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Article details the race-based corruption of the Philadelphia Police Department, where incompetent and even dangerous candidates are hired, based on the color of their skin, and who as police officers go on to shoot children, engineer anthrax hoaxes, and otherwise engage in criminal acts.

(Dan Burton, [R-Indiana] Investigating) Allegations that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh is tied to Islamic terrorists.McVeigh the story goes, met in an Oklahoma City motel with Iraqi agents before the 1995 explosion.Part Two: Unsubstantiated reports that two 9/11 hijackers holed up with the suspected 20th hijacker Zacarais Moussaoui in the same motel room last July.Coincedence?Sources say Burton sent investigators to Oklahoma City to sniff around, tasked three staffers to the probe, and asked David Schippers, who led a house panel on Bill Clinton's impeachment, to advise.But that's not all:Burton wants more staff.While there's a lot of circumstantial evidence to investigate,...

VANNROX BOOKMARK LINKS COMPILED 04-26-02COLLECTION 4 O.J. Simpson sued by lawyers for unpaid bill Pakistani Man Arrested In Plot To Blow Up Power Stations (They're Known For a Yr!) Russian Vagrant Eats Zoo's Rare Bird Taxes and the General Welfare "African Bible" Discourages "White" Christianity. "Another" Machu Picchu City Discovered! "That's Right, We're At War!" "Whip Me. Beat Me. Tax Me. Enslave Me: Shall We Pay Reparations to Taxpayers?" $301,000 cash in grocery bags raised doubts '72 Black Eyed Virgins': A Muslim Debate on the Rewards of Martyrs 'Arab terrorists' crossing border: Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into...

PIG BOOK Citizens Against Government WasteBy David E. Williams and Kerrie N. Rezac 2002Homepage INTRODUCTION The opening scene of The Godfather depicts the head of a New York "family," Don Vito Corleone, agreeing to perform certain "favors." Corleone does this with the caveat that the favor may have to be returned some day. This scene is reminiscent of what happens when the President's budget gets into the hands of the appropriators. Members of Congress approach the appropriators asking for favors, promising votes in return. They get the goods through a form of legal money laundering, but taxpayers receive only inflated...

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To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Nobel Prize, last December, Francis Crick, Nadine Gordimer, and José Saramago, "in consultation with an extensive group of Nobel prize winners," as the press release put it, issued a call to ... do something or other. The statement was signed by 103 Nobel laureates. It is printed in full below, with parenthetical exegesis by someone too dumb ever to get a Nobel, or even a MacArthur genius grant. "The most profound danger to world peace in the coming years will stem not from the irrational acts of states or individuals but from the...

A few notes from your compiler:1- after several attempts to better organize these, I just gave up- too much information that overlaps- so I am going back and culling the "most egregious, most informative, and least talked-about" links.2- I started at the beginning, going forward in time; soon I will go to the most recent and work back, aiming towards the middle as a stopping point.3- I will reserve DUBOB 10 for the most blantant examples I find, and continue to update DUBOB 9 with the garden variety of "stories the Media doesn't like to talk about."4- and remember, these...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Outside the gates of the U.S. military base at Kandahar airport, Jalat Khan selected a stone from the gravel on the shoulder of the road and swallowed it. Then Khan, a jobless wanderer in a turban and robe, did it again. And again. Pretty soon, a crowd had gathered, oblivious to the U.S. Army Humvees rolling out of the base on routine patrols. Even the clatter and roar of American helicopters and transport planes -- part of the daily base traffic that usually turns heads -- couldn't compete with Khan on Thursday, who invited spectators to hear...

Ripped from the bowels of corporate America...some of the worst motivational jingles ever written. These are songs produced by companies for their own employees. They must really hate them!

Dr. Chester Hope was late for everything - late coming back from his lunch hour, late seeing his patients and late getting to City Council meetings. "It got to be a pretty big joke with all of us," Mayor Andy Feury recalled. "I'd say, 'We'll just go ahead and start, Chet will be here in a few minutes.'" So to honor Hope, who was shot to death last month, the council unanimously passed a measure calling for meetings to be held 10 minutes late. "During his entire nine-year term," the ordinance says, "Chet Hope was rarely on time and typically...

