NATAL, Brazil – In the lat­est chap­ter of Luis Suarez’s con­tro­ver­sial career, the Uruguay strik­er could once again be in trou­ble after appear­ing to bite an Italian oppo­nent Tuesday in a key World Cup qual­i­fy­ing game.

The inci­dent, shown on tele­vi­sion replays, showed Suarez appar­ent­ly bite the shoul­der of Italy defend­er Giorgio Chiellini as the pair clashed in the Italian penal­ty area. It hap­pened about a minute before Uruguay scored in the 81^st.

Uruguay won 1 – 0 and qual­i­fied for the knock­out stages, while four-time cham­pi­on Italy was eliminated.

It is the third bit­ing inci­dent involv­ing the tal­ent­ed but con­tro­ver­sial striker.

Suarez was banned for sev­en match­es by the Netherlands foot­ball fed­er­a­tion in 2010 after bit­ing PSV Eindhoven play­er Otman Bakkal in a league match when he played for Ajax. After mov­ing to Liverpool, he bit Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic in 2013 and was banned for 10 games. FIFA can sanc­tion play­ers with bans of up to two years if its dis­ci­pli­nary com­mis­sion decides there is a case to answer. After the inci­dent Tuesday, Chiellini protest­ed loud­ly but the ref­er­ee did not appear to have spot­ted the inci­dent. http://​www​.cbsnews​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​l​u​i​s​-​s​u​a​r​e​z​-​a​p​p​e​a​r​s​-​t​o​-​b​i​t​e​-​o​p​p​o​n​e​n​t​-​a​g​a​i​n​-​i​n​-​w​o​r​l​d​-​c​u​p​-​w​in/

Recently Clippers own­er Donald Sterling made some rather offen­sive and nean­derthal com­ments in a tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion with a young lady said to be his for­mer girl­friend. Sterling was unaware he was being record­ed, the com­ments attrib­uted to him were prob­a­bly the best indi­ca­tion of his feel­ings for African-Americans. The National Basket-Ball Association, through it’s Commissioner, act­ed swift­ly to ban Sterling from the game for life, and is active­ly tak­ing steps to force mis­ter Sterling to sell his stake in the Team which he owns with his estranged wife.

This is not the first time we have seen where racist com­ments have evoked swift respons­es . Donald Imus “nap­py head­ed hoes” com­ment cost him his job. Rick Santorum “bla peo­ple” com­ment may have done him in 2012. Former Virginia Senator George Allen may have had his Presidential aspi­ra­tions cur­tailed by his “Macaca“comment while on the stump. There are no short­age of instances where it has become clear that cer­tain lan­guage will no longer be tol­er­at­ed against others.

Reggae acts are no strangers to this kind of sanc­tion the lat­est being Queen Ifrica, a tal­ent­ed Artiste.

Queen Ifrica, 39, whose giv­en name is Ventrice Morgan, is known for her stri­dent lyrics, includ­ing Keep It To Yourself, Daddy and Times Like These. The Rastafari enter­tainer expressed her dis­ap­proval of the homo­sex­ual lifestyle at last year’s Independence Grand Gala cel­e­bra­tions in August which prompt­ed cul­ture min­is­ter Lisa Hanna to express regret at the utter­ances. In her response, Ifrica’s man­age­ment team released a state­ment which, in part, read: “Queen Ifrica express­es that, while she remains ground­ed in her morals which espous­es het­ero­sex­u­al­ity, she wants to make it abun­dantly and emphat­i­cally clear that she does not con­done nor has ever sup­ported or advo­cated vio­lence against any group or com­mu­nity, whether implic­itly or explic­it­ly.”.http://​www​.jamaicaob​server​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​G​a​y​s​— b​l​o​c​k​— Q​u​e​e​n​— I​f​r​i​c​a​— _16735516

Ifrica was pulled as head­liner at Amazura Concert Hall in Queens, New York, on May 24^th due to mount­ing pres­sure from the gay com­mu­nity. Six oth­er Jamaican female acts are also booked to per­form. A 200-​strong protest was held out­side the club. The organ­is­ers called for a halt of the ‘Invasion of the Queens’ show, which they said con­tributes to vio­lence against les­bians, gays, bi-​sex­u­als and trans­gen­ders. According the New York Daily News, the protest is being led by open­ly gay City Councilman Daniel Dromm. “We don’t need homo­pho­bic peo­ple like her com­ing to Queens to spread their mes­sage of hate,” he was quot­ed as saying. 

As we move to remove hatred and big­otry from our nation­al dis­course and ulti­mate­ly our lives, do we give up our right of dis­sent? Are we big­ots to be ostra­cized because we do not agree with some­one else? Should Donald Sterling be forced out of the NBA because of his com­ments or should the League insti­tute a pun­ish­ment which includes tol­er­ance train­ing as sug­gest­ed by Dallas Mavericks Owner Mark Cuban? Do we give up our God giv­en right to free speech in order to get along?

In the end, what about for­give­ness and redemp­tion? What about sec­ond chances, are we so wound­ed and scarred that it has become one and done? What would Jesus do? He would be for­giv­ing ! He would not ostra­cize Donald Sterling ‚nei­ther would he sup­port killing the career of Ventrice Morgan sim­ply because she dared to dissent.

REGGAE enter­tain­er Queen Ifrica has been pulled as head­lin­er at Amazura Concert Hall in Queens, New York, tonight, due to mount­ing pres­sure from the gay com­mu­ni­ty. Six oth­er Jamaican female acts are also booked to perform.

“She is not per­form­ing… every­one else will. The show will go on though,” John Rios, man­ag­er of Amazura Concert Hall, told the Jamaica Observer. The man­ag­er said his mega club is opened to every­one as “there’s no dis­crim­i­na­tion”. “We’re not prej­u­diced against any­one. I wel­come the gay com­mu­ni­ty and we get along with every­body,” he said. Yesterday, a 200-strong protest was held out­side the club. The organ­is­ers called for a halt of the ‘Invasion of the Queens’ show, which they said con­tributes to vio­lence against les­bians, gays, bi-sex­u­als and trans­gen­ders. According the New York Daily News, the protest is being led by open­ly gay City Councilman Daniel Dromm. “We don’t need homo­pho­bic peo­ple like her com­ing to Queens to spread their mes­sage of hate,” he was quot­ed as saying.

