DALAI LAMA COMING TO NYC- BEACON THEATER UWS, MANHATTAN OCT 18,19,20TH

The Gere Foundation and The Tibet Center are honored to host His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s return to New York City. His Holiness will bestow teachings on The Heart Sutra, The Sutra of Truly Remembering the Sublime Three Jewels, and the Wisdom Chapter from A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life at the Beacon Theatre.

 

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a public talk on The Virtue of Nonviolence. He will discuss ways in which individuals can cultivate virtuous qualities within themselves to bring about inner peace, create harmony in their communities and promote tolerance throughout the world. The Virtue of Nonviolence will be followed by a Q&A during which His Holiness will respond to questions from a live audience.

 

via His Holiness the Dalai Lama NYC 2013.

AMERICANS DOUBT OBAMA’S EFFECTIVENESS ON SYRIA

Many Americans think that Vladimir Putin was the most effective leader during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, while approval for how Obama handled the crisis is still low.

Although Syria appears to have met the first deadline in its agreement with the United States and Russia, beginning the process of turning over its chemical weapons, few Americans trust it will fulfill its promises. That leaves President Obama in a difficult position: he continues to have little support for action against Syria, and Americans continue to disapprove of how he is handling this crisis. Worse for him, perhaps, the latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds twice as many Americans giving Russian President Vladimir Putin the nod over President Obama as the most effective leader in this crisis…

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Vatican declares Nancy Pelosi may no longer receive Communion

The Vatican has finally had enough of U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi illogically insisting she’s a “good Catholic” while consistently supporting unrestricted abortion.

The Vatican’s chief justice, Cardinal Raymond Burke, said the California Democrat should no longer receive the sacrament of Holy Communion, according to CNS News.

“Certainly this is a case when Canon 915 must be applied,” Burke in a Sept. 5 interview with The Wanderer, a national Catholic weekly, CNS News reported Monday. “This is a person who obstinately, after repeated admonitions, persists in a grave sin — cooperating with the crime of procured abortion — and still professes to be a devout Catholic.”

Burke emphasized that Catholics have to at least attempt to live their faith.

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IRS Watchdog: $67 Million Missing from Obamacare Slush Fund

The IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a TIGTA report released today.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The IRS is unable to account for $67 million spent from a slush fund established for Obamacare implementation, according to a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report released today.
The “Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund” (HIRIF) was tucked into Obamacare in order to give the IRS money to enforce the tax provisions of the healthcare law. The fund, totaling some $1 billion of taxpayer money, was used to roll out enforcement mechanisms for the approximately 50 tax provisions of Obamacare.
According to the report: “Specifically, the IRS did not account for or attempt to quantify approximately $67 million [from the slush fund] of indirect ACA costs incurred for Fiscal Years 2010 through 2012.”

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Scores Are Killed by Suicide Bomb Attack at Historic Church in Pakistan

Deadly Attack at Pakistan Church: A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed dozens on Sunday.
By ISMAIL KHAN and SALMAN MASOOD
Published: September 22, 2013

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years.
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Muhammed Muheisen/Associated Press
Pakistanis grieved over the coffins of their relatives who were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an old church in the city of Peshawar on Sunday.

The New York Times
The attack occurred as worshipers left All Saints Church in the old quarter of the regional capital, Peshawar, after a service on Sunday morning. Up to 600 people had attended and were leaving to receive free food being distributed on the lawn outside when two explosions ripped through the crowd. “As soon as the service finished and the food was being distributed, all of a sudden we heard one explosion, followed by another,” said Azim Ghori, a witness.

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QUINN OPEN-MINDED ABOUT USING STATE RESOURCES TO CURB CHICAGO VIOLENCE

(CBS) – Gov. Pat Quinn says he would consider using state resources to help combat Chicago street violence, but only if city officials want the assistance.

Speaking on this week’s mass shooting in the Back of the Yards neighborhood, Quinn was asked whether there have been discussions about sending in the state police or Illinois National Guard to assist Chicago police.

The governor said he’s had no specific conversations but noted state police are helping patrol in East St. Louis, another city that has its challenges with violent crime.

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39 DEAD IN KENYA MALL ATTACK; HOSTAGES STILL HELD

NAIROBI, Kenya – Terrified shoppers huddled in back hallways and prayed they would not be found by the Islamic extremist gunmen lobbing grenades and firing assault rifles inside Nairobi’s top mall Saturday. When the way appeared clear, crying mothers clutching small children and blood-splattered men sprinted out of the four-story mall.

At least 39 people were killed and more than 150 wounded in the assault, Kenya’s president announced on national TV, while disclosing that his close family members were among the dead.

Foreigners were among the casualties. France’s president said that two French women were killed. Two Canadians were killed, including a diplomat, said the Candadian prime minister. Four American citizens were reported injured but not killed in the attack, the State Department said Saturday.

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Snowden uncovers shocking truth behind Chemtrails

MOSCOW, Russia – Edward Snowden, the hacker who gained access to every secret corner of the Internet during his tenure at the NSA, has come forward with details of a classified project to alter the world’s climate. The shocking truth, as he says, is that chemtrails are part of a benevolent program aimed at countering global warming. By cooperating in secret with jet fuel manufacturers, government agents have carefully kept the massive chemtrail efforts completely under wraps.

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There are more people on Welfare in Illinois than there are people working.

OOPsss….

Chicago pays the highest wages to teachers than anywhere else in the U.S. averaging $110,000/year.
Their pensions average 80-90% of their income.

Yet Chicago school system is rated one of the worst in the country.

You can’t blame Republicans because there aren’t any!

Wow, are Illinois and Chicago great or what?

Perhaps the U.S. should pull out of Chicago ?
Body count: In the last six months 292 killed (murdered) in Chicago .
221 killed in Iraq
AND Chicago has one of the strictest gun laws in the entire US.

. Here’s the Chicago chain of command:
. President: Barack Hussein Obama
. Senator: Dick Durbin
. House Representative: Jesse Jackson Jr. (Resigned)
. Governor: Pat Quinn
. House leader: Mike Madigan
. Atty. Gen.: Lisa Madigan (daughter of Mike)
. Mayor: Rohm Emanuel
. The leadership in Illinois – all Democrats.

. Thank you for the combat zone in Chicago .

. Of course, they’re all blaming each other. Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!

. State pension fund $78 Billion in debt, worst in country. Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!

. Cook County ( Chicago ) sales tax 10.25% highest in country. Can’t blame Republicans; there aren’t any!

. This is the political culture that Obama comes from in Illinois .

And he was going to ‘fix’ Washington politics for us???

. George Ryan was Governor but he is in the big house.

. Of course he was replaced by Rob Blajegovitch who is…also in the big house.

.Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. had to resign because he and his wife are being sent to… the big house.

. The Land of Lincoln , where our former government officials make our license plates.

But you know what? As long as they keep providing entitlements to the population of Chicago, nothing is going to change, except the state will go broke before the country does – it’s helping the country go broke every day.

“Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him should look at the American Indian.”