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4. Right-wing fascist neocons are like that.

Reply to Demeter (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 10:27 AM

Feb 2014

In the US, they saw 911 as a good excuse for the Patriot Act and getting international cooperation in new wars.

In Japan, they see 311 as a good excuse for new secrecy laws and a military build-up that requires rewriting the constitition so they can provoke new wars.

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Silver lining? Demeter Feb 2014 #1

Right-wing fascist neocons are like that. bananas Feb 2014 #4

That's a right-wing nationalistic fascist organization bananas Feb 2014 #2

"nearly 300,000, mostly indigenous, women were forcibly sterilized" by it's parent organization. bananas Feb 2014 #3