Queen Ifrica, 39, whose giv­en name is Ventrice Morgan, is known for her stri­dent lyrics, includ­ing Keep It To Yourself, Daddy and Times Like These. The Rastafari enter­tain­er expressed her dis­ap­proval of the homo­sex­u­al lifestyle at last year’s Independence Grand Gala cel­e­bra­tions in August which prompt­ed cul­ture min­is­ter Lisa Hanna to express regret at the utter­ances. In her response, Ifrica’s man­age­ment team released a state­ment which, in part, read: “Queen Ifrica express­es that, while she remains ground­ed in her morals which espous­es het­ero­sex­u­al­i­ty, she wants to make it abun­dant­ly and emphat­i­cal­ly clear that she does not con­done nor has ever sup­port­ed or advo­cat­ed vio­lence against any group or com­mu­ni­ty, whether implic­it­ly or explicitly.”

This is not the first time that the Jamaican act has felt the wrath of the gay com­mu­ni­ty. Last August, Ifrica was pulled from the line-up of Rastafest in Canada fol­low­ing protests by the gay com­mu­ni­ty there. As well, Buju Banton, who is cur­rent­ly serv­ing a 10-year sen­tence in an American prison on drug-relat­ed charges, had his con­certs repeat­ed­ly can­celled due to gay protests through­out the United States.http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​G​a​y​s​-​b​l​o​c​k​-​Q​u​e​e​n​-​I​f​r​i​c​a​-​_​1​6​7​3​5​516

Dallas Mevericks Owner Mark Cuban is now under the micro­scope for mak­ing the fol­low­ing state­ments. But is it fair to Cuban , the atten­tion he is get­ting for mak­ing these com­ments, are we at a point where we can­not dis­cuss ideas and say what we feel with­out being maligned?

Dallas Mavericks own­er Mark Cuban, attempt­ing to make a nuanced point about soci­ety’s chal­lenges deal­ing with racism, acknowl­edged hav­ing his own “prej­u­dices and big­otries” dur­ing an inter­view with Inc. mag­a­zine that has gone viral.

“In this day and age, this coun­try has real­ly come a long way putting any type of big­otry behind us, regard­less of who it’s toward,” Cuban said Wednesday. “We’ve come a long way, and with that progress comes a price. We’re a lot more vig­i­lant and we’re a lot less tol­er­ant of dif­fer­ent views, and it’s not nec­es­sar­i­ly easy for every­body to adapt or evolve.

“I mean, we’re all prej­u­diced in one way or anoth­er. If I see a black kid in a hood­ie and it’s late at night, I’m walk­ing to the oth­er side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there’s a guy that has tat­toos all over his face — white guy, bald head, tat­toos every­where — I’m walk­ing back to the oth­er side of the street. And the list goes on of stereo­types that we all live up to and are fear­ful of. So in my busi­ness­es, I try not to be hyp­o­crit­i­cal. I know that I’m not per­fect. I know that I live in a glass house, and it’s not appro­pri­ate for me to throw stones.”

Cuban’s com­ments come at a par­tic­u­lar­ly sen­si­tive time for the NBA, which is the midst of try­ing to force Los Angeles Clippers own­er Donald Sterling to sell his team after he made racial­ly charged com­ments on an audio­tape. Sterling was banned for life and fined $2.5 mil­lion by NBA com­mis­sion­er Adam Silver after the release of a TMZ record­ing, in which he told a female friend, V. Stiviano, not to bring black peo­ple to Clippers games.

On Monday, Sterling was charged with dam­ag­ing the league with his racist com­ments, and has until Tuesday to respond to the charge. If Sterling does not respond by then, that would be grounds for ter­mi­na­tion. Silver’s deci­sion of a life­time ban for Sterling is sub­ject to a vote by NBA own­ers on June, with the com­mis­sion­er need­ing three-quar­ters of the vote to enforce his decision.

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Jerome Miron/​USA TODAY SportsMark Cuban’s com­ments come at a par­tic­u­lar­ly sen­si­tive time for the NBA, which is the midst of try­ing to force Clippers own­er Donald Sterling to sell his team after he made racial­ly charged comments.

Speaking at the annu­al GrowCo con­ven­tion, host­ed by Inc. mag­a­zine, on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee, Cuban said he knows how he’ll vote but isn’t ready to com­ment on it.

“There’s no law against stu­pid,” Cuban said when asked how to keep big­otry out of the NBA, accord­ing to the Tennessean. “I’m the one guy who says ‘don’t force stu­pid peo­ple to be qui­et.’ I want to know who the morons are.”

On the night before Silver’s announce­ment of Sterling’s life­time ban, Cuban called Sterling’s com­ments “abhor­rent.” However, he also said that forc­ing Sterling to sell the Clippers would be a “very slip­pery slope.”

Cuban pledged his full sup­port of Silver’s rul­ing after the fact, but he had been guard­ed on his com­ments on the sub­ject since then until appear­ing at the GrowCo con­ven­tion Wednesday, when he report­ed­ly said that he hates that he might have to be hyp­o­crit­i­cal with his vote on the the mat­ter of Sterling.

The point Cuban attempt­ed to make dur­ing his video­taped inter­view with Inc. mag­a­zine was the impor­tance of help­ing peo­ple evolve from their prej­u­dices and bigotries.

“I’ll try to give them a chance to improve them­selves, because I think that help­ing peo­ple improve their lives, help­ing peo­ple engage with peo­ple they may fear or may not under­stand, and help­ing peo­ple real­ize that while we all may have our prej­u­dices and big­otries we have to learn that it’s an issue that we have to con­trol, that it’s part of my respon­si­bil­i­ty as an entre­pre­neur to try to solve it, not just to kick the prob­lem down the road,” Cuban said. “Because it does my com­pa­ny no good, it does my cus­tomers no good, it does soci­ety no good if my response to some­body and their racism and big­otry is to say, ‘It’s not right for you to be here. Go take your atti­tude some­where else.’ ”https://​mike​beck​les​.com/​w​p​-​a​d​m​i​n​/​p​o​s​t​-​n​e​w​.​php

What Happened?

