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Alan Maki

Alan Maki
Doing research at the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

It's time to claim our Peace Dividend

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

A program for real change...

http://peaceandsocialjustice.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-progressive-program-for-real-change.html


What we need is a "21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity" which would make it a mandatory requirement that the president and Congress attain and maintain full employment.


"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens"

- Ben Franklin

Let's talk...

Let's talk...

Sunday, March 1, 2020

Thoughts about the coronavirus.

What the coronavirus is proving are two things:


1. The failure of the scientific and medical community to work together in cooperation internationally thwarted by the profit-driven free market of those greedy business people seeking to get rich from our suffering; and,


2. The failure of the profit-driven free market health care system manipulated by the millionaire and billionaire monopolists.


China, limited by their reliance on “entrepreneurial” health care, is fortunate that over-all they have a socialist political system in place which has enabled them to respond very quickly to this coronavirus...


Compare the Chinese response to what Trump and Pence have to offer...



“Healthy people have nothing to worry about; they will just go through a process and that will be it.” Trump


In the meantime... one person in a nursing home in the state of Washington has died from this coronavirus while one-hundred other people living in the this nursing home went unprotected and without being tested; most of these people had people coming and going visiting them unaware of the danger they were being subjected to; with some two-hundred nursing home employees coming and going without any testing or protections... all of these visitors and workers out mingling with family, friends, co-workers and the general public... while Trump assures us he is doing everything possible to protect us... ya, sure; you betcha.


All the while the for-profit companies and health care industry will make trillions of dollars in profits.
It’s called capitalism...


Don’t shake hands with anyone and wash your hands often... kind of like suggesting kids should “duck and cover” in case of nuclear war.


Isn’t anyone else sick of this shit already?


Quite frankly, the only real hope we have in fighting this coronavirus seems to be coming from “public enemy Number One,” little socialist Cuba with a fully nationalized scientific and research community and a fully socialized health care system.


And, in spite of what anyone says, from what I see going on with the massive hate campaign against socialist China coming from Trump, all these pathetic Democrats including Bernie Sanders, the media and ilk like Steve Bannon, I am convinced this coronavirus comes from a CIA laboratory and demented Frankenstein-like scientists- monsters- found a way to deliver this virus through injecting it into animals as a way to evade detecting where it originated.



Whether or not this is what happened here is something to think about:


Why are our tax dollars funding these monsters calling themselves “scientists” to work in laboratories creating and concocting these horrendous biological weapons intended to create massive human misery aimed at our “enemies” when they should be working on finding vaccinations and cures for the coronavirus, cancers and heart diseases?


If anyone thinks this coronavirus was not concocted in one of these CIA laboratories; how do you explain the government funding this kind of research while leaving the cures for the coronavirus in the hands of profit-driven Wall Street corporations?


Sheer madness.


If anyone thinks my thinking on this is crazy... how do you describe this government engaged in such barbarity when it comes to planning for such massive death and destruction? Is this not crazy and sheer madness?