Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Update on Dr. Pipim's Resignation


Samuel Koranteng Pipim (born December 10, 1957) is a US-based Ghanaian author, speaker, and theologian. Trained in engineering and systematic theology, he based his office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, up until 2011, he ministered to students, faculty, and staff at the University of Michigan. He has authored and co-authored more than a dozen books. He has spoken around the world at events for youth, students, and young professionals. He helped begin and has sat on the Board of Directors for the Generation of Youth for Christ organization (GYC), a revival movement of Seventh-day Adventist youth in North America.

He resigned his ministerial credentials in May 2011 and was disfellowshipped by his local church on June 15, 2011.[1]

(Wikipedia)

UPDATE ON DR. PIPIM’S RESIGNATION:

Dr. Pipim resigned from the Michigan Conference on May 23, 2011 and made the news public on May 29 via the CAMPUS website (www.campushope.com/resignation) and subsequently on this DRPIPIM.ORG site. The following update on his resignation consists of :

1. His June 12, 2011 letter to key African leaders (some of his colleagues in ministry on the continent and abroad), mentioning, among other things, why he chose to make his confession and resignation public.

2. His June 16, 2011 email to his former CAMPUS Team (and later to his local church family), explaining to them why he personally requested and submitted to church discipline.


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Ellen G. White Views Jesuit Infiltration in the Last Days!!


[It was so often that people in Ellen White's day regarded her as a very exciteable person. Her persistent warnings and entreaties about the deadly things transpiring around them and the world, and to therefore spread the special messages of warning gave people the impression that she focused on nothing else.

In a day now where not one-hundredth of the things taking place today took place in Ellen White's day, is there a reason why she was so much different from us??]



"We want to understand the time we live in. WE DO NOT HALF UNDERSTAND IT. WE DO NOT HALF TAKE IT IN. My heart trembles in me when I think of what a foe we have to meet and how poorly we are prepared to meet him. The trials of the children of Israel and their attitude just before the first coming of Messiah have been presented before me again and again to illustrate the position of the people of God in their experience just before the second coming of the Messiah. How the enemy sought every occasion to take control of the minds of the Jews and today he is seeking to blind the minds of the servants of God, that they might not be able to discern the precious truths:" -- Selected Messages, Book 1, p. 406




Testimonies for the Church
Volume I, page 577, paragraph 2
Chapter Title: Sketch of Experience


In this state of things it was decided that we would return to Battle Creek and there remain while the roads were in a muddy, broken-up condition, and that I would there complete No. 12. My husband was very anxious to see his brethren at Battle Creek and speak to them and rejoice with them in the work which God was doing for him. I gathered up my writings, and we started on our journey. On the way we held two meetings in Orange and had evidence that the church was profited and encouraged. We were ourselves refreshed by the Spirit of the Lord. That night I dreamed that I was in Battle Creek looking out from the side glass at the door and saw a company marching up to the house, two and two. They looked stern and determined. I knew them well and turned to open the parlor door to receive them, but thought I would look again. The scene was changed. The company now presented the appearance of a Catholic procession. One bore in his hand a cross, another a reed. And as they approached, the one carrying a reed made a circle around the house, saying three times: "This house is proscribed. The goods must be confiscated. They have spoken against our holy order."

Terror seized me, and I ran through the house, out of the north door, and found myself in the midst of a company, some of whom I knew, but I dared not speak a word to them for fear of being betrayed. I tried to seek a retired spot where I might weep and pray without meeting eager, inquisitive eyes wherever I turned. I repeated frequently: "If I could only understand this! If they will tell me what I have said or what I have done!"



Ellen White, in the next quotation shows that all we need to see is the churches making concessions to Rome, and we have undeniable evidence that they are infiltrated:


"While the Protestant world is, by her attitude, making concessions to Rome, we should arouse to comprehend the situation, and view the contest before us IN ITS TRUE BEARINGS. While men have slept, Satan has been stealthily sowing the tares. Let the watchmen now lift up their voice like a trumpet, and give the message WHICH IS PRESENT TRUTH FOR THIS TIME. Let them know where we are in prophetic history, that the spirit of true Protestantism may awaken all the world to a sense of the value of the privileges of religious liberty so long enjoyed."
– RH 1-1-1889.


Although she did not mention Jesuit Infiltration, she is here talking about it. She is contending that when you see the churches making concessions to Rome, the ONLY way that this can ever dare happen is if they are infiltrated. She is then begging us to consider the evidence and understand what is coming in its true bearings. She did not mention Jesuit Infiltration outright, for this would threaten the very work they were doing with suspicion. Anyone upset with the Adventist Church in her day would merely state that it was infiltrated. Although suspicion would be created today also, there is a way to minimize and even stop this pitfall. We will talk about that some other time. She yet however adds:


"This nation has been highly favored of God. It has been the great center of religious light and liberty. O, do not sleep now, and in your inactivity feel that you are doing the will of God! The experience of God's commandment-keeping people now should correspond with the events that are crowding upon us.
It should be the business of all the righteous in the land, as they see signs of the approach of peril, TO AROUSE TO ACTION, AND NOT SIT IN CALM EXPECTATION OF RUIN, COMFORTING THEMSELVES WITH THE BELIEF THAT THIS WORK MUST GO ON, BECAUSE PROPHECY HAS FORETOLD IT, AND THAT THE LORD WILL SHELTER HIS PEOPLE IN THE DAY OF TRIAL. Effectual, fervent prayers should be ascending to Heaven, that this calamity may be deferred; for we are not ready to meet it."
-- RH 1-1-1889.