• As many as 300 teenaged girls were abduct­ed from their school in Nigeria on April 15 by the Islamic mil­i­tant ter­ror orga­ni­za­tion Boko Haram. The group is based in Nigeria and has car­ried out attacks on schools before.
• Some girls man­aged to escape, but many are believed to have been trans­port­ed into neigh­bor­ing Cameroon or Chad.
• The leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has said he plans to sell the girls into mar­riages and sex slav­ery, but now says he is will­ing to exchange them for impris­oned militants

• Videos released by Boko Haram today show about 100 of the girls wear­ing hijabs and recit­ing the Koran.
• Abubakar Shekau, the group’s leader, says in the video he will­ing to exchange the girls for impris­oned Boko Haram militants.
• The video offered the first glimpse of hope for Nigerian fam­i­lies that the girls may be returned safely.

What Is the World Doing to Rescue the Girls?

• The pres­i­dent of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has received crit­i­cism for wait­ing weeks to ask for inter­na­tion­al assis­tance to recov­er the girls. He now says the gov­ern­ment is doing all it can to find them and bring them home alive.
• A team of U.S. experts is in Nigeria to assist the gov­ern­ment in try­ing to res­cue the girls. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the team con­sist­ed of law enforce­ment, intel­li­gence and mil­i­tary experts who will use counter-ter­ror­ism efforts in Nigeria.
• Meanwhile, Nigerian peace nego­tia­tor Shehu Sani told ABC News that he has pro­posed a for­mal nego­ti­a­tion between Nigerian Islamic cler­ics and Boko Haram that would see the girls returned with­in a week in exchange for insur­gents cur­rent­ly impris­oned in Nigeria. He said the fact that Boko Haram threat­ened to sell the girls rather than kill them is a pos­i­tive sign that they are open to negotiations.

Could the Kidnapping Have Been Prevented?

• Amnesty International said that Nigerian secu­ri­ty forces failed to act on advance warn­ings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run board­ing school in Chibok.
• The Nigerian gov­ern­ment has also been crit­i­cized for its fail­ure to bat­tle Boko Haram in recent years as the ter­ror group has increased its attacks, sophis­ti­ca­tion and organization.
• The U.S. State Department and for­mer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received crit­i­cism for not des­ig­nat­ing Boko Haram a ter­ror orga­ni­za­tion until very recent­ly, in November 2013, despite ear­li­er attacks. The State Department said it wor­ried the des­ig­na­tion would boost recruit­ing efforts for the group and was unsure whether Boko Haram posed any threat out­side of Nigeria.
• http://​news​.yahoo​.com/​k​n​o​w​-​n​o​w​-​k​i​d​n​a​p​p​e​d​-​n​i​g​e​r​i​a​n​-​g​i​r​l​s​-​1​6​0​5​3​6​890 – abc-news-topstories.html;_ylt=A0LEVxkipHNTFjwA9jJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0ZjVhNmtyBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlk

Every United States Senator will receive $2800 increase in their salaries come January 1^st 2015. This includes the 41 Republicans who vot­ed to block an increase in the min­i­mum wage. Congress: Leadership Members’ Salary (2014)
Leaders of the House and Senate are paid a high­er salary than rank-and-file mem­bers. Majority Party Leader — .$193,400 Minority Party Leader — $193,400. Rank and file mem­bers of the Senate makes slight­ly less. Each year a cost-of-liv­ing-adjust­ment (COLA) increase takes effect unless Congress votes to not accept it. http://​usgov​in​fo​.about​.com/​o​d​/​u​s​c​o​n​g​r​e​s​s​/​a​/​c​o​n​g​r​e​s​s​p​a​y​.​htm .

To a strug­gling fam­i­ly earn­ing min­i­mum wage, $2800 is a large sum of mon­ey. In addi­tion to Senators prince­ly salaries, this addi­tion­al increase is just anoth­er perk of office, paid for by the very tax-pay­ers they vot­ed should not receive an increase. Senators salaries come from the pock­ets of the peo­ple. An increase in the min­i­mum wage does not come from the pock­et of Senators. This is Government at it’s worst. An increase in the min­i­mum wage will not force one legit­i­mate busi­ness to close,It should not be a bur­den to any busi­ness oper­at­ing in sol­ven­cy to pay a liv­ing wage to their employ­ees. Paying a liv­ing wage to hard work­ing Americans is the right thing to do , it is the moral thing to do.

Forty one Republicans vot­ed to deny poor peo­ple a liv­ing wage. The annu­al increase to the salaries of Senators and Congressmen are designed to off­set cost of liv­ing increas­es. Where do the poor turn to get a cost of liv­ing offset?

There are 30 Teams in the National Basket-ball Association (NBA. Thus far only 2 own­ers are report­ed to have voiced an opin­ion on the out­ra­geous racist dia­tribe of LA Clippers own­er, Donald Sterling. In that exchange Sterling berat­ed his close con­fi­dant V. Stiviano about her rela­tion­ships with Black peo­ple. He told her he did not want her bring­ing Black peo­ple to his games.

Since then the League has banned mis­ter Sterling from the league for life and is report­ed­ly active­ly engaged in try­ing to have an ear­ly vote by the League’s Board Of Governors (the oth­er own­ers} to force Sterling to sell the Clippers.

In 2011 rough­ly 78% of the NBA play­ers were African Americans. The NBA has the high­est per­cent­age of Black play­ers of any pro­fes­sion­al Sports League in the United States and Canada. Simply put Basketball is a black man’s game accord­ing to Pacers President Larry Bird. “It is a black man’s game, and it will be for­ev­er. I mean, the great­est ath­letes in the world are African-Americans,” said Bird. The NBA has no oth­er com­mod­i­ty except it’s play­ers. Any indi­vid­ual or Corporation doing busi­ness must have a vest­ed inter­est in it’s com­mod­i­ty. Most Companies will fight to the last dol­lar to pro­tect that which it deals or trades in. After all that’s the com­pa­ny’s life-blood. No com­mod­i­ty, no Company. NBA Players are well paid, that how­ev­er is not the point. They bring to the pub­lic, a very sought-after form of enter­tain­ment which the pub­lic is will­ing to pay hand­some­ly to see. Subsequently NBA team own­ers are rolling in the wealth these play­ers cre­ate for them. 

