Japanese continue protesting against the new state secrets law, which over 80% condemn.

Everyone: Urge German PM Merkel to give asylum to Edward Snowden in exchange for his testimony.

500 prominent writers have published a manifesto for restoring privacy by curbing digital surveillance.

I agree with their manifesto, because it doesn't insist narrowly that the solution consists of limiting state access to massive dossiers while continuing to accumulate them.

It took me a while to find a place to refer to it, because the reference I saw was to a page I could not even view, on change.org. When I tried to view that page, all I got was a brief message saying the site requires Javascript and cookies even to see a page.

In addition, they ask people to endorse the statement on change.org. I won't do that, or refer others to that, because of the requirement for nonfree Javascript software.

So I am stating my agreement here.

Controversial Anti-Protest Law Challenged in Ugandan Court.

The tyrant of North Korea executed his uncle, calling him "despicable human scum". Well of course — he was an official in North Korea, so how could he not be despicable human scum?