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		<title>The enslaver in your mirror!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago some nice people (not to be confused with our publicly funded most gifted thespians) invited me to “participate” in, as I recall, a discussion of Emancipation and “the Search for a Saint Lucian identity.” My knee-jerk reaction was to say no, for several reasons including that I do not normally engage [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is archbishop guilty of inappropriate behavior?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2014 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week the news centered not on our declared $208.8 million dollars overall deficit; not on the proposed-denied public-salary pay cuts; not on the almost daily fatal shootings and alleged suicides. Of course, it had been decided almost from the moment a charred chunk of him had been retrieved from a mysteriously burned-out vehicle at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The emperor stands naked!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2014 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Obviously it never was a laughing matter that for some time now we’ve known we were in more trouble than we could possibly handle on our own—but pretended otherwise. It never was funny that we continued masochistically to inflict on ourselves potentially lethal wounds, while repeatedly placing our trust in the proffered remedies of charlatans [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Here we go again, another Word War!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2014 16:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At some point during his Thursday morning contribution to the House budget debate the MP for Southeast Castries, Guy Joseph, referenced the government’s recent decision to “zero rate VAT on prescription medication,” while retaining taxes on, to quote the prime minister, “vitamins, tonics, energy drinks, food supplements and similar products ostensibly for promoting health and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Another killing in Paradise! Why are we always  the last to know?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2014 18:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing? Where have all the soldiers gone, long time ago? Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards, everyone. Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn? – Pete Seeger I was at a tire shop around 9.30 on Saturday morning when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Forget the consultants, Kenny  summons the singing visionaries!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 13:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have no way of knowing precisely what Paul Simon was thinking when he wrote You Can Call Me Al, in particular the line about his not wanting to “end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard.” For several years now, however, I’ve been living with the unshakable feeling that none of what I see [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is Kenny paying UWP to eat itself?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Now let me try to get this right: the host of a show called Straight Up—which has never denied it’s bent politically—reveals to its largely Red Zone audience his latest acquisition: by hook or crook, his agents have intercepted a letter bearing the name of the harried leader of the United Workers Party: Allen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is the Tony in Kenny &#038; Tony really Astaphan with a nosejob?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whatever else concerned Saint Lucians may say of the Dominican gadfly, he serves not only as further proof of the effeteness of our own attorney general’s office but also as a garrulous indicator of the prime minister’s established disdain for the local law fraternity—many of whom he had programmed while a UWI law lecturer. Anthony [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How dark must it get before Kenny stars start to shine?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 20:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If further proof were needed of the immeasurable arrogance, unconscionable profligacy, unabashed ineptitude and plain unabashed sans honte that have rendered a hundred times worse the multiple effects of the economic crisis on the trusting people of the OECS, the seeker of truth need look no further than the national addresses of our respective HOGs, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>VAT was never inevitable!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nothing nauseates me more than the sound of largely uninformed lazy newscasters, talk-radio hosts and their more obvious hack relatives (who like swamp mosquitoes live off the blood of others), holding forth on the issue of VAT. Always, their opening lines are the same: unresearched, stupid, apologetic: “Okay, we all know it was inevitable. No [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A son of bitch regardless!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whenever I feel convinced I’ve seen and heard it all, something new always pops up to jolt me back to reality. Consider our prime minister’s recent televised revelation of what had long been common knowledge: his government’s continuing diplomatic relationship, despite recent history, with famously generous Taipei. What took many off guard was how the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>We ignored the writing  on the wall and now . . .</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Count on it, even before he has arrived at my second paragraph some wiseass will be asking: “Where he goin’ widdat? We hear alladat arreddy. Tell us something we eh know.” It’s the national reaction to inconvenient truth: Several years ago when a certain prime minister was caught in the company of a young schoolgirl [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are suspects now guilty until proven innocent?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When will our prime minister get his speechwriters and fact checkers to understand that what he is made to say, and how he is made to appear, can have serious implications for Saint Lucians the world over, not the least of them wall-to-wall embarrassment? Poorly researched material, outright fabrications, sloppy mistakes, and other obvious insults [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who is LaCorbiniere&#8217;s crime target?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Throughout the weekend I took several calls from Saint Lucians at home and abroad who wanted to know how I’d rated Bill Clinton’s recent endorsement of Barack Obama at the DNC national convention, as well as the current president’s own contribution on the final night to his reelection effort. What else could I say? I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Gays and Kenneth John&#8217;s drowning?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Wayne]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I believe it was Franz Fanon who said, in effect, that when the people are convinced they have no defense against their oppressors they turn on themselves. The Martinique-born, French-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher and writer came to mind on Wednesday as I listened to the nerve-rattling exchanges on Timothy Poleon’s Newsspin. Murder was no longer the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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