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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

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Should users have a say in who owns and controls the Internet?

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The Wall Street technology companies are complaining that China is quickly becoming a leading country when it comes to the Internet and t...

Trump is personally responsible for this mess we are in with this coronavirus and economic recession.

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Trump is personally responsible for this mess we are in with this coronavirus and economic recession. Trump was playing golf and holding ...

Where does this end?

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As deaths from the coronavirus mount and the economy is collapsing, does anyone want to venture a guess how this ends?

Let’s get this straight...

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The economy was already collapsing long before the appearance of the coronavirus. The coronavirus did not cause the economy to collapse; ...

Working class education

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About education: Most workers could learn more about life spending a few days studying the Communist Manifesto with a small group of fr...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Trump's insane policies pushed by Wall Street towards China must end.

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Wall Street is intent on bringing China down even if it hurts the rest of us and the world along with the Chinese people. What would mot...

A National Public Health Care System... the ultimate stimulus package

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A National Public Health Care System based on the model of public education would create over twelve-million good paying jobs providing th...

Trump turns everything into a racket intended to line his own pockets.

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Everything is about money, money, money with Trump... This is just now being reported; but why haven’t reporters asked Trump directly abou...

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Come on Bernie Sanders... stop using our problems as campaign gimmicks!

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I’m glad to see Bernie Sanders finally taking up the demand for $2,000.00 a month after I have been bombarding his email with this for ma...

Nothing complicated or controversial about nationalization.

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People keep asking me: “How do you nationalize an entire industry?” This is not complicated; it’s been done successfully over and over ...

A 'Stimulus Package" or slush fund for a bunch of corrupt Wall Street vultures?

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We can sum up Trump’s “stimulus package” approved by the Democrats, thusly: Too little, too late, too mismanaged with too much corruption...
Monday, April 6, 2020

New rules.

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Our local supermarket, H.E.B., part of a huge chain, announced today that it will only be allowing one member from a family to enter its sto...

Working people are entitled to a seat at the decision-making table.

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I’m going to keep re-posting this from time to time because people keep asking if they can share it... you can share anything you want fr...

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A questionable democracy.

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We have the right to vote. The problem with this is that we allow our employers to select the candidates we then vote for.

A conversation with Republican Congressman Roger Willams.

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I tried to have input into the Coronavirus Stimulus legislation prior to its passing. I asked Congressman Roger Williams (Republican, Texas...

Talk about your arrogant muddle-headed upper middle class intellectual snobs...

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David J. Albert who is an adjunct at Austin Community College said that since I don't have a PhD I'm not as smart as him when it com...

Democracy.

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Republicans and Democrats in Congress backed and bribed by Wall Street are making the decisions affecting working people and working clas...

Democrats and the "New Deal" and another Big Lie.

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Democrats would like us to believe support for Joe Biden is like support for the New Deal. In fact, it was Democrats just like Biden who f...

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Just keep your mouth shut and "vote Blue no matter who."

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You know, I constantly get invited to all the Democratic Party FaceBook groups and their front-groups pushing all kinds of campaign gimmi...

We have no voice in Washington.

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Something to think about: The working class of this country has no voice to lobby for us in Washington. Hint: Maybe this is a big par...

Insurance premiums take a jump.

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Just received notice that my Medicare Supplemental insurance went up over 20%. So much for Trump’s great for-profit driven free-market he...

The capitalist economy is collapsing.

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Can any thinking person still argue that the capitalist economy is not in the process of collapsing? But, the source of the problem is a ...

NPR and China

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Listened to NPR take up Steve Bannon’s line that included a racist, anti-Communist diatribe of outright lies and slander against China. S...

Where did U.S. foreign policy go wrong towards China?

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I have been listening to different Democratic Party groups and politicians... They have joined Trump-Pompeo-Bannon-Bolton in a viciously ...

The system is rigged against working people.

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Are you willing to suffer, and see your family and friends suffer, so these billionaire Wall Street oligarchs can try to save their rotte...

What is with all this anti-Communist China bashing... and its history?

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At this time it is very important to understand the historical roots of the very chauvinistic, jingoistic, racist, right wing reactionar...

Censorship

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There is widespread censorship taking place in this country right now. Trump is setting the tone for this; you may have noticed the way ...
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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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