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Episode #346

Fistful of Butter

#346 Fistful of Butter
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Karen:

Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo

  1. “Destroying the World to Save it” by Robert Jay Lifton

  2.  “Aum's Shoko Asahara and the Cult at the End of the World” by David Kaplan and Andrew Marshall (Wired)

  3.  “Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche” by Haruki Murakami

  4.  “The Aum Shinrikyo Death Cult” by Last Podcast on the Left

  5. “Japan Just Executed the Leaders of an LSD-Fueled Doomsday Science Cult” by Daniel Oberhaus (Vice)

  6. “Encyclopedia of modern worldwide extremists and extremist groups” by Stephen Atkins

  7.  “Japan cults target lonely college students isolated by pandemic” by Shimpei Nakamura (Nikkei Asia)

  8.  “After 8-Year Trial in Japan, Cultist Is Sentenced to Death” by Norimitsu Onishi (New York Times)

  9.  “Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study on Aum Shinrikyo” (Federation of American Scientists)

  10.  “Chronology of major events related to Aum Shinrikyo cult” (Economic Newswire)

  11.  “Japanese cult leader Shoko Asahara executed for Tokyo sarin attack” by James Griffiths and Yoko Wakatsuki (CNN)

  12.  “Tokyo subway attack 25 years on: How a sinister doomsday cult brought rush hour terror to Japan” by Joe Sommerlad (The Independent)

  13.  “Cultist says he could not defy 'poa' order” (Japan Times)

  14.  “Japanese Guru – A Youthful Bully’s Quest for Power” by David Holley (LA Times)

  15.  “Watch out for tell-tale signs” by Rick Ross (The Guardian)

  16.  “A Guru's Journey -- A special report.; The Seer Among the Blind: Japanese Sect Leader's Rise” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sherly Wudunn (New York Times)

  17.  “Kyushu” (Brittanica)

  18.  “Consequence Management in the 1995 Sarin Attacks on the Japanese Subway System” by Robyn Pangi (Belfer Center)

  19. “Hundreds In Japan Hunt Gas Attackers After 8 Die” by Nicholas Kristof (New York Times) 

  20.  “Chaos as Nazi nerve gas fells commuters” by Kevin Rafferty and Martin Walker (The Guardian)

  21. “The Sarin Gas Attack in Japan and the Related Forensic Investigation” (OPCW)

  22. “Why Japan’s Terror Cult Still Has Appeal” by Tim Larimer (Time)

  23.  “Subway and bus ridership for 2020” (MTA)

  24.  “What Sarin is” (CDC)

  25.  “The Definitive Guide to Helping People Trapped in a Cult” by Steve A Hassan (Psychology Today)

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