[Daily Beest] An untested drug cocktail led to a botched execution of an Oklahoma prisoner on Tuesday night. Clayton Lockett's vein failed upon administration of drugs and the execution was halted after 20 minutes. He then suffered a "massive heart attack" and died. Lockett and another inmate, Charles Warner, were both set to be executed on Tuesday night after a string of hearings and appeals. Their lawyers argued that the state must disclose details of the drugs used, and the state Supreme Court issued a rare stay of execution. Warner was set to be put to death two hours after Lockett but has received a 14-day stay. So he lived 20 minutes longer than he was supposed to. Hopefully he made good use of the time.
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Blown vein? It happens, no matter how hared you try, sometimes. Especially if you hit a valve. Especially if its a poorly skilled RN or phlebotomist starting the IV.
I still wonder why they can't simply rig a remote trigger and put a semi auto shotgun with deer slugs in it, one at the base of the skull, and another at the heart. Have the computer fire them both at the same time, twise. If you want less violence, then sedate the hell out of them, start with proposal, then ketamine, then strap em in totally unconcious.
Lesson is, If you want to kill em, be sure of it. There is no humane way to do it.
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19 year old Stephanie Nieman, just graduated, and her friend walk into their house and surprise Clayton Lockett. Lockett was convicted of kidnapping Stephanie, shooting her twice, and burying her alive. Locket dies 15 years and 20 minutes after his conviction.
A terrible shot in a Gun Free zone in Atlanta. Via Weasel Zippers
Police say a 19-year-old FedEx worker shot six people at a facility in Kennesaw before killing himself on Monday.
Cobb County Police Sgt. Dana Pierce said the man, identified as 19-eyar-old Geddy Kramer of Acworth, started shooting just before 6 a.m. and was found about three hours later, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Pierce said that Kramer was a package handler and sorter. Officers found his body in a loading bay with a shotgun.
[Tolo News] A man named Sayed Ahmad had his ears and nose cut off by relatives in northern Baghlan province after he reportedly raped his young female cousin.
Ahmad's aunt said three months ago he raped her daughter. She claimed that she and her husband were the ones who severed his ears and face as punishment. They have both been taken into custody by provincial police.
"Sayed Ahmad is my nephew, and we cut his ears and nose off because he raped my daughter and we did it to teach him a lesson," the aunt, who asked to remain nameless, said.
"Late at night I cut off of Ahmad's ears...the cat ate them, but his nose is still with me at home," her husband, who also asked to remain nameless, said.
Their daughter, only eleven year's old, confirmed her parents' accusations against her cousin.
"About three months ago my cousin took me to his house by force and raped me," she said.
"My nephew himself said he gave anesthetic to my daughter in food and after that passed his time with her," the mother said.
Officials from Baghlan provincial hospital have said medical assessments of the young rape victim concluded that she had indeed been raped.
"After doctors investigated it became clear that about three months ago the girl was raped," Khalil Narmgo said.
Nevertheless, Sayed Ahmad, who is now receiving medical treatment himself, has maintained his innocence.
"When my aunt and her husband took me to the bathroom I saw a knife with them and I thought they must be kidding with me," he told TOLOnews on Tuesday. "I kissed my aunt's hands and I asked them what I did, but they did not answer me, and cut off both of my ears and nose."
Baghlan police officials said the entire family has been taken into custody for questioning.
"Right now the girl, her mother and father are in custody and the investigation is starting with them," police spokesman Ahmad Jaweed Basharat said.
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In quaint old Mohammedan towns,
Each day brings its smiles and its frowns:
Anesthetic and rapes
And a few little scrapes --
Married life has its ups and its downs!
[Libya Herald] Derna's Abu Saleem Brigade has built a wall across one of the town's university campuses in an effort to segregate male and female students.
The wall at Omar Mukhtar University's Al-Fatiah campus was built with the consent of the university's administrators and was a condition for Abu Saleem Brigade's agreement to guard the premises, a Derna University Student told the Libya Herald.
The university's management approached the Islamist militia asking it to protect its students and buildings earlier this month after a series of security breaches forced the university's closure at the beginning of April.
The student said that the brigade had agreed to provide the security only if the wall as well as strict dress code for female students ordering the wearing of the abeya and the hijab were put in place.
