The Venezuela part is bullshit given how the election system works and how its monitored. A lot of this comes from Carriles et al supporters exaggerating their situation to get the US/IMF there in hopes they make things better for rich people rather than the poors that Chavez aided.

As for the United Kingdom, this is less a ban and more of a requested exemption from the legalization of gay marriage, given that both the CoE and CoW saw "legal gay marriage" as "being forced to marry gay couples" and thus requested a way out of it.

The Russia and Greece business has been around for a good while, with the earlier being mocked by westerners when seeing gay parades being bashed by both neonazis and the moscow police. The latter is more of a measure to keep "undesirables" out of the streets, to renovate their tourism policy. You can thank Truman-era anti-communism measures for the creation and mechanisms that lead to the Golden Dawn and the way it popped here, not to mention JP Morgan and other banking companies from chipping away the anti-fascist measures the Eurozone has.

As for Brazil, you have to consider that there was a great push for this given how a few years ago, Brazil was on a major economical growth, and there was a major push from the FIFA and the Olympic Council to push for higher and higher costs. You might recall that part of the reason Greece got into that mess in the first place was a lot of investment on the Olympics. Now that there's smaller economical growth, the idea of spending more money on futebol is horrifying, hence why we are noticing a whole lot more protests.

As for the US, the bill was successfully filibustered and the voting rights ordeal was impaired rather than taken out. Keep in mind that a major thing being quoted for the reason was the "colorblind, today we live in a post racial society" business.

Luso, I have to thank you for giving me a much more structured (I suppose) explanation on a majority of these issues, especially with what's happening in the US.
Tumblr wasn't that much of a hand with that topic, seeing as shit was hitting the fan with the online feminism protest (Which I admit to not understanding all that well)

Hearing how Russia & Greece are being mocked for their views on their anti-gay views, this kinda reminds me of how South Africa's continuing Racial Segreagtion in the early 90s (Correct me if I'm wrong on this...) were heavily judged and criticized by the more "Sophisticated" countries.

Also, to follow up on the Australian story, Julia Gillard's lost her role as the Labour group's leader (As well as Prime Minister), which also means she has to retire from politics.
Which is a massive load of bull.

To be honest the online feminism protest makes sense given how Texas was putting women and vagina havers in general into yet another pile of horrifying shit, not to mention that tumblr is seen as a safe space (And given how people are like "well a safe space means free speech zone so I'm just gonna shit on these folk's qualms", its bullshit)

I'm not sure how to explain this in a quick and orderly way... but this is the age of information, and it appears that the world is returning to the people once again. I wonder what our future will hold. Also dont forget to mention the fact we are arming syria, which is a big no no in history. Basically the obama administration, as much as i hate to go after it, is helping create another war for the future. Its too freaking obvious...

Prop 8 and DOMA declared unconstitutional. :B

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The whole Greece part thing is a bit more complicated and it was just one town.