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How cult leader ‘Commander Butcher’ plotted to sow mayhem across US

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Guilty plea by far-right activist lays bare plans for bombings, school shootings and Santas handing out poisoned candies


Edward Helmore in New York

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Michail Chkhikvishvili, a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”, did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist, despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned, such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.

Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech: close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses, attentive, clear-spoken and cooperative as he was questioned about his understanding of a plea that could see him imprisoned for up to 18 years at his March sentencing.

The 23-year-old Georgian neo-Nazi was in US federal court to plead guilty to charges of soliciting bombings, school shootings and other acts of hate-motivated violence across the US.

It marked the end of an astonishing saga of plans for inciting and carrying out outlandish and appalling crimes. Chkhikvishvili was the leader of the aptly named Maniac Murder Cult, an international racist violent extremist group. He recruited people to commit violent acts, including plotting a mass casualty attack in New York City.

SDA Church in New York Invites Mamdani, Hakeem, and Leticia James ahead of Election

SDA Church in New York Invites Mamdani, Hakeem, and Leticia James ahead of Election

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The Hanson Place SDA church in Brooklyn, NYC held a ‘Public Affairs & Religious Liberty’ convocation yesterday on the Sabbath. Ivor Myers was one of the panelists. Several politicians were invited to attend church, including New York Democratic Socialist nominee for governor Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jefferies, and Leticia James.

Mamdani, who is a Shia Muslim and a Socialist, was allowed to address the congregation on Sabbath. Reuters confirms that he was campaigning at the Hanson SDA church.

Sickness in the City of God

07 October 2025

by Ben Kreiter | 7 October 2025 |

The Countdown to the End summer evangelistic meetings in Brooklyn, New York, provided a very peculiar event, even for a peculiar people. The meetings, hosted by the Brooklyn Faith Seventh-day Adventist Church in partnership with the Northeastern Conference, ran nightly from July 19 through August 16th. The topics were what you would expect of an Adventist evangelistic series. There were teachings on health, marriage, and financial wellness. There was singing and baptisms. The primary speaker Dr. Shion O’Conner, shared messages on Adventist doctrine, with an emphasis on the end-time prophecies of Daniel and Revelation and the gospel of Jesus Christ, died and resurrected.

However, on the last day of the meetings, during one of the Sabbath services, something took place which I wager has never happened in an Adventist evangelistic series before. Zohran Mamdani, running for New York City mayor, stood at the pulpit and gave a campaign speech, while New York Attorney General Letitia James watched from the audience.

Mamdani praised the Adventist health message. He said he had observed a “sickness across our city,” marked by inequality and cruelty, a sickness felt when the price of bread rises faster than wages, when hospital patients get denied equal treatment, when prices rise but amenities suffer, and when “the president and his Republican Congress in Washington pass legislation that makes it even harder than it was to afford groceries.”

Mamdani quoted Lamentations 4 about Israel’s heartlessness towards the destitute, whom they leave thirsting like an infant whose mother withholds nursing, and called for the spirit of the city to become “the spirit of our politics,” so that city hall may “quench the parched lips of the thirsty.” He promised that if elected as mayor he would lead from the front and set the example, while praising Letitia James for setting the example from her position. He promised fast and free buses, and affordable childcare and groceries, standing up for those who had Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps) benefits cut, and to stand up against “Trump’s authoritarianism.”

After Mamdani finished his promises of what he would do “as your mayor,” the clergy in the room laid hands on him in a dedicatory prayer. Their words affirmed they understood it was a campaign speech: they thanked God for the blessings of hearing scriptures quoted by “our new mayor to be,” and that God would give Mamdani and James divine power to keep “the promises that they have made” when elected.

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En el Séptimo Día (On the Seventh Day) - official trailer

EN E L SÉPTIMO DÍA (On the Seventh Day), a fiction feature from director Jim McKay (GIRLS TOWN, OUR SONG, EVERYDAY PEOPLE), follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset Park, Brooklyn over the course of seven days.