Most play­ers are Millionaires, Many own­ers are Billionaires. NBA play­ers are a great com­mod­i­ty for the Billionaire team own­ers. It is dis­grace­ful yet not sur­pris­ing that there is no league-wide out­cry from these wealthy white men who own the oth­ers fran­chis­es except those two, who by the way are still anony­mous. This begs the ques­tion whether more of these own­ers are them­selves clos­et­ed big­ots, who even if they vote to oust Sterling, will sim­ply be going along to get along? If NBA own­ers can­not denounce ran­cid big­otry out of moral con­vic­tion, should­n’t they be able to do so since their chat­tel the play­ers, make them wealthy?

Clippers leg­end and for­mer gen­er­al man­ag­er Elgin Baylor accused Sterling of hav­ing a “plan­ta­tion men­tal­i­ty” in a law­suit against Sterling in 2003. Maybe the Plantation men­tal­i­ty runs deep­er than just Donald Sterling. Maybe the new cot­ton fields are the NBA courts.

“Why are you tak­ing pic­tures with minori­ties,” Sterling alleged­ly said on the tape, among many oth­er things. “It both­ers me a lot that you want to broad­cast that you’re asso­ci­at­ing with black peo­ple. Do you have to?” “You can sleep with [black peo­ple],” Sterling con­tin­ued. “You can bring them in, you can do what­ev­er you want. The lit­tle I ask you is not to pro­mote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.”

These are the state­ments attrib­uted to Clippers own­er Donald Sterling. Mister Sterling was speak­ing via tele­phone with his female com­pan­ion V. Stiviano, in which he told her he did­n’t want her to “bring black peo­ple to his games” includ­ing Magic Johnson. The own­er report­ed­ly went off after Stiviano post­ed an Instagram shot of her­self with Johnson at a recent game (which she lat­er deleted).

The NBA has since banned mis­ter Sterling from hav­ing any­thing to do with the League including

his own team . In addi­tion he has been fined 2.5 mil­lion the max­i­mum allowed. New Commissioner Adam Silver has asked the League’s board of Governors to vote to force Mister Sterling to sell the Clippers.

Andy Roeser, pres­i­dent of the L.A. Clippers, told E! News in a state­ment, “We have heard the tape on TMZ. We do not know if it is legit­i­mate or it has been altered. We do know that the woman on the tape — who we believe released it to TMZ — is the defen­dant in a law­suit brought by the Sterling fam­i­ly alleg­ing that she embez­zled more than $1.8 mil­lion, who told Mr. Sterling that she would “get even.”

SHOULD STERLING HAVE BEEN DISCIPLINED BEFORE

Mister Sterling was sued twice by the U.S. Department of Justice for dis­crim­i­na­to­ry rental prac­tices, pay­ing a then-record $2.73 mil­lion penal­ty to set­tle the sec­ond case. Former Clippers gen­er­al man­ag­er Elgin Baylor described Sterling as hav­ing a “plan­ta­tion men­tal­i­ty” dur­ing his unsuc­cess­ful age dis­crim­i­na­tion law­suit, recount­ing con­ver­sa­tions with his for­mer boss that were, at best, racial­ly insensitive.

Whether mis­ter Sterling will be forced to sell his team by the board of Governors we don’t know. Team own­ers are them­selves large­ly wealthy white men who may very well share some of the same views in-art­ful­ly spilled by Donald Sterling. The tough puni­tive stance tak­en by the new Commissioner will how­ev­er be a new dou­ble edged sword that will sure­ly pierce play­ers , coach­es and oth­ers in the League as it has Sterling. No one asso­ci­at­ed with the league will be allowed to berate or dis­re­spect oth­ers who are dif­fer­ent. It behooves all con­cerned to be restrained in their glee regard­ing the actions of the league against mis­ter Sterling. The same knife which sticks Sheep sticks Goats (old Jamaican saying).

Clippers own­er Donald Sterling has been banned by the NBA .

NEW YORK (AP) — Issuing about the strongest rebuke that he could, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Los Angeles Clippers own­er Donald Sterling for life Tuesday for mak­ing racist com­ments in a record­ed con­ver­sa­tion, the first step toward forc­ing a sale of the club and per­ma­nent­ly remov­ing Sterling from the league.

Silver also fined Sterling $2.5 mil­lion, and again expressed outrage.

“I ful­ly expect to get the sup­port I need from the oth­er NBA own­ers to remove him,” Silver said.

Several own­ers imme­di­ate­ly chimed in with sup­port of Silver’s deci­sion. Sterling, the league’s longest-tenured own­er and some­one with an esti­mat­ed net worth of about $2 bil­lion, did not offer any imme­di­ate comment.

The penal­ties, which were announced only three days after the scan­dal broke, are the harsh­est ever issued by the league and among the stiffest pun­ish­ments ever giv­en to an own­er in pro­fes­sion­al sports. Silver said a league inves­ti­ga­tion found that Sterling was in fact the per­son on the audio­tapes that were released over the week­end and imme­di­ate­ly sent shock waves through­out the game. http://​www​.nba​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​n​e​w​s​/​0​4​/​2​9​/​n​b​a​-​b​a​n​s​-​d​o​n​a​l​d​-​s​t​e​r​l​i​n​g​.​a​p​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​t​m​l​?​l​s​=​i​r​e​f​:​n​b​a​h​pts

(CNN) — Longtime NBA team own­er Donald Sterling is being round­ly crit­i­cized for remarks he alleged­ly made regard­ing African-Americans that some are call­ing “repug­nant” and “rep­re­hen­si­ble.”

Sterling, who has owned the Los Angeles Clippers for near­ly three decades, made the com­ments in a 10-minute argu­ment he had with girl­friend V. Stiviano on April 9, accord­ing to TMZ, which post­ed the audio Saturday.

Multiple calls to the Clippers orga­ni­za­tion Saturday were not returned. CNN can­not inde­pen­dent­ly ver­i­fy the authen­tic­i­ty of the audio recording.

TMZ does not say who made the record­ing or how the celebri­ty-cen­tric web­site obtained it.