Last year, the brigade also said that it would provide security at the university only if there were strict segregations of the sexes.
A second wall is to be constructed at the university's Shaih campus in the centre of the town for same purpose.
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Moslems really have a problem apparently.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "Put a cork in it."
[The Telegraph] Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine show the media three Ukrainian intelligence officers they say they detained in the town of Gorlivka. Warning: video contains images some may find distressing.
The Federation Council overwhelmingly approved the tighter controls on Russian blogs and websites that attract more than 3,000 daily visits, under legislation the government says is needed to formalize the definition of blogging in Russian law.
Opponents say the law will enable Putin to silence opponents who are rarely given air time on the mostly state-controlled or pro-Putin television channels, and have instead used the Internet to organize protests against the former KGB spy.
The State Duma lower house has already backed the law and it now needs Putin's signature to go into force. Both chambers are dominated by the United Russia party loyal to the president. The new rules will require popular bloggers to register by name with Russia's communications oversight agency and conform to regulations on the mass media.
The Kremlin denies allegations of censorship or pressure on the media and says Russians have the right to express their opinions and stage protests. But Putin has described the Internet as a CIA project and parliament has approved moves requiring social media websites to keep their servers in Russia and save information about users for at least six months.
With 61 million users, Russia is Europe's fastest-growing Internet audience, according to a 2013 report by industry body comScore, and blogs have been seen by Putin's opponents as one of the few popular platforms beyond the Kremlin's reach.
The editor of a popular Internet news site, Lenta.ru, was dismissed this year and independent TV Dozhd has gone off the air. The head of VKontakte, Russia's answer to Facebook, has been ousted and fled the country. The government has also blocked access to the Internet sites of Kremlin critics Alexei Navalny and Garry Kasparov because they "contained calls for illegal activity".
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Ex KGB head iis rebuilding a soviet system for suppression and control. I wonder if the rubes in Russia will wake up and realize they have empowered a possible modern day Stalin?
[Tolo News] Moscow has assured Washington it will not invade Ukraine, the US Defence Department said after the United States and Europe imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its role in the former Soviet republic.
As Western powers stepped up the pressure on Moscow over the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War, the White House on Monday slapped sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 firms close to President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... .
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... said it was adding 15 names to its own list while Canada added nine names and two banks.
Tensions on the ground in Ukraine spiked when a pro-Moscow mayor was shot and badly maimed and rebels seized another town.
The Pentagon said that Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel had spoken by phone with his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu and that "Shoigu reiterated his assurance that Russian forces would not invade Ukraine".
Defence Department front man Rear Admiral John Kirby, in a statement, said the two men discussed a range of issues related to the situation in Ukraine, with Hagel requesting clarification of Russia's intentions in eastern Ukraine.
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They also said the check is in the mail.... Etc.
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Moscow has assured Washington it will not invade Ukraine, the US Defence Department said after the United States and Europe imposed fresh sanctions on Russia over its role in the former Soviet republic.
So the DoD statement in reference to Russian assurances, supports the regime narrative and the effectiveness of sanctions. A win for the Russians, and a win for the Regime. Both piles of rubbish turn up winners. How convenient.
[An Nahar] North Korea said Tuesday it would strengthen its nuclear deterrent following President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... 's "dangerous" Asian tour, and would not rule out another atomic test.
There are concerns the North is preparing to conduct its fourth atomic detonation, with recent satellite images showing stepped-up activity at its main nuclear test site.
Obama's tour, which ended Tuesday in the Philippines after taking in Japan, South Korea and Malaysia, "was a dangerous one as it was aimed to bring dark clouds of more acute confrontation and nuclear arms race to Asia", a Pyongyang foreign ministry front man said in a statement official to state run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Pyongyang would bolster its nuclear deterrent "now that the US brings the dark clouds of a nuclear war to hang over the DPRK (North Korea)", the front man said.
"There is no statute of limitations to the DPRK's declaration that it will not rule out a new form of nuclear test clarified by it in the March 30 statement," he added.
The "new form" of nuclear test could perhaps lay the stage for a test based on new uranium-enrichment technology, analysts have said.
Obama's tour "was designed for undisguised confrontation to retain a tighter grip on allies of the U.S. and encircle and contain its rivals in Eurasia, pursuant to the U.S. Asia-Pacific strategy for domination and scenario for aggression from A to Z," the front man added.
