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Leave a twig for the birds to perch on... don't let the capitalists do your thinking for you... if you are in the neighborhood, stop on in; the coffee is always hot and the cookie jar is full... looking forward to the day when the real decisions in America are made by working class families gathered around the kitchen table... new postings daily...Yours in the struggle...Alan L. Maki

Friday, December 22, 2017

Tax the rich, end the wars and cut the military budget--- tax problem solved

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The Democrats and all of these phony liberals, progressives and leftists will now start talking about "taxing the rich" as the 20...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Why can't we keep trains on their tracks?

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This is supposed to be the most industrialized and technologically advanced nation in the world and we can’t keep trains on the track. And ...

Unemployment down and poverty soars.

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Trump’s big boast is unemployment is down. Unemployment is down only because so many people have been under-employed and unemployed for...
Monday, December 18, 2017

George McGovern and Lyndon Johnson

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Opinion ...

The people must assert their voices for peace.

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Trump is in the process of updating the U.S. "strategy" for when nuclear weapons will be used... Once the nuclear bombs are d...

Another phony "leftist"

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I have been meaning to comment for quite sometime about this “writer” referring to herself as a “rogue journalist” pretending to offer the ...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Hey Dumb Donkeys... Its all about guns and butter.

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Democrats still don’t get what the liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith tried to explain to them: You can’t have both guns and butte...
Friday, December 15, 2017

The FCC ruling repeals Net Neutrality

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New York Times: F.C.C. Repeals Net Neutrality Rules https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/technology/net-neutrality-repeal-vote.html?...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Convicted ex-coal boss Blankenship to run for Senate

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This begs the question: Why aren't workers running for office in opposition to the employers? http://thehill.com/policy/energy-envir...

Health Care is a Human Right

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Today is the 69th anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://unudhr.blogspot.com/ Notice that ...

United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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Today is the 69th anniversary of the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://unudhr.blogspot.com/ Have you re...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Is the U.S. Senate any less unethical, dishonest and corrupt with Al Franken gone?

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Democrats say they want to shed themselves of Al Franken because they want to be seen as honorable, ethical and decent... this is laughab...

Jerusalem is an international city.

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Most of the world agrees that Jerusalem should be an "international city." Why then has Trump with support from Netanyahu push...
Wednesday, December 6, 2017

It Can't Happen Here? Better think again. Try reading this...

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Fascists rally in support of Republican Roy Moore while Democrats focus their attacks on John Conyers and Al Franken

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What does an American fascist rally look like? Can it--- fascism--- happen here? It---fascism--- is dangerously on the rise here. T...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Hillary Clinton and "What Happened"

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Democrats all over the United States are helping Hillary Clinton promote her new book, "What Happened," but they are attacking ...

Trump should resign!

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The other day I mentioned I found it very hypocritical for Nancy Pelosi to call of Senator Al Franken and Congressman John Conyers to resi...

Are you willing to help organize a national campaign for a National Public Health Care System?

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The time is long overdue to kick off a national campaign for a National Public Health Care System so the American people can consider all...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Social Justice and the capitalist market.

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Our monthly Social Justice Book Club at the Lake Travis Community Public Library has been reading, "What Money Can't Buy: The Mor...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

The movie "LBJ;" what is missing?

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The liberal Rob Reiner had the perfect opportunity to include this very important event in his movie, "LBJ," starring Woody Harrel...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

One of my blog posts hits an all time high for The Podunk Blog

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My blog post on health care hit an all time high for my blog posts. People continue to read and share this post: http://thepodunk...

Compare the speech by Xi Jinping to Trump’s “America First” speech delivered in Vietnam

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Compare this speech by Xi Jinping to Trump’s “America First” speech delivered in Vietnam: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-11/12/...
Monday, November 6, 2017

It is almost impossible for most people to understand people actually sit around figuring these things out.

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You have to read this to believe it: https://lieu.house.gov/sites/lieu.house.gov/files/Response%20to%20TWL-RG%20Letter%20on%20NK.pdf

North Korea: Trump condems "strategic patience;" Jimmy Carter offers to negotiate the peace. Others calculate the costs of war.

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Here we go, again, with Trump's attacks--- from threatening war to sanctioning the people to death--- on North Korea claiming "...
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Alan Maki
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I have been involved in the peace, labor, civil rights, and environmental movements for over 30 years, and I am a socialist. I would encourage everyone to get involved in promoting the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which came into existence on December 10, 1948; we should strive to use the yearly anniversary of this document to popularize it. We need to struggle to create a more progressive, socially just society where all working people receive real living wages and have a voice at work, and in their communities. I have worked with casino workers across Minnesota who are trying to organize a union. I have worked with people in northern Minnesota struggling to save the Big Bog, the primary freshwater aquifer--- this bog is being mined for peat. In my spare time during the spring and fall you can find me fly fishing on the Dark River, a pristine designated trout stream;in the winter ice fishing on Lake-of-the-Woods. I look forward to hearing from you. Nothing human is alien to me.
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