Attempts to reach Stiviano on Saturday also were unsuccessful.

If authen­tic, the remarks seem to reflect Sterling’s embar­rass­ment and frus­tra­tion with Stiviano over her asso­ci­at­ing with African-Americans at Clippers games and for post­ing such pic­tures on her Instagram account.

Stiviano is part African-American, accord­ing to the recording.

The man alleged to be Sterling takes par­tic­u­lar excep­tion to a pho­to she post­ed to Instagram with NBA icon Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

“In your lousy … Instagrams, you don’t have to have your­self with — walk­ing with black peo­ple,” the man says.

“If it’s white peo­ple, it’s OK?” she responds. “If it was Larry Bird, would it make a difference?”

Bird, the long­time Boston Celtics star, was Johnson’s NBA rival.

“I’ve known [Magic] well and he should be admired …. I’m just say­ing that it’s too bad you can’t admire him pri­vate­ly,” the man on the record­ing says. “Admire him, bring him here, feed him … but don’t put [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.”

Johnson respond­ed Saturday after­noon via his ver­i­fied Twitter account.

“I feel sor­ry for my friends Coach Doc Rivers and Chris Paul that they have to work for a man that feels that way about African Americans” read a tweet from @MagicJohnson. “I will nev­er go to a Clippers game again as long as Donald Sterling is the own­er,” read anoth­er. Paul issued a state­ment, not as the star of Sterling’s team, but in his role as pres­i­dent of the player’s union. “On behalf of the National Basketball Players Association, this is a very seri­ous issue which we will address aggres­sive­ly,” he said.

The union’s response will be led by NBA play­er-turned-may­or of Sacramento Kevin Johnson. “The report­ed com­ments made by Clippers own­er Donald Sterling are rep­re­hen­si­ble and unac­cept­able,” he said in a statement.

The NBA weighed in as well.

“We are in the process of con­duct­ing a full inves­ti­ga­tion into the audio record­ing obtained by TMZ,” Mike Bass, exec­u­tive VP for com­mu­ni­ca­tions, told CNN. “The remarks heard on the record­ing are dis­turb­ing and offen­sive, but at this time we have no fur­ther information.”

On Saturday, two high-pro­file NBA alums addressed the con­tro­ver­sy dur­ing the Hawks ver­sus Pacers half­time pro­gram on TNT, which like CNN, is a divi­sion of Time Warner.

“Should this guy con­tin­ue to be an own­er?” asked Shaquille O’Neal, who also called the com­ments “repug­nant.”

“We can­not have an NBA own­er dis­crim­i­nat­ing against the league,” said Charles Barkley. “We’re a black league.”

The Clippers are set to play the Golden State Warriors in Oakland on Sunday in the fourth game in their best-of-sev­en play­off series.

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The Editorial Page of Monday March 31^st with great clar­i­ty shows why peo­ple can­not depend on tra­di­tion­al Media Houses for cred­i­ble infor­ma­tion and rea­son­able news com­men­tary. The Publication’s attempt to dis­cred­it the Director of Public Prosecution amount­ed to not much more than a dis­as­trous witch-hunt.

1) Editorial Points con­tra­dict­ing… well the Editorial points.

For while we accept, and insist on, and avail our­selves of the right that the judi­cia­ry can­not be above ques­tion­ing and crit­i­cism, we feel that Ms Llewellyn should take stock.

2) Ms Llewellyn has made it clear that had she the right of appeal, as is now being pro­posed for some cir­cum­stances in Jamaica, she would. That’s well enough. But Ms Llewellyn, unless we mis­in­ter­pret her utter­ances, has done more, and gone too far.

3) To be sure, despite her attempt to couch her crit­i­cisms of RM Pusey’s dis­agree­ment based on law, tone and con­text betray some­thing deep­er, we sus­pect. For instance, when an inter­view­er jux­ta­posed the out­comes of the Spencer-Wright case and the guilty ver­dict in the Vybz Kartel mur­der tri­al, plac­ing the dif­fer­ent deci­sions in the con­text of class and argued that jus­tice in Jamaica was on tri­al, Ms Llewellyn agreed that “jus­tice was not served” in the Spencer-Wright decision.

4) Then there was the tele­vi­sion dis­cus­sion pro­gram in which Ms Llewellyn pur­sued her belief that the mag­is­trate had made an error in the law, which is a posi­tion she is enti­tled to hold and declare. What was dis­con­cert­ing, unless we mis­ap­pre­hend­ed her intent, was the DPP’s ref­er­ence to two cas­es on which Ms Pusey had returned guilty ver­dicts but was over­ruled at appeal. That appeared to us, cir­cuitous though the effort may have been, a ques­tion­ing of Judith Pusey’s com­pe­tence as a magistrate.

Unlike the DPP and judges of the Supreme and appeal courts, mag­is­trates do not have secu­ri­ty of tenure. There is no require­ment for the con­ven­ing of high tri­bunals to remove them from office. In that regard, if the DPP believes that Ms Pusey is judi­cial­ly incom­pe­tent, or worse, she should, and can, prop­er­ly raise the mat­ter with the chief jus­tice so that the applic­a­ble civ­il-ser­vice reg­u­la­tions be acti­vat­ed and the appro­pri­ate deci­sions arrived at. http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/

There was a time when this Publication was respect­ed in our coun­try and the greater Caribbean region . That time has passed . Like every­thing else in Jamaica the stan­dard of Journalism and Editorial objec­tiv­i­ty once expect­ed has dis­s­a­peared down the gut­ter of ghet­toiza­tion , sac­ri­ficed on the altar of polit­i­cal expe­di­en­cy. No men­tion of the fact that a sim­ple project ‚intend­ed to dis­trib­ute free light bulbs donat­ed by the Cubans to Jamaicans was turned into a cash pot for one mem­ber of Parliament. No ques­tions asked about where Kern Spencer and his so-called assis­tant got all that mon­ey they deposit­ed into their accounts on suc­ceed­ing days to buy high end SUV . No ques­tions or men­tion of the fact that a sin­gle mis­guid­ed Magistrate hijacked the process and allowed anoth­er politi­cian to go free despite the evi­dence. Why would the Editorial page ask these ques­tions? It can’t ‚because it was the very same news­pa­per which sold the peo­ple on this incom­pe­tent Party in pow­er head­ed by the chief incom­pe­tent, Portia Simpson Miller. This Publication has demon­strat­ed it is no longer rel­e­vant on top­i­cal issues. It’s views now are exact­ly the das­tard­ly views com­ing out of Jamaica House. It is a sad day that a once proud Publication like the Gleaner would sur­ren­der its Journalistic excel­lence to become part of a ghet­to cult. It is a sad day when a Publication would side with those who do harm to the peo­ple, then have the gall to attack those who speak on behalf of the people.

