The Bulletin: April 8-14, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Interview with Luke Kemp, and Subsequent Discussion | Webinar Recording
Meteorologists Warn About Super El Nino Event | ZeroHedge
Oil 101: What You Actually Need to Know About Oil
Survival on a Budget – by Michael Campi
Debt, Banks, and the Machinery of Control – Global Research
The Negentropy Trap: How to Co-opt the Laws of Physics
Violence – by Max Wilbert – Biocentric
How nature spreads risk (and we don’t) – by Jonathan Tonkin
The Collapse Chronicle 04.10.26
There Is No “Next Economy” – The Honest Sorcerer
Welcome to the Theater of the Absurd
First Wave of Energy Price Spikes Hit CPI Inflation | Wolf Street
A War Over Oil Just Solved the Problem That Thirty Years of Climate Advocacy Couldn’t
The World Isn’t Ending, It’s Stopping Working.
The Infinity Asymptote: What the All-Time DJIA Chart was Actually Measuring
Metal Shock: Gulf’s Largest Aluminum Producer Declares Force Majeure | ZeroHedge
I have a dream – by No1 – Gold and Geopolitics
Why the Ecological Imagination Matters
The Fertilizer Crisis That Will Hit Your Grocery Bill
Hoping the Ship Arrives Isn’t a Strategy
What Needs To Be In Your Comprehensive First Aid Kit
The Moment Collapse Enters the Room
The World After Collapse: Contemplating Human Extinction | how to save the world
April 18 | Preparing for an Energy Crisis – Sharon Astyk’s Ko-fi Shop
The Case for a Possible 20% Global GDP Contraction: A Confluence Scenario
No Fuel, Still Fed – by Nathan Surendran
Global Energy Crisis Response: Letters to Invercargill and Southland Councils
The Coming Civilization Collapse: A Biophysical Analysis
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame – Global Research
When Hubris is the Coin of the Realm, Your Society is Bankrupt
Homesteading: Crop Selection, Pest Control, and Real Food
Deforestation as Seen by the Ancient Sumerians
We Are Doomed and Our Leaders Are Insane – by Matt Taibbi
The Roman Empire’s Fatal Mistake—and America May Be Repeating It in Iran
Does The Ministry of Truth Exist?
Can US Oil Replace Strait of Hormuz? No.
The Great Entropy Debate: Why the Left Became the Party of Limits and the Right the Party of Denial
Science Snippets: CNN, Scientists Declare First Tipping Point Reached (2 of 2)
World at War: Ukraine, Iran, China & the US
Irish Patriots are Fighting Back – American Thinker
Essay 11: Discoveries That Changed My Worldview
PLEASE NOTE: This list is just ‘of interest’. It does not mean I personally endorse or agree with the content of a listed article; in fact, some I certainly do not agree with. But these are all part and parcel of stories told by our species about our world. Some are published by the authors for ‘educational’ and/or ‘informational’ purposes, some are for far more nefarious ‘narrative management’ ones–you, the reader, can decide which is which. Keep in mind a relevant passage from a Bill Rees paper: “We begin with a reminder that humans are storytellers by nature. We socially construct complex sets of facts, beliefs, and values that guide how we operate in the world. Indeed, humans act out of their socially constructed narratives as if they were real. All political ideologies, religious doctrines, economic paradigms, cultural narratives—even scientific theories—are socially constructed “stories” that may or may not accurately reflect any aspect of reality they purport to represent. Once a particular construct has taken hold, its adherents are likely to treat it more seriously than opposing evidence from an alternate conceptual framework.”
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