between security forces and the demonstrators left both sides with injuries and at least 42 detainees dead in a prison fire. Fouad Mabezaa, the speaker of the parliament has assumed office as the acting president while the former president, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has taken exile in Saudi Arabia.

And on a lighter note, incumbent president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, defeated his party rival and former vice president of the country, Atiku Abubakar, in the party primaries to become sole flag bearer for the 2011 presidential elections. The in-house rivalry was hyped to be close call election between the two delegates because of the party's (Peoples' Democratic Party) constitution of rotation of power between ethnic and religious zones of the country. Delegates argued that President Jonathan, who is from the South South Zone and only became president because of the death of the his superior, Umaru Yar'Adua, a Northerner, is ineligible to run for office until the North has exhausted it's 2 tenures ending in 2015 and should step aside despite his being very popular among the masses. V.P. Atiku on the other hand was the Northern consensus candidate and was surprisingly swept in the nationally televised voting event in the country's capital, Abuja.

Atiku vs. Jonathan

President Jonathan will go on to compete against other presidential candidates from other parties which include the highly popular Nuhu Ribadu, former minister of the capital province, Abuja and also against the former military head of state and 3 time presidential aspirant, General Buhari (Rtd) in the upcoming elections.

Please leave your comments below

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Will Gay Group's Support of Atiku Help or Hurt his Chances?

Former Nigerian Vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, is scheduled to go on a head-on challenge for the right to bear the flag of the ruling party, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), as the presidential front runner against the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan in a few days. This is as dramatic as when Barrack Obama went against Hilary Clinton in 2009. It was deemed as important or even more important than the finals between Obama and McCain and rightfully so, at least for the U.S. elections. 


V.P. Atiku in the final years in the position had a very public falling out with the then president, Olusegun Obasanjo and ran against, President Obasanjo's anointed protégé, the late President Umaru Yar'Adua, who passed away in office last year. 

During that bitter campaign an ad was placed in one of the newspapers paid for by an "independent group", calling one of the presidential aspirants a homosexual and an evil individual without mentioning names to avoid any legal implications but those who happen to have seen the ad made our assumptions of whom it was referring to. I personally was disgusted at how low some people will stoop to win an election. Going to the extent of defamation and libel to assume an office.


Africa has a very poor record on gay rights and in most African states homosexuality is a criminal offence and most of all the general African public is not accepting of the lifestyle. Terming a politician as a homosexual most often hurts his/her chances of winning that office.


Nigerian newspaper, ThisDay is reporting that a group called National Gay Forum, is backing Atiku's bid for presidency, not because of any other reasons but that they believe in his policies and see them as beneficial for Nigeria but unfortunately, that might hurt his aspirations in a country like Nigeria which recently voted to maintain it's anti-gay policies in place. The endorsement might make Atiku favorable to Western nations advocating for equal rights for all individuals but I personally doubt that the Atiku presidential campaign team wants the endorsement of a group that may be detrimental to it's bid for the highest office in Nigeria.


I personally feel that all individuals are equal and despite my heterosexuality, I have no prejudice against the lifestyle or choice of sexual preference of another person. 


What do you think? Will this endorsement help, do damage or have no effect on Vice President Atiku's campaign for presidency of Nigeria?


Leave your comments please


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Is your Country a 1st or 3rd world? When will the Caste System End?

In a conversation with a couple of friends last week, someone mentioned something of a 3rd world country and I immediately took offence. I did not take offence at the friend but at the classification of some countries as 1st worlds while others as 3rd. I started a new conversation about what makes some countries categorize themselves as 1st worlds and categorize the rest as 3rd worlds and what are the criteria for these categorizations. It was then that my education on what I now describe as a "caste" system, not un-similar to the globally condemned caste system of ancient India, begun.

I have used that caste system in the past to describe countries also, referring to 1st world countries as the advanced, more civilized, developed and mostly politically stable countries while the 3rd world fell under the developing countries of Africa and Asia without ever really knowing the definitions of these classes but spoke in context, the way I grew to understand them. It was during this conversation with friends that they educated me on the true meaning of the classification and if I thought it should be nullified before, now I think it Neanderthal and obsolete.

Using my previous understanding of the world caste system, all those things that made countries be classified as 3rd worlds had been overcome and some of them have even advanced beyond the so-called 1st world countries but were still being referred to as 3rd. An example is South Africa, the country has become an African format of what the world describes as a thriving nation. Financially viable, politically stable, technologically advanced and generally secure enough to host the FIFA World Cup in 2010, but it is still referred to as a 3rd world. How unfair is that. Malaysia once housed the tallest building in the world and is a major economic and thriving force of the Asia Pacific region, 3rd world and the list goes on.

