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Last week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told an interviewer that under her Presidency, the United States would "obliterate" Iran if that country were to "foolishly consider" a nuclear attack on Israel. Cynematic from Momocrats takes us to the videotape:

In the past few weeks, two seemingly disparate events took place regarding control of female sexuality and technology. On April 4, The Telegraph reported that a Saudi woman was beaten, shot, and killed by her father when he discovered her chatting with a man on Facebook. Gizmodo published an interview with "Zoltan," a self-described "technosexual" who invented a robot who could consent to having sex with him because real women made him uncomfortable (and apparently said no). Both stories are interesting (and horrifying) juxtapositions of how technology can help break sex discrimination, and how they can reinforce old notions of the need to control women's behaviors.

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Laurel Papworth, an Australian who blogs at Laurel Papworth - Social Networks is an online community strategist. She teaches social media at the Univerity of Sydney and is a social networks trainer. It's her role as a social networks trainer that landed her a job in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, teaching blogging tools and techniques to Arab women.

After leaving a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, the former minister of Pakistan was getting into her vehicle when she was shot in the neck and chest by a lone gunman. The gunman then blew himself up, killing at least 20 people. (Update: there has been some confusion surrounding whether she was fatally injured from a gun or shrapnel from the bomber).