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North Korea said Tuesday it would strengthen its nuclear deterrent following President Barack Obama's "dangerous" Asian tour
Dangerous to who?
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Dangerous to South Korea, Japan, Philippines, etc... as it emboldens the Norks and Chinese even more.
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See also WAFF > [NYT] US SANCTIONS RUSSIA BUT FINDS ITSELF IN RECESSION.
So once again, the USA may have an economic reason not to militarily respond iff-n-when Putin does finally send his RussArmy Boyz into the Eastern Ukraine.
Ditto RISING CHINA + RISING IRAN???
OWG GLOBALISM = HOW FAR CAN THE US + GREAT POWERS SAFELY RETREAT OR FALL BACK GEOPOL IN FAVOR OF WANNABES WIDOUT BEING EXISTENTIALLY THREATENED.
As best illustrated in current real-time by pro-Russian separatists on Donetsk + Luhansk+ Slavyansk continuing to take over the eastern Ukraine from Kiev despite the on-going begotiations between Vlad + the Bammer.
and
* TOPIX > KERRY: RUSSIA PUTS NATO MODEL OF GLOBAL LEADERSHIP AT STAKE.
OWG CO-SUPERPOWERISM = A FUTURE SPACE GOVT-ORDER LED BY MANY NUCLEAR-ARMED CHIEFS, AS OPPOSED TO ONE OR A FEW CHIEFS + MANY INDIANS???
* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Independent.UK] US FOREIGN POLICY: PRESIDENT DEFENDS HIS OBAMA DOCTRINE WHERE MILITARY INTERVENTION IS A LAST RESORT.
Yokay, I'll bite, I thought the premise of the Bammer Doctrine was that a Country's Leader or Leadership could be diplomatically or forcibly removed iff it is found to had committed serious crimes agz its own people???
[BBC] Ukraine's acting President Olexander Turchynov has admitted his forces are "helpless" to quell unrest driven by pro-Russian activists in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Mr Turchynov said the goal was now to prevent the unrest spreading.
Activists have seized scores of government buildings and taken hostages including international monitors.
Mr Turchynov also said Ukraine was on "full combat alert", amid fears Russian troops could invade.
"I would like to say frankly that at the moment the security structures are unable to swiftly take the situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions back under control," he said during a meeting with regional governors.
He admitted security personnel "tasked with the protection of citizens" were "helpless".
"More than that, some of these units either aid or co-operate with terrorist groups," he said.
Mr Turchynov added: "Our task is to stop the spread of the terrorist threat first of all in the Kharkiv and Odessa regions."
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Well played, Mr Putin. Spetnatz trained and supplied the locals well.
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Kerry's so full of shit, his socks squish with each step.
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Yuuuppp.
[US SECSTATE KERRY = SOVIET PREMIER NIKITA "WE WILL BURY YOU" KHRUSCHEV BANGING HIS SHOE AT THE UNO here].
The USA = Bammer Admin wants to make it absolutely positively categorically undeniably ....@etc. clear that it will each + every inch of NATO territory, WHICH SSSSHHHHHH ... CCCCCCCC UNFORTUNATELY IS NOT THE UKRAINE BECUZ THE UKRAINE IS NOT A NATO COUNTRY.
[An Nahar] The United States and Britannia said Tuesday they were determined to track down billions of dollars of Ukrainian assets allegedly looted under the regime of deposed president Viktor Yanukovych.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... and British Home Secretary Theresa May told an international conference on asset recovery that those responsible would be held accountable.
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Check The pockets of Putin and his oligarchs. No need to look much further.
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They'll probably spend $80bil to find the missing $50bil. Just so long as Accenture and KPMG make money on it. (Bet half of it is parked at Goldman Sachs...)
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[Iran Press TV] The Turkish prime minister says he will seek the extradition of US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of scheming to topple his government with corruption accusations and damaging social media leaks.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi only they haven't dumped him yet... told news hounds on Tuesday that a legal procedure would start for the extradition of Gulen.
On Monday, the Turkish premier said during an interview with US broadcaster PBS that he wants President Barack Obama I inhaled. That was the point... to expel Gulen and send him back to Turkey.
