Pick Me Up, I'm Scared‪.‬ Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts

This week, Madeline and David wrap up our two-part episode on NED -- the second, smaller CIA!
BOOK:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/
PATREON:
https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared
SOURCES:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A1xOGFEcb2-Iy_ZUuNVx_9tdJtnMdjpTMYQfEHnuPRM/edit?usp=sharing

This week, Madeline and David talk about the tinier CIA: The National Endowment for Democracy! Part 1.

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

SOURCES:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A1xOGFEcb2-Iy_ZUuNVx_9tdJtnMdjpTMYQfEHnuPRM/edit?usp=sharing

This week, Madeline and David talk about Shen Yun, Falun Gong, The Epoch Times, and Li Hongzhi!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OFqFIW1ejobai9MrY3ksBc96Jr5lfoW5YeyPzzjkDm8/edit?usp=sharing

This week, David and Madeline talk about the West Virginia coal mining wars, deputizing orthodontists to shoot the poors, and maybe the only okay cop to ever exist -- maybe!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

Savage, Lon: Thunder in the Mountains: The West Virginia Coal Mine War 1920-1921

Shogon, Robert: The Battle of Blair Mountain

Hubert, Patrick: Rednecks and Red Bandanas

Wheeler, Hoyt: What Did the Coal Miner See

Amsden, Jon and Brier, Stephen: Coal Miners on Strike

Gadsby, Margaret: The Coal Strikes

This week, Madeline and David talk about the TSA, 9/11, and what we could do with $8 billion per year!

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

https://www.statista.com/chart/24599/passenger-screenings-at-us-airports

https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/insulin-cost-and-pricing-trends/

https://www.theverge.com/c/23311333/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland

https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-screening-tests/index.html

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shoe-bomber-richard-reid-flight

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/underwear-bomber-lawsuit-prison-treatment.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/10/1035131619/911-travel-timeline-tsa

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24562556

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-security

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellistalton/2019/01/28/is-the-tsa-really-necessary/?sh=354b2cf525e0

https://nypost.com/2019/09/08/save-us-from-the-pointless-burdens-of-the-tsa/

https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/wheelchair-bound-preteen-held-tsa-traces-explosives-found-161802927--abc-news-travel.html

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21075201/oig-tsa-ct.pdf

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tsa-dumb-security-rules-not-science-based/

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/business/yourmoney/17digi.html

https://www.jobtestprep.com/tsa-training

https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/01/politics/tsa-failed-undercover-airport-screening-tests/index.html

https://www.stratosjets.com/blog/skyhighsmuggling/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/6/tsa-failed-detect-95-percent-prohibited-items-minn/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/307057/

https://nypost.com/2024/02/01/lifestyle/tsa-sparks-privacy-concerns-amid-plans-to-install-facial-recognition-systems-at-400-us-airports/

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/01/tsa-business-security-theater-not-security/357599/

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/09/1049814332/despite-calls-to-improve-air-travel-is-still-a-nightmare-for-many-with-disabilit

https://tinyurl.com/yknz43cx

https://www.rd.com/article/what-do-airport-body-scanners-see/

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/new-documents-show-tsa-program-blamed-profiling

https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be

https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/08/tsa-screening-racial-religious-profiling-aclu-study

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/millennial-media/201812/are-tsa-random-screens-code-racial-profiling

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/us/racial-profiling-at-boston-airport-officials-say.html

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-mo-tsa-removes-nude-scanners-from-airports-20130531-story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/10/us-no-fly-list-predictive-assessments

https://smmirror.com/2023/01/california-homeless-housing-needs-assessment-finds-it-will-cost-303-billion-to-end-homelessness-in-the-state

https://gai.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TSA-pages-5-8.pdf

This week, Madeline and David talk about Milton Friedman, ultra capitalism, and how the United States staged a coup in Chile

PATREON:

https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared

BOOK:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722726/i-survived-capitalism-and-all-i-got-was-this-lousy-t-shirt-by-madeline-pendleton/

SOURCES:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/25/economic-forecasts-have-been-very-wrong-lately-but-thats-really-nothing-new.html

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/19/us-economists-wrong-predictions

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/19/20699366/interest-rates-unemployment-globalization-minimum-wage-deficit

https://www.montpelerin.org/event/429dba23-fc64-4838-aea3-b847011022a4/websitePage:6950c74b-5d9b-41cc-8da1-3e1991c14ac5

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-bill-clintons-balanced-budget-destroyed-the-economy-2012-9

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2022028pap.pdf

https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PhillipsCurve.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Milton-Friedman

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctrine-the-social-responsibility-of-business-is-to.html

https://academic.oup.com/book/2057/chapter/141965295

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/milton-friedman.asp

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1193755188/chile-coup-50-years-pinochet-kissinger-human-rights-allende

https://newrepublic.com/article/172441/milton-friedman-met-pinochet

https://jacobin.com/2023/09/neoliberalism-human-rights-democracy-dictatorship-chile-chicago-hayek-friedman-pinochet

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-chicago-boys-in-chile-economic-freedoms-awful-toll/

https://jacobin.com/2023/05/chile-chicago-boys-neoliberalism-friedman-allende-pinochet

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/business/economy/economy-interest-rates-inflation.html

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https://progressive.org/latest/milton-friedman-is-still-running-show-imf-rowden-231025/

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2013/09/chile-years-pinochet-s-coup-impunity-must-end/

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/03/business/monetarism-falls-from-grace.html?auth=login-google1tap&login=google1tap

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5584942/

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/opinion/economics-public-opinion.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/economists-often-dont-know-what-theyre-talking-about/2019/05/12/f91517d4-7338-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/socf.12153

Chicago. Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine. Harlow, England: Penguin Books.