Bicycle delivery guys, construction workers, dishwashers, deli workers and cotton candy vendors, they work long hours six days a week and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. José, a bicycle delivery worker, is the team's captain - young, talented, hardworking and responsible. When José's team makes it to the finals, he and his teammates are thrilled. But his boss throws a wrench into the celebration when he tells José he has to work on Sunday, the day of the finals. If he doesn't work, his job and his future will be on the line. But if he doesn't stand up for himself and his teammates, his dignity will be crushed.

Shot in the neighborhoods of Sunset Park, Park Slope, and Gowanus, EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA is a humane, sensitive and humorous window into a world rarely seen. The film’s impact is made quietly, with restraint and respect for the individual experiences, everyday challenges and small triumphs of its characters.




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Protesters attend vigil for N.Y. police killed on the job

 


10:55 a.m. EST, December 22, 2014

As dozens of people gathered in Harlem on Sunday to honor two slain New York police officers, President Obama expressed his condolences and the president of the NAACP decried the gunman's claim that he was avenging two unarmed black men who died in confrontations with police last summer.

Young women sang, "This Little Light of Mine" at a candlelight vigil for officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, who were shot to death Saturday in Brooklyn. Police say Liu and Ramos were ambushed by Ismaaiyl Brinsley, who killed himself as police pursued him.

At the vigil, demonstrators voiced support for law enforcement and carried signs that said, "Claim humanity," "Imagine justice," "Claim love" and "We are human." Some of the participants had also joined protests over the July death of Eric Garner in a confrontation with police, and over a Staten Island grand jury's refusal to indict the officer involved.


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"I'm here because all life is valuable and all life matters," Elle Green, a 38-year-old social worker, told the Los Angeles Times.

Green said at a time like this it was important to build trust and safety in the community and to nurture a positive relationship with the police.

"Just because you're angry doesn't mean you're anti-law enforcement," she said, referring to the anger over Garner's death.

Another demonstrator, the Rev. Stephen Phelps, said those who had participated in the Garner demonstrations were devastated by the officers' slaying.

"Our hearts were broken," Phelps told The Times. "We want to see changes, but at the same time, we want the police to know that we support them. We want the police to know that we want to work with them."

Some political leaders said demonstrators who are critical of police should halt their almost nightly marches until Liu and Ramos are buried.

“I’m asking all of those to hold off on any form of protest until these officers are laid to rest in a peaceful manner,” the Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, said as he stood in front of a growing memorial to Liu and Ramos.

Bouquets of flowers, candles, a Christmas wreath and a menorah began covering the sidewalk near the busy intersection where Brinsley ambushed the officers as they sat in their patrol car. As night fell, scores of people gathered at the spot for a candlelight vigil in the officers’ memory.

At the same time, marchers in Harlem held a separate “vigil for justice” organized by a group that has held demonstrations alleging police brutality.

This time, there were no anti-police chants or signs among the roughly 50 marchers. Many of them participated in past protests that followed the death in July of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died during an altercation with police, helping set off the ongoing demonstrations.

“We want to see changes, but at the same time, we want the police to know that we support them,” said Stephen Phelps, a clergyman who also has taken part in protests accusing police of abuse of power.

It was unclear how, or whether, the boisterous marches of the last five months would continue given the fallout from Saturday’s killings. Leaders of the city’s police unions, who have accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of siding with protesters, say his leniency toward them laid the groundwork for Brinsley’s rampage.

“There’s blood on many hands tonight,” the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Assn., Patrick Lynch, said Saturday night. “That blood on the hands starts at City Hall in the office of the mayor.”

Even some of those urging an end to the political jabs Sunday expressed anger at New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has defended protesters’ rights to demonstrate and who on Friday further angered critics by meeting with some protest organizers.

“What if that was your son sitting in that police car, if that was your son that got shot in the head?” said Juan Rodriguez, a Brooklyn civic leader and friend of Ramos who took part in a news conference outside the slain officer’s home. De Blasio “needs to show a little more support for the officers in blue.”

Many police officers turned their backs on De Blasio when he arrived at the hospital where Liu and Ramos were taken after they were shot.

Liu was 32 and had been married for two months. Ramos was 40 and had a 13-year-old son, Jaden, who posted an online tribute to his father, calling him “the best father I could ask for.”

“It’s horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. Everyone says they hate cops but they are the people that they call for help,” Jaden wrote.

