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For all those of you who haven't seen the footage of the Tank Man, I suggest you check this out! It also offers background information to situate the guy's actions.

although the clip highlights some characteristics of viral videos, the only good thing about it is that it led me to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn9rZ5u4lLU It's a compilation of youtube's most viral videos by category.

this is crazy, yet slightly hilarious. 

The socialists did it!!

Meanwhile in Iran, a fight between the conservative and the even more conservative...

Socialist voters face a nervous wait for the results of today's presidential election runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande after final opinion polls following Wednesday's fiery television debate revealed a late surge in favour of the outgoing president, who has trailed his leftwing rival throughout the race.The polls indicated that Hollande was still on track to win the second round runoff vote, but revealed that the gap between the presidential rivals had narrowed from 10 percentage points a week ago to between four and six.

A Youth Economic Forum club event in collaboration with the Civil Campaign for Electoral Reform Wednesday at 6pm Charles Hostler Auditorium

Rick Santorum plans to endorse Mitt Romney in the general election against President Barack Obama, that much is clear. The question is, how strongly will he support his former rival after months of brutal back-and-forth attacks during the Republican primary season? The answer could become more clear on Friday, when Santorum and Romney plan to [...]

this is an for the group working on partial representation...

Le Pen is going to cast a white ballot! Maybe now you could like her :P "I will not grant my trust, or a mandate, to these two candidates, On Sunday, I will cast a blank ballot"

According to what I've heard, this was always the case with the Front National. Same happened when Jean Marie Le Pen was at the head of the party. They never endorse anyone

"Here's the buzzed-about anti-Obama political ad in which Barack Obama's oppressive coolness is exposed. There's a lot about this strategy I don't understand. Is being cool a problem when you're a president? Does this ad make Obama's fans like him any less? Could Mitt Romney ever pull off Al Green?"

they have a point

check the video

We wanted infotainment, we got infotainment ;-) 

This is another part of the episode, covering the Secret Service Prostitution Scandal, some replies to twitter questions and a good point made about Super PACs and their role in negative advertising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEG31QE4y9w&feature=relmfu

still makes me laugh!