Why therefore are we allowing the strange people among us who tell us we are to entertain our views and respect the views of those who differ, to despot us into the idea that there is no proof of Jesuit Infiltration? Why are we sitting by as they ridicule those who come to their honest conclusions that the SDA Church is infiltrated to the core by the Militia of the Papacy?

[The moral here? SHE WAS SURROUNDED IN THE DREAM OR VISION THAT SHE HAD!! The moral here for you? YOU ARE SURROUNDED!!

Dancing, singing and praying is not going to remedy this situation! You must DO what the Lord told you to do as well! Study the Jesuit Infiltration webpage (the home page) and BE EMPOWERED!]


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ATF: Car Bomb Behind Michigan Blast That Injured Father, 2 Kids

Published September 21, 2011

Associated Press



A father and two children were seriously injured when an apparent car bomb exploded in Monroe, Mich., on Tuesday.


MONROE, Mich – A spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says a car bomb caused a blast in Michigan that seriously injured a man and his two sons.

Donald Dawkins said Wednesday that investigators were poring over the vehicle for clues who might have planted the device that detonated Tuesday on a street in Monroe.

Authorities have not publicly identified the victims, but Dawkins says they are a father and his two sons. He says agents have spoken with the father. All three victims are listed in serious condition at St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio. Monroe is about 35 miles southwest of Detroit and 20 miles north of Toledo.

Emergency responders rushed to the site of the Tuesday evening explosion near a highway underpass in Monroe, about 35 miles southwest of Detroit, the Monroe Police Department said in a statement. The vehicle's three occupants were taken to St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, Ohio, about 20 miles south of Monroe, and they were listed in critical condition.

Television news footage showed that the vehicle had been turned into a charred shell. There didn't appear to be homes or businesses in the area along a tree-lined street where the car burned.

A man and two children were injured, Lt. Gary Werner said in an email. Police did not publicly identify the victims or say who owns the vehicle.

The investigation was in the "very early stages," police said in the statement, and additional information would be released by the department when it is available. A news conference was planned for later Wednesday, Werner said.

Monroe is a city of more than 20,000 that is one of Michigan's oldest communities. It has a historic downtown and is home to furniture maker La-Z-Boy Inc.

An FBI spokeswoman in Detroit on Wednesday referred questions to local police and the ATF. State police and ATF investigators were assisting in the investigation, Monroe police said.

State police referred questions to the local police department, and the ATF didn't immediately respond to a message seeking comment left early Wednesday morning.

The ATF is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for anyone who provides information leading to an arrest.

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/09/21/police-car-bomb-may-be-behind-michigan-blast-3-hurt/#ixzz1YbtUBUV7

Police Probe Cause of Monroe Vehicle Blast; 3 Hurt: MyFoxDETROIT.com

The President Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest




By Jake Tapper@jaketapper,

Kirit Radia@KiritRadia_ABC


Sep 21, 2011 11:25am


NEW YORK, NY — Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday morning, President Obama tried to answer critics who suggest he helped pave the way towards the current diplomatic kerfuffle over the pending UN resolution that would – prematurely, in the president’s view – make Palestine a sovereign state and member of the UN.

The president cautioned United Nations members that peace will only come “if we can encourage the parties to sit down together, to listen to each other, and to understand each other’s hopes and fears. …And that is what the United Nations should be focused on in the weeks and months to come.”

The president made clear his opposition to the expected UN Security Council resolution. For weeks, American diplomats have been furiously lobbying the Palestinians to drop their bid, which the US has publicly stated it will veto.

Granting Palestine membership in the United Nations as a sovereign state before any peace treaty with Israel has been worked out, the US believes, could be a diplomatic hornet’s nest, with Israel all of a sudden occupying a sovereign nation, the Palestinians given access to the International Criminal Court and the Human Rights Council, and any future peace negotiations thrown into disarray.

The US also does not want to be put into the position of vetoing the resolution, which could inflame passions in the region and throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds.

Critics have suggested that the president raised hopes and expectations for a Palestinian state, putting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a situation where he felt he had to pursue this resolution to further the cause of a Palestinian state, given little progress.

The president, after all, hosted a big splashy September 1, 2010 White House photo op with Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-preside to of Hosni Mubarak, and King Abdullah of Jordan. He publicly pushed both sides – but most publicly Israel. He devoted time and resources towards the cause of Mideast peace, differentiating himself from previous Presidents who, his advisers noted, waited until the ends of their presidency to do so.

And in a quote that representatives from the Palestinian authority are quoting quite a bit this week, at last year’s speech President Obama said that if we “reach for what’s best within ourselves… when we come back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations — an independent, sovereign state of Palestine, living in peace with Israel.”

President Obama acknowledged that moment today, saying that “one year ago, I stood at this podium and called for an independent Palestine. I believed then – and I believe now – that the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own. But what I also said is that genuine peace can only be realized between Israelis and Palestinians themselves. ”

The president acknowledged being “frustrated by the lack of progress,” but he argued the Palestinian statehood gambit would be a mistake.

“The question isn’t the goal we seek – the question is how to reach it,” he said. “And I am convinced that there is no short cut to the end of a conflict that has endured for decades. Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the UN – if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now.”

Notably the president did not today renew his call for Israel to return to its 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps, a call he made in May that angered Israeli officials. Today Mr. Obama said that “ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians – not us – who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them: on borders and security; on refugees and Jerusalem.”

The president offered a detailed and passionate defense of Israel’s “very real security concerns,” invoking the Holocaust and noting that the Jewish state “is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it,” that its “citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses” and that Israeli children “come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them.”

“These are facts!” the president said, deviating a bit from his prepared text. “They cannot be denied.”

