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The Bulletin: January 7-13, 2026

The Bulletin: January 7-13, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Chemical emissions from offshore wind farms: From identification to challenges in impact assessment and regulation – PubMed Enemies not allowed to control large oil reserves, US ambassador to UN says | Middle […]

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The Bulletin: December 31-January 6, 2025

The Bulletin: December 31-January 6, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. USA is the worst pirate on Earth: Trump is stealing Venezuela’s oil The Metacrisis Is Metaphysical: The Fallacies That Doom Our Solutions | Art Berman 2026: Expect a very uneven world […]

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The Bulletin: December 24-30, 2025

The Bulletin: December 24-30, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. You may delay, but time will not. – New Zealand Energy The Hidden Crisis: Why America Can’t Survive Without Venezuelan Oil Effects of Future Climate Extreme Heat Events and Land Use Changes […]

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The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025

The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. How to think about the prospects of truly green growth | Aeon Essays UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease – Inside Climate News Book Review: Small is Beautiful – by Shane […]

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The Bulletin: August 6-12, 2025

The Bulletin: August 6-12, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Maine Organic Farmers Organization Suing EPA over PFAS in sludge–which has shut down many farms in Maine Dennis L. Meadows on the Future of our Planet The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance […]

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The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025

The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Witness to Collapse Climate Change: The Crisis Management Model – Ecosophia Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action Building a Mycelial Network of Resistance and Resilience Gazprom CEO Sounds […]

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The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024

The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024 The Argument for Assisted Collapse – George Tsakraklides Total Grid Collapse Strikes Cuba (Again) | ZeroHedge Yes, Climate Change Is Probably Going To Kill You Reductionism Doesn’t Work Holistically It was always about the oil #294: The perils of extremes | Surplus Energy Economics Lavrov Warns Europe The New Cold […]

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The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024

The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024 How Societal Collapse Can Save Humans From Mass Extinction Our Sixty Days of Nuclear Chicken Have Begun ZeroHedge Edit: Fort Knox, Egon Von Greyerz, and Zoltan Pozsar Doug Casey on the Looming Debt Crisis and What Lies Ahead – International Man Biden’s parting Ukrainian sacrifice – by Aaron Maté Trump’s […]

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Would Returning to the Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems?

Would Returning to the Gold Standard Resolve Our Most Pressing Monetary Problems? We all know the problem with fiat currency: the temptation to print more currency is irresistible, but ultimately destructive. Money in all its forms attracts quasi-religious beliefs and convictions. This makes it difficult to discuss with anything resembling objectivity. But given the centrality of […]

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Money’s Grim Future

Money’s Grim Future Prepare for total control of your economic life. That is the message from Brownstone Fellow Aaron Day at his 4-hour workshop in San Jose, California last Saturday, May 11th. Day has written the excellent book The Final Countdown, which carefully describes the increasingly aggressive assaults on our freedoms by our government and by the global elites. […]

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Money Is a Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender

Money Is a Monopoly Government Will Never Surrender A major intellectual revelation from my youth came from reading Murray Rothbard’s “What Has Government Done to Our Money?” (1963). He includes a passing opinion that private markets are perfectly capable of producing money with no help from government. Under a sweeping monetary reform, private mints could […]

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Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs

Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs Whatever happened to the WEF?  One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public discourse.  After the pandemic agenda was defeated and the plan to exploit public fear to create a perpetual medical autocracy was […]

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Twilight of the Blobs

Twilight of the Blobs “Respect the blob, learn from the blob, love the blob.” — Robert Kagan, Arch Blob Monster, Brookings, 2020     HG Wells concocted a marvelous trick ending to his classic tale The War of the Worlds (1897). Remember: the colossal Martian tripod “fighting machines” swarm all over the planet zapping cities with “heat […]

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Financing the End of Modernity

Financing the End of Modernity How financialization heralds the end of the industrial age That didn’t worked out as intended… Who would’ve thought? Photo by micheile henderson on Unsplash Western neoliberal economies are on the brink of a steep economic decline. Barring an energy / productivity miracle a prolonged and deep recession is clearly on the horizon. While […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VIII–Peak Oil and Sociopolitics

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VIII Oct 30, 2020 Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Peak Oil and Sociopolitics Once again, a comment I posted in response to an article on The Tyee. Where to begin? I realise this article is primarily about a federal political party and its future but there are two underlying […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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