“Necromancy”, the dictionary tells us, “is the practice of magic or black magic involving communication with the dead – either by summoning their spirits as apparitions, visions, or by raising them.” Anyone desirous of witnessing this ancient rite, which has been forbidden in many countries, should show up today at the AFC Headquarters at Station St, Kitty!!
You remember the place, don’t you, dear readers?? The one that was paid for by an AFC businessman-financier who, according to Trotman at the opening, saw it as a “good investment”!! It wasn’t too long after that the “political investment” produced a big dividend for the investor when his moribund Wind Farm was touted as the epitome of “going green” on power generation – rather than hydro in general, and AFHEP in particular!! Sadly, however, like the AFC, it seems like he, too, became “dead meat”! Your Eyewitness wonders if he’ll show up today at his bequeathal for the raising-of-the-dead ritual.
From what we heard, such as remains of the AFC membership will be gathering at the HQ, and the ceremony will consist of throwing pieces of paper with names written on them into a box. Your Eyewitness isn’t sure whether any incantations will be read over the box, but we’re told that those names that were written the most times for various “positions” will cause the AFC to be resurrected from the dead through some mysterious process!!
It gotta be mysterious, because these same individuals have been around since 2015, when the APNU/AFC coalition won office and Granger then drove stakes repeatedly through their hearts!! The first stake was the “stiffing of Moses as PM” – even though he’d parted the waters of the Red PPP and taken some of their supporters to the Land of the PNC!! But the biggest was the stake of 7000 sugar workers thrown on the breadlines and left to die!! Could squiggles of pencil on paper return these long-dead creatures to (political) life??
Maybe? Two of the big ones vying to be the leaders of what would be the historic “AFC Walking Dead” know more than a thing or two about “pencils and paper”. During the 2020 elections, they’d apprehended two “Russian spies” with the power to rig our “paper and pencil” balloting!! They were supposedly immediately expelled from our fair land. But who knows if their dark- arts experience extended to necromancy, and they’d been kept in some basement for today’s ceremony??!
Anyhow, your Eyewitness advises that if you want to see the first raising of the dead in 2000 years, you walk with some Limacol. Even though there are normally “spirits” served at these functions as “libations” to get participants into the other world…after five years, dead meat does become “renk”!!
…riding two horses
The Summit of the Americas ended yesterday, and all your Eyewitness can say is, “Poor Biden”! With mid-term elections coming up and “all politics is local”, how does he balance wooing a Latin American/Caribbean audience that’s part of his biggest domestic problem – migrants from Latin America pouring across the Rio Grande – but where the US’ biggest threat is an encroaching China?!
Well, because he’s old enough, Biden should’ve taken the advice offered by Ricky Nelson back in 1972 – “if you can’t please everyone, you gotta please yourself”!! That year, he’d won an improbable victory to the Senate against a three-term veteran by being bold!! And the same year, the anti-communist Richard Nixon was even bolder and had flown off to Communist China to recognise and bring them in from the cold!!
He shoulda offered a contribution along the lines of the US$59billion that he found for the Ukraine War for development in the region!
More than doubling the $23.4 billion Financing & Mobilization in 2021!!
…being sugar daddy
After all, China’s been deploying the US$3.25 TRILLION in foreign reserves they’ve accumulated like money’s going out of style!!
So what if they take over everything when you choke on the debt??!!! So do sugar daddies, no!!