The president addressed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after heralding successes in South Sudan, Tunisia, the Ivory Coast, Libya, and Egypt.

-Jake Tapper and Kirit Radia

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Typhoon, Quake Hit Battered Japan, 1 Million Evacuated

By Akiko Fujita
@akikofujita


Sep 21, 2011 9:59am




A powerful typhoon made landfall in the main island of Japan today, killing at least six people, and forcing the evacuation of more than a million others. And just hours later the country was hit with an earthquake.

The 5.3 magnitude quake struck just south of Fukushima, where the March earthquake and tsunami crippled a complex of nuclear plants.

Typhoon Roke, the second major storm to hit the country this month, dumped more than 15 inches of rain in parts of central Japan within 24 hours, bringing with it winds of up to 130 miles an hour, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Heavy rains triggered flooding throughout central and eastern Japan, raising the threat of landslides in a region still reeling from another powerful storm. Television footage showed drivers stranded along flooded streets. Office workers had to be rescued from buildings by boat because the rivers were too high.

In Nagoya, home to Toyota Motor Corp, the city temporarily called off an evacuation warning for 880,000 people once the rivers crested. That didn’t stop Japan’s top automakers from shutting plants as a precaution.

In Tokyo, the typhoon forced the cancellation of more than a hundred domestic flights, and halted train service at the height of rush hour. At Shibuya station, one of the city’s busiest, thousands of stranded commuters waited patiently for hours, for service to re-start. Other modes of transportation didn’t fare any better, as lines wrapped around the block for buses and taxis.

Along the ravaged northeast coast, survivors of the March 11 tsunami braced for yet another disaster. The threat of strong winds and rain forced the Tokyo Electric Power Company to halt work at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The utility suspended efforts to cover one of the reactor buildings, but said there was no risk of radioactive water overflowing, as a result of all the rain. Further north in Miyagi and Iwate prefecture, local media reported minor flooding at temporary homes.

Japan has been hit by one natural disaster after another, since a powerful earthquake and tsunami killed more than 20,000 people. Typhoon Roke comes just weeks after Typhoon Talas killed 67 people, and left dozens of others injured in central Japan.


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18 injured after scaffold collapses on city bus in Harlem

By JESSICA SIMEONE and CLEMENTE LISI

Last Updated: 6:25 PM, September 20, 2011

Posted: 10:19 AM, September 20, 2011


Eighteen people were injured this morning when part of a building and the attached scaffolding collapsed onto a city bus in Harlem, authorities said

The two-story building's facade, along with the scaffolding, collapsed at 9:30 a.m. on W. 125th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, sending bricks, rocks and debris crashing down, witnesses said.

People became trapping underneath the rubble and had to be rescued by firefighters.

“It just fell and it fell so quickly,” said a witness who was standing across the street. “You just heard the boom and saw mostly smoke.”



Laura Cavanaugh
Scaffolding collapsed on a bus this morning in Harlem.


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Rescue crews place an injured person on a stretcher today after scaffolding crushed the back half of a city bus.


There were about 30 people on the Bx15 at the time of the accident, police
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The 18 injured people were taken to St. Lukes, Cornell and Harlem hospitals with minor injuries, said a FDNY spokesman.

Police said eight people who were injured were passengers on the bus.

Two police officers were among the injured after they were hurt digging through the rubble, police said.

The city Department of Buildings is investigating the accident.


Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/harlem_least_injured_after_scaffold_JtsoNU7pNeb20ytFyyRBsK#ixzz1YZ5cjxO5

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Solyndra Execs Dodge Testifying in 'Cronygate'


Tuesday, 20 Sep 2011 09:41 PM

By David A. Patten

The “cronygate” scandal over stimulus billions that were sunk into dubious green-energy initiatives -- which appeared to benefit donors with close political ties to the Obama White House -- widened on Tuesday with the announcement that executives of the failed Solyndra solar-panel firm will refuse to answer questions put to them by a House investigative committee.

Attorneys for Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and the company’s CFO, W.G. “Bill” Stover, submitted correspondence to the oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday, stating the two will seek 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Solyndra received $528 million in federal loan guarantees taxpayers must pay for.

“I have advised Mr. Harrison that he should decline to answer questions put to him by this subcommittee based on his rights under the Fifth Amendment,” attorney Walter F. Brown Jr., wrote to committee chairman Rep. Clifford B. Stearns, R-Fla.

That Harrison won’t testify is sure to irk Democratic members of the oversight subcommittee, who said they wanted Harrison to explain optimistic assurances he provided assuring them, indicating the company was doing just fine shortly before it declared bankruptcy.

Two days after the company declared bankruptcy earlier this month, the FBI executed a search warrant and removed materials from Solyndra’s Fremont, Calif., headquarters.

Solyndra’s demise is especially embarrassing to the Obama administration because the president toured its plant and touted it as a model for an influx of high-paying, green-energy jobs that he promised as part of his stimulus program. So far, those jobs have not materialized, and unemployment remains 9.1 percent. Eleven hundred workers lost their jobs when Solyndra ceased operations.

Also Tuesday, Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, confirmed reports during a media conference call that his committee will launch a second, separate probe into a series of green-energy deals involving Obama “bundlers” who made major contributions, and who later may have had insider knowledge or influence related to energy-related decisions.

“You have multiple entities, Solyndra is just one of them, in which political appointees are able to pick winners, often winners that are … very easy to check as major supporters of the president,” Chairman Issa said Tuesday in response to a Newsmax question. “So there’s an ideological bent, there’s a campaign finance bent, and then there’s the actual ‘felony stupid-investment.’

