Cover photos by Roe Ethridge and Michael Yon
 VICE MAILSlavery Is Back, Israel Tease, Nonfiction Workshop, A Cry in the Wilderness... | |
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  WACO SHAKEDOWNA New Davidian Prophet Splits the BranchThirteen years after it went up in an apocalyptic blaze, the site where the Branch Davidians' Waco compound sat-and where a new Mt. Carmel Church was built in 1999 with help from famed radio nutbar Alex Jones-remains at the center of a bizarre conflict involving land-ownership rights, a spiritual co... | |
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 WE TALKED TO DAVID KORESH'S GIRLFRIENDLast year, an independent label in Otho, Iowa (Junior Motel Records) released a post-humous recording by David Koresh. The CD, Voice of Fire, contains two songs and a 40-minute sermon by the self-proclaimed son of God. The cover plays up the exploitation factor to the max. It shows the flaming compo... | |
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 ISRAEL-LITESI Expected Rage and I Got NerdsDo you know about the Black Israelites? They are a cult of black people who dress like biker-gang wizards and hold public "we hate white people" rallies in front of Macy's. We spent about two weeks coaxing three Black Israelites out of the internet and into a Burger King in Harlem to tell us what... | |
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 I WAS A CRIP ... SORT OFI'm pretty sure I was a member of the blue-wearing gang, the Crips, from 2001 to 2002. I was on a lot of drugs then and have a piss poor recollection of all things, but I got a good feeling I was in the gang. At the very least I was an honorary member. A pseudo-Crip, if you will.... | |
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 HAND JIVEHow to Talk With Your Gang HandsSetting aside for a moment the cred supremacy of inner-city housing projects-if the ghetto had a ghetto of its own, it would be Herschelwood. It is basically your favorite ghetto's favorite ghetto. Herschelwood's parent neighborhood is South Park, a primarily black post-WWII development on Houston's... | |
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 FALUN GONG AND MEXingxing in the ParkChinatown: New York's Seward Park is a riot of incredibly fit senior citizens by 6 AM every day. Near the north end of the park, a tai chi group of about 40 members practices to a stereo blasting pentatonic music. Some of them are especially limber, and their exaggerated lunges bring their crotches ... | |
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 VICE RECOMMENDSBefore we start, let's just point out that the aim of this column is to tell you about music videos that you can watch using a computer or whatever you use to connect to the internet. Since some of you have been unable to fully comprehend this previously, we're sure you won't be able to competently ... | |
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 THE DOWNSIDES OF COCAINEAre Many And TerribleA few weeks ago I got a call from my dad saying my cousin had been murdered in a Colombian cartel slaying. He was found in a jeep abandoned on a highway, its engine still running, along with two other bodies. ... | |
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 CULT RAPTURESkullflower Keep The Pain Of The 80s AliveThe overwhelming, grey shittiness of Margaret Thatcher's Britain and its depressing soundtrack of soft rock, manufactured pop and pretentious indie is to blame for the cult of what we now know as "noise" music.... | |
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 VICE FASHION - GANGS OF OLD NEW YORKWe had a gang that started in high school. We called ourselves the Italian Dukes. We were so fuckin' broke, we had six jackets and maybe 30 guys. So every day somebody else would wear the jackets at school. We went to Seward Park High School, and it was mostly Jews. They were all afraid of us. We di... | |
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 AMERICAN AGHORIAn Introduction to Kapal NathThe fundamentals of Aghor-perhaps the most extreme religion in the world-are fantastically simple, though nonetheless repugnant to most. Repugnance, or rather the quest to overcome it, is in fact a central tenet of this belief system. Aghor is an extreme sect of Hinduism. Its adherents principally w... | |
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 GRIMEWATCHWow. Where do we start? A lot has happened since the last Grimewatch update.... | |
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 TEENAGE CHINESE DYKE GANGSChongqing is the fastest growing urban center in the world. According to The Guardian, its population increases by half a million people each year.
