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...and for women. From the very start, (Kenyan) women were not considered part of the design of the town. Not in the labour system or the economy.

#NairobiWeWant
If you want to read about the labour force, and gender politics of early Nairobi, there's this really good book...
amazon.com/Comforts-Home-…

#NairobiWeWant
One of the best takeaways from this book is that the women who built Nairobi were first commercial sex workers, then service providers and landladies. Efforts to lock them out of the economy still fail today. But we still have a Victorian attitude towards them...
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Now this thread is for the people who, as part of their human experience, went to national schools and groups of schools. First, you are not brighter than us. You are not our betters. We can call out your abuse or any abuse by anyone you identify with.
I am not attacking you when I say this. But over and over again when I make a point about how your schools have harmed the Kenyan experience, the same conversation happens. I am not attacking your experiences, or your humanity.
That I spent more mental juice trying to explain this to old boys of Starehe (still waiting for that invite to your Whatsapp groups) bothers me. Are we our high schools? Are we going to live as adults by the institutions we visited (it was a visit, just a long one).
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If you feel the need to talk to me, to be angry with me, or just to insult to me, my email address is at the end or this tweet. I will post screenshots of your email here, without your name or address. Let's talk. Let's unpack this feeling. This foreboding. >>

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They subject for this one was "I truly lack a subject."
We must all entertain the thought, and it's weird that we have to even do this because it should be default, that there are no second chances. No heavens or hells. No God and therefore, no power and no hierarchy. There's just life, right now.
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The Man Who Sold a Country owaahh.com/the-man-who-so…
In Lieu of a King: "The raids on the public coffers have become the national soap opera, each new twist being fed as tantalizing fodder to a tabloid generation." owaahh.com/in-lieu-of-a-k…
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"Why don't people read the deal?" highlights a problem.

The legal text will not be comprehensible to the general reader, whether a citizen or a member of parliament. The legal text is not intended to be.

So 99%+ of people will rely on interlocutors, of various kinds.
Ideally, such legal texts would be accompanied by accessible plain English guidance notes

Unfortunately, would be harder to negotiate than legal text.

Govts on all sides would see clarity & transparency endangering their negotiating objectives,preferring constructive ambiguity
So "wait until you have read it" & "have you actually read it" both broadly nonsense.

95-99%+ of people would need to rely on interlocutors, even if & when they did read it (unless they habitually read these documents in a professional or personal capacity, to get the codes)
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Today.. the political influence of Jewish chauvinism & religious fanaticism is much greater than that of antisemitism.

Israel Shahak, 1994
Nor can one find in the numerous English-language "Jewish histories" the elementary facts about the attitude of Jewish mysticism (so fashionable at present in certain quarters) to non-Jews...

Israel Shahak
..they [non-Jews] are considered to be, literally, limbs of Satan, and..the few non-satanic individuals among them (that is, those who convert to Judaism) are in reality "Jewish souls" who got lost when Satan violated the Holy Lady .. in her heavenly abode.

Israel Shahak
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THREAD: I think we need to talk about the lefts stance on Party rebirth, & the holier than thou attitude that #Labour has on #libdems & tuition Fees. Given the rise of the far right & how much we actually agree on we really should be working together, so lets try to clear this up
For many of us @LibDems, we left @UKLabour when they voted & took us into Iraq.
Now the Labour left make the argument that Labour is not the same party that it was with Blair, & because Corbyn voted against Iraq; all must be forgiven. The party should be allowed to start afresh.
Fair enough. But if this was the case, why was Tim Farron nailed to the tuition fees cross by Labour campaigners at the last election? He voted AGAINST Fees in the same way Corbyn voted against Iraq.
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At dinner, I learned more about corruption + racism built into society by our masters. A book we discussed (Zinn) was used as part of this "Left" resource's bibliography. I had to share. [A thread]

@BlackSocialists - thoughts on this resource?

historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html
It very simply lays out the case that we are all being controlled. It covers hidden history of the United States including their (and, due to the systems created by our masters, our) racism. 

#racism #systemicracism #history
If you haven't been in school for a while (or are in a terrible school), some of the words might trip you up. Dictionary.com and Wikipedia.org are two good resources to help you.
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I have some trouble figuring out the Brits: they are maximally politically correct & progressive in small things, yet accept to be (nominally) mere subjects of a hereditary royal family.

They practically worship their present & future monarch.
I was invited for "tea" with a certain member of that royal family. I was handed instructions on how to behave, what to say, how to address him, who eats 1st, meaning to signal at all times that I was inferior.

I found it unbearable & humiliating, broke the rules. But still.
By contrast I went 2x on a group offsite w/the Swedish King (who is not considered part of the royal thingy in Europe), to discuss the Precautionary Pple. He flew economy w/us, then took a chartered bus. No instruction list.
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There is a growing trend to implement development projects oriented towards women economic empowerment (WEE) in #Libya. This is great because it paves the way for changing the cultural paradigm of Libyan society and promotes inclusion of #women in other areas. 1/10
But there are also opportunities/risks that should be observed/mitigated when implementing such projects, given the #Libya-n environment. I’ll try and compile a few here that I hope will be observed by both donors and implementing orgs. 2/10
First, you need to make sure the idea for the project originates from the woman and that she takes full ownership of it. Just suggesting things for her to do is NOT economic empowerment and will have 0 impact, it is advising and will eventually result in failure. 3/10
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