A whole lotta bling

Here's a batch of the latest noteworthy issues which most likely will have an effect on the media-ocean similar to 'ships passing through the night' whence this blog is a safe place to take note.

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Uganda seems to be infected by American Christian zealots. Wouldn't it be nice if they just went home and left Ugandans to themselves?

Ugandan tabloid prints list of 'top 200 homosexuals'

http://gu.com/p/3n3c8

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How about service and cultural expectations? Spread the net of analysis a little wider. I hear, hard-working Americans can't afford to buy health insurance one way or the other. Are American politicians playing Russian roulette with Americans? Are most Americans too nice to complain?

Which country has the highest tax rate? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26327114


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Interesting past age, perhaps, better experienced from a distance - although, in so may ways resembling our own. The air, the waters, the poetry, was probably better then.

How Vikings gave bling to the world

http://gu.com/p/3mpen


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Shame on the world for letting those clowns rule!

Why it's a good time to be a dictator like Kim Jong-un | Jonathan Freedland

http://gu.com/p/3mp4n

And here is more:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/feb/27/hermit-nation-inside-north-korea-video

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Must be a kind of deepseated self-loathing or lack of self-esteem that keeps Europeans clinging to this sort of hypocritical impotence, constitutional monarchies.

If Prince William wants to protect wildlife, he'd better put down the gun | Ken Wharfe

http://gu.com/p/3mp77

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Nice photo taken on Bornholm by some guy on Google Earth.