“That last one,” he added, “we’re going to leave mostly to Energy & Commerce. We’re not going to try and deal with the efficacy of the investment, but rather with whether or not this pattern of spending your money, whether it’s in stimulus funds or others, should be modified or eliminated… I think any time you give political appointees billions of dollars to put in a piggy bank, you’re going to have this kind of misconduct.”

The refusal by Solyndra executives to answer the oversight’s subcommittee’s questions is likely to raise additional questions about what top Obama administration officials knew about Solyndra’s imminent collapse, and when they knew it. The oversight subcommittee had to resort to issuing subpoenas after the Energy Department refused to respond to its requests for information, according to Stearns.

An attorney for CFO Stover also advised the subcommittee Tuesday that his client would not be testifying. “Under these circumstances, Mr. Stover must invoke his rights under the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” wrote Little. “It would be irresponsible for anyone in his position not to do so.”

In related news, leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, expressing concern that in light of the Solyndra scandal, the department may be rushing its distribution of an additional $9 billion in alternative-energy grants and loan guarantees that it must approved by Sept. 30. The letter asks Chu for additional information and requests a briefing by a member of his staff.


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Christians in Mexico Forced From Village

Traditionalist Catholics in Puebla state threaten to kill Protestants

By Compass Direct News
MEXICO CITY – About 70 Protestant Christians lived in the village of San Rafael Tlanalapan, Puebla state, until Monday (Sept. 12), when they faced a frightening ultimatum – leave immediately or be “crucified or lynched.”


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Evangelical Christians in Mexico Increasingly Persecuted by 'Traditional Catholics'


Traditionalist Catholics in the village, near the municipality of San Martín Texmelucan about 60 miles from Mexico City, reportedly threatened to burn down or otherwise destroy their homes.

The Protestants left.

The traditionalist Catholics, who practice a blend of indigenous and Catholic rituals, reportedly asserted that 20 years ago an assistant village president had vowed that no temple of any non-Catholic faith would ever be permitted in San Rafael Tlanalapan. Protestants in Puebla, Hidalgo, Chiapas and other states sometimes refuse to help pay for and participate in traditionalist Catholic festivals, which often include drunken revelry and what they regard as idolatrous adoration of saints.

In 2006, the Protestants in San Rafael Tlanalapan asked for government help after Catholics led village authorities to cut off their water supply.

Tensions reached a crisis level two weeks ago, when local priest Ascension Benitez Gonzalez reportedly said in a Sept. 4 sermon that his parishioners should pressure the Protestants to leave for good. Although their number has grown to 70, the evangelical Protestants have been allowed no place of worship.

On Sept. 7, the village’s assistant president, Antonio Garcia Ovalle, reportedly met with the Protestants. The evangelicals promised to leave, though the 200 traditionalist Catholics present sought to beat them and expel them right then. According to Puebla online news portal Quince minutes.com, the priest rang the church bells continually during the meeting.

The evangelicals’ departure date was set for Monday (Sept. 12). In a newscast two days later on TV Azteca of Puebla, area traditionalist Catholic Irma Diaz Perez rejoiced, saying, “They will never return, because we have drawn up a document wherein they have no permission to come back now or ever.”

On the same segment, another traditionalist Catholic, Hortencia Minero Garcia, said critics should not finger the priest for the expulsion.

“We are strong Catholics and respect our religion and don’t want anyone to touch our priest, because he has nothing to do with this – it is the people,” Minero Garcia said.

In the city of Puebla, the state capital, Catholic leaders tried to soften prejudices.

“It is necessary to respect the traditions of the towns,” Puebla Archbishop Victor Sanchez Espinosa told the daily La Jornada de Oriente. “The Catholics feel attacked, but we would hope there would be no violence. I invite the community, totally Catholic, and the small Christian community, to prudence, order and respect.”

The Protestants sought refuge in nearby towns, including the municipal center of San Martin Texmelucan, where their churches have become prominent. Others have reportedly fled to a church building in Alto Aposento.

The “Uses and Customs” section of the Mexican constitution grants indigenous communities some autonomy to exercise traditional law, although Protestant attorneys say it is misused to allow local authorities to violate minority communities’ religious freedom. The “Uses and Customs” article is designed to protect indigenous customs from government obliteration, but traditionalist Catholics evoke it to jail or expel those who differ from them, the attorneys say.

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I.M.F. Slashes Growth Outlook for U.S. and Europe

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde, center, arrives with unidentified aides at the G7 Finance meeting in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Sept.9, 2011. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The International Monetary Fund sharply downgraded its outlook for the United States economy through 2012 because of weak growth and concern that Europe won’t be able to solve its debt crisis, the organization said in its economic outlook Tuesday.

The fund said it expected the American economy to grow just 1.5 percent this year and 1.8 percent in 2012. That’s down from its June forecast of 2.5 percent in 2011 and 2.7 percent next year.

The International Monetary Fund also lowered its outlook for the 17 European Union countries that use the euro. It predicted 1.6 percent growth this year and 1.1 percent next year, down from its June projections of 2 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively.

The gloomier forecast for Europe was based on worries that Greece would default on its debt and destabilize the region.

“Fear of the unknown is high,” said Olivier Blanchard, the organization’s chief economist. “Strong policies are urgently needed to improve the outlook and reduce the risks.”

Over all, the International Monetary Fund predicted global growth of 4 percent for both years. Stronger growth in China, India, Brazil and other developing countries should offset weaker output in the United States and Europe.

American and European policy makers need to act more decisively to cut budget deficits, the report said, and European officials need to ensure that the region’s banks have enough capital to withstand the debt crisis.

