Anatomy of the Deep State: Beneath Veneer of Democracy, The Permanent Ruling Class.

Is digital delivery of bills and such more sustainable than mailing paper? It's not clear.

What is clear to me is that I'd rather not have the information going through the internet. I don't do banking over the internet, and I get my statements in paper.

There may be an active whistleblower inside the NSA now.

GCHQ uses dirty tricks to ruin people's reputations. It uses this tactic against dissidents who are in no sense terrorists.

Volcanic eruptions since 2000 have caused a temporary cooling that cancels out part of the heating effect of greenhouse gases.

To cancel it out entirely would require a higher level of vulcanism. However, that would work only for a time. As we pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, cancelling them out would require a steadily increasing level of vulcanism.

Setting aside the harm those eruptions would do if they occurred, there is no reason to expect them to happen.

Moreover, eruptions can also emit greenhouse gases, so over the long term they can make things worse.