North and South Korea have exchanged fire into the sea across the dis­put­ed west­ern sea bor­der, South Korea says. North Korea announced ear­ly on Monday that it would hold live-fire drills in sev­en parts of the bor­der area. South Korea says it returned fire after North Korean shells land­ed in its ter­ri­to­r­i­al waters. The area has been a flash-point between the two Koreas. The UN drew the west­ern bor­der after the Korean War, but North Korea has nev­er rec­og­nized it. n late 2010, four South Koreans were killed on a bor­der island by North Korean artillery fire. Border fire was also briefly exchanged in August 2011.

The live-fire exer­cis­es were announced by North Korea in a faxed mes­sage from its mil­i­tary to the South’s navy. South Korea warned of imme­di­ate retal­i­a­tion if any shells crossed the bor­der. “Some of [North Korea’s] shells land­ed south of the bor­der dur­ing the drill. So our mil­i­tary fired back north of the bor­der in line with ordi­nary pro­to­col,” a defence min­istry state­ment said.South Korea said the two sides exchanged hun­dreds of shells.“The North fired some 500 shots… and some 100 of them land­ed in waters south of the bor­der,” said Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok. The South fired more than 300 rounds in return, he said. Residents of a bor­der island, Baengnyeong, were evac­u­at­ed into shel­ters dur­ing the three-hour inci­dent. http://​www​.bbc​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​w​o​r​l​d​-​a​s​i​a​-​2​6​8​1​5​041

In November 2010, North Korea fired shells at the bor­der island of Yeonpyeong, killing two marines and two civil­ians. It said it was respond­ing to South Korean mil­i­tary exer­cis­es in the area.Earlier that year, a South Korean war­ship sank near Baengnyeong island with the loss of 46 lives. Seoul says Pyongyang tor­pe­doed the ves­sel but North Korea

denies any role in the inci­dent. ‘New form’ test .China — North Korea’s biggest trad­ing part­ner — called for calm and restraint after the exchange of fire. It came days after North Korea test-fired two medi­um-range Nodong mis­siles over the sea, its first such launch since 2009.Late last week, the UN Security Council con­demned the launch and said it was con­sid­er­ing an “appro­pri­ate response”. That launch fol­lowed a series of short-range mis­sile tests, seen as a response to the cur­rent US-South Korea annu­al mil­i­tary exer­cis­es. Over the week­end, North Korea also threat­ened to con­duct a “new form” of nuclear test. It has con­duct­ed three nuclear tests to date, the most recent in February 2013. South Korea’s Unification Ministry said on Monday that there was no sign a North Korean nuclear test was imminent.

Coincidence or Conspiracy ?

This ques­tion evokes scowls of increduli­ty from cer­tain quar­ters , yet it is impor­tant to look at the two crim­i­nal cas­es which have kept Jamaicans riv­et­ed to court-watch­ing over the last few years. The cas­es involved 1) the crim­i­nal mur­der tri­al of Adijia Palmer dance-hall icon and entre­pre­neur and 2) the Money laun­der­ing and fraud charges Kern Spencer ( PNP ) Member of Parliament and Junior Energy Minister faced. Conscientious observers who want a crime free Jamaica saw these two cas­es as a water­shed moment in the coun­try’s fight to break the back of cor­rup­tion. Emotions ran high on both sides of either case. Many dug in based on polit­i­cal loy­al­ties in the Spencer case and many are unable to digest the seri­ous­ness of mur­der in the Kartel case. A dou­ble guilty some thought, would send a strong mes­sage to two impor­tant sec­tors of the coun­try ‚that no one was above the laws. The man on the streets , ever sus­pi­cions of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem, would nev­er accept that Kartel may have been cor­rect­ly con­vict­ed of mur­der. After all Kartel’s own defense was based sole­ly on the notion that he was framed by the evil sys­tem. A move designed to take full advan­tage of the dis­trust cer­tain sec­tors of the soci­ety have of the Police. The deci­sion by Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey to sum­mar­i­ly dis­miss the case against Kern Spencer will cement the notion that there are two dif­fer­ent brands of Justice in Jamaica for a long time to come. Pusey did seri­ous dam­age to the sys­tem of Justice from the start. Whether it was ego, cor­rup­tion or prin­ci­ple involved, it may for­ev­er depend on who you talk to .

Notwithstanding, the per­cep­tion of many ‚is that the out­come of the Kern Spencer crim­i­nal case was decid­ed before it was even men­tioned in the courts. To the man on the streets  Kartel is rep­re­sen­ta­tive of them , their strug­gles, their wish to shine despite adver­si­ties. Kartel is them , his suc­cess­es are theirs they believe. They live vic­ar­i­ous­ly through him. Kern rep­re­sents the polit­i­cal class, insu­lat­ed from the laws,rulers who do not need to account. In this case I believe the actions of the tri­al judge made that absolute­ly clear. Both the soci­etal elites and the man on the streets may wish to reflect on these two cas­es. The upper-crust-men­tal­i­ty which ignores the fact that a seri­ous breach may have been com­mit­ted, yet was allowed to go unpun­ished, are no dif­fer­ent than the man on the streets who clos­es his mind to the fact that Clive lizard Williams is dead and their hero may very well have had some­thing to do with it.