The United States economy grew at an annual rate of just 0.7 percent in the first six months of the year. And the unemployment rate has stayed above 9 percent for all but two months since the recession officially ended two years ago.

Financial turmoil and slow growth are feeding on each other in both the United States and Europe, fund officials say. Europe’s debt crisis is causing banks to reduce lending and hold onto cash. Sharp stock market drops in the United States over the summer hurt consumer and business confidence and will likely reduce spending. That slows growth, which leads many investors to shift money out of stocks and into safer investments, like Treasury bonds. In Europe, slower growth will make it harder for stressed nations to get their debt under control.

President Obama’s proposal to cut taxes and spend more on infrastructure should provide much-needed short-term stimulus, the report said. But that initiative needs to be paired with a longer-term plan to reduce the deficit, the report said. The timing of the budget cuts is key, Mr. Blanchard said.

Budget cuts “cannot be too fast or it will kill growth,” Mr. Blanchard said in a statement. “It cannot be too slow or it will kill credibility.”

The 187- nation International Monetary Fund conducts economic analysis and lends money to countries in financial distress. It will hold its annual meetings with the World Bank later this week in Washington.


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“In the Catholic Tradition, responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation.”

Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, no. 13

Live out your commitment to faithful citizenship by taking action at one or all of the links below!

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Miguel Díaz and the Rev. Gary Riebe-Estrella, SVD, featured presenters for Changing Faces Series

March 16, 2009

Miguel H. Díaz and the Rev. Gary Riebe-Estrella, SVD, will be the featured presenters for the 2009 Changing Faces Series April 2-3 at Saint John’s University, Collegeville. The April 2 lecture is free and open to the public, but registration is requested for the April 3 workshop.

Díaz will deliver the main address, “Jesus on the Border,” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 2 in the Stephen B. Humphrey Theater, SJU. In his address, Díaz will highlight the identity of Jesus, the Galilean, as someone who engages in border-crossings for the sake of transforming and creating inclusive communities within the Catholic Church and society.

Riebe-Estrella leads a workshop, “Crossing Borders: Cultural Diversity in Ministry,” from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday, April 3. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m. This workshop will examine some of the pastoral challenges of cross-cultural communications and will include discussions with local pastoral ministers.

Díaz is an associate professor of systematic theology at Saint John’s School of Theology•Seminary and Saint John’s University and at the College of Saint Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he is past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS). He recently served as a member of Barack Obama's Catholic advisory group during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Riebe-Estrella, a native of Los Angeles, has spent the majority of his ministry dealing with the challenges of cultural diversity in formation for religious life and in theological education and ministerial preparation. He is president-elect of ACHTUS, and holds a doctorate in practical theology from the Pontifical University of Salamanca in Spain. He currently serves as vice president and academic dean of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

The Changing Faces Series is sponsored by Saint John’s School of Theology∙Seminary and Companions on a Journey at CSB, which is funded by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The Changing Faces Series seeks to engage more people in transformative approaches to intercultural ministry. The series invites members of local and regional communities, including students, faculty and staff at CSB and SJU, to experience all ministry and service as intercultural.

For more information, contact Bernadette Dunn at bdunn@csbsju.edu or 320-363-2839 or visit www.csbsju.edu/sot.


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Is this really the news?

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Jason Kutcher on ellen (Degeneres), stark naked promoting "Two and a half men".



I believe the New York Times' motto is "All the news that's fit to print"?

Well, as I turn on my PC this morning and my MSN homepage finally appears this is what showed up as news:



Military's Gay Ban Officially Lifted



Video: As the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy officially ended, a Navy officer took advantage of the repeal by marrying his same-sex partner in Vermont.

Pentagon says military is ready for change

Navy clears gay WWII vet's record



TV: 'Dancing' Returns & Kutcher Debuts


Video: All eyes on Chaz Bono's 'Dancing' debut

Is 'Two and a Half Men' funny without Sheen?


These two headlines along with their subtopics are what MSN has as number one and number two stories. Is this a blatant agenda being promoted or what? I thought that there might be other more pertinent, more important news than this gibberish as the top headlines, but I forget that we're living in the strangest times that any civilization has ever lived; A time when everything good is bad, and things that were once bad are good.
A long time ago in my childhood neighborhood the popular insult between boys used to be: "Your mother plays first base for the husky whores,.. your mother wears combat boots,.. and your mother has a tattoo on her left breast"... Well, that was then; Now all these 'ranks' are not insults, but a common thing; a 'normal' occurrence.

What's wrong with this picture?

------------------We've come a long way, baby!

We've gone from a dysfunctional world to a deviant as normal world. And this is being fomented and fostered by a jaded, been there done that, everything goes, if you can't be with the one you love - love the one you're with, try it you'll like it,... I want to sex you up, news media who is promoting a hidden agenda in plain sight.

If this isn't a fact? Then, just read the headlines.

You'll see the method (gay agenda) in their madness..


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Monday, September 19, 2011

Deadly quakes hit Guatemala


Published: Sept. 19, 2011 at 11:27 PM


GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Guatemala was hit by four earthquakes in succession Monday, the largest measuring a magnitude of 5.8, that left at least one person dead, officials said.

El Periodico reported at least one person, identified as Jesus Floridalma, 38, of Cuilapa, was killed and three others were missing in the Santa Rosa department. Another newspaper, Prensa Libre, said Floridalma was killed when a wall fell on him.

El Periodico said several other people had minor injuries.

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom said the military, national police, local firefighters and volunteers were converging on the affected communities.

Prensa Libre said a number of homes, schools and other buildings were damaged by the quakes, which also opened large cracks in streets and roads. The tremors led many people to move to emergency shelters or to spend the night outside in open areas.