My friends told me that it was after World War II, the U.S and it's allies basically made up that structure to describe itself and it's allies mostly of the Western world, countries that shared the ideas of democracy, capitalism and were basically mostly located in the same region as 1st Worlds and then countries that believed in communism, socialism etc were termed 2nd worlds (USSR and China), 3rd worlds were countries under developed with unstable politics and under the influence of 2nd and 1st worlds (Africa and Asia) and sure enough, in all simplicity, that is exactly what it is.

Four Worlds
After World War II the world split into two large geopolitical blocs and spheres of influence with contrary views on government and the politically correct society: 
1 - The bloc of democratic-industrial countries within the American influence sphere, the "First World".
2 - The Eastern bloc of the communist-socialist states, the "Second World". 
3 - The remaining three-quarters of the world's population, states not aligned with either bloc were regarded as the "Third World."
4 - The term "Fourth World", coined in the early 1970s by Shuswap Chief George Manuel, refers to widely unknown nations (cultural entities) of indigenous peoples, "First Nations" living within or across national state boundaries. (www.nationsonline.org)


So here is the argument. Majority of the world is practicing democracy of some sort these days, capitalism is the order of the day (even though it is continuously being questioned after the 2008 economic meltdown), the technological advancements that put some countries ahead in the past have been caught up and in some cases surpassed and most of the world is in debt to China, why are we still referring to some countries as 1st, and 3rd worlds? Is it the rate of poverty in some? Poverty exists in vast numbers in a lot of "1st worlds". Is it crime? Modernized "1st world" cities have the highest crime rates. Is it the gross domestic product? Please we all know that the Middle East and China are running that market. So why? Why is my birth country still a 3rd world and Iceland and Greece still 1st?


It is the caste system. We have created and accepted a sort of racism among states and we implement it upon ourselves giving some countries superiority over others. In the Cold War era it might have been valid but now it should be void. It is an obsolete classification system and there should be no classification system at all in the first place. That is the way I see it anyway.


Please leave comments on your thoughts.


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Over 2 Million Fishes & Birds Die of Unknown Causes in a Week Worldwide! Sign of the Times?

As if it wasn't shocking enough when we learnt about all those black birds that fell from the sky in Arkansas, for no reason and then a few miles away, a few days later, about 100,000 fish washed ashore dead with also no plausible cause and it all spirals down hill from there. Let us do a brief recap of the sequence of events.

Since December 30th, 2010, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 100 tons of dead Sardines, Croaker and Catfish have washed ashore.

December 31st 2010, in Beebe, Arkansas, about 5000 Redwing blackbirds and at least 1 duck fell dead from the sky. Cause of death so far is attributed to some sort of undecided trauma.

January 3rd, 2011, 100,000 Drum fish were found dead on the shores of the Arkansas River miles from where the blackbirds were found. Cause of death is so far undetermined.

January 4th, 2011, Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA, about 500 Redwing blackbirds fall dead from the sky and are found scattered along a quarter-mile portion of the highway. Cause of death, trauma.

January 4th, 2011, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, hundreds of dead fish are found dead on the north end of the St. Claire River. Cause of death, temperature shock (whatever that is) and officials claim that such die-offs are not unusual.

January 5th, 2011, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, USA, an estimated 2 million fish are found dead. Cause of death "cold water stress" (whatever that is too). The affected fish are almost exclusive to one specie (Juvenile spot fish) and an investigation is on-going.

January 5th, 2011, Falkoeping, West Sweden, 50 to 100 Jackdaws, a type of crow, were found dead in a snow covered street. Cause of death, unknown.

January 5th, 2011, Kent, England, 40,000 Devil crabs were found dead on the Kent coast. Cause of dead, hypothermia.

And January 5th, 2011, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand, hundreds of Snapper fish washed up dead ashore at local beaches and many of them missing eyes. I'm not even going to mess with this one.

None of these animals have been so far found to be carrying any diseases or to have been poisoned in anyway. And none of these cases have been found to be related either.

This could all be a series of eerie coincidences or not. This might be as natural as a dog barking but because the world is more connected we get to hear these things now. Or this could be a very clear sign that the environment and climate is changing so much that it has begun to traumatize and kill its inhabitants. And the most sinister, this might be a prelude to the foretold impending danger of extinction level event 2012. Your choice to make on what it means and does not but as for me, I just love that I am part of the generation that might be the defining one of mankind or it's last.

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Finally a Cure for HIV/AIDS and Cancer? No wait! 3 cures?!

Why do we keep hearing that there is no cure for Cancer and Aids when a simple search on the net tells of several proven results? Cancer has plagued man for generations now and Aids became a global epidemic in the mid 1980s and all this while with all our advancement in science and technology, we have for some reason failed to contain these deadly diseases. I can insert a chip into my skin to give the appropriate authority all the information they want about me but we can't cure cancer.

