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The Bulletin: January 16-22, 2025

January 22, 2025

The Bulletin: January 16-22, 2025

Visualizing All Of Canada’s Cancelled Energy Projects | ZeroHedge

Geological Events Show the Difference Between Predicaments and Problems

The Everything Bubble Suddenly Feels Unstable

The War Behind The War: What World War III Is Really Being Fought Over | ZeroHedge

When was growth?

Preventable Deaths And Vitamin D3 | ZeroHedge

Greece Calls On EU For Fast Response To Surging Energy Prices

Rare earth mining in Myanmar’s Chipwi region causes socio-economic decline and severe environmental damage – ENG.MIZZIMA.COM

Drill, Baby, Drill – Waking Up in the Age of Absurdity

Norway warns its oil and gas production is in decline

None Of These War Criminals Will Face Justice As Long As the US Empire Exists

Decoding the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Indoctrinating Your Children Into the New “Fake Sustainable” World Order – Global Research

Firecraft Guide Part I: Tindering the Flame

Climate, Net Zero and Other Words You Must Stop Using

Giant freshwater aquifer in southern Africa is under threat from mining

Greenland’s melting ice is clearing the way for a mineral ‘gold rush’

Is Digitization Catastrophic for Civilization?

Climate Fatigue: Why the Story of Saving the Planet Isn’t Selling | Art Berman

The Red Giant – The Honest Sorcerer

Every Large Economy on Earth is Shrinking

The Imp with a Chainsaw – by Ugo Bardi – The Seneca Effect

How to Survive a Pre-Collapse Dystopia: a Conceptual Segmentation – George Tsakraklides

Resource Insights: Wishful thinking? Sweden building nuclear waste site to last 100,000 years

Trump To Declare National Energy Emergency | ZeroHedge

Questioning lithium-ion batteries, fire risks & hydrating dry regions

Extremes Become More Extreme, Then Revert to the Mean

Frightening Memories of Project Ice-worm: Militarization and the Future of the Arctic Region – Global Research

Trump, Musk, Gaza, the Rise of Totalitarianism and the End of the US Empire

Decisions, Decisions | Do the Math

Donald Trump Is The Empire Unmasked – by Caitlin Johnstone

After millennia as CO₂ sink, more than one-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source

Heat waves could worsen as soil moisture changes, climate models reveal

Unprecedented winter storm paralyzes Gulf Coast with record-breaking snow even in Florida | CNN

‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds

Alberta government lifts ban on coal exploration in Eastern Slopes | CBC News

The Do It Yourself Decade

Direction of Global Crises to Depend on Trump’s Next Steps, Russia’s Lavrov Says | The Epoch Times

PJM Grid Declares “Max Generation Alert” As Polar Vortex Unleashes Mini Ice Age | ZeroHedge

All Lifeforms Are Worthless – George Tsakraklides

Did Anyone See 2014’s Many Crises Coming?

December 25, 2014

Did Anyone See 2014’s Many Crises Coming?.

This year has been marred by crises across the globe, as protests and conflicts have dominated headlines. Groups that were unknown to many, such as the Islamic State and Boko Haram, have become well-known. Tragedies like the downing of flight MH17 instantly entered public consciousness. Other crises, such as the continuously rising death toll in Syria and the increasing death toll of migrants, have occurred at a slower, yet relentless pace.

Some of these crises have been gestating a long time, while others seemed to develop in an instant. But were any of them predictable?

Predicting Conflict

Each year, political scientists working in the field of crisis and conflict forecasting run complex models analyzing the propensity for conflict in different regions across the world. These are usually published around the beginning of the year as a primer for both policy makers and the public on the threats to watch out for in the months ahead.

Each of these forecasts is unique; some prioritize risks in relation to U.S. interests, and others focus on aspects such as the potential for a mass killing. Taken together, they give a general idea of the regions and actors that concerned people looking at what the world would face in 2014.

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