Has Trump Made It Easier To Spy on Journalists? Lawsuit Demands Answers.

The only reliable way to make snooping on journalists any harder is to eliminate the systems that make it easy to snoop on anyone and everyone.

The rate of litter from the sea arriving on British beaches rose by 10% in 2017.

Puerto Rico: Urgently Needed Tarps Delayed by Failed $30m FEMA Contract.

Aside from the carelessness on the specifics, this approach is asking to lose.

Nowadays, even real commercial suppliers don't have a large inventory of their products on hand. A real supplier of tarps won't have a million in stock. How long does it take to produce a hundred thousand tarps and transport them to the US from wherever they are made?

To handle a large disaster, FEMA must maintain large stockpiles of tarps ready to hand out, not depend on purchasing them after the disaster strikes. Likewise for everything else that is needed fast after a disaster.

You can make disaster response a lot more efficient by aiming to handle only the smaller disasters. It looks like this is what the US has done — under pressure of budget cutting that should not be happening at all.

Which candidate was going to increase US war — Clinton, or Trump?

The answer is, either one was going to be worse than Obama, and much worse than Sanders.

Tillerson said that budget cuts for the State Department and foreign aid are predicated on the assumption that some of the world's main conflicts and disputes will be solved very soon.

This is an aspect of global heating denialism. Global heating has contributed to the conflict in Syria, which spilled over into Iraq, and we know it is going to create more.