Residents in sev­er­al vio­lence rav­aged com­mu­ni­ties in West and East Kingston have marched recent­ly demand­ing a halt to the con­tin­ued vio­lence in their com­mu­ni­ties. Some crit­ics have been quick to dis­miss the march­es as incon­se­quen­tial and mean­ing­less. For decades res­i­dents in mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ties with­in the greater Kingston met­ro­pol­i­tan area, as well as Spanish Town and a few oth­er com­mu­ni­ties in Clarendon, have been vir­tu­al pris­on­ers in their com­mu­ni­ties. Communities like Arnett Gardens, Wilton Gardens, Tivoli Gardens, Dunkirk , Nannyville , and a host of oth­er com­mu­ni­ties built by both polit­i­cal par­ties and packed with their sup­port­ers have had to deal with cer­tain codes of con­duct ben­e­fi­cial to the Politician and the” Don”( local criminal-enforcer).

Over the years politi­cians who ini­tial­ly deliv­ered guns to under­priv­i­leged young men to ensure their hold on con­stituen­cy seats , have seen that con­trol evap­o­rate as monies from the drug-trade, extor­tion , the Lotto-scam, mur­der for hire and oth­er crimes super­seded what lit­tle monies they could dole out. Eventually rifts emerged between those crim­i­nal fac­tions. Empowered with semi-auto­mat­ic and auto­mat­ic weapons and a seem­ing­ly unend­ing sup­ply of ammu­ni­tion, com­mu­ni­ties found them­selves at war. War broke out between dif­fer­ent fac­tions on dif­fer­ent streets fight­ing over turf. That turf is gen­er­al­ly Extortion turf out­side their depressed com­mu­ni­ties. With politi­cians and antag­o­nist crim­i­nal sup­port­ing groups pro­vid­ing cov­er, the secu­ri­ty forces find them­selves fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle , stuck between gangs and their pro­tec­tors in Gordon House. After thou­sands of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers killed over the last 30 years some res­i­dents are find­ing their voic­es and call­ing for a change. I say it is a step in the right direc­tion, march­ing is not a panacea, it is a beginning.

Residents have the pow­er to put a stop to the vio­lence by stand­ing up just as they allowed it to metas­ta­size by remain­ing silent. It will be a long slow plod back to tak­ing back some com­mu­ni­ties which have not oper­at­ed as parts of the greater Jamaican com­mu­ni­ty for decades. Some com­mu­ni­ties have been unof­fi­cial­ly dean­nexed ‚tak­ing their orders from local crim­i­nal enforcers.Generations have grown up with­in these com­mu­ni­ties hav­ing no con­cept of wrong or right, only cater­ing to their base instincts of sur­vival and loy­al acqui­esc­ing and obe­di­ence to the dic­tates of the Don and their polit­i­cal leaders.

Recently the Jamaica Public ser­vice com­pa­ny (JPS )dis­con­nect­ed elec­tri­cal con­nec­tions from their pow­er-lines in Arnett Gardens. These con­nec­tions facil­i­tat­ed the theft of elec­tri­cal pow­er from the com­pa­ny. Invariably that cost is passed on to the cap­tive pay­ing cus­tomers of the com­pa­ny. Residents of Arnett Gardens blocked the roads , dis­rupt­ing vehic­u­lar traf­fic to and from their com­mu­ni­ty , demand­ing that the com­pa­ny recon­nect the wires so they may con­tin­ue steal­ing elec­tric­i­ty. Marching will not solve Jamaica’s crime prob­lem , no more than the police beg­ging crim­i­nals not to com­mit crimes will. If how­ev­er, it sig­nals a reori­ent­ing and realign­ing of the peo­ple’s atten­tion , I am all for it . Jamaica is a beau­ti­ful coun­try made hor­ri­ble by it’s peo­ple. At some stage we will have to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for what we have done with that cov­et­ed lit­tle Island. From all appear­ances we have demon­strat­ed we are unable to prop­er­ly gov­ern ourselves.

“We are the ones we have been wait­ing for ” a ral­ly­ing cry Barack Obama used in his quest to becom­ing America’s 44^th President. All of us have a respon­si­bil­i­ty to leave the world a bet­ter place than we found it when we arrived. The ques­tion we must ask our­selves is,” are we doing any­thing, much less enough to change the things which we see are wrong”? Someone once asked ’ how can a sin­gle per­son make a dif­fer­ence”? The answer, ask a per­son being bugged by a mos­qui­to ! Everyone of us can make a dif­fer­ence, we make a dif­fer­ence in the way we cast our votes, respon­si­bly and not emo­tion­al­ly. We make a dif­fer­ence in the way we raise our chil­dren. We make a dif­fer­ence in the way we treat oth­ers. We make a dif­fer­ence in the way we present our­selves to the world. We fail as a specie to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for our actions. We fail in rec­og­niz­ing that we the peo­ple deter­mines our own des­tiny. Yes it begins in the homes, it con­tin­ues in how we dis­pense adult func­tions such as vot­ing. If we con­tin­ue to act emo­tion­al­ly when we vote , how will we ever have respon­si­ble, capa­ble and moral lead­ers? If we allow the par­ty we favor to be safe in the belief, that irre­spec­tive of the cor­rup­tion, graft, and incom­pe­tence it deliv­ers we will sim­ply put them back in office,why would they change?

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” YES WE CAN!!

If when we vote we choose peo­ple with ques­tion­able morals how can we com­plain when they deliv­er immorality?When we elect lead­ers who have demon­strat­ed that they are inca­pable of deliv­er­ing on the most basic of require­ments, how can we be sur­prised when our stan­dard of liv­ing con­tin­ue to dete­ri­o­rate? How do we expect the Police to react to us when we offer them bribes to let us off when we break the laws, Aren’t we the ones cor­rupt­ing them?

How do we expect to end cor­rup­tion if we remain silent when pub­lic offi­cials demand pay-offs? How do we expect respect, when we hurl abuse and insults at those appoint­ed to enforce laws which are in place for our own pro­tec­tion? How do so many peo­ple move to live in coun­tries where the fun­da­men­tals of a civ­i­lized soci­ety are prac­ticed, yet cheer-lead and sup­port anar­chy in the coun­try of their births? Isn’t it self­ish and hyp­o­crit­i­cal when we reap the fruits of order, yet we sow the seeds of anar­chy? Just asking ?

