Chapter 12

Satan’s Family Tree

“The Devil can get into people and cause them to do things they

wouldn’t do otherwise.”

—Herbert Mullin, speaking to a Bible study class

In New York City in 1875,

Madame Helena Petrovina Blavatsky founded the

Theosophical Society, an occult-based group that survives to this day and that

supplied much of the ideology of Hitler’s Third Reich. Over the course of the

next decade-and-a-half, Blavatsky published Isis…

By TAMAR LEWIN

Published: March 6, 2012

Black students, especially boys, face much harsher discipline in public schools than other students, according to new data from the…

Aaron M. Sprecher/Bloomberg News

 R. Allen Stanford, shown arriving at the courthouse in Houston on Tuesday, was convicted of 13 out of 14 counts of fraud.

By CLIFFORD…

Capt. Brett Pierson refers to a computer tablet during preflight checks aboard a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft bound for a refueling mission in Afghanistan. (Master Sgt. William Greer / U.S. Air Force )

by Staff Writers

Seoul (AFP) Feb 16, 2012

By Hal DardickClout Street

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Reuters

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The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, a gathering in Times Square of skeptics on global warming.

By JUSTIN GILLIS and …

A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up an argument between two men, one of whom accused him of hating the Indian tribe that owned the resort.

The Associated Press

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. —

A state senator and his wife said Saturday they were attacked and beaten at a Niagara Falls casino hotel after the lawmaker tried to break up…

CURTIS TATE - MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS…

While white separatists for years have called for a racial homeland in the inland Pacific Northwest, an even bigger movement of survivalists, Christian fundamentalists and political doomsayers is fueling the idea of a defensible retreat west of the Rockies.

The federal budget deficit fell sharply in January compared to a year earlier, as an improving economy lifts income tax revenue.

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER

AP Economics Writer

February 6, 2012

REPORTING FROM MEXICO CITY -- The Mexican economy is "hemorrhaging" billions of dollars annually because of money laundering, tax evasion and other forms of corruption, …

The judge's fans see him as the rare authority trying to impose Wall Street penalties that fit the offense. His critics see him as a headline-chaser who could end up undermining his own agenda by forcing the SEC to actually win its cases.

By David S. Hilzenrath

The Washington Post

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, WASH. - With more soldiers stationed there than ever before, crime is on the rise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

The News Tribune of Tacoma reports ( http://is.gd/BGoV5v) that the base recorded new highs last year for misdemeanor crimes and for offenses involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Felonies and domestic violence were also up last year compared with the previous year,…

In a striking reversal in state policy that has gained momentum this week, doctors are receiving stark warnings that the painkilling drug methadone is riskier and more dangerous than previously believed — a drug of last resort because it's unpredictable and poses a heightened risk of accidental death.

By Michael J. Berens and …

January 12, 2012 by Chris Lefkow…