Outside the house where Ramos grew up, his aunt delivered a brief statement. “I hope and pray that we can reflect on this tragic loss of lives that have occurred so that we can move forward and find an amicable path to a peaceful coexistence,” Lucy Ramos said.

Jimmy Hicks has lived in the neighborhood for decades and is accustomed to seeing officers on patrol. “I said to myself, ‘Oh, my gosh,’” when he heard what happened, Hicks said. He credited police with helping bring down crime in the area and dismissed critics who accused them of being overly aggressive.

Hicks, who is black, said he felt sorry for the families of Garner and other unarmed men who have died in encounters with police. “But the cops have a job to do,” he said. “They’re not racist.”

In Hawaii, the vacationing Obama called New York Police Commissioner William Bratton on Sunday.

"The president reiterated his call for the American people to reject violence and words that harm, and turn to words that heal -- prayer, patient dialogue and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen," White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in a statement.

Before killing the officers, Brinsley posted on Instagram: “I’m putting wings on pigs today. They take 1 of ours, let's take 2 of theirs.” He hashtagged the names of Garner and Michael Brown, an unarmed black man killed by police in Ferguson, Mo., in August.

Cornell William Brooks, president of the NAACP, said it was unfair "to link the criminal insanity of a lone gunman to the peaceful protests" over grand juries' refusal to indict white police officers in the killings of Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

"The fact of the matter is, in this country, we have a violence problem," Brooks told CBS' "Face the Nation." "Think about it this way. The tears of the families of these police officers and the tears of Eric Garner's family and Michael Brown's family aren't shed in law enforcement blue, racially black or brown. They're colorless. They're tragic and unnecessary."

The Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the forces behind protests over the killings of Garner and Brown, echoed that sentiment.

"This is a pursuit of justice to make the system work fairly for everyone," he said at a news conference. "This is not about trying to take things in our own hands. That does not solve the problem of police misconduct."

Using Garner's and Brown's names in such a context is "hurting the cause of these families," Sharpton said.

Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, and his widow, Esaw Garner, joined Sharpton and expressed their sorrow for the officers' families.

"These two police officers lost their life senselessly. Our condolences to the family, and we stand with the family," Carr said.

Esaw Garner delivered a message to demonstrators: "Please protest in a nonviolent way. My husband was not a violent man, so we don't want any violence connected to his name."

'TENSION AND DIVISION'

New York's Roman Catholic cardinal, Timothy Dolan, warned of rising tensions during a Sunday service attended by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York Police Commissioner William Bratton.

"We worry about a city tempted to tension and division," Dolan said at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Flags across the state flew at half staff and the 13-year-old son of one of the deceased officers bid his father good-bye in a Facebook post.

"It's horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer," wrote the son of Rafael Ramos, 40, who was killed alongside his police partner, 32-year-old Wenjian Liu.

Funeral plans had not yet been announced for Ramos and Liu, who were the first on-duty police officers to die in gunfire in the city since 2001. But the ceremonies could end up underscoring the divisions between the police and the mayor.

The police union had previously started a campaign in which officers could fill out a form asking de Blasio and other city officials not to attend their funerals if they were to die in the line of duty. It was not clear on Sunday how many officers had filled out the forms.

POLICE ON EDGE

Across the country, police departments were on edge on Sunday following the attack in New York and another in Florida. A police officer on duty outside Tampa was shot to death early Sunday and a suspect has been arrested, local authorities reported. There was no indication yet of a motive.

The St. Louis Police Officers Association on Sunday asked the department to step up security, while Baltimore's police union said the current political environment was the most dangerous for officers since the 1960s.

Police said the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, shot and wounded his former girlfriend in a Baltimore suburb before traveling to New York City and attacking the officers while they were sitting in their patrol car.

Just before the shooting, Brinsley said to two bystanders, "Watch what I'm going to do," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce told a news conference.

Brinsley killed himself soon after the shooting.

Police described Brinsley as a troubled man, estranged from his family and prone to bursts of anger. A year ago he had tried to hang himself.

