Inequality and Economics

$14 Trillion spent on Pentagon since Afghanistan

Surveillance and War Tech https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/social/rights/surveillance

• Executive Order 12333
• Section 215 and 702 of Patriot Act
• HSIN (DHS)

Big Tech and War https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2024/siliconvalley

Total Information Awareness https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/surveillance

7,057 dead military post-911 and 30,187 suicides

Which means deceased members of the US Armed Forces are more 3 times more likely to have killed themselves than to have been killed in action. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/military/killed

432,093 direct civilian deaths, 3.6-3.8 million related harmed, 7.6 million child malnutrition https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians

40℅ (increase to over half in next decades) of vets with lifetime disability https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/economic/budget/veterans

Ralph Nader and Col. Larry Wilkerson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ralph-nader-radio-hour/id874581610

"Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." https://eisenhowerfoundation.net/primary-source/item/chance-peace

Sociopathic Society

Charles Derber and Yale Magrass

https://www.routledge.com/Who-Owns-Democracy-The-Real-Deep-State-and-the-Struggle-Over-Class-and-Caste-in-America/Derber-Magrass/p/book/9781032781907

srsly.

https://pod.link/872292891/episode/fc1fd8d969245bffabda13ebd594dcfc

https://michael-hudson.com/books/super-imperialism-the-economic-strategy-of-american-empire/

Have you ever gone days without sleeping? It doesn't make you more productive. Sleep is like water; without it people soon die. So what are the unhoused to do now that the Supreme Court criminalized biological necessities?

Stack them like a slave ship. Build huge warehouses that are going to cost the tax payers to punish people who don't have the money to afford housing. Completely absurd and impractical decision!

What exactly is cruel and unusual if sleep deprivation is not? The CIA uses it as a torture technique. If that is not a definition of cruel and unusual, what is?

The unhoused should concentrate in the cities. There are already too many. The economy isn't going to miraculously rebound. There will be tons of homeless and your paycheck is going to have to be cut to fund the absurdist government.

USA

MLK (shot shortly afterwards) https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/poor-peoples-campaign

Huey Long (assassinated and pro-cop) https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php

World

Che (assassinated)

Long list for historians. https://nyupress.org/9781583679067/washington-bullets/ Democratically elected govs, etc . . .

Economic analysis and theory

https://www.heterodoxnews.com

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en

https://www.ineteconomics.org/

https://renegadeinc.com/

Info about worker cooperatives. Why even have a union (just friendlier management) when the workers themselves can organize and direct their own business?

No matter your politics, everyone should agree that $400 a day shelters are bad economics and are not good for the unhoused (see Robles-Duran). What kind of policies and solutions might you try to end the housing crisis?

Greenwald on poverty solutions in Brazil Libertarianism (42:24 - 1:04:09) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comedian-and-political-analyst-dave-smith-on-uniparty/id1669610956?i=1000659890058

David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Duran

Profiting from the homeless https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XEduL_PKDKw & https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Sm2pYaK7tCI

https://picturethehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PtH_White_paper5.pdf/