Yesterday Iranian protestors stormed the British embassy in Iran. It took a while for the article to get to the reason the protestors were so angry, but it turns out it's because these protestors want to flout the UN regulations and create nuclear weapons. The British, of course, oppose this. I've always been a little fuzzy on how the UN is able to essentially say to countries, "We don't think you're responsible enough to have nuclear weapons so we're just not going to let you have them even though other countries do." I mean I get WHY and obviously I don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons, but how does the UN really defend these decisions without deeply offending these countries?
The seventeen-year-old blogger above took on a Houston clinic that was using unproven techniques to "treat" cancer and charging thousands of dollars for it. Perhaps even more tellingly, the Guardian than ran a story on it. It really speaks to the power of the internet that a blogger still in high school can make international news.
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