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• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVI–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 2

• The Bulletin: January 16-22, 2024

• The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCV–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 1

• The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025

• Wild Free and Happy–free ebook by Richard Adrian Reese

• The Bulletin: December 26, 2024-January 1, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIV–US Peak Shale Oil & Gas: When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down.

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CL–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 2

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIX–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 1

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXI–Sociopolitical Agency, Narrative Management, And Collapse

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLVIII–What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXV–Collapse Now To Avoid the Rush: The Long Emergency

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXV–Hydrocarbons And The Maximum Power Principle: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

• The Bulletin: December 19-25, 2024

• The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIII—Societal Collapse, Abrupt Climate Events, and the Role of Resilience 

• The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024

• The Bulletin: November 28-December 4

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCII–Sorry, folks, but ‘renewables’ are NOT going to save humanity or the planet.

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCI–The Nexus of Population, Energy, Innovation, and  Complexity

• The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024

• The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXC–Beyond Collapse: Climate Change and Causality During the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition

• The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024

• The Bulletin: October 31-November 6, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVIX–Problem Solving: Complexity, History, Sustainability

• The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVIII–Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 4

• The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVII–Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 3

• The Bulletin: October 10-16, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVI– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 2

• The Bulletin: October 3-9, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXV– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 1

• The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024

• It Bears Repeating: Best Of…Volume 2

• The Bulletin: September 19-25, 2024

• The Bulletin: September 13-19

• The Bulletin: September 6-12

• The Bulletin: August 30-September 5, 2024

• The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024

• The Bulletin: August 16-22, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIV– ‘Renewables’: The Great ‘Solution’ (NOT)

• The Bulletin: August 8-15, 2024

• The Bulletin: August 1-7, 2024

• July 12-31 Articles of Interest

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIII–Complexity and Sustainability 

• Taking a Break…

• July 11, Readings

• July 10, 2024 Readings

• July 9, 2024 Readings

• July 8, 2024 Readings

• July 7, 2024 Readings

• July 6, 2024 Readings

• July 5, 2024 Readings

• July 4, 2024 Readings

• July 3, 2024 Readings

• July 2, 2024 Readings

• July 1, 2024 Readings

• June 30, 2024 Readings

• June 29, 2024 Readings

• Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index

• The pervasive belief in the eternal progress of mankind has been a crucial, driving element of Western liberalism for generations. It is starting to break down.

• Bring Back Capitalism

• Dollar Doom Is a Slow Burn!

• Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years

• “Wiki-Gate”: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him

• Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done

• Exposed: How Climate Racketeers Aim to Force Us into Smart Gulags

• Canada, The Unexpected Winner in the Global Oil Boom

• Debt Brakes and Treaty Requirements About to Smash the EU

• U.S. Government Historical Debt

• Chaos is Spreading Everywhere!

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXII–Tech ‘Solutions’ Are Us

• “Julian Is Free!” Assange Released After ‘Time Served’ Plea Deal With DOJ, Departs For Home

• Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please?

• Common Sense and Memes Are Viruses to the New World Order

• The Advanced Economies are headed for a downfall

• Episode 61: Psychological Warfare in Pharma Marketing ft: Robert Malone

• U.S. Government Debt vs. GDP

• The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus

• Brazil’s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters

• The Death of Environmentalism at 20

• EU’s Mass Surveillance Faces Fierce Resistance

• David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly

• This Is What Collapse Looks Like

• St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2024: Marking the Rise of the Global South Century and Decline of Western Economies

• Netanyahu’s “False Flag” Is a “Copy and Paste”: The Pentagon’s Secret “Operation Northwoods”(1962) Directed Against Cuba. “Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”

• The Anxiety Economy

• Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows

• ‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits

• Selling a Mirage

• NYT: Zelensky’s Government Crushes Press Freedoms in Ukraine

• Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick

• Ticking Time Bomb: Space Junk Is Eating Away at Earth’s Ozone Layer

• A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today

• How Far Will You Go to Survive?