Margarita Cortez, director of Cuilapa Hospital, said the building structure did not sustain major structural damage but patients were evacuated as a precaution.

Departmental Gov. Mynor Morales said the initial damage assessment was that Cuilapa and Santa María Ixhuatan were the hardest-hit municipalities.

The Central American nation's education minister suspended school activities in the region Monday and Tuesday.

The national communications minister warned people to beware of landslides along roadways.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the first quake, measuring 4.8-magnitude, occurred at 12:01 p.m. local time at a depth of 37.9 miles. The epicenter was 25 miles southeast of Guatemala City and 52 miles west-southwest of Chiquimula.

The second temblor -- the most powerful at 5.8-magnitude -- occurred 33 minutes later at a depth of 24.5 miles, the USGS said. It was centered 32 miles southeast of Guatemala City, 42 miles east of Escuintla and 45 miles west-northwest of Santa Ana, El Salvador.

The third quake came at 1:18 p.m. and registered 4.8-magnitude. It was 22.9 miles deep and centered 31 miles southeast of Guatemala City, 39 miles east off Escuintla and 47 miles west-northwest of Santa Ana.

The fourth shaker at 2:30 p.m. was 4.5-magnitude at a depth of 25.4 miles. It was centered 37 miles east-southeast of Escuintla, 42 miles south-southeast of Guatemala City and 44 miles northwest of Acajutla, El Salvador.

All four were nearly 700 miles east-southeast of Mexico City.


Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/09/19/Deadly-quakes-hit-Guatemala/UPI-51071316486004/#ixzz1YSil9wCI

What's 'the name' really worth?


“And now also,” said the prophet, “the ax is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” Not by its name, but by its fruit, is the value of a tree determined. If the fruit is worthless, the name cannot save the tree from destruction. John declared to the Jews that their standing before God was to be decided by their character and life. Profession was worthless. If their life and character were not in harmony with God’s law, they were not His people. DA, 107.


Support for Back To Church

(L-R) Pastor Anthony Hall, moderator Matthew Farley, Monsignor Vincent Blackett, David Comissiong and Imran Richards. (Picture by Nigel Browne.)

BY CARLOS ATWELL | MON, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 - 12:08 AM

Barbadians are being invited to get on board the newest church movement. The Christian community is beckoning to all to “come as you are” next Sunday, Back To Church Sunday, and “put church back in your life”.

An advertisement in yesterday’s SUNDAY SUN, sponsored by the Anglican Church on behalf of the Christian community, urged Barbadians to “find a church” and “return to that which nurtured us as a people”.

The DAILY NATION spoke to two church leaders yesterday about the ad: Barbados Christian Council chairman Monsignor Vincent Blackett of the Roman Catholic Church and Caribbean Union Conference youth ministry director Pastor Anthony Hall of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) faith.

The pair had just participated in Starcom’s Brass Tacks Sunday, which was taking a look at The Role And Influence Of The Church In Changing Times.

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Jesuits Teaching Nearly 4,000 Afghan Youths

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July 13, 2011

Editor's Note: It looks as if the Jesuit Order which has already been involved in several high profile child molestation scandals around the world is now trying to gain a foothold in Afghanistan.

The vast majority of Afghans want peace, according to Father Stan Fernandes, an Indian Jesuit who directs the Jesuit Refugee Service in the strife-torn nation.

“The rebels are about 10,000, but attract the attention of the international community,” he told the Fides news agency. “Our mission is to give voice and hope to 99.9% of the Afghan population, who struggle every day with all their heart to go forward and to build a better tomorrow.”

“Children and young people are tired of war and very few of them have the opportunity to go to school,” he added. Jesuits are now teaching 600 students at a technical high school in Heart, 3,000 university students in Herat, Bamiyan, and Kabul, and 200 elementary school students who are refugees in Sohadat.

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Obama: 'I'd like to work my way around Congress'

September 15, 2011 1:30am

by Byron York Chief Political Correspondent


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President Barack Obama speaks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 34th Annual Awards Gala at the Washington Convention Center, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Facing growing opposition to his economic proposals and dimming prospects that Congress will pass other parts of his agenda, President Obama told a Hispanic group in Washington Wednesday that when it comes to the issue of immigration,
"I'd like to work my way around Congress."

"As I mentioned when I was at La Raza a few weeks back, I wish I had a magic wand and could make this all happen on my own,"
Obama told a meeting of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
"There are times where -- until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again -- I'd like to work my way around Congress."

As he continued, Obama conceded that "we've got laws on the books that have to be upheld." But he quickly added there are different ways to uphold the laws on the books. "You know as well as anyone that…how we enforce those laws is also important," Obama said. Last month, the administration made a major, unilateral change in immigration law enforcement when it announced that the government will not initiate deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants unless they have committed serious crimes. To critics, Obama had indeed worked his way around Congress. To the Hispanic Caucus, Obama said his new policy will "prioritize criminals who endanger our communities, not students trying to achieve the American dream."

The bigger problem, Obama said, is that sort of unilateral enforcement (or non-enforcement) only goes so far. "We live in a democracy, and at the end of the day*, I can't do this all by myself under our democratic system," he said. "If we're going to do big things -- whether it’s passing this jobs bill, or the DREAM Act, or comprehensive immigration reform -- we're going to have to get Congress to act."

This is the second time in recent months that Obama has publicly mused about going around Congress to enact immigration reform. In that speech to La Raza in July, he said that "some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own" -- a prospect Obama said he found "very tempting." But the president quickly added, "that's not how our system works."