Born in Brooklyn, where his mother and daughter still live, Brinsley frequently visited New York, though he had not seen his mother, sisters or daughter for months, Robert Boyce, chief of detectives at the New York Police Department, told reporters on Sunday.

Brinsley, who was Muslim, expressed no extreme religious views and had no apparent gang affiliations, Boyce said, but his Instagram and Facebook pages were littered with anti-government and anti-police statements.

Signs of trouble appeared early in Brinsley's life. He attended high school in New Jersey, but was sent away to family in Georgia due to his behavior. His mother said she feared him.

"Because he had problems in his background, he was going back and forth," Boyce said. "He had a very troubled childhood and was often violent."

Brinsley was arrested 15 times in Georgia and 4 times in Ohio since 2004 on charges including misdemeanor assault and robbery. A sentencing document in Cobb County, Georgia, where he pleaded guilty to weapons charges in 2011 showed that when asked if he had ever been a patient in a mental hospital or been under the care of a psychologist or psychiatrist, Brinsley said, "Yes," but there were no details of his mental problems. He said he had gone as far as 10th grade in school

Members of Brinsley's family told NYPD investigators that he had attempted suicide in the past and that his mother believed he had undiagnosed mental health issues, Boyce said.

"His mother expressed fear of him and hadn't seen him in a month," Boyce told reporters.

Brinsley's most recently known addresses were in Union City, a working-class community of about 20,000 people just south of Atlanta.

No one contacted at his apartment complex said they knew Brinsley, but most of those interviewed said people there tend to keep to themselves.

On Saturday morning, Brinsley left Baltimore for New York in a Bolt Bus, after he shot his ex-girlfriend with a silver, wooden-handled semiautomatic Taurus during an argument at her apartment, Boyce said.

He is suspected of using the same gun to kill the New York policemen and then himself.

He arrived on Manhattan's West Side at 10:50 a.m. At 12:07 p.m., he discarded his cell phone at the Barclays Center near downtown Brooklyn.

Police are uncertain of Brinsley's movements between then and the time he approached the two strangers in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Brinsley, wearing a green varsity-style jacket with a red Native American image on it, told them to follow his Instagram postings.

Moments later, he left the street corner where he had been talking to the bystanders and approached the police car. He then fired the four rounds that killed the officers, 40-year-old Rafael Ramos and 32-year-old Wenjian Liu.

Police identified Brinsley's former girlfriend as Shaneka Nicole Thompson, 29. She was in critical but stable condition at an area hospital, police said.

Reuters and Los Angeles Times contributed.


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NYPD Thinks Brooklyn Bridge White-Flag Stunt Was an Inside Job

By Margaret HartmannFollow @marghartmann

Photo: Richard Drew

The NYPD doesn't think that the placement of two white American flags on top of the Brooklyn Bridge last night has anything to do with terrorism, but it's definitely not thrilled about yet another stunt involving a security breach at a New York landmark. "Needless to say, no matter what the motive was, it is a matter of concern," Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said at a press conference on Tuesday. "I am not particularly happy about the event." Officials said surveillance footage shows a group of about five people walking over the bridge just after 5 a.m. A short time later, the lights on each tower went out and the usual flags were replaced with 20-foot-by-11-foot American flags that had been bleached white. "This may be somebody’s art project, or it may be an attempt at making some kind of statement — but at this point it’s not clear what that statement is," said Deputy Commissioner John Miller.

Police didn't announce any suspects, but they said the group caught on surveillance footage is of "particular interest." Miller said they're pursuing an "insider angle," as the climbers managed to get past a locked gate, and covered the lights using zip ties and aluminum roasting pans that were just the right size. "There’s some indication of some good deal of pre-operation planning, perhaps some indication that they have experience climbing in construction or in bridgework, or that they have actually been up there before looking at the dimensions," Miller said.