• Economic Collapse is Stalking us Like Death

• Is a New Cuban Missile Crisis Brewing Over Ukraine? Dangers of Nuclear War. John J. Mearsheimer

• We Approach State Singularity

• Up to Half a Million NATO Soldiers Waiting to Enter Ukraine. “Offensive Oriented”, Preparing for “A Large Confrontation”.

• The Music Just Stopped: Japan Banking Giant Norinchukin To Liquidate $63 Billion In Treasuries & European Bonds To Plug Massive Unrealized Losses

• War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland 

• The Thing About AI

• Military Draft Coming? House Passes Measure To Automatically Register Men For Selective Service

• After months of masturbatory freaking out about “the right,” the German government inches towards collapse, as the social democrats realise they’re wildly unpopular and have neither money nor answers

• Video: Bill Gates Caught Telling Inner Circle ‘Global Famine’ Will Make Elites ‘God-Like’

• Omega-3 as Psychiatric Elixir?

• Kiev’s Plan to Store F-16s in NATO States Raises the Risk of World War III

• The Biden Construct Exhorts Spineless Press Corps: ‘Play By the Rules’

• Carol Roth: The Death of Property Rights

• Sense and Nonsense on Petrodollars

• Dollar’s Reign May Not Last Much Longer (If History Is Any Guide)

• Impending System Failure

• In our make-believe politics, the strings pulled by the super-rich are all too visible

• IEA’s Staggering Oil Glut is Staggeringly Unlikely

• The Crises and Sacrifices Yet to Come

• Prepare for the Repricing of Risk Globally

• The Thing About AI

• IEA’s 2030 Outlook – I Don’t Even Know Where To Start

• #280: Not what you’ve been told

• ‘Gateway to hell’ in Siberia ‘rapidly expanding’, experts warn as landmark can be seen from space

• 40% Surge: Growing Nitrous Oxide Emissions Trigger Scientific Alarm

• A recession indicator with a perfect record has been flashing red for 20 months. It may not be wrong yet.

• Egypt sets hottest June day in African history; historic heatwave hits Cyprus

• Another Blowout Adds to Mystery of Permian Basin Water Pressure

• Could We Do Civilization Better?

• Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

• Hezbollah Rains Down 160 Rockets On Northern Israel As War Expands

• De-Dollarization Just Accelerated… And You Might Not Even Know About It

• Carbon Credits Are the Biggest Scam Since Indulgences—How You Can Avoid Being Fleeced

• NewsGuard Co-CEO: Lack of Internet Gatekeepers Allows Dangerous Opinions

• The End Of The Petrodollar

• Covid, Economy & Election: QTR On Peak Prosperity

• California Wants Higher Gas Prices and EVs, Virginia Did, But Changed Its Mind

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…

• When All Crimes Are Those Against the State

• Science Snippets: Water Disappears as Earth Warms

• The Cautious US Escalation Against Russia Is Developing Not Necessarily to US Advantage

• Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World”

• The Next Generation’s Dilemma: Confronting the Metacrisis

• How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again

• Alien Planet Earth

• It’s Dangerous to Farm Alone

• Not Knowing

• Kiev’s Plan To Store F-16s In NATO States Raises The Risk Of World War III

• Wikipedia: The Failed Experiment to Democratize Knowledge. “Character Assassinations,” Censorship, an Instrument of Global Corporatism

• “We designed mRNA to kill” – CIA Whistleblower?

• OCOKA – Advanced Terrain Analysis Through a Tactical Lens

• Earth breaks heat and CO₂ records once again: ‘Our planet is trying to tell us something,’ officials say

• Retail Bloodbath: More Than 2,600 Store Closings Have Been Announced So Far In 2024

• Trudeau Pushes Online Censorship Bill To “Protect” People From “Misinformation”

• If Wishes Were Fishes — a Teachable Intermezzo

• Banking Crisis, Stage Two

• Whiff After Whiff

• Moving from Naive to Authentic Progress: A Vision for Betterment

• What if People just stopped voting?

• Russia’s Oil and Gas Revenues Surged by 73.5% in January-May