Erdogan expressed hope that Washington would deliver on the issue as a "model partner," adding, "At least they should deport him."
Gulen's Hizmet (Service) movement was an important supporter of Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) when it came to power in 2002. The alliance, however, shattered after dozens of the prime minister's political and business allies were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in police raids in a graft probe last December.
The scandal, which turned into a very serious challenge to Erdogan's rule, brought down three ministers and led to a cabinet reshuffle.
Erdogan denounced the corruption scandal as well as a string of damaging leaks in the media, saying they were engineered by Gulen's supporters to undermine his government. Gulen has repeatedly denied any involvement.
The Turkish parliament, which is dominated by the AKP, has approved a law to close a network of private preparatory schools, many of which are run by Hizmet.
Erdogan told PBS that the police raids in December were "almost a coup, a civilian coup" by the Gulen movement.
"We were aware they were trying to infiltrate various organizations, but we were not aware of their ultimate bad intentions. We realized this after a while and started to take measures," he said.
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Michelle O recommends a Gulen-free diet.
Oops. My bad...
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You know what an "Expert" Is, A stranger with several letters behind his name, You know BS, (Bullshit) MS, (More of the Same) and PHD, (Piled Higher And Deeper).
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Did you know:
The Red and White Star Line was actually the shadow navy of the Kock Brothers. In an effort to hide global warming and the rising oceans they came up with a plot to lower the oceans by removing the largest sea creatures, including wales. The Titanic was actually a whaler vessel. There were too few lifeboats because they were not lifeboats, they were whaling skiffs. It was called Project Hallibit, their mission was to scour the North Atlantic hunting whale and depositing the corpses into the large "Passenger Ship" to secretly dispose of in Newfoundland.
To hide their mission, the faked the sinking, because everyone knows ice cannot break metel. They used thermite charges to simulate the sights and sounds of a ship sinking, releases flotsom and oil and the bodies of undocumented immigrants disguised as 1%rs.
Upon arriving upon their secret base in Newfoundland, phase 2 began and Project Hallibut become Haliburton, whose goal would be to waterboard young marine mammels to give up locations of the remaining pods. Obviously waterboarding marine mammels, in this case a whale of color, to use the non racist term thank you very much, takes time and is just now coming to fruition. Thus begins phase three:
Project Veritas, using the language of the Empire built by Slaves of course. Using the phrase "fracking", purposefully playing off a jouvinile word as distraction, they are pumping water full of the same chemicals in chem trails into the water supply. The effect is to make people suseptable to dog whistle language and to confuse you into to thinking that just because a man of color makes millions of dollars, gets medical care, and the greatest drugs and lawyers available to play basketball, a game steeping in the history of the African in amerikkka, is somehow something other than being a slave on a plantation. War on women.
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Geez swksvolFF, get back on the meds, you're making too much sense !
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They were having a difficult time deciphering. Rumor is that after a particularly brutal waterboarding of a baby dolphin, which among other gibberish it kept repeating, was the phrase "Se habla Espaniol". It was Ted Cruz's father who broke the translation which brought forth phase three. Universal health care is the only way to protect US citizens from the chemicals in the water, which is why Ted Cruz is pushing Koch Brother's political wing the rethuglikkkan party. Lets Move!
[DAWN] State Minister for Water and Power Abid Sher Ali on Tuesday issued immediate orders to the Islamabad Electric Supply Company (Iesco) for the disconnection of electricity supply to 18 government institutions including the President House, Prime Minister's Secretariat, Parliament Lodges, official residence of Chief Justice of Pakistain, Sindh and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... House, DawnNews reported.
Moreover, orders were also issued for the disconnection of electric supply to the head offices of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), Capital Development Authority (CDA), Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), environmental directorate, Punjab Jail, Motorway Police, Pakistain Public Works Department, and the office of TMO Rawalpindi.
Addressing a presser in the federal capital city, the State Minister for Water and Power said that the campaign against electricity defaulters and power thieves had begun on the directives of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... and action would be taken against those usurping the rights of the people.
Giving details of the dues owed to the Iesco, Abid Sher said that the Prime Minister's Secretariat opwed Rs6.2 million in dues whereas the residence of the Chief Justice of Pakistain owed a bill of Rs1.1 million.
