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Soldiers against war

Who is war good for? CEOs.

This is why history is important… IT’S REPEATING ITSELF! The Tea Party and the nutcase right is nothing new. Back when FDR was President, it was known as the American Liberty League, in the case of this pic, it’s the John Birch Society. The father of the Koch brothers was a founding member of JBS….dun dun dun…CONSPIRACY!!! There are always those on the right who smear anyone who opposes them as “communist, socialist, radical, etc”. Lucky for us, progress keeps moving forward (socially at least) and the nutcases lose. Also, as an avowed anti-capitalist/socialist/radical, I take offense to putting centrist statist liberals in my camp. They cave to their corporate masters, we fight back.

If you think FDR, JFK, or Obama is a socialist, I have a tip for you: read a book/get smarter, because you’re probably a moron.

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Got this off of facebook:

Rhetoric sound familiar? It’s just Koch reruns from the 1960s.

“This bulletin was distributed by the hateful John Birch Society which is the predecessor of today’s Tea Party … IN FACT … one of the founding members of The John Birch Society was Fred Koch - FATHER of David and Charles Koch. The Koch brothers started and funded the Tea Party. It is all one in the same.”

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Quick learn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Liberty_League

Also, check out the Businessman’s plot. A plan set up by the 1% of the day and the American Liberty League to overthrow FDR and install a fascist state in the USA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

Luckily Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler blew the cover of the plot by going public with the info. He said that he “wouldn’t be a gangster for capitalism any longer” (he had overthrown several governments in Central America, etc). He wrote a book called “War is a Racket” which he told all about how war benefited corporate interests. Also, he’s a two time medal of honor winner, which should make him a credible person to the far-right crypto fascists.

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Religion, politics, and war.

Military-entertainment complex? Act of Valor film described as ‘beyond propaganda’

Al Jazeera English’s Nic Muirhead on Sunday explained the growing relationship between the Department of Defense and Hollywood, particularly in regards to the action film Act of Valor.

“We are not longer simply borrowing material or ideas or roles, we’re actually borrowing the military itself to make a movie,” author Michael Ryan said. “This is entirely new and it is dangerously new. It is going a little bit beyond propaganda. It is something else entirely.

The Pentagon has offered its technology to filmmakers for years, providing movie studios with planes, tanks and other assets.

But Act of Valor was actually commissioned by the Navy’s Special Warfare Command and the lead roles were played by active-duty military personnel. The Navy hopes the film will help recruit new Navy SEALs.

Watch video, courtesy of Al Jazeera English, below:

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Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests

Good thing we invaded their country and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians to give them so much freedom that they actually have court ordered virginity tests.  What the fuck!?!  I don’t mean to be a cultural imperialist here, but that’s some seriously fucked up religious bullshit.  Smash patriarchy! Smash the state!

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From Raw Story:

Iraqi women face court-ordered virginity tests that often show they were virgins until marriage but shame them nonetheless, doctors at an institute that carries out the tests and a lawyer told AFP.

Remaining a virgin until marriage can be an issue of life or death for women in the Middle East, where those who are seen as having dishonoured the family by having premarital sex are sometimes killed by male relatives.

An average of several virginity tests are performed per day at the Medical Legal Institute (MLI) in Baghdad, in a small windowless room with blue-tiled walls and a black table with leg stirrups at one end.

Other equipment includes a white scope on a wheeled stand and a bright white light, also on wheels, near the end of the table.

“Most of the cases we received after the first day of marriage,” said Dr Munjid al-Rezali, the director of the MLI.

“The husband claim that she is not a virgin, and then the family bring her here, through the courts, this all come through the courts, and we examine her,” Rezali said, speaking in English.

“It’s not uncommon, we are seeing a lot,” he added.

The tests include examination of the woman’s hymen, but the man involved may also come under scrutiny.

The man may be tested for impotency, Rezali said, noting that in some cases, a man with erectile dysfunction may pretend the woman was not a virgin to hide his shame.

The results of the tests go directly to the courts, and are not given by the MLI to the parties involved, Rezali said.

“They think that during the marriage, (the) first day of marriage, there should be blood… they think if there is no blood, there is no virginity,” said Dr Sami Dawood, a forensic doctor at the MLI who has been involved in the tests.

This belief, he said, indicates that sex education and knowledge is “very poor.”

If a man thinks his new wife is not a virgin, he may take the issue to court, leading to the MLI performing a virginity test, said Dawood.

Asked about the results of the tests, Dawood said that “most of them (are) with the woman, not against the woman, but it is by itself… shaming.”

However, he said that while women were killed in the past if blood was not found on the sheets after their wedding night, people now seek recourse through the courts and the virginity tests procedure.

The test, which takes between 15 and 30 minutes, is carried out by three doctors, at least one of them a woman, and the results are certified by two others, said Dawood, adding that the tests are done only when ordered by a court.

“The judge is required to send the woman for the medical test when she is accused by her husband of not being a virgin, and that is only done in this case,” lawyer Ali Awad Kurdi said.

“If it is proved that the woman was not virgin and sought to get married without telling the man, there is no law that protects her,” Kurdi said.

The woman’s family is then required to recompense the man for gifts, money and other expenditures related to the relationship.

Various Iraqi judicial officials either declined to speak about the issue, or could not be reached by AFP.

“Non-governmental organisations do not have any means of protecting women from this accusation of this crime, because it is a very sensitive matter,” said Intisar al-Mayali, an activist from the Iraqi Women’s Association, a local rights group.

Marianne Mollmann, senior policy adviser for rights group Amnesty International, called virginity tests both wrong and ineffective.

“The issue of virginity testing, and forced virginity testing and sort of legal virginity tests in court proceedings or in other ways, violate a whole host of human rights and are just not justifiable,” she said.

“Even if it were legitimate to look at whether women were virgins for whatever reason, which it’s not, you can’t use a virginity test for that, because the hymen might break for any reason,” Mollmann said.

The test “doesn’t do what it’s set out to do.”

Liesl Gerntholtz, the director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, said: “The Iraqi government should urgently put measures in place to ensure that women and girls are not forced to undergo physical examinations that are degrading, painful and frightening.”

“The use of these tests in court should be banned.”