In previous incidents, the culprits have given themselves up by boasting about their crimes on social media, and police may luck out again.According to Gothamist, the Instagram user "Last Suspect" said the flags were bleached before the NYPD released that information, and he briefly used an image of an all-white American flag as his profile photo. In since-deleted tweets, Last Suspect said "NYPD can't stop shit," and commented "2 see last nights adventure in detail look at @mattdoscher feed" under a shot of the white flags. A photo of the underside of the Manhattan Bridge with the caption "Someone replaced the flags on the Brooklyn bridge🙇 ◻️◻️◻️hmmm..." is still up:

Both Last Suspect and Matt Doscher's Instagram accounts are filled with photos of buildings and bridges around New York, and they each have more than 10,000 followers. In an interview with SCHWICITY posted last month, Doscher said of his photography, "My biggest inspiration is simply the fun of going out exploring with friends. I love finding new locations and taking unique perspectives."

Obviously, a few jokes and an interest in urban photography doesn't necessarily mean that the two users have been trespassing on New York landmarks. As Gothamist notes, "It's entirely possible that they're coyly hinting at involvement to gain more Instagram followers." We're guessing that at the very least, they've scored a "follow" from the NYPD.

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Police: Life-coach radio hosts commit suicide together

By Lorenzo Ferrigno, CNN
updated 5:38 PM EDT, Thu June 6, 2013

Police: Radio hosts killed themselves

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Motivational speaker John Littig and psychotherapist Lynne Rosen are found dead
Apartment manager: Note said, "I can't take it anymore, my wife is in too much pain."
Their "Pursuit of Happiness" radio show spoke of personal development and growth

New York (CNN) -- Two life coaches who hosted a radio show called "The Pursuit of Happiness" apparently committed suicide together in their Brooklyn apartment, police said.

Motivational speaker John Littig, 48, and his common-law psychotherapist wife, Lynne Rosen, 46, were found with plastic bags over their heads and a tube attached to a canister of helium, according to police.

Two suicide notes were found, police said.

The manager of the building, Hasan Boztepe, 51, said he smelled a strong odor coming from the apartment and broke down the door Monday morning after no one answered his repeated knocks.

He found the bodies sitting on a couch, holding hands. The canister with an open valve was on Rosen's right, he said.

Boztepe said he also found two suicide notes, one apparently written by a man and one by a woman.

In the man's note, Boztepe remembered the words: "I can't take it anymore, my wife is in too much pain."

"I was shocked. I am still in shock. I feel so bad for these people," Boztepe said.

Screening for suicide: A psychiatrist's take

He said he knew the couple and stopped by the apartment last week to fix something for Littig. "He walked me to the door and said 'thank you very much.' He was a very nice guy -- and a couple of days later, this."

The couple's radio show, "The Pursuit of Happiness," on WBAI-99.5 FM focused on "personal development, growth and creativity" according to their website. It was an hourlong show airing every other Thursday afternoon.

"RIP Lynne Rosen + John Littig. Partners on air and in life," the station posted Thursday on Facebook and Twitter.

The couple also led a life coaching consulting company, Why Not Now, offering coaching "designed to help foster and encourage your inner strengths," and "put you confidently on the path to designing the life you've always wanted to live," according to their website.

"You should try to do something that scares you every day," Littig said on a show in February.

"People really need to try to implement that into their lives," Rosen later added. "Even if it is small things and it feels scary; but it's a small step and it moves you forward toward your real self."

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Thousands rally in Brooklyn against gun violence

More than 3,000 young Seventh-Day Adventists rallied against gun violence in Cadman Plaza Park on Saturday. Photo: Mary Frost


By Mary Frost

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

March across Brooklyn Bridge; 400 acts of ‘compassion’



More than 3,000 young Seventh-Day Adventists from ten states came together in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday to rally against gun violence. Wearing T-shirts depicting two hands forming a heart and the word “Compassion,” the crowd heard speeches and prayed in Cadman Plaza Park and marched with drums, banners and flags over the Brooklyn Bridge to various stops in Manhattan, ending in Foley Square.

“We are tired of seeing violence in our streets, our communities and homes,” said Pastor Jose Cortez, Jr., Director of Adventist Youth Ministries for the Atlantic Union Conference. “We long for a day when children, women, elderly and all people can live peacefully and without fear of violence in this city. This is the reason we are marching today.

“Let’s unite in making New York City the Capital of Compassion,” he added.

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“Violence is not the answer,” said Congresswoman Yvette Clark (D-Brooklyn’s 9th District). “When young people make their minds up, they can teach us all a lesson: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Clark said the Seventh-Day Adventists were “brilliant” in asking young people “to demonstrate what they learn every day in their congregations.”

