Social media plays a huge, but unquantifiable, role in protest movements today. Governments who wish to repress protests try to block these outlets, but the guerrilla war between users and the governments never yields a clear-cut winner. One social app, Zello, is currently playing a significant role in Venezuela, as it did in Ukraine and Turkey as well. The cat and mouse game is a whole new front in cyberwar, and one that should be followed very closely.
It is rare to be able to identify visually the differences among countries, but this night photograph of the Korean peninsula is quite dramatic and very telling. North Korea is truly different from South Korea and China as far as electrical usage is concerned.
Ugandan President Museveni signed into law severe anti-homosexual laws today. There are currently 10 countries in the world where homosexuality is punishable by death, and there are many more in which homosexuality is against the law. Human rights are far from universal in the world.
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