He further said that the CDA owed Rs360 million while the Parliament Lodges owed Rs200 milion to the Iesco.
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[Independent] The gulf state called for all criticism of religion and of prophet Mohammed to be made illegal in Norway.
No. Next request?
It also expressed concern at "increasing cases of domestic violence, rape crimes Too slowly for Norway's new friend?
and inequality in riches" Say again Mr. Saud?
and noted a continuation of hate crimes against Muslims in the country. Bizarro World has arrived?
Soft jihad of the law. It's ever so much safer than actually going to war.
April proved a cruel month for MSNBC, with the news channel hitting some of its lowest ratings in seven years, and its prominent morning show, âMorning Joe,â falling to third place in the cable news competition.
It was the second straight month that the new morning show on CNN, âNew Day,â topped the long-running âMorning Joeâ among the viewers that determine advertising dollars for news programming, finishing second for the month. The Fox News entry, âFox and Friends,â as always, dominated the morning cable news ratings both among total viewers and those ages 25 through 54, the group that is the basis for news advertising.
The slide in ratings for MSNBC has clearly been tied to the lingering increase CNN is experiencing from its marathon coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner. Though CNN has backed off its blanket coverage, it still reports on the story virtually every hour. Some programs continue to be split about 50/50 between it and other news. Or maybe MSNBC just sux.
But since March 13, when the CNN plane coverage was ratcheting up, âMorning Joe,â which has generally enjoyed wide attention in New York-based media, has found itself consistently behind the 10-month-old âNew Dayâ on CNN. From that date, through last Friday âNew Dayâ won 25 days to eight for âMorning Joe.â (Though, in perhaps a sign that the momentum may be shifting back, âJoeâ beat âNew Dayâ easily on the last recorded day, April 25.)
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The bowl will keep circling as long as satellite and cable are bundled. The oligarchs that own and operate the services will continue to tax everyone on them for the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine.
#2
Don't worry, we'll be seeing these idiots for years yet: as long as Bill Gates keeps shoveling money into it. That is what the 'MS' in MSNBC stands for.
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Might I recommend a suspension for two lifetimes? One each for the NAACP lifetime achievement awards. OK, 1-1/2 lifetimes.
Lucky this didn't happen to Wycliffe "Wyc" K. Grousbeck. He'd have to stand on a scaffold for three hours and wear a scarlet R for the rest of his life, no?
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Neither the court of public opinion or a basketball club has the legal right to deprive someone of their personal property. If the old bugger decides to energize his legal staff and exercise his First Amendment rights, the NBA has a rather large problem.
I'm no barracks lawyer, but I suspect much will rests upon the 'legal or illegal' taping of Sterling's comments. Criminal act or not, if he were taped without his knowledge [and consent should be proven], then any legal evidence presented from a tape falls under the doctrine of the "fruit of the poison tree.' At that point the entire case falls apart.
Not only does it fall apart, the old man then has legal grounds for a personal damages lawsuit. Notice how he's not said anything one way or the other?
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This whole imbroglio is a manufactured baiting exercise - very similar to the exploitation of the Nevada rancher.
You know something stinks when you read (at Wikipedia):
"The Los Angeles chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) cancelled its plans for the following month to award Sterling for a second time with its lifetime achievement award."
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Expect one of these a month until the elections in November.
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Oh, and what is the significance of the media not mentioning Sterling's political affiliation in any of their stories? Reminds me of a little game, Mmmmm, what is the name of that game?
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#4 Reminds me of a little game
A favorite game of the donkey,
A party affair, but not wonky:
Please cover your eyes
As he feigns great surprise
While pinning the tale on the honky.
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Beso, the Clippers are a franchise and as in any franchise agreement the "owner/franchisee" has to meet all the specifications about conduct and such.
Think of a McDonalds' owner screaming about Burger King being better. He wouldn't own a McDonalds' franchise for long.
The First has nothing to do with this at all. This is an exercise in contract law between two private parties, Sterling and the NBA.
The dangerous political developments have to do with the LA City Council trying to pressure the LA Times to not carry any ads for Sterling's other businesses and interfere with his business relations. Not good.
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Thanks AlanC. McDonalds I understand. NBA, not so much.
Something else is strange about those Sterling recordings. Almost appears as though he was reading them from a note pad and speaking into a microphone. That old bugger might be up to something.
