What’s interesting in the news today?
Open thread, you decide.
Here’s a few from me to start things off.
First up, Egypt.
From FoxNews “The Egyptian defense minister has ordered the repair and reconstruction of all churches that suffered damage in the country’s violent demonstrations since the Egyptian military removed President Mohamed Morsi from power last month.
Defense minister Col. Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi intends to fix the damage to Coptic churches at Rabaa Adaweya and Nahda squares, according to a report by the Mid-East Christian News.
Dozens of churches were attacked and burned in riots after thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities to demand the end of what they call military rule, following the removal of Morsi on July 3. Many of Morsi’s supporters have voiced criticism at Egypt’s Christian minority for largely supporting the military’s decision to oust him from office.
“The Egyptian defense minister ordered the engineering department of the armed forces to swiftly repair all the affected churches, in recognition of the historical and national role played by our Coptic brothers,” read a statement that aired on Egyptian television.”
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Next up, It’s Alive! and yes, that means they’re violating the federal ban.
From JudicialWatch “A spinoff of the scandal-ridden community organizer group ACORN received more than $200,000 in federal housing grants despite a ban on money going to ACORN affiliates, watchdog organization Judicial Watch announced Thursday.
ACORN, which officially folded in 2009 after a string of scandals, rebranded into more than 100 spinoff groups, including Affordable Housing Centers of America — also now defunct — and Mission of Peace, an affordable housing nonprofit.
In February, the Department of Housing and Urban Development transferred $201,222.07 from AHCOA to Mission of Peace “specifically to pay for the activities of former AHCOA affiliates,” according to a memo obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act request.”
“Because of the ban, the award to Mission of Peace appears to be a violation of federal law, according to Judicial Watch. MOP is one of numerous ACORN affiliates operating under new names, Judicial Watch spokeswoman Jill Farrell told the Washington Examiner.”
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And then another story of the Obama admin disobeying and disregarding federal law.
From NationalJournal “About 400,000 “Dreamers” have been allowed to stay in the United States in the year since the Obama administration began accepting applications for young illegal immigrants to defer deportation proceedings and receive work permits, according to data compiled by the Brookings Institution and released on the anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The numbers show that out of more than a half-million applicants for deferred action, more than three-quarters were accepted and just 1 percent denied. The applications were concentrated in states that already have large immigrant communities, such as California, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida. On the East Coast, the applications were from a more diverse set of countries while in the West, Midwest, and South the vast majority of applicants were from Mexico.”
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Wandering Views 
😦 It can’t be a violation of the law if DOJ doesn’t say so.
I’m glad the Egyptian Minister of Defense is ordering the repair of damaged churches.
If it is the same person Fox News spoke of, he attended the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. He wrote a dissertation on democracy. He may be worth supporting.
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Posted by Kirstin Powers yesterday on twitter — transparency anyone? Journalists surely will begin to awaken …
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130816/01314924200/white-house-tried-to-interfere-with-washington-posts-report-to-change-quotes-nsa.shtml
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This is interesting:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/08/16/Report-Egypt-Sending-Diplomatic-Mission-to-Russia
I think we are beginning to get a glimpse of the shape of the world following the decline of the US and Westen Europe
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interesting comment rickyweaver, it does look that way
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There will come a time when many developing and Third World countries will decide they would rather be aligned with Russia and/or China than the US. Concerning trade, this is already happening all over Africa, Asia and South America. The policy blunders of the last two US administrations have caused many countries to realize that their economies and security may be jeapordized by future US actions.
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You all know this is part of Obama’s plan don’t you?
Obama wants us to pay for our colonialist past.
Read Dreams From My Father. It’s all there.
We knew all of this before 2008, but no one said anything.
Except a few bloggers.
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CAIRO (AP) — After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like “prisoners of war” before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.
http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-islamists-hit-christian-churches-235144103.html
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“We’ve twice elected a dangerously clueless man.” — Liz Trotta
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This is a bad list to be on:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/08/18/carly-fiorina-only-canada-china-north-korea-and-us-allow-abortions-af
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