So is it any wonder that there are probably around a hundred lesbian gangs scattered around the city? ... | |
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 SURF GANGSOf the AmazonTo find the Amazon surf gangs and their incredible music you have to go to Belem, in the state of Para, several days up the river from Manaus. One surprising thing about these cities is they used to be among the richest in the world. In the late 1800s they had a monopoly on the rubber boom, and they... | |
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 I JOINED THREE CULTS SIMULTANEOUSLYVice made me join three cults for this issue: Adidam, the Moonies, and Aleph. Since Adidam tops the list of "controversial groups" at cult watchdog Rick Ross's website, I figured it'd be the best place to start. Also, their whole deal is worshiping a guru from Long Island who now lives on Fij... | |
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 HEY LADIESThe Slits ReturnIn 1976, fourteen-year-old Ari Up ran into her friend Palmolive at a Patti Smith gig. That night the two girls, inspired by the punk scene exploding around them, decided to form a band. Along with their buddies Tessa Pollitt and Viv Albertine, they started the Slits. Borrowing equipment that they we... | |
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 STOMPERS REUNIONA Roundtable Discussion-Looking Back On AngerIn June 2006, between 20 and 30 students from a technical college in Bangkok, Thailand, were gathered at a bar. A man who did not know these students made a disrespectful comment to one of them close to midnight, and his comment led to a physical confrontation that escalated very quickly, culminatin... | |
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 ELECTRIC INDEPENDENCEAlthough it's not quite been done to death, there's only so much to say about the continuing vogue in dance for rehashing and re-editing cosmic disco and flipped-out space-rock before you start to sound like a bearded bore with an eBay addiction and a signed photo of DJ Harvey in your Gucci wallet. ... | |
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 FILIPINO GANGSThe Sputnik gang is the biggest in the Philippines. It's so enormous that it's difficult to keep track of all the smaller, weaker branches at the bottom of its hierarchy. The lowest rungs are more like local vigilantes watching over the neighborhood while their wives and sons cheer them on.... | |
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 THE PASHTO COWBOYSHanging With God's ChildrenIn a town called Peshawar in the wild west of Pakistan, there's a gang that call themselves God's Children. They are rough guys, some as young as 13, armed to the hilt with Kalashnikovs and six-shooter revolvers, who cruise around doing good deeds in the name of Allah. When they're not rebuilding ho... | |
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 BLOODY KOOL-AIDJim Jones Does it AllYes, this is yet another Dipset article. But when we're dealing with gangs and cults, how could we omit Jim Jones, the infamous cult leader of the Byrd Gang? Also known for his Gainsbourg beard, motorcycle jackets, extra medium shirts and abundance of red bandanas, this self proclaimed One Eyed Will... | |
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 TIDBITSA monthly look at things we love - v13n10CHUNKY CHAT
When you feel like there's no one else you can talk to and you're not really into getting a therapist, go get yourself a fat person and give them a "face full of verbal" as Steve Jones once said. Chubbies don't really get to talk to people that much and if you feed them enoug... | |
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 CULT OF RUNNINGSri Chinmoy Knows ShoesMost runners have one brand and make of shoe they've been buying for the past 20 years. They get locked in and never try anything different. But we had a hunch that if they were to test-drive a new-fangled shoe, they'd prefer it. That's why we sent some of the latest models to our buddies who stu... | |
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 FLYING SOLOAriel Pink Makes A RacketUntil not so long ago, Ariel Pink spent the better part of eight years sitting in his LA room, recording all kinds of variations on his amazing, vaguely melancholy, fuzzed up, lo-fi melodies that sound like they're from the future but are somehow being played through the oldest stereo in the world. ... | |
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 IN THE NAME OF MAOIndia PIcks Up the SlaughterIf you're going just by natural resources, Chhattisgarh is India's richest state. Hardwoods like teak and saal come from here, and there are huge supplies of steel, bauxite, diamonds, and gold. In spite of all that however, Chhattisgarh is jam-packed with Indian hillbillies (Indians call them "backw... | |
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 VICE FASHION - FIX UP LOOK SHARPSharpies emerged from Melbourne's suburbs in the early 70s and evolved out of existence by the end of the decade. They wore jeans and tailor-made cardigans, which they would design themselves in an attempt to outdo all the other sharpies. They got their name for the simple reason that they liked to ... | |
