thoughts from podunk

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

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

What will those who refuse to back Trump's impeachment do....

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... when the Democrats can't defeat Trump?

Trump's Miami speech: Trump Demands End to Maduro Regime in Broad Attack on Socialism

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A must see and listen to speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7IjQc6PITw Only a completely deranged moron billionaire would make suc...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Corruption in Canada

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Justin Trudeau should be forced to resign.
Friday, February 15, 2019

Picture I took of Longhorns with newborn calf in Bluebonnets,,, click on pic to enlarge

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Trump’s new nuclear weapon has entered production

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Who is paying for all of this? What is the cost to us of Wall Street's imperialist agenda? Something to think about: The Wall Street...

There is another alternative to this health care mess

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Nina Turner sent me an email (see below) claiming the for profit Medicare for All is the only solution to this health care mess. I sent h...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua... and Haiti

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Perhaps Trump, Pence, Bolton, Steny Hoyer and Elliot Abrams are looking to perform the same kind of free-enterprise capitalist economic mira...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

"Great Decisions" the forum used by those in power to educate the business community

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The other night I attended the "Great Decisions" meeting at the Lake Travis Community Public Library; the meeting was intended to ...

Facebook, the billionaires' idea of what constitutes democracy

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Facebook prevented me from posting and commenting on other pages... then they extended this censorship to my own Facebook page. So I close...

Democracy and debate

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The mainstream media and the hacks employed by the Democratic and Republican parties are striving to make sure dialog, discussion and debate...

Where does the real threat to humanity come from?

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The real threat to peace and democracy comes from the fascist cabal of Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Steny Hoyer and Elliot Abrams... and Wall Stree...

Stop the attack on Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua

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Trump, Pence, Pompeo, Bolton, Steny Hoyer choosing to work with Elliot Abrams have made it U.S. policy to bring down the people’s government...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

We need a "people's lobby" if we are going to impeach Trump and remove him from office and secure any reforms from this "Blue Wave" and the newly elected "Democratic socialists."

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This is the platform Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran on: https://ocasio2018.com/issues Now, in order for her and her fellow “Democratic soc...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Campaign for a “21st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity”

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Campaign for a “21 st Century Full Employment Act for Peace and Prosperity” We are fed up with politicians campaigning on promises ...

Such tremendous waste...

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Amazon is being subsidized by tax-payers to the tune of billions of dollars. One the one hand, perfectly good facilities like the St. Paul F...

Love Canal... Picher, Oklahoma... Flint, Michigan

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Love Canal... Picher, Oklahoma... Flint, Michigan . Entire communities poisoned by capitalist greed. Will your city be next? What ...

Implement the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights now!

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We need to understand something very important: The present Democratic Party, in spite of a very small handful of those elected among th...

What happened to the concept of the right to fair hearings?

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A person can’t even get a fair hearing from the Social Security Administration... Frances Perkins would be ashamed of what Social Security...

Remove the cap on Social Security

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Eliminating the cap on Social Security making all wages taxable at 6.2% would help in funding Social Security. Im not sure how much that ...

Social Security and racism

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When talking about Social Security, it is important to note how racism has resulted in people of color receiving the lowest Social Securi...

Social Security, history and class struggle

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Why do we need to understand the history of how Social Security came into existence? Because understanding the massive grassroots struggl...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Demand an increase in Social Security now!

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I need your help getting this out. We have begun making waves... let’s stay on this. I have included several of your suggestions. Can yo...

Should the Social Security Trust Fund be used by the government as a source of cheap loans to fight its dirty wars?

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So, we see this line of thinking that the government is justified using the Social Security Trust Fund as a source of cheap loans. Democr...

We are slaves to the debt Wall Street bankers profit from

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We have become slaves to debt trying to maintain a decent standard-of-living on high-interest credit cards as we try to cope with an ever...

We need Social Security to be a real living income now!

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Here is a good one. I just got a private message telling me I should stop riling people up over Social Security because a radical like m...

Forest fires and nuclear war

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Paradise, California has been destroyed by a forest fire... Just imagine the destruction that would result from nuclear war.

Was Barack Obama a peace president?

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Barack Obama, the politician who campaigned for the presidency on a promise of peace, dropped over 26,000 bombs during his presidency; wh...

We need a cooperative socialist common wealth

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In Baltimore, 75% voted to forbid privatizing the city’s water supply. Our water is too vital to let private profit-driven companies contro...

Defense strategy report warns of grave erosion in US military superiority

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Defense strategy report warns of grave erosion in US military superiority https://thehill.com/policy/defense/416744-Defense-strategy-repor...

Class consciosness and class struggle

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What working people need to learn more about is the relationship between wages and Social Security income and cost-of-living and standar...
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Alan Maki
United States
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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