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		<title>Iran Protest Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Piché</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I speak my mind about things I have opinions about, I normally get myself in trouble. For example, when I tell people I am a skeptic&#8212;they look at me funny and start ignoring what I say. Today, I saw this video and was appalled. USA has some messed-up politics, but we have a pretty [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I speak my mind about things I have opinions about, I normally get myself in trouble. For example, when I tell people I am a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism">skeptic</a>&mdash;they look at me funny and start ignoring what I say. Today, I saw this video and was appalled. USA has some messed-up politics, but we have a pretty spectacular constitution when compared to other governments around the world.</p>
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<p> Apologies for the graphic nature of this, but it needs to be seen. I don&#8217;t know the context of this event or the outcome, but if this is a good representation of the state of the government in Iran, I fear many more atrocities are taking place.</p>
<p>As a programmer in the US, I often obsess over little things like whether to use tabs or spaces in a PHP file, or why Internet Explorer 6 renders some CSS so terribly. And while I have the right to, sometimes I feel like I should be doing more. So since I have control over this blog, I share this video with you with the hope that the basic rights these people need may be granted to them.</p>
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