The Bulletin: September 24–30, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Trump Tells U.N. He Is a Man of Peace, Threatens to Annihilate Iran — MishTalk
California Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Strong El Niño | ZeroHedge
95.5% of People Are About to Lose Their Money
I Want You to Be Prepared — by Craig — ON SURVIVAL
Will Canada Exist in 10 Years? — by Jared A. Brock
The Eight Stages of Civilizational Collapse
No to Western Imperialism and Exceptionalism. Yes to Earth and Life — Global Research
Torquing Diesel — New Zealand Energy
Towards a Thermoeconomically Viable Food System
Can Water Flip the Planet’s Climate?
How Plastic is Corrupting Our Bodies and Our Institutions | Jane Van Dis
Seems we know how to fix global heating — by William E Rees
How I read a scientific paper in 20 minutes
The Climate Disaster is Accelerating
10 Unexpected Consequences of an Economic Crisis Nobody Is Talking About
The Permission Grid: A Blueprint for a Permanent Slave Class
Ukraine Drone Strike Knocks Out Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk Refinery | OilPrice.com
What Futures Are Possible? — Part II
Skills and Neighbors: The Preparedness You Can’t Buy
Canada’s Oil Patch On Track For Biggest M&A Wave In A Decade | OilPrice.com
China, Canada, EU ALL DUMP $90.2B US Bonds as Beijing CHECKMATES Washington
The Energy Wars and the Coming Crisis of Western Capitalism — global geopolitics
George Beebe: NATO Lost Ukraine & Europe Prepares for War
Prepping for a Cashless Control Grid: How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control — Preppgroup
WATCH: How Will the Super El Niño Affect You?
How to Avoid Collapse — by Ernesto Van Peborgh
My Journey to the Inevitability of Revolution
Our future is being shaped by interconnected crises
America’s Diesel Surplus Is an Illusion
The Dieselpocalypse is rapidly approaching — Applied Systems Thinking
Trump’s Greenland Ambitions: The Return of US Imperialism in the Arctic
The Easy Money Fairy Tale Is About To End Violently
Trump seizes 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil
The Masterstroke — Iran’s President Went Straight to the Empire’s Scriptwriters — global geopolitics
From Farm to a Bioregion — by Ernesto Van Peborgh
Ukraine Might Be Plotting A False Flag Drone Attack On Southern Europe
Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir — and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?
Science Snippets: Results of Experimental Heating of 2℃
Every Civilization Believes This Before It Collapses
Depopulation is Already Here. And it is Having Political Effects.
They Are Killing the Farmers and Nobody Is Asking Why.
Free Hot Water — by Brett Gallagher — Mad Farmer
The Strait of Hormuz Could Become America’s Suez Moment — Financial Underground
Trump’s Proposed Annexation, Déjà Vu. U.S. “War Plan Red” against Canada (1924–1939)
Hysteresis and Societal Collapse
How actions shape values, and why it’s not the other way around.
Big Brother is Watching — by Max Wilbert — Biocentric
Why does the US control Iraq’s oil revenues? | Middle East Eye
It’s Official: The AI Emperor Has No Clothes
Brent’s 2027 Curve Is Above Washington’s Forecast
The recolonisation of the Americas — by Ismaele
How Bad Was Inflation — In Your Lifetime?
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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