John G. Johnson

Lawyer or not, study the philosophy and works of this man! #GerrySpence cowboystatedaily.com/2025/08/14/ger…

That’s a wrap 🎬 What an incredible two days hosting @JennaSheinelle 's trip in beautiful Sandals Dunn’s River. It was a tremendous success, not only for the team but also for our home. 🇯🇲 Millions of viewers got to the see the best of Jamaica, from Dunn’s River Falls to Miss T’s, all while immersing them in our island's rhythm, flavor and creativity. Back on resort, we hosted Jamaica’s most iconic talents, including Sheryl Lee Ralph, Shaggy, Sean Paul, Chef Andre Fowles, The Rousseau Sisters, and Mina Robertson. I loved how they each brought our culture to life. Our guests were even part of the live audience, adding to their already special stay. This is a big moment and I applaud the NBC, @VisitJamaicaNow, @SandalsResorts, and @IslandRoutes team for working together to make it happen. Watching people fall in love with our home is always special, and we were proud to share that moment with the world.

The sight of dolphins 😍 Black River, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

A song so powerful that they censored it and exiled the singer...

In 1998, browsing a record shop in Madrid, I came across a beautiful display celebrating the 25th anniversary of Grounation by Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari. It was a pleasant surprise, and sobering to realise that this epic work, originally released as a groundbreaking triple album in 1973, was being more lovingly celebrated abroad than at home in #Jamaica. That paradox, however, is itself part of Count Ossie’s story. Born Oswald Williams 100 years ago on 26 March 1926, Count Ossie established a Rastafari community at Rockfort near Wareika Hill on the east side of #Kingston in the early 1950s, where many of the city’s musicians first encountered the #Rastafari movement and its powerful rhythms. His legendary jam sessions up in that hilltop compound drew an extraordinary roster of talent; Skatalites players Roland Alphonso, Don Drummond, Johnny Moore, Lloyd Knibbs; all absorbing the nyabinghi pulse that Ossie was keeping alive. His contribution to #Jamaican music begins at the very root. Count Ossie’s drummers performed on the first commercially released single to integrate #Rastafarian traditional music with popular music, the Folkes Brothers’ groundbreaking “Oh Carolina,” recorded for producer Prince Buster in 1959. That fusion of African drum traditions with contemporary Jamaican sound was not merely a stylistic flourish; it was the seed from which #ska, #rocksteady, and roots #reggae would flower. Grounation, the first ever reggae triple album, combined Rastafari consciousness with deep spiritual jazz, a sprawling and raw cultural statement comparable in ambition to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On. Co-led with tenor saxophonist Cedric “Im” Brooks, the album recreates a Rasta grounation, or gathering; chanting, drumming, and Bible readings in praise of Emperor Haile Selassie I. Count Ossie’s importance in bringing Rastafarian music to a wider audience is matched only by #BobMarley’s promotion of the faith internationally in the 1970s. That a Madrid record store in 1998 understood this better than Kingston ever officially acknowledged remains one of reggae history’s quiet injustices, and a reminder that true pioneers are often most visible from a distance.

@hunleyeric Soon to be a popular sport youtu.be/Jn5W19sdyf4?si…

Jet suit paramedics can fly to the top of Helvellyn in just 3.5 minutes instead of the usual 1 hour 15 minutes. Who else wants one of these?

@hunleyeric Can these jet packs still function with an additional 100lbs of load/supplies? This would be my question. Other than that, I would get one for fun. 😀

Oh yeah! Of course the legal shitstem’ isn’t biased. Nooooo no, no!

The Afroman trial judge made some petty comments to jurors after the verdict 😳 One of the jurors joined Defense Diaries podcast last night to talk about the case. The episode was a great listen.

The Epic of Resistance 🎼 This is not just a symphony. This is what resistance sounds like. Composed by Majid Entezami, the Epic of Khorramshahr is not played… it is remembered. It carries the echo of the Battle of Khorramshahr during the Iran–Iraq War... when a city was shattered and occupied… then reclaimed by a people who refused to disappear. They believed fire would silence it. They believed steel would break it. They believed time would erase it. But they misunderstood something fundamental: You can destroy buildings… but not belief. You can occupy land… but not dignity. Listen. The violins do not mourn defeat— they rise like voices from beneath the dust. The drums are not war— they are the pulse of a nation that never stopped beating. The crescendo is not sound— it is return. Like Jerusalem… Khorramshahr fell— and then Khorramshahr rose — and so too will Jerusalem. And in its rising, a message was written into history: That oppression is loud… but resistance is eternal. Today, the same rhythm echoes— in every people who refuse humiliation, in every nation that stands when it is told to kneel, in every voice that says: enough. The oppressed the world over, do not hear this music as the past— but as a covenant. A promise carried across generations: That injustice exhausts itself. That arrogance overreaches. That truth, though tested, does not break. This is why the melody does not end. It advances— from rubble to resistance, from resistance to resurgence, from resurgence to victory. History has a pattern: Empires arrive with certainty. They leave with silence. But those who endure— write the final verse. And so the symphony continues… not as memory alone— but as prophecy. Victory is not a moment. It is a direction. And those who refuse to surrender are already moving toward it… They see victory—and joy and smiles— in Tehran and Gaza, in Beirut and Sana’a, in Baghdad and Jerusalem… in every city with a resisting soul and a tight fist... as candle by candle is rekindled, and as light by light is ignited across the world… until the darkness fades, until racism ends, and until supremacism dismantled.

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Marvin Gaye’s voice isolated from music «I heard It through the grapevine», 1967.

Remembering JACOB “KILLER” MILLER who transitioned on this day 46 years on! #reggae 🇯🇲🚦

Chuck Norris Old Photo Prank

Joe Rogan: "Chuck Norris changed my life. For real. If it wasn't for Chuck Norris movies, who knows, I might have never gotten into martial arts. That gentleman will always have my respect."

Ha fallecido de parkinson a los 81 años Valerie Perrine, Eve en las películas de Superman. Del casting principal de la película de 1978 ya solo queda viva Sarah Douglas Valerie y Sarah se hicieron muy buenas amigas, con está última visitándola a menudo los últimos años

Happy Birthday @WilliamShatner ! I hope it's- dare I say- out of this world! Tee-hee! Barbara aka Henrie O!

While never revered as ska, roots-reggae or dancehall, rocksteady is arguably the most loved of the Jamaican music forms. The genre, which produced a series of top-flight vocalists, harmony groups and musicians, celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2026 and Observer Online marks that milestone with the 60 Greatest Rocksteady Personalities. Here are numbers 30 to 16. jamaicaobserver.com/2026/03/20/60-…

She inspired generations.

Chuck Norris on Johnny Carson - July 5th, 1973