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FLASH BACK : The Rise of a New Hitler- When the Centre no longer holds

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The Caribbean Is One Nation. THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED 3/8/16  Haile Drumpf – The Rise of a New Hitler – When the Centre no longer holds.                                   byPachamama                      Donald Trump More than a dozen years ago these writers were denounced when we suggested to those who locate themselves at the center of Caribbean thought that the United States of America was a fascist empire, at its nadir. That financialization had delivered all forms of western capitalism to conditions not dissimilar to Germany 1933. It was a period when fascism, as a social movement, gained ascendency. That unparrelled consolidation of wealth had united global elites into a neo-fascism. Some say an ‘inverted totalitarianism’. Others still, a neo-feudalism. As the irony of ironies would have it, another German has been thrown up by the leading plutocrats to be appropriately hailed. Haile Drumpf! Not unlike Adolf, Donald Trump, is garnering up to 50% of Republi

Welcome back , Mr. Holness

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The Caribbean Is One Nation. Prime Minister Andrew Holness While we have made it quite clear that we have been less than impressed with Mr. Andrew Holness’ positions regarding CARICOM and the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), we welcome him back as the Prime Minister of Jamaica. As we always say: The voice of the people is the voice of the gods, we put gods in the plural as our way of embracing all deities. We also take this opportunity, to wish the vanquished, Ms. Portia Simpson -Miller all the best. We do not believe that her political career is over. She has cleared many difficult hurdles in her rise to the top and we can only hope that she has a deserved soft landing. In terms of the female Prime Ministers we have had to date, we remain utterly convinced, that she has been the pick of the crop. Mr. Holness will have to undergo a profound metamorphosis before the Mahogany Coconut Group(MCG) changes its opinion of him as a very crude obstructionist, when it comes  to matt