Pastor Rohann Wellington, spokesperson for the Greater New York Conference, said the march was about creating change from “the depressing statistics of our community” suffering from “senseless acts of violence.”

More than 400 “compassionate meetings” took place across the city over the weekend, said Dr. Donald King, President of the Atlantic Union Conference. Some of these included packing meals for those hit by Superstorm Sandy, and donating blood. “We believe in walking the acts of compassion,” he said.

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Prison officer busted after becoming pregnant by cop-killer she was guarding: feds

By MITCHEL MADDUX

Last Updated: 5:52 PM, February 5, 2013

Posted: 11:51 AM, February 5, 2013



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Federal Prison guard Nancy Gonzalez leaving Brooklyn Federal Courthouse.


Gonzalez has told friends that she is now eight months pregnant with a baby because of her relationship with Wilson, sources said.

"Now I am carrying his child," the guard allegedly told a colleague, according to court documents.

Justice Department investigators had launched a probe that spanned several months, ending in the prison guard's arrest today.

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More than 500 arrested in Wall Street protest

Police officers reach into a crowd of protesters to make an arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge during an Occupy Wall Street march in New York October 1, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi

By Ray Sanchez

NEW YORK Sat Oct 1, 2011 9:37pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police reopened the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday evening after more than 500 anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested for blocking traffic lanes and attempting an unauthorized march across the span.

The arrests took place when a large group of marchers, participating in a second week of protests by the Occupy Wall Street movement, broke off from others on the bridge's pedestrian walkway and headed across the Brooklyn-bound lanes.

"More than 500 were arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge late this afternoon after multiple warnings by police were given to protesters to stay on the pedestrian walkway," a police spokesman said.

"Some complied and took the walkway without being arrested. Others locked arms and proceeded on the Brooklyn-bound vehicular roadway and were arrested," he added.

The bridge was reopened at 8:05 p.m. EDT after being closed for hours.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene on the famous suspension bridge as a sea of police officers surrounded the protesters using orange mesh netting.

Some protesters tried to get away as officers started handcuffing members of the group. Dozens of protesters were seen handcuffed and sitting on the span as three buses were called in to take them away, witnesses and organizers said.

The march started about 3:30 p.m. EDT from the protesters' camp in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan near the former World Trade Center. Members of the group have vowed to stay at the park through the winter.

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In addition to what they view as excessive force and unfair treatment of minorities, including Muslims, the movement is also protesting against home foreclosures, high unemployment and the 2008 bailouts.

Filmmaker Michael Moore and actress Susan Sarandon have stopped by the protesters' camp, which is plastered with posters with anti-Wall Street slogans and has a kitchen and library, to offer their support.

On Friday evening, more than 1,000 demonstrators, including representatives of labor organizations, held a peaceful march to police headquarters a few blocks north of City Hall to protest what they said was a heavy-handed police response the previous week. No arrests were reported.

A week ago, police arrested about 80 members of Occupy Wall Street near the Union Square shopping district as the marchers swarmed onto oncoming traffic.

A police commander doused a handful of women with pepper spray in an incident captured on video and spread via the Internet, galvanizing the loosely organized protest movement.

The group has gained support among some union members. The United Federation of Teachers and the Transport Workers Union Local 100, which has 38,000 members, are among those pledging solidarity.

The unions could provide important organizational and financial support for the largely leaderless movement.

Similar protests are sprouting in other cities, including Boston, Chicago and San Francisco.

(Reporting by Ray Sanchez; editing by Philip Barbara)

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Schedule for Mountain Media Ministries Spring Seminar trip

Upcoming Events

In December of 2007 we presented Country Living Seminars at four SDA churches in California (Hillcrest, Placerville, Hollister, and Fontana).Then in February and March of 2008 we took another trip where we presented these seminars at three SDA churches (Sacramento Central, Templeton Hills, and Placerville again). Then in the spring of 2008 we visited the Huntington and Point Pleasant SDA churches in WV; Manhattan SDA Church (NYC); Rainsville SDA Church in AL; Greater Atlanta SDA Church in GA; Talge Hall Chapel, Southern Adventist University; and South Orlando SDA Chruch in FL; as well as other locations that were arranged in North Carolina and Michigan.In August of 2008 we presented these seminars at the Pasadena SDA Church, the Lake Tahoe Campmeeting, and the Mountain View Japanese SDA Church (all in California).

