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Satan

Aug 2005Number of members of the Iraqi parliament who worship not only Muhammad but a fallen angel named Lucifer : 3
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Verlag Denge Ezidiyan (Oldenburg, Germany)

Nov 1999Number of films about battling Satan that Hollywood studios are planning to release in the next four months: 2
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Exhibitor Relations Co., Inc. (Los Angeles)

July 14, 2007Police recovered a seven-week-old boy from the middle of a road in Ohio, where his naked mother had placed him in order to appease Satan.
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WLWT

March 5, 2007 Ann Coulter called former Senator John Edwards a faggot.
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Fox News

March 1, 2007 Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, which he mistakenly placed in Somalia, not Sudan, where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a cooperative agreement on the environment and said, “Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.”
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PrezVid

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Deutsche Presse-Agentur

September 21, 2006 Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez objected to the smell of sulfur in the U.N.'s General Assembly hall, and offered to relocate the U.N.'s headquarters to Caracas.
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New York times

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Fox News

April 9, 2006Many scientists said that it was too late to stop climate change and that the earth was "past the point of no return." "We are looking for the devil," said a geochemist, "and we have found ourselves."
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The Stamford Advocate

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Jurnalo.com

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The Connecticut Post

March 26, 2006In San Francisco over 25,000 teenagers gathered at AT&T Park for an evangelical Christian rally. "The devil's a pimp," said one 18-year-old attendee. "Don't be his ho."
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SFGate.com

January 12, 2006A Minnesota man named Jonathan “The Impaler” Sharkey, who claims to be a vampire, announced that he would run for governor and promised that if elected he would personally impale murderers and child molesters. “I'm a Satanist who doesn't hate Jesus,” he explained.
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Reuters

May 29, 2005In New Jersey, State Assemblyman Craig Stanley was fighting to rename the Devils hockey team. “The merchandise, the paraphernalia,” he said, “is based on the actual demonic devil.”
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AP

May 27, 2005Brigadier General Jay Hood, Guantánamo Bay's commander, said that an investigation at Guantánamo Bay had uncovered five incidents of Koran abuse, but none involved toilets; protesters rallied against Koran abuse in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, Malaysia, and in Lebanon, where they chanted “America is the biggest Satan.”
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BBC News

May 6, 2005A seventeen-year-old woman was thrown out of her village in India after her stomach swelled up; villagers believed she was carrying the “devil's child,” but the swelling turned out to be a 33-pound tumor the size of five fetuses.
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News24.com

May 4, 2005A papyrologist at Oxford University announced that new techniques in spectral imaging, which make it possible to decipher previously illegible ink on papyrus fragments, have yielded parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles, a novel by Lucian, and an epic poem by Archilochos; researchers also applied the technique to third- and fourth-century manuscripts of the Revelation of Saint John and discovered that the number of the beast, contrary to popular belief, is 616, the area code of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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National Post

March 18, 2005 Satan's face appeared on a turtle's shell in Indiana.
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Boston.com

January 21, 2005 Norwegians were shocked to see the president and his family repeatedly give the University of Texas "hook 'em, 'horns" sign, which they interpreted as a salute to Satan, during the festivities, and sign-language users pointed out that the sign means "bullshit."
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New York Daily News

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AP

January 9, 2005 Satanists were upset to learn that the Regina Apostolorum, a Vatican university, was going to offer courses in Satanism and exorcism. The church, said a prominent Satanist, “has the blood of countless millions on its bejeweled fingers.”
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Telegraph.co.uk

October 24, 2004The British Armed Forces officially recognized its first Satanist, a sailor on the HMS Cumberland who will now be permitted to perform Satanic rituals on board.
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BBC

April 29, 2003 An Iranian fatwa warned that the Great Satan “will incite lust by allowing easy access to stimulating satellite channels.”
April 22, 2003 Investigators revealed that a retired banker living in Switzerland spent 10 years helping Saddam Hussein hide millions of dollars via a Bahamas bank account under the name of Satan.
March 11, 2003 Sixty-eight percent of Americans believe in the devil, but only 48 percent believe that God created the universe; 28 percent believe in evolution.
September 3, 2002 Kentucky banned prison inmates from holding formal Satanic worship services, which previously had been listed on the official prison religious-services calendar.
October 9, 2001 Police in Togo raided a church whose pastor was suspected of Satanism, and found a panther's pelt, hyena paws, vulture eggs, and a hunchback's hump.
July 17, 2001 Police in Braintree, Massachusetts, suspected devil worship after they searched a man's apartment and found a fetus in a jar on a dresser next to a skull, a brain, and some pot.
April 17, 2001 Police near Savannah, Georgia, raided the homes of 11 middle-school children and discovered firearms, satanic and Nazi posters, and bomb recipes, but no bombs.

AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

THE MANDARINS
American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

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