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The Temptations - Christmas Day
Temptations - Silent Night
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A Christian minister who has been arrested twice previously in Oslo for talking about Jesus in public now has been chased from the city center by police officers with the threat of yet another arrest if he returns, according to a lawyer who is working on his case.
Larry Keffer, who works through the Biblical Research Center in Tampa, Fla., was among a team of Christians trying to proclaim the message of Christ during the recent visit to the city by Obama.
Keffer, whose previous arrests came while he was working with Norwegian evangelist Petar Keseljevic and whose cases still are being challenged, was working with other American evangelists, including Ruben Israel, this week in Oslo.
Almost immediately, police agents told the evangelists to remove their banners and their signs, then move across the street, even though the nation's laws formally recognize freedom of speech.
Then, as the evangelists prepared to leave, they were told they were banned from the center of Oslo for 24 hours and would be arrested if they returned under any circumstances.
It seems that Oslo is not interested in permitting Christian speech in public areas during any outdoor event.
The previous encounter with police by Keffer and Petar Keseljevic took place last year. The two were sharing their faith calmly and quietly during the Norwegian Independence Day Celebration when officers made them leave the area of the Royal Palace.
Officers soon chased them down at a new location and arrested them.
They were convicted in Norway, but an appeal was filed with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
Graphic Notes: "Downfall of Mother Bank," depicting President Andrew Jackson holding up an "Order of the Removal of the Public Money" during the fight over the Bank of the United States, 1833. E.W. Clay lithograph.
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Chaos reigns at Detroit aid event
Thousands stand in line for help paying bills
BY TAMMY STABLES BATTAGLIA
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Thousands of people swarmed Cobo Hall in chaos this morning trying to get applications for housing and utility payment assistance from the city of Detroit.
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People fainted, others fought as the Detroit Police Gang Unit tried to keep people in line --- some since last night --- and in check.
Its a disaster here, former assistant Detroit Police chief and city council candidate Gary Brown said, handing out water. This is dangerous. Very unorganized, very dangerous.
The City of Detroit Planning & Development Department was to pass out 5,000 applications to those standing in line. But a line of people snaking back and forth inside Cobo, down Washington Boulevard and around the corner to the circular parking deck far outnumbered the applications available.
The program is part of the city's Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program. By 11:30 a.m., the Detroit mayors office was asking people not to head to Cobo.
The assistance is paid from the city on the applicants behalf directly to agencies like the Coalition on Temporary Shelter, an agency that pays for transitional housing for the homeless.
Robyn Smith, community relations director for COTS, said the tremendous crush of people didnt sadden her.
Im happy because theres something available, she said as she collected filled-out applications from a doorway guarded by a Detroit Police officer to keep people from slipping in.
The applicants needed to be homeless or at risk of homelessness, and the assistance is temporary. The applications are due today, handed in at Cobo by 2 p.m. or mailed with an Oct. 7 postmark. The city was directing people with additional questions to call 313-224-0316, but no one was answering before calls to that number were automatically disconnected just before noon today.
Racquel Sawyers, 35, a laid-off engineer who worked for both GM and Chrysler, turned around and went home after seeing the crowd at Cobo. She had left another application distribution site on Detroits northwest side on Tuesday after seeing the line which turned out to be much smaller than the one at Cobo.
Who would have known yesterday would be better? Sawyers said. Currently on unemployment and looking for help with housing costs, she said shell stay in Detroit until shes able to land a job probably outside Michigan. Im just trying to do what I can right now.
Inside Cobo, lines led up to the Riverview Ballroom, where Detroit Planning & Development employees were to hand out applications.
But hundreds of people were packed outside the ballroom. At about 10:30, a fight broke out, and many of the people bolted away, scared in the crush of people.
Its bad. Its bad. It really is, said Kelli Phillips, 42, of Detroit, handing her application in among the crowd. All you have to do is look around and see it. Thats why a lot of people are moving. I love my city. I dont want to move. But I dont know. There's got to be something better.
Motown lines up for mythical cash hand-outs.
World Socialist report on Detroit.
Detroit wants "Obama money."
David Brooks of the NYT states that the Nobel Prize by Obama is a "joke" and a "travesty."
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A tax on toilet paper; I kid you not. According to the sponsor, "the Water Protection and Reinvestment Act will be financed broadly by small fees on such things as . . . products disposed of in waste water." Congress wants to tax what you do in the privacy of your bathroom.