When George Bush announced a $5bn hike in US aid last week, many were surprised by the figure at his side - the same Irish rock star who once routinely denounced the president's father. Bono tells Madeleine Bunting and Oliver Burkeman how he wooed Washington Senator Jesse Helms is 80 years old. He walks with a four-pronged cane. A fearsomely rightwing evangelical Christian, he has repeatedly exploited racial prejudice in his election campaigns. He believes that homosexuals are "weak, morally sick wretches", and a couple of years ago, he endorsed a report entitled "There Is A Virus Loose Within Our...

    The Age Of Muslim Wars Battlegrounds: An outburst of violence is sweeping across the world. What are its root causes—and will they erupt into a full-scale global conflict? The makings of a possible ‘clash of civilizations’ are present]   By Samuel P. Huntington NEWSWEEK       Jan. 2002 —  Contemporary global politics is the age of Muslim wars. Muslims fight each other and fight non-Muslims far more often than do peoples of other civilizations. Muslim wars have replaced the cold war as the principal form of international conflict. These wars include wars of terrorism, guerrilla wars, ...

Let's be friends Jude Wanniski is a white, arch-conservative, US Republican. So why, asks Gary Younge, has he forged an alliance with Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, and pariah of the white establishment? Thursday March 14, 2002 The Guardian Jude Wanniski's name has appeared in an eclectic array of places. The former marxist, Democrat and adviser to president Ronald Reagan was credited with making a major intellectual contribution to supply-side economic policies that dominated America during the 80s. The man who started the 1996 presidential campaign backing Bob Dole, withdrew his support to encourage millionaire Steve Forbes...

March 14, 2002 At Airport Gate, a Cyborg Unplugged By LISA GUERNSEY STEVE MANN, an engineering professor at the University of Toronto, has lived as a cyborg for more than 20 years, wearing a web of wires, computers and electronic sensors that are designed to augment his memory, enhance his vision and keep tabs on his vital signs. Although his wearable computer system sometimes elicited stares, he never encountered any problems going through the security gates at airports. Last month that changed. Before boarding a Toronto-bound plane at St. John's International Airport in Newfoundland, Dr. Mann says, he went through...

nbsp; nbsp;When a couple seeking to adopt a white baby is charged $35,000 and a couple seeking a black baby is charged $4,000, the image that comes to the Rev. Ken Hutcherson's mind is of a practice that was outlawed in America nearly 150 years ago #151; the buying and selling of human beings The practice, which is widespread among private adoption facilitators, of charging prospective parents different fees depending on the race or ethnicity of the child they adopt is one that Hutcherson is fighting to change from his Redmond, Wash., church. The Antioch Bible Church has established...

Mobile/PDA | Books | Onion Merchandise amp; Subscriptions | National Distribution Personals | Media Kit | Employment | Copyright 13 March 2002 nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; SAN DIEGO#151;According to a University of California#150;San Diego study released Monday, sexism is rampant throughout the natural world, particularly among the highest classes of vertebrates. nbsp; Above: One of the millions of lionesses trapped in an abusive relationship. nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; quot;When we first decided to examine attitudes and behaviors toward gender roles among non-humans, we were wholly unprepared for what we would find,quot; said Jennifer Tannen, leader of the UCSD research team,...

tangled webPipe DreamsThe origin of the "bombing-Afghanistan-for-oil-pipelines" theory.By Seth StevensonPosted Thursday, December 6, 2001, at 11:32 AM PTA theory making the rounds on the Internet, on the airwaves, and in the press claims that the bombing of the Taliban has nothing to do with a "war on terrorism" but everything to do with the oil pipeline the West wants to build through Afghanistan. Where did this theory start, and how did it spread?The California energy company Unocal seriously pursued building an Afghanistan pipeline in the 1990s, but back then the theorists, such as this Middle East specialist in 1998, argued that ...

RALPH RUMNEY, the artist who has died aged 67, was the sole English founding member of the Situationist International, the subversive movement which helped to inspire the Paris riots of May 1968, the Sex Pistols, the K Foundation, the decor of the Hacienda Club in Manchester and Damien Hirst.The Situationist International was founded in 1957 by Guy Debord in a bar in the village of Cosio d'Arroscia, high in the Italian Alps. Rumney was there throughout the week-long meeting, supposedly representing the London Psychogeographical Committee (which did not exist). He documented the proceedings in photographs, witnessing, as he believed, the ...

<p>On the campus of Carnegie Mellon University, the questions yesterday flowed like melted butter.</p> <p>Did the art student dressed as a lobster really fend off a dozen intruders who tried to get a predawn peek at his do-it-yourself campus house?</p>