Malaysian offi­cials announced Wednesday that a satel­lite has cap­tured images of 122 objects in the Indian Ocean that might be from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, miss­ing since March 8. According to act­ing Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein, the objects were seen close to where three oth­er satel­lites had pre­vi­ous­ly detect­ed pos­si­ble air­craft debris. He added that the sight­ings are “the most cred­i­ble lead that we have.“Hussein said the satel­lite images, which were tak­en Sunday and relayed by France-based Airbus Defense and Space, showed objects rang­ing in size from one to 25 yards in length. “It must be empha­sized that we can­not tell whether the poten­tial objects are from MH370. Nevertheless, this is anoth­er new lead that will help direct the search oper­a­tion,” Hussein said. The hunt for Flight MH370 has turned up var­i­ous float­ing objects spot­ted by planes and satel­lites, but thus far none have been retrieved or identified.

The des­per­ate, multi­na­tion­al search for the jet­lin­er, which dis­ap­peared en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 peo­ple on board, resumed on Wednesday after inclement weath­er over the Indian Ocean tem­po­rary halt­ed efforts the pre­vi­ous day.A total of 12 planes and two ships from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand were par­tic­i­pat­ing in the search, hop­ing to find even a sin­gle piece of the jet that could offer tan­gi­ble evi­dence of a crash.

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Members of the Jamaica Police Force have a very tough road to hoe. They are asked to put their lives on the line in defense of some of the most crim­i­nal-lov­ing peo­ple to be found any­where. How did Jamaica get there you ask? Jamaica got there because of polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence in law-enforce­ment. This cre­at­ed an atti­tude which says, if you are con­nect­ed, strong , pow­er­ful, or a bad-man you can sim­ply bad man your way through the sys­tem and no one will dare touch you. This atti­tude start­ed around the time Michael Manley became Prime Minister in 1972. His rhetoric was one which was con­strued to mean, one could sim­ply take what­ev­er one want­ed, whether you own it or not.

The peri­od between 1972 when Michael Manley’s was elect­ed to office and 1980 when he was boot­ed from it, was the most tumul­tuous peri­od in Jamaica’s mod­ern his­to­ry. High prices, run-away crime, food short­ages and a gen­er­al ide­o­log­i­cal and moral shift in the direc­tion of our coun­try. Today Jamaica is reap­ing the bit­ter fruits of that shift. The Jamaica of today is one where the men­tion of the word  “God” to many, is a dirty word. It is a Jamaica which indulges in las­civ­i­ous and Hedonistic plea­sures. A Jamaica opposed to author­i­ty, yet hell-bent on death and destruc­tion. At the Genesis of this shift, crime esca­lat­ed under Manley, it got so bad, his admin­is­tra­tion was forced to build the Gun Court and insti­tute a state of Emergency. At the heart of those actions , is the cer­ti­tude of my argu­ments. When you cre­ate a feel­ing in peo­ple that they can do as they please, They do as they please. At the same time Manley was build­ing the Gun-Court his goons were active­ly engaged in march up to police sta­tions and forcibly remov­ing crim­i­nals from police cus­tody. This was unprece­dent­ed in Jamaica. This kind of thug­gery was unknown to the coun­try under the lead­er­ship of its for­mer Prime Minister Hugh Lawson Shearer of the Labor Party. Shearer would tol­er­ate none of that behav­ior, he gave police a free hand to go after the crim­i­nals wher­ev­er they were.

Unfortunately for Jamaica ‚the labor par­ty, seek­ing to strike a counter bal­ance, built and main­tained two pre­mier gar­risons dur­ing that time . Tivoli Gardens and Wilton Gardens(Rema). After Seaga won in 1980 he did not stand in the way of the Police doing their duties. There was one caveat of course, Tivoli Gardens was out of bounds. I entered Law Enforcement as a fresh-faced ide­al­ist who believed I could change the world, want­i­ng to do good. I want­ed to give peo­ple the oppor­tu­ni­ty to live their lives hav­ing the free­dom to go wher­ev­er they chose to in their own coun­try with­out the per­il of immi­nent death. As a High school kid I saw what Political vio­lence did to our coun­try. I want­ed to be a part of chang­ing it. It did­n’t take long for me to rec­og­nize that noth­ing I could do as a police offi­cer would ever change Jamaica for the bet­ter. I rec­og­nized pret­ty ear­ly that the cor­rup­tion was at the top , and the stream was already way too con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed. I made plans to exit and was out ful­ly in 10 years.

Despite the rel­a­tive calm of the Seaga years of the 80’s the writ­ing was on the wall. The peo­ple had tast­ed the fruits of the Manley ide­ol­o­gy, free­ness, do what you want. law enforce­ment will not be allowed to touch you. Take peo­ple’s prop­er­ty through force of arms. Receive mon­ey for no work. The gen­er­al law­less­ness of the 70’s was too strong a lure to resist. The labor par­ty was boot­ed from office in 1989 and Michael Manley was returned to office, despite the unmit­i­gat­ed dis­as­ter which were his pre­vi­ous two terms.

What result­ed after was an unprece­dent­ed 18 ¹⁄₂ years of PNP rule which drove the nail in the eco­nom­ic and social cof­fin of Jamaica. Punctured only by a brief 4 ‑year inter­lude when Bruce Golding and the JLP was elect­ed to office by a razor-thin mar­gin of vic­to­ry in 2007. By 2011 the PNP was back in office under the lead­er­ship of Portia Simpson Miller, who Golding had beat­en just 4 years pri­or. Today only about 13% of the nations peo­ple are in the mid­dle-class. A shock­ing 83% of the peo­ple are liv­ing below the pover­ty line. All of this, after 28 years of People’s National Rule of the last four decades.Corruption is the hall-mark of the Administration.
Rating Agency Transparency International rat­ed Jamaica 84% cor­rupt. Crime will not be head­ing south any­time soon. The courts can­not be trust­ed to dis­pense equi­table and fair jus­tice. Despite our best hopes, there are large chunks of the Jamaican pop­u­la­tion who are sim­ply above the laws. A huge chunk of the pop­u­lace, both at home and in the dias­po­ra are sup­port­ive of crim­i­nal­i­ty and chaos. Some liv­ing abroad active­ly fund crime there. Jamaica is expe­ri­enc­ing the bit­ter fruits of the Manley doctrine.