I have never been one to buy into conspiracy theories but it is finally clear that there are 'remedies', maybe not cures and vaccines but definitely inexpensive, effective remedies to these ailments that are being suppressed. By whom? I cannot definitely say for sure but it is real.

In 2000, a Dr. Jeremiah Abalaka on the outskirts of Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria claimed to have found a cure to HIV/AIDS and even a vaccine. He reportedly successfully cured at least 20 people and was treating many more others effectively. This was major news in Nigeria and I happened to be in the country at the time but it was practically unheard of elsewhere. The Nigerian government was demanding for information on what these treatments were made of and Dr. Abalaka refused because he felt that his cure would be hijacked and sold to the highest pharmaceutical bidder. He was eventually shut down and we till this day do not know what has happened to him or his miracle cure.

In 2007, Researchers at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada claimed to have found a $2 per serving cure for cancer that nobody seems to have heard of. I have to be making this up right? A prestigious university like Alberta finds a cure, surely nothing can suppress that information. Well, apparently they did according to an article on Impact Lab website (www.impactlab.net). A drug called dichloroacetate already being used to treat metabolic disorders was reported to have killed almost all forms of cancer. The drug is not patented and easy do produce and the site implies that that is the reason it is getting no media coverage. Unlike Dr. Abalaka's miracle drug, this reportedly underwent all procedures and testing and is not only effective but very easily accessible. So much that it can be diluted in water and consumed. Wow! If this is true, with all the people dying each year of cancer, why on earth would this be kept secret?

In 2010, German scientist claimed that they had successfully cured an HIV Positive man who also had Leukemia from a procedure in 2007. OK, now this is getting ridiculous right? Well, fortunately this one got quite some media coverage and most of it was in 2010 which is presumably how long it took for them to conclusive confirm that he was cured. This man was given a blood transplant from a donor who is of the extremely rare 1% of people who are naturally immune to HIV and AIDS and this not only cured his AIDS but his leukemia as well. This procedure is very radical according to the experts and the mortality rate is only 5% so it is more of a symbolic progression than an actual cure. I cannot go into the process and its risks but I'm guessing this got coverage because it is not a definite cure, it just gives researchers another opportunity to get grants and fund their endless researches.

Dr. Kalafatis

I'm not done yet. In 2010 again, a Cleveland State professor happen to stumble into another possible cure for cancer. Dr. Michael Kalafatis started working on a research over 3 years ago that dated even further years back and along the way, some of his students placed a compound he now calls CancerX in a petri dish and it killed all the cancer cells. Dr. Kalafatis had them redo it thinking they were doing something wrong and the results repeated itself. He eventually did it himself and once again killed the cancer cells. Further tests were done on mice infected with cancer cells and allowed to develop tumors and guess what? It eradicated and reduced 7 different types of cancer on them. So far it has successfully worked on 60 types of cancer either in a petri dish or as tumors on mice. It is yet to be tested on humans but he will surely get grants and at least 10 more years to conclude his research.

There have always been alternative treatments to these afflictions and illnesses that never make popularity mostly because they are not certified by the health departments of the world but they have not been proven to fail or maybe work, simply because they were never given the proper screening. There are people out there who will swear on the effectiveness of these procedures but why do we never hear of them on the news, rather we hear about Justin Bieber's new girlfriend. I am not a scientist and cannot recommend any one treatment as the true cure of any ailment but we are in an age when we should no longer be naive and ignorant. Do your own research and you might save your life or the life of someone you care about.

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Are you a Centenarian Looking for Love? Come to Malaysia!!!

A 110 year old man, Ahmad Mohamad Isa, says he is ready to marry his 82 year old fiancee, Sanah Ahmad. The centenarian who has 20 grandchildren and 40 great grandchildren told the Malaysian newspaper Utusan Malaysia that he wanted company to take care of him. That report apparently grabbed the attention of his now bride to be, a widow of 30 years and mother of 9, who has asked her to children to contact Ahmad and make arrangements.
"It doesn't matter who she is, as long as she can cook for me," the paper reported that Ahmad said as he was surprised and happy on hearing that he had found a mate. No report yet on when they intend to get married.

Is it just me or have we heard this story before? Nope this is an entirely different person but ironically from the same country. In 2006, then 104 centenarian, Wook Kundor, made news when the world heard of her marrying a 33 year old ex-army serviceman, Mohamad Noor Che Musa. They had apparently been friends and it had developed into love and companionship.

 Wook Kundor in 2009

I know what you're thinking, she's got to be rich. You're wrong there again. This according to Mohamad was a union of sympathy and friendship as she had never had any children.

"I am not after her money, as she is poor," Mohamad reportedly said.

They eventually got married but the story does not end there.