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 A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO GANGLAND UKIllustrations By Jiro, Text Assisted By BernaLEEDS
Apart from hooligans like the Leeds Service Crew, Leeds has been spared organised gangs over the years. With the influx of foreign nationals eager to control the drug and prostitution trade, that trend appears to be changing.... | |
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 HARLEY HOUNDSAussie Biker Gangs Broken DownIn the month I spent hanging out with outlaw biker gangs in Australia, I was threatened at least three times with various grisly forms of death and/or maiming. First, a Hell's Angel threatened to bury me on the club's property in Broadford. Second, a Gypsy Joker said he was going to shoot me if I di... | |
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 RIDING WITH A HEROIN GANGOn The Trail Of Bobby BrownSelling drugs is wrong and illegal, but is it fun? I wanted to find out, so I found a gang of heroin dealers from one of the most economically deprived areas in London and hung out with them for a night so I could find out the answer to the above question. Here's what happened.... | |
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 GAMESGangs of London, Dead RisingGANGS OF LONDON
Sony
Platform: PSP / Genre: Gang shootings
This is worth getting if only for the way you can drive around London for more than five minutes without being stuck in a traffic jam. Ever since Ken ... | |
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 THANK YOU LITTLE G-SUS!CSS and the Snowball ChurchCansei De Ser Sexy. Ever heard of them? All the style magazine articles about how they're like "a cute version of Peaches" or "the ultimate favela party band"? That's them. We were going to give them a miss until we remembered that they come from Sao Paolo, Brazil, which is so filled with gangs and ... | |
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 VICE FASHION - ELITE BOYS' CLUB GANG RITESCambridge University is renowned for its elite clubs and societies which offer exclusive rights to its members, as well as huge networks of alumni in the best paid and influential jobs in the country. These people run the world.... | |
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 KIWI CONGREGATIONSobering Up At Destiny ChurchNow, before I continue let's get one thing clear, this is NOT a beat up on religion. Let's work on this premise; you don't shove your shit down my throat and I'll agree not to tell you to fuck off. It's really that simple.... | |
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 VOODOO MUSICGang Gang Dance Get Money from GodThe new Gang Gang Dance record sounds like something a cult leader might play to new recruits so as to hypnotise them and ease them into cutting off the rest of the world and never having any contact with their family members ever again. Does this sound like a recommendation? It is.... | |
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 DRESS THE PART!Gangs and Cults by DesignRules, rules, rules. That's what gangs and cults offer their members. And that's what the members want. People who join gangs are looking for a family, which means they are looking for a mommy and a daddy, which means they want to be told how to do everything, from whom to hate to where to live to w... | |
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 RECORDSMusic Reviews - v13n10J DILLA
The Shining
BBE
Signature dirty drums, spacey samples, and lush analog synths run though this beautiful posthumous release by the greatest producer that ever did it. All the ... | |
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 PREGNANT FOR 10 YEARSAnd Other Quirks of Being a LaestadianLaestadians are a Scandinavian version of the Amish. Modern life and all the deliciously sinful things that belong in it, like music (apart from hymns), dancing, TV, radio, the internet, and magazines are strictly verboten. Laestadians don't register themselves anywhere, so nobody knows how many bel... | |
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 CAMBODIAN RETURNEE GANGSTERSAre One Big FamilyIn 2002, Cambodia and the US had a meeting and Cambodia agreed to take back its refugees. Cambodian refugees who were released from prison that year had a choice: They could return to Cambodia or try to receive immigrant status from the US. The chances of a Cambodian refugee with a criminal record g... | |
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 LAUGHTER YOGAIs Medicine?I was in Mumbai a little while ago, so I visited the Laughter Yoga club. That's this type of yoga where they meet in the park every morning and basically have group hysterics. It's not a club or anything-it's just a bunch of guys who get together and go "HAW HAW HAW." There is a ringleader who leads... | |
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 RICH-KID GANGSTER ROUNDTABLESaratoga Springs is a little college town in upstate New York where we know some kids from the lecture series we put on for the Kids Issue. Figuring their sleepy little hamlet must be rife with street violence, we went back and asked them to tell us about the local gang scene.... | |
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