Then the fall/winter of 2008, we presented seminars at the Sulphur SDA Church (OK), Evansville West Side SDA Church (IN), Nashville First SDA Church (TN), Portsmouth SDA Church (OH), Mt. Pisgah SDA Church (Kennesaw, GA), Piedmont SDA Church (AL), Cedar Ridge SDA Church (Georgetown, TN), McDonald Road SDA Church (Collegedale, TN),Palmetto SDA Church (FL), West Columbia SDA Church (SC), Pisgah SDA Church (Bryan's Road, MD), Ebenezer SDA Church (Brooklyn, NY), and the Johnston SDA Church (RI).

In the spring of 2009, we presented Country Living Seminars at Mt. Shasta SDA Church (CA), Magalia SDA Church (CA), Thunderbird SDA Church (Scottsdale, AZ), Casa Grande SDA Church (AZ), Glendale SDA Church (AZ), S. Orlando SDA Church (FL) again, Dalton SDA Church (GA), Floral Crest SDA Church (AL), Wheaton SDA Church (MD), CPC SDA Church (Alexandria, VA), Woodbury SDA Church (NJ), & Liberty SDA Church (Baltimore, MD).

During the fall of 2009, we presented Country Living Seminars at Roseburg SDA Church (OR), Sacramento Central SDA Church (again), Leoni Meadows Camp (N. CA), Prescott SDA Church (AZ), Arbuckle View SDA Church (OK), Willow Springs, MO, Middletown SDA Church (NY), Seabrook SDA Church (MD), Fort Walton Beach SDA Church (FL), Pompano Beach SDA Church (FL), Raleigh SDA Church (Memphis, TN), McDonald Road SDA Church (Collegedale, TN - again), and Wimbish Road SDA Church (Macon, GA).

Below you will find information about upcoming events where we will be speaking. Many of these events will deal with practical country living and end-time topics. Please note that some may not be sponsored by Mountain Media Ministries.

SPRING 2010 TRIP - We are scheduling our upcoming trip for the spring of 2010. Please contact us ASAP If you or your church/group are interested in having us conduct seminars in your area.

March 13 & 14 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn SDA Church
March 20 & 21 - Roxbury, MA (Boston area) - Salem Hispanic SDA Church
March 27 & 28 - Olney, MD (DC area) - Olney SDA Church
April 10 & 11 - Huntsville, AL - Oakwood University Campus
April 12 - Marrero, LA (New Orleans area) - Marrero SDA Church
April 17 - Fontana, CA (L.A. area) - Fontana SDA Church
April 20 - Palm Desert, CA - Palm Desert Oasis SDA Church
April 24 & 25 - Santa Cruz, CA - Santa Cruz SDA Church
April 26-29 - Leoni Meadows Camp, CA - Country Living/Gardening Seminars & Workshops
May 1 & 2 - San Francisco, CA - San Francisco Japanese SDA Church
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At Least Five Die In Suspicious Brooklyn Fire

By: NY1 News

At least five dead people were found inside a building in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn that blazed early Saturday, in what fire officials suspect was a case of arson.

The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. in a three-story building on 86th Street and Bay 25th Street. The three-alarm fire eventually damaged the building's roof.

Four men and one woman, 34-year-old Luisa Chan, died in the fire, and by Saturday evening firefighters had not ruled out the possibility of more victims once they searched through all the rubble.

Fire officials said when they arrived on the scene, the building was filled with smoke and the first floor and stairways were aflame. Officials ruled that it was too dangerous to send firefighters inside to rescue people from the home, which is said to have housed Guatemalan immigrants.

The fire was under control by about 5:15 a.m. and firefighters rescued three people with ladders.
Officials said a two-month-old girl and two-year-old boy were tossed out the window by a woman trying to save them.

Officials and witnesses said the infant was taken to Lutheran Hospital with serious head injuries after bystanders below failed to catch the baby. The child landed on an awning.

