The UK will impose filtering on all public wifi access points, supposedly to "protect children".

That means anyone who isn't an Internet subscriber will be "protected" by censorship even if he is not a child. And since these filterage lists are full of errors, lots of material that isn't porn will be blocked.

Vietnam continues arresting bloggers.

Vietnam depends on the friendship of the US, which apparently does little to pressure it not to be a tyranny.

TransCanada gave US thugs training in treating pipeline protesters as "terrorists".

When the US government talks about how it "protects us from terrorists", remember that this means protecting TransCanada from the Americans it threatens.

Residents of Burlington, Vermont say thousands of people will lose their homes if the F-35 is based there, because it will subject their homes to unacceptable noise levels.

Tibetan singers who praised self-immolation protests have been sentenced to prison.

A Tunisian singer was sentenced to prison for "insulting the police". He called them "dogs"; I think "thugs" is a more accurate description of how they attacked people at the end of the trial.