Kevlexicon – Bottom Lines ( KevEconomist )
Published March 1, 2016.
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Research Materials:
2008 Financial Crash, Public Payout for Private Theft, We Losin (dat yuppie finance gods):
Senate Hearing: Lloyd Blankfein vs. Sen Levin ; Goldman Sachs
https://youtu.be/oOpFbjHcxF0
Buttonwood: All it Needs is Love (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21632602-capitalisms-reputation-has-been-damaged-bankers-all-it-needs-love
“A system that privatises profits and nationalises losses is impossible to justify.”
Opaque legal proceedings and “revolving door” regulators and corporate lawyers:
Criminalising the American company: A Mammoth Guilt Trip (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21614101-corporate-america-finding-it-ever-harder-stay-right-side-law-mammoth-guilt
Bangladeshi gang rape, religions:
A Crime Unpunished: Bangladeshi Gangrape (Vice News)
https://youtu.be/XY7QOlqirns
econ elite yups fuckin the poors n victimblaming, lack of security:
Uhuru Cares (Tumechoka Sasa)
https://youtu.be/N7Qq6r7Ej5k
Kenyan Women want justic over post-election sexual violence (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/mar/25/kenyan-women-fight-justice-sexual-violence
Women Shaming and the Descent into Barbarism:
http://afritorial.com/women-shaming-in-africa-and-the-descent-into-barbarism/
Diaper Mentality: Young Activists Believe it’s time for Kenya’s Middle Class to Grow Up
http://gga.org/stories/editions/aif-28-making-up-the-middle/diaper-mentality
“We protest but we’re not moving forward,” Mr Mwangi said later that day, announcing he would no longer organise protest marches. “It doesn’t change anything.” – Boniface Mwangi
They earn enough money to have a good lifestyle,” he said. “And they’ll still complain, don’t get me wrong: but that’s all they’ll do.” – Shamit Patel, protester
Economic base: “Instead of asking educated Kenyans to come onto the streets, he will ask them to forgo the occasional pricey coffee and put their money towards financing change. He and his friends, including some returning from the diaspora, will start a “movement”, he said. And he will ask Kenyan citizens—especially those who think of themselves as middle class—to finance it.”
USAgov use of Depleted Uranium, Birth Defects, Iraqi Civilians USAmilitary veterans, and Children, lack of cleanup:
Ten Years later, U.S. Has Left Iraq with Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers (Democracy Now)
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/20/ten_years_later_us_has_left
How the World Health Organisation covered up Iraq’s nuclear nightmare (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/oct/13/world-health-organisation-iraq-war-depleted-uranium
The U.S. fired depleted uranium at civilian areas in 2003 Iraq war, report finds (The Guardian)
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/19/us-depleted-uranium-weapons-civilian-areas-iraq
Israeli Occupation and Genocide of Palestinians:
Israel’s New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPxv4Aff3IA
Tel Aviv: From Bauhaus to Doghouse (The Economist)
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21642122-israeli-book-deconstructs-mythology-surrounding-building-tel-aviv
Property developers v. schoolchildren:
Kenya Police Fire Tear Gas on Playground Protest:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30879938
Black Panther Party – 10 Point Plan (1966)
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
Huey P. Newton – War Against The Panthers: A Study of Repression in America (.pdf)
https://www.indybay.org/uploads/2012/07/18/war-against-the-panthers-a-study-of-repressionin-america.pdf
Huey P. Newton Speaks at a 1970 News Conference
https://youtu.be/NplrUhW79b8
East African Hip Hop
https://hiphopkambi.wordpress.com/
mistari / lyrics:
bottom lines ( KevEconomist )
i kno love doesnt exist, it’s all bottom lines, dollar signs, “kev-economist”
i kno love doesnt exist, it’s all bottom lines, $$$$$$$$$$, “kev-economist”
it’s like i don’t even exist, bottom lines, dollar signs, keveconomist,
and wen am gawn, i wont b missed, it’s all bottom lines (bottom lines dollar signs) $$$ keveconomist
…maybe I get drunk wen I write, like Richard Wright,
we live in a world where, rich is right,
not jus republicans, invisible men, we dont exist,
that shit’s gon kiip turnin, yall gon keep earnin,
wat gud’s an education if u aint makin money?
They create institutions but ur position’s economic exclusion,
Public payout for private theft, we losin,
Privkids land, they get aaall the best,
And the rent? — Too Damn High,
Lukn at me like I stole somn,
The real thieves marketing to market women from a house of privilege sellin an image of progress,
But we can’t afford to subscribe to ur digest princess, PRINCE (Prints),
All ova the crime but never mind,
Victim-blamin, gang rapin, laughed off by MALE PRIVILEGE and religions,
Sociopathology of privkids who grew up wit security, that elite minority,
0.01%, they got us in prison,
makes our averages luk gud, but it’s jus the bizness classes hoppin flites, startin fites, selln weapons,
depleted uranium shells causin birth defects in Iraq,
Fallujah Babies and veterans,
Becoz the brown kids lives don’t matter to the privs,
Same way broke gals gettn raped don’t matter to the rich,
Behind the gate, livin safe,
Safety nets don’t take bets on ppl like us,
We jus a fodder 4 the slaughter, moral desert, no water, wat
Asante Sana,
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