The boy and a 38-year-old man was taken to Lutheran Hospital in stable condition and 13 firefighters suffered minor injuries.

Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said the blaze may have been arson.

"A very unusual place for this fire to start, it started right behind the front door to the entrance and that's not where a fire would normally start. That's why this is a fire that we are saying it is very likely to be incendiary," said Cassano.

Fire officials also said the building did not have a working fire alarm and that furniture blocked the rear fire exits.

Investigators believed that that 20 people lived in the two apartments on each floor, and they were inspect the site late Saturday for building violations and to check on the structure's stability.

Meanwhile, he Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the FDNY activity in the area may have affected nearby elevated subway tracks.

As of Saturday evening, the D train was running on the N line between 36th Street and Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue in both directions, while some Coney Island-bound D trains terminated at 62nd Street.

For alternate service to and from Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, riders should take free shuttle buses in both directions between that station and 62nd Street.

For transit updates, visit mta.info

Source: http://www.ny1.com/7-brooklyn-news-content/top_stories/112890/at-least-five-die-in-suspicious-brooklyn-fire.

Strong Winds Create Damage Accross City

Updated 10/07/2009 11:01 PM

By: NY1 News


Strong winds are being blamed for some minor damage and power outages across the five boroughs Wednesday.

Con Edison and the Long Island Power Authority both reported power outages throughout Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.

In Dyker Heights, a tree was knocked down causing an outage and residents say it's been a problem before.

"The residents of the house have complained for numerous years because they saw that the tree was rotting and other limbs have fallen off of the tree in past years as well and nothing was ever done. And today it was done by nature," said one Dyker Heights resident.

It was a similar situation elsewhere in Brooklyn where at least two trees were knocked down, one in Gravesend and the other in Bath Beach.

"We called about this tree about four months ago, five months ago, and they told us they would come by and trim the tree because we knew sooner or later it was going to break down because the limbs were pretty thin and it eventually happened today. It got pretty windy and one of the branches broke and fell down," said one Brooklyn resident.

A large tree also toppled over on Staten Island.

The National Weather Service says it's gotten reports of some wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour.

In Midtown Manhattan, a downed street lamp caused traffic problems at the intersection of West 31st Street and 9th Avenue.

No injuries were reported.

The Department of Buildings is urging property owners, builders, and contractors to take necessary precautions.


Source: http://ny1.com/5-manhattan-news-content/top_stories/106976/strong-winds-create-damage-across-city

It's A Harvest Celebration For Seventh Day Adventists

August 27, 2009

It's A Harvest Celebration For Seventh Day Adventists

By Jason Linetsky

Canarsiens joined together as they sang hymns of thanks for the bountiful harvest this year and, fittingly, "The Boys of Beulah" let their voices be heard in testimony. Right: Many came to purchase (and admire) home grown products. Photos by Jason Linetsky

Baskets of tomatoes and peppers, bushels of various herbs, and a slew of pineapples and coconuts were laid out across tables inside the Beulah 7th Day Adventist Temple Sunday to pay tribute to God for a successful year of harvests.

Representatives of various churches around Canarsie and other members of the community gathered with home grown produce and items made with organic foods to celebrate their harvests in the 10th anniversary of this event.

Among the events of the evening, a prayer session was held to show love of the Lord for giving a bountiful harvest to his people followed by a presentation by the children of the church explaining the importance of various fruits in daily living. The Boys of Beulah, the Beulah Church Choir, and some of the church's children gathered at the altar to sing a few songs from the bible signifying the importance of celebrating the harvest each year. Finally, to add a bit of comedy to the night's festivities, the head superintendent of the church and organizer of the celebration, Veronica Arthurs, received plenty of laughs from food-related riddles.


Once the ceremony was completed, all in attendance were invited to head outside the church for a farmer's market featuring all foods from the tables as well as homemade ginger beer, ice cream, cakes, and breads.

The Beulah 7th Day Adventist Temple is located at 10201 Seaview Avenue between & East 101st & East 102nd Street. For information please call (718) 763-7437.










Source: http://www.canarsiecourier.com/news/2009/0827/topstories/011.html

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