The Bulletin: October 8–14, 2026
This past week’s articles of interest…
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Why You Are Getting Poorer While the Economy Grows — global geopolitics
French Budget Deficit Explodes Into a Major Debt Crisis and Riots — MishTalk
Feeding America Sounds the Alarm: More Americans Are Going Hungry!
A World-Changing Event: We’re Not Going Back to January 2026
World Bank Warns Asia is Running Out of Money to Fight Energy Shock
France Riots: Mayor Wants Teen Social Media Access Cut
Has Trump just announced the next false flag, the next 9/11 to finish off Iran?
What If The Oil Crisis Gets Much, Much Worse?
The Big Bond Bust Keeps Expanding — by David Haggith
How the White House Sold a Pyramid Scheme to the American People — global geopolitics
The Weekend the Money Stops: A Bank Collapse, Hour by Hour — Preppgroup
Just Print Up Some Electrical Transformers
Your Go Bag’s Dead Battery Problem — by Travis Wolfe
Ivana Nikolić Hughes: AI Meets Nuclear Weapons — New Nuclear Arms Race
THE HORROR BEGINS: Mining the Ocean Floor “to Save the Planet”
London Calling: A Journey into Our Techno-Totalitarian Future
Spain General Strike: Housing and Wages — by Ana Vračar
France’s debt: too heavy to lift, too big to spot — Bond Vigilantes
2027 Will Be a Year of Massive Shortages
Eyewitness in Madrid: the Masses Demand a General Strike — ZNetwork
Every Drop Counts: Germany’s Water Crisis
Remember David: thoughts on Luke Kemp’s ‘Goliath’s Curse’
Beyond AI: NASA And DOE To Push Nuclear Power Into Space | ZeroHedge
Counting the Debt, Not the Diesel
Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us — by Caitlin Johnstone
Last Week in Collapse: October 4–10, 2026
How Dystopias Survive Through Collapse
All the Canaries are Dead! — by Prof. Eliot Jacobson
THE DEEPER DIVE: An Enormous Triple Bubble Bust Has Begun
Oil Rises After MidEast Attacks Spread And Escalate, Stoking Supply Fears | ZeroHedge
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Did Trump Approve an Israeli Nuclear Strike on Iran?
For Earth’s Sake | how to save the world
Death will come suddenly … — by Ismaele — GeoPolitiQ
Winning On Science, Defeated On Politics
The Biggest Winners and Losers From the Petrodollar’s Decline — Financial Underground
Cornucopian’s Phantasmas in Charts
Why Didn’t 2008 Bank Bailouts Produce COVID-Level Inflation?
[Essay] The Real Work: Four Things We Can’t Afford to Get Wrong
Stop Spraying Poison on Our Food Before Harvest
The Trumpian Plan to Replace the Dollar
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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