The analogy is anything but precise but the key similarity is the nature of a franchise organization and its relationship to the parent org. The contract spells all this crap out and that's what pertains NOT the US Constitution.
The size of the play of this story strikes me as curious given its placement in time vis a vis the Benghazi revelations.
I'm not positing cause and effect, I'm not that cynical......yet...... but this story certainly gives the MSM all they want to kick Benghazi back to page 19 below the fold...in small type.
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The NBA is a private Cartel exempt from US anti-trust laws. Their status is as privileged as it is Faustian. An individual franchise will always be sacrificed in order to preserve their collective monopsony. Individual owners are certainly conscious that Sterlings punishment will set an unfavorable precedent. However, the league is equally aware that his transgressions threaten their entire lucrative prominence.
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Expect one of these a month until the elections in November.
Exactly.
One old sleazoid makes a politically incorrect remark to his mistress and it's front page news for weeks. It's disgusting to watch the MSM go after this like a pack of hounds. Even Baraq Hussein bayed like an old hound dog. Well, of course he did. That's the story. It's as if they think I give a crap.
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A little forgotten history about sports monopolies and public relations. Not to be forgotten is that the man obviously has a ton of money to make life 'interesting' for the league for a number of years. Spend 2.5 mil on a fine or on lawyers? Should be easy for him.
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The highly offensive comments have drawn condemnation from across the National Basketball Association as well as from many other sources; and inevitably, attempts have been made to link him to the Republican Party. These appear to be based on campaign contribution records for a different Sterling, who lives in the state of Texas. Clippers owner Donald Sterling lives in Beverly Hills, has a long history of bigoted behavior in his Los Angeles business dealings, and according to a 2011 RealGM report, was a very occasional Democratic donor in the 1990s:
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Players have a morals clause in their contract that says if they do something hideous enough the owners can terminate their contract. I would be surprised if the league didn't have similar language in their franchise contracts with the owners.
That being said, the first amendment guarantees freedom of speech. But in Schenck v. United States the US Supreme Court held that free speech is not an absolute right. In Schenck the court held that speech that is false and dangerous is not protected. Sterling is unlikely to find relief in the courts based on first amendment rights.
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Andy Ulatle7267,
If there is no morals clause in the franchise agreement (the lack of which IMHO would be dumber than dirt) then I would have to agree that the league cannot force Sterling to sell private property.
TV stations can refuse to broadcast his franchise's games (i.e. no broadcast revenue) and fans can refuse to buy tickets. The public, not the government, can hit him in the pocketbook.
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..you too can help a poor multi-millionaire starving basketball player by adopting him during this time of need while the sanctions are taking hold. [YJCMTSU, it writes itself.]
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According to the article - "Silvers peremptory power is limited to Sterlings suspension from the NBA and a fine of $2.5 million. It does not extend to booting him from ownership of his team. Furthermore, the association by-laws do not grant the power for owners to force Sterling to sell his team. Termination provisions can only be initiated for violation of specific rules, none of which include a prohibition on offensive or racist statements causing detriment to the NBA."
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Andy Ulatle7267,
The league can't force it then. Fans will have to.
P2kontheroad ,
Players have contracts that require that they get paid. If the bankruptcy courts have to sell off the team to pay those contracts then so much the better. I don't think that any basketball players will be seeing the poorhouse. :-)
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..thus they have no problem taking the check from the racist. Which gets back to the old joke, we know what you are, we're just negotiating the price.
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I saw something somewhere on TV, so it is probably totally unreliable, that is 3/4 of the owners vote to eject an owner. Did not go on to say 3/4 of the controlling interested, 3/4 of all owners regardless of ownership, or whether there is compensation if any.
Like I said, probably total BS reporting so don't go about quoting it.
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thus they have no problem taking the check from the racist.
P2kontheroad,
Point taken. Remember though that pro sports is not a free market. The Sports broadcasting act (1961) gave pro sports teams an exemption to the Sherman Antitrust act. Players can't easily switch teams, at least not until they become free agents. Now any new guys taking the racist's money might need to search their conscience a bit.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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...Second and fourth President of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
North Korea
[Iran Press TV] The Turkish prime minister says he will seek the extradition of US-based 
