Jim Jones was a piker. Trump has him totally beat. For every person who listened to Jones and died from cyanide, 438 people died because they listened to Trump and didn't take Covid seriously.

Representative Jackie Spears got it right, and she should know.

Back in 1978, Spears – then a 28-year-old aide to Congressman Leo Ryan – flew down to Guyana to investigate reports that Reverend Jim Jones was stealing money from his parishioners and subjecting them to horrors ranging from rape to beatings and public humiliation to "rehearsals" for mass suicide.

Reverend Jones didn't take kindly to their showing up and ordered them all killed. Representative Ryan, another aide, and 3 reporters were all shot dead; Jackie Spears was, for 22 hours, left for dead on the airport tarmac with 5 bullets in her.

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-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump Devotees Still "Drinking the Kool Aid" in Obedience to His Orangeness" by Thom Hartmann.

Case: "Trump et al. v. Facebook and Zuckerberg".

Article: "Jim Jones" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "In Maryland, every person who died of Covid-19 in June was unvaccinated. That's not an aberration, experts say" by Eric Levenson.

Article: "Birx Says Most Covid Deaths in US Were Preventable, So Ted Lieu Asks: Why Didn't You Challenge Trump?" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Michael Wolff's new book: Trump wanted to use COVID-19 as excuse to cancel the 2020 elections" by annieli.

Article: "Press Ignores Blockbuster Study Of Trump Policies That Cost 400K Lives" by Eric Boehlert.

Article: "Meet the Press - January 10, 2016" by Chuck Todd.

Article: "'Force you to put things in your body': Right winger rants colleges requiring vaccines are like 'The Handmaid's Tale'" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump Got Vaccinated Secretly, Because Otherwise He Might Have Helped the Country" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "Congresswoman and Jonestown survivor Jackie Speier: 'Trump is a political cult leader'" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "There's a sucker born every minute" by Wikipedia.

Article: "145 House Republicans refuse to say whether they've been vaccinated against COVID-19" by Dartagnan.

Article: "misogyny" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "misanthropy" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "misandry" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jonestown" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Insurrection Act of 1807" by Wikipedia.

Video: "Day of Rage: An In-Depth Look at How a Mob Stormed the Capitol" by Dmitriy Khavin, Haley Willis, Evan Hill, Natalie Reneau, Drew Jordan, Cora Engelbrecht, Christiaan Triebert, Stella Cooper, Malachy Browne, David Botti.

What We Know About The Assassination Of Haiti's President
- Laurent Lamothe, Former Prime Minister of Haiti / Author: The Hands of the Prime Minister: An Illustrated Conversation with Haiti's Longest Serving Head of Government

Article: "What We Know About The Assassination Of Haiti's President" by Jaclyn Diaz.

Article: "Jovenel Moïse" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Four 'foreign mercenaries who assassinated' Haitian President Jovenel Moïse are shot dead by police and two more are arrested after taking cops hostage as gravely-wounded First Lady is airlifted to Miami hospital" by Keith Griffith, Adry Torres, Ross Ibbetson.

Article: "Electricity sector in Haiti" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Assassination of Rafic Hariri" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2021 Haitian general election" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haiti postpones June 27 constitutional referendum" by AFP.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Haiti" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haitians abroad get more rights with new constitution" by BBC.

Article: "Prime Minister of Haiti" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Haitian diaspora" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In Search Of The Red Cross' $500 Million In Haiti Relief " by Laura Sullivan.

Article: "Haiti indemnity controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "External debt of Haiti" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Drinking the Kool-Aid" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Waco siege", 1993 by Wikipedia.

Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The FBI Declared QAnon a Domestic Terrorism Threat — and Conspiracy Theorists Are Psyched " by EJ Dickson.

Article: "Conservative conference with prominent QAnon supporters to close out with Covid mask-burning event" by Gustaf Kilander.

Hour Two: The big story today is that the FED is about to slow down or stop their QE. What is that, why did they do it, and what will unwinding it do?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) @profwolff @democracyatwrk

Article: "Ireland's Days as a Tax Haven May Be Ending, but Not Without a Fight" by Liz Alderman.

Article: "Axios Markets 8 July 2021" by Sam Ro.

Article: "List of Countries by Corporate Tax Rate" by Trading Economics.

Article: "Yellen to press G20 for higher minimum corporate tax rate -U.S. Treasury" by David Lawder.

Tweet: "NEW--> GOP Congressman on bipartisanship: We want "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done" [video]" by Lauren Windsor.

Article: "This ex-Trump official is moving the 'critical race theory' hysteria into churches as he takes aim at 'woke' pastors " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "The Proportion Of White Christians In The U.S. Has Stopped Shrinking, New Study Finds" by Becky Sullivan.

Article: "Jerry Falwell Sr." by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pat Robertson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jimmy Swaggart" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russell Vought" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Scoop: Former OMB director to set up Pro-Trump think tanks" by Hans Nichols, Lachlan Markay.

TV: "The Tudors".

Article: "Jim Bakker" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Religious Beliefs of America's Founders: Reason, Revelation, and Revolution by Gregg L. Frazer.

Article: "Deism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity" by David L. Holmes.

Video: Petition the Lord with Prayer (Live) - The Doors.

Article: "Blood atonement" by Wikipedia.

Book: Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy by David Roberts.

Article: "This televangelist is asking his followers to buy him a $54 million private jet" by AJ Willingham.

Article: "Minnie Fisher Cunningham" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McChrystal: Conventional strategy won't win in Afghanistan" by Gerry Gilmore.

Article: "Conservative groups mount opposition to increase in IRS budget, threatening White House infrastructure plan" by Jeff Stein, Tony Romm, Yeganeh Torbati.

Article: "An ugly new right-wing attack poses a test for populists like J.D. Vance" by Greg Sargent.

Article: "Enron scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Article: "Big corporations claimed they'd stop giving to Republicans who tried to overturn election. They lied" by Laura Clawson.

Article: "Jefferson Davis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Varina Davis" by Wikipedia.

Geeky Science: "'Heat dome' probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say" by Leyland Cecco.

Article: "Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle" by Isaac Schultz.

Article: "Second Commandment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "churchianity" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "Stances of Faiths on LGBTQ Issues: United Church of Christ" by Human Rights Campaign.

Article: "Local property tax (Ireland)" by Wikipedia.

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