In 2009, the then 107 years Wook Kundor said she was looking for her next husband (fyi this would make husband number 23 for her). She said she had fears her husband who was in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital, for a voluntary drug rehabilitation treatment at the time might leave her for a younger woman. We never did get the conclusion on how that story went, but you have to admire that people in their hundreds are still out there and trying to mingle and in a way, doing better than most of us.

Take another example, 107 year old Wang Guiying from Chongqing, China in 2009 put out a personal ad that she was finally ready to marry. Here's the catch, she was chaste all the while. What a catch! Unfortunately, I don't know if she did ever find Mr. Right either. But if she is still with us and still searching, may I suggest Malaysia?

Wook Kundor and her 22nd husband

I know that if I do make my hundreds and I am still single, I know exactly where to go.

Related Articles: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2009/01/12/2009-01-12_107yearold_wang_guiying_says_shes_finall.html
http://blodic.us/technology/110-year-old-man-finds-love-again-love-and-marriage-71-0.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/man-33-marries-woman-104/2006/05/03/1146335794619.html
http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4553890
http://celebglitz.com/37248/Celebrity-Gossip/wook-kundor-photo-woman-107-leaving-husband-no-22-to-marry-again.aspx
http://www.nowpublic.com/strange/107-year-old-woman-wants-husband-number-23

A New Year of Sectarian and Religious Violence!!!

Every year's end, peace loving people of all races and religion naively hope that the next year will be the year that they finally achieve the peace they so greatly need and anarchists are also awaiting the same season, not to share in the serenity but to spread more anarchy and chaos. A lot of youth have resolved not to follow the news anymore because all they hear is war, death and hate and who knows, maybe if they don't hear about it then it didn't happen. The December/January festive season was once filled with the agonizing news of delayed and cancelled flights and most people pray for the timw when that frustration was 'the worst to come' back but sadly that time is almost completely lost to us. Now, not only do you have to wait for your flight that might only come 2 days later, but you have to wonder if an 'underwear bomber' is sharing a flight with you.

It is becoming a new practice to ruin peoples festivity by taking the lives of the innocent and no longer is it isolated to one country or cause. On the 24th December 2010, almost as if orchestrated by the same people, bombs went off in Jos and Borno both in Nigeria, killing an uncertain amount of innocent people and injuring even much more and then on the 31st another set of bombings occurred this time in a military barracks located in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, the ancient city of Alexandria in Egypt, and several small towns in Iraq! All of these attacks except the one in the military barracks of Abuja, targeted worshiping and celebrating Christians.

The various governments are trying to maintain calm and presumably doing all they can to find and bring to justice the perpetrators of these dastardly acts but we all know how things digress from here. History has proven that once that door of terrorism has been open, it is almost impossible to shut. A caliber of violence that was once reserved for the warring Iraq and Afghanistan has spread to other countries both in the West, Middle-East, Europe and now Africa. I unfortunately do not see an immediate improvement, only escalations.

Where is all this anger coming from and is it unique to only a people or culture? It is only a matter of time before retaliation happens and retaliation only breeds more retaliation; so will we ever find peace? One day we might learn to live with each other, respecting the other man's choice of religion, and space, we might even no longer see color and race but that year is not this year.

Expect another year of much violence and hate and pray (if you are a praying person) that you and your family are safe from the disasters of these random locations!

Related Articles: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/02/moses.saint.sultan.unity/index.html?hpt=C2
http://english.aljazeera.net/video/middleeast/2011/01/201111163020636207.html

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/201112101933637362.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12096078

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/jan/02/national-02-01-2011-001.htm

http://www.thisdayonline.com/

Boy of Nigerian decent killed by son of ex NBA star, Nick Van Exel

What a sad way to begin the New Year! No parent should ever have to bury his/her child and to lose your child to something as insignificant as "nothing" is even more painful. Bradley Bassey Eyo was shot and killed and his body dumped close to his home to be discovered and his childhood friend, Nickey Van Exel has allegedly confessed to the killing but claims that it was an accident. The Dallas Police Department for now believe otherwise, implying that the behavior shows indications of premeditation in their public statement.

The irony of it all is that situations like this are no longer an irony but a cliche of our modern society; Bradley was said to have been shot with a shotgun owned by his stepfather. Which brings up another discussion, is gun control necessarily a bad thing? The argument of security becomes null becomes if nobody has the right to bear arms then there will be no need to own guns for security.

Countries like the UK and Malaysia with stern gun control laws have low gun related crimes and an American's 'Right to bear Arms' can still be protected if the government decides to regulate what kind of arms you have the right to bear. For me, I think ownership of arms only brings in more tragedy than it does security!

For Video of Report: http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhgacr0973PKud5N6T

Related Article: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/2010/12/31/2010-12-31_son_of_former_nba_star_nick_van_exel_charged_with_murder_in_what_his_attorney_sa.html?r=news/national