Jim Jones, the religious cult leader and civil rights activist, hinted at things to come. “I love socialism, and I’m willing to die to bring it about, but if I did, I’d take a thousand with me,” he said during a sermon at his Peoples Temple church in San Francisco. Just two...
As Jones’ public humiliations and beatings of Temple members increased, so did her resolve to leave, she recalled: “Jim said, ‘If anybody ever leaves, they’ll be killed.’ I really believed that. But I thought, at least if I go I’ll die, and I won’t have to live like this...
Cult leaders such asJim Jones, who led 918 followers – 304 of them children – to mass suicide and murder in his jungle commune at Jonestown, preyed on the vulnerable. When recruiting, he would target people whose lives lacked meaning and purpose, a ready source of attention, or a sense ...
After doing it once, I did it again! It was as if I completely had forgotten what caused the first spillage. And then somehow, without shaking any containers, I had a third spill. Thankfully, each time it cleaned up easily. No stains – or perhaps very slight stains that thankfully bl...
We are just beginning to understand the immensity of the damage to our planet the Fukushima disaster did. We will probably not be told the degree of radiation exposure from it we are receiving until long after people have been dying in droves from it. The BP oil spill of 2010 is, similar...
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