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P.S. *A pesky cliche repeated unconsciously by many; such as "you know", and "I mean".

Wells without water


2 Peter 2

1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

2And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

3And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

4For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

7And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

8(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.

12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

15Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

16But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

17These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

18For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

20For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

21For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

22But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Duty in View of the Time of Trouble


Duty in View of the Time of Trouble


The Lord has shown me repeatedly that it is contrary to the Bible to make any provision for our temporal wants in the time of trouble. I saw that if the saints had food laid up by them or in the field in the time of trouble, when sword, famine, and pestilence are in the land, it would be taken from them by violent hands and strangers would reap their fields. Then will be the time for us to trust wholly in God, and He will sustain us. I saw that our bread and water will be sure at that time, and that we shall not lack or suffer hunger; for God is able to spread a table for us in the wilderness. If necessary He would send ravens to feed us, as He did to feed Elijah, or rain manna from heaven, as He did for the Israelites.

Houses and lands will be of no use to the saints in the time of trouble, for they will then have to flee before infuriated mobs, and at that time their possessions cannot be disposed of to advance the cause of present truth. I was shown that it is the will of God that the saints should cut loose from every encumbrance before the time of trouble comes, and make a covenant with God through sacrifice. If they have their property on the altar and earnestly inquire of God for duty, He will teach them when to dispose of these things. Then they will be free in the time of trouble and have no clogs to weigh them down.

I saw that if any held on to their property and did not inquire of the Lord as to their duty, He would not make duty known, and they would be permitted to keep their property, and in the time of trouble it would come up before them like a mountain to crush them, and they would try to dispose of it, but would not be able. I heard some mourn like this: “The cause was languishing, God’s people were starving for the truth, and we made no effort to supply the lack; now our property is useless. Oh, that we had let it go, and laid up treasure in heaven!” I saw that a sacrifice did not increase, but it decreased and was consumed. I also saw that God had not required all of His people to dispose of their property at the same time; but if they desired to be taught, He would teach them, in a time of need, when to sell and how much to sell. Some have been required to dispose of their property in times past to sustain the Advent cause, while others have been permitted to keep theirs until a time of need. Then, as the cause needs it, their duty is to sell.

I saw that the message, “Sell that ye have, and give alms,” has not been given, by some, in its clear light, and the object of the words of our Saviour has not been clearly presented. The object of selling is not to give to those who are able to labor and support themselves, but to spread the truth. It is a sin to support and indulge in idleness those who are able to labor. Some have been zealous to attend all the meetings, not to glorify God, but for the “loaves and fishes.” Such would much better have been at home laboring with their hands, “the thing that is good,” to supply the wants of their families and to have something to give to sustain the precious cause of present truth. Now is the time to lay up treasure in heaven and to set our hearts in order, ready for the time of trouble. Those only who have clean hands and pure hearts will stand in that trying time. Now is the time for the law of God to be in our minds, foreheads, and written in our hearts.

The Lord has shown me the danger of letting our minds be filled with worldly thoughts and cares. I saw that some minds are led away from present truth and a love of the Holy Bible by reading other exciting books; others are filled with perplexity and care for what they shall eat, drink, and wear. Some are looking too far off for the coming of the Lord. Time has continued a few years longer than they expected; therefore they think it may continue a few years more, and in this way their minds are being led from present truth, out after the world. In these things I saw great danger; for if the mind is filled with other things, present truth is shut out, and there is no place in our foreheads for the seal of the living God. I saw that the time for Jesus to be in the most holy place was nearly finished and that time can last but a very little longer. What leisure time we have should be spent in searching the Bible, which is to judge us in the last day.

My dear brethren and sisters, let the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ be in your minds continually and let them crowd out worldly thoughts and cares. When you lie down and when you rise up, let them be your meditation. Live and act wholly in reference to the coming of the Son of man. The sealing time is very short, and will soon be over. Now is the time, while the four angels are holding the four winds, to make our calling and election sure.


Early Writings, p. 56-58.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Remember Your Name!

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To independent groups or ministries who have found themselves somewhat distant from official church connection and have accepted tithe for support. Contact your local church and local conference and return to a warm and appropriate relationship refusing to accept tithe and encouraging members to return their tithe through the storehouse of the local church. Remember your name!

To church members who are bitter or angry because another church member offended you and to churches where there are open fights, jealousies, and tensions: Remember your name and implement God's ministry of reconciliation and unity outlined in Matthew 18, John 17, and II Corinthians 5. Thank you Elder [Jan] Paulsen for your words last night urging us to be unified in Christ
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REMEMBER YOUR NAME

Sabbath Sermon, October 9, 2010, Ted N C Wilson
2010 Annual Council, Silver Spring, Maryland



P.S.

No name which we can take will be appropriate but that which accords with our profession and expresses our faith and marks us a peculiar people. The name Seventh-day Adventist is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God and those who worship the beast and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. It is because the saints are keeping all ten of the commandments that the dragon makes war upon them. If they will lower the standard and yield the peculiarities of their faith, the dragon will be at peace; but they excite his ire because they have dared to raise the standard and unfurl their banner in opposition to the Protestant world, who are worshiping the institution of papacy.

Testimonies for the Church Volume I, p. 223.

Americans, remember the Constitution


Sep 17, 2011



On Sept. 17, 1787, 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed a divinely-inspired document -- our U.S. Constitution.

Since 2004, "Constitution Day" is a federal observance in which we are encouraged to count our "Blessings of Liberty." But those who are out of work, struggling to pay their mortgages, pay their taxes, keep food on the table and gasoline in their car may well be asking: "What blessings? Where have the jobs gone? When will prosperity return?"

Jobs are scarce because American factories and businesses are being forced to function under overwhelming, impractical environmental and other regulations. Our Constitution is meant to be the supreme law of the land. It is not law directed at regulating and limiting the activities of the people and their businesses, but rather to limiting the government. All three branches on both the federal and state levels of government have abandoned a decent respect for the principles of limited government spelled out in Article 1, Section 8 of our U.S. Constitution.

The supremacy of our U.S. Constitution is being replaced by the U.N. Charter. These two documents could not be more diametrically opposed and irreconcilable. The U.S. Constitution is built upon the premise that the people are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights and that the sole purpose of government is to protect those rights. Based on this premise, America flourished. The U.N. Charter assumes the role of God by granting rights, which are then subject to becoming revocable privileges. The United Nations does not recognize any limitations to its authority to legislate on any and all matters.

One example is the U.N. spawned Agenda 21. Its domineering, global, environmental agenda is being implemented through an end-run around both our U.S. Constitution and our Congress.

By the U. N. executing agreements with state, county and municipal governments across America, treaties are being made in direct violation of Article 1, Section 10 of our Constitution. "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation ..."

Agenda 21 is being foisted piecemeal on state and local levels through programs such as: "Smart Growth Initiatives," "Resilient Cities," "Regional Visioning Projects," "STAR Sustainable Communities," "Green Jobs" and "Green Building Codes."

According to renowned environmental activist attorney Daniel Sitarz, "Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on earth ... It calls for specific changes in the activities of all people.

Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced -- a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level."

Instead of protecting our environment, it actually smothers economic prosperity, negates property rights, undermines liberty and constitutional government, subverts local control and spoils the local environment.

So how is the U.N. getting away with usurping our American sovereignty, the rights of the American people, the authority of our Congress, and our ability to prosper?

The prophet Hosea lamented, "My people perish from a lack of knowledge." As a nation, we have forgotten who we are as defined by our Constitution. We cannot insist our legislators obey and defend the supreme law of the land if we the people do not know it ourselves.

When we regain the knowledge of our precious constitutional heritage and reassert those principles of liberty, prosperity will return.

A good start would be to extricate ourselves from the tentacles of the anti-American, sovereignty-destroying United Nations.

Peter F. Boyce

U.S. Constitution instructor

Millville


Earthquake kills at least nine in India and Nepal


by Steve White, Daily Mirror 19/09/2011

Three people have been crushed to death by a wall in the British embassy’s compound in Nepal following an earthquake.

Another two people died in the tremor in Kathmandu. The 6.9-magnitude earthquake was felt across north east India, where four people died in Sikkim state. Rescuers in border city Gangtok, which has a population of 50,000, were last night searching for survivors in fallen buildings.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/19/earthquake-kills-at-least-nine-in-india-and-nepal-115875-23430563/#ixzz1YLeujnOj

The Gunpowder Plot - Roman Catholic Jesuit Conspiracy



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The Gunpowder Plot, 1605 - Roman Catholic Jesuit Conspiracy.

In 1605, young men planned to blow up
the Houses of Parliament. Among them was
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PART TWO:

Sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange blocked from protesters

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18 Sep, 2011, 01.25PM IST, New York Times

Sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange blocked from protesters


NEW YORK: For months the protesters had planned to descend on Wall Street on a Saturday and occupy parts of it as an expression of anger over a financial system that they said favors the rich and powerful at the expense of ordinary citizens.

As it turned out, the demonstrators found much of their target off limits on Saturday as the city shut down sections of Wall Street near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall well before their arrival.

By 10 a.m., metal barricades manned by uniformed police officers ringed the blocks of Wall Street between Broadway and William Street to the east. (In a statement, Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman said, "A protest area was established on Broad Street at Exchange Street, next to the stock exchange, but protesters elected not to use it.")

Organizers, promoters and supporters called the day, which had been widely touted on Twitter and other social media sites, simply September 17. Some referred to it as the United States Day of Rage, an apparent reference to a series of disruptive protests against the Vietnam War held in Chicago in 1969.

The idea, according to some organizers, was to camp out for weeks or even months to replicate the kind, if not the scale, of protests that erupted this year in places as varied as Egypt, Spain and Israel.

Bill Steyert, 68, who lives in Queens, stood near the barricades at Wall Street and Broadway and shouted, "Shut down Wall Street, 12 noon, you're all invited," as tourists gazed quizzically at him.

Talking to a reporter, Steyert elaborated: "You need a scorecard to keep track of all the things that corporations have done that are bad for this country."

Nearby, Micah Chamberlain, a 23-year-old line cook from Columbus, Ohio, held up a sign reading "End the Oligarchy" and said he had hitchhiked to New York.

"There are millions of people in this county without jobs," he said. "And 1 percent of the people have 99 percent of the money."

Throughout the afternoon hundreds of demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas in Lower Manhattan. They held teach-ins, engaged in discussion and debate and in some instances embarked on marches through the streets and sidewalks, brandishing signs with messages like "Democracy Not Corporatization" or "Revoke Corporate Personhood."

Organizers said the rally was meant to be diverse, and not all of the participants were on the left. Followers of the right-wing figure Lyndon LaRouche formed a choir near Bowling Green and sang "The Star Spangled Banner" and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Nearby, anarchists holding a red and black flag carried knapsacks, sleeping bags and tents.

At one point in the early afternoon, dozens of protesters marched around the famous bronze bull on lower Broadway. Among them was Dave Woessner, 31, a student at Harvard Divinity School.

"When you idealize financial markets as salvific you embrace the idea that profit is all that matters," he said.

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