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• The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXVIII– We’re Saved! ‘Good Government’ Has Humanity’s Back. Part 3.

• The Bulletin: October 22-28, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXVIII–We’re Saved! ‘Good Government’ Has Humanity’s Back. Part 2.

• The Bulletin: October 15-21, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXVII– We’re Saved! ‘Good Government’ Has Humanity’s Back. Part 1.

• The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025

• The Bulletin: October 1-7, 2025

• The Bulletin: September 24-30, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXVI–We’re Saved! Fusion Energy Is Imminent.

• The Bulletin: September 17-23, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXV–We’re Saved! Bamboo and Hemp.

• The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIV–We’re Saved! Solar Photovoltaic Panels.

• The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIII–Biophysical Economics

• The Bulletin: August 27-September 2, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXII–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep, Redux

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CV–That Uncertain Road, Part 2

• The Bulletin: August 20-26, 2025

• The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society

• The Bulletin: August 6-12, 2025

• The Bulletin: July 30-August 5, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCX–Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 3

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIX– Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 2

• The Bulletin: July 23-29, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1

• The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025

• The Bulletin: July 10-16, 2025

• The Bulletin: July 3-9, 2025 

• The Bulletin: June 26-July 2, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVII–‘Collapse’: It May Not Be What You Think It Is.

• The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025

• The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVI–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep.

• The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025

• The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCV–Do You Believe ‘Renewables’ Are ‘Clean’ And Can ‘Save the Planet’?

• The Bulletin: May 22-28, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIV– Canada’s Housing ‘Crisis’ Revisited: Looking Into Why Housing Is Not Affordable For Most

• The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIII–We Must Destroy the Earth To Save It

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLII–Housing ‘Crisis’: Real or Contrived?

• The Bulletin: May 8-14, 2025

• The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025

• The Bulletin: April 24-30, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCII– Hydrocarbons: Our Finite, Master Energy Resource and the Implications Of Its Peak For Modernity

• The Bulletin: April 17-23, 2025

• The Bulletin: April 10-16, 2025

• The Bulletin: April 3-9, 2025

• The Bulletin: March 27-April 2, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future

• The Bulletin: March 20-26, 2025

• The Bulletin:  March 13-19, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CC–‘Olduvai’: What’s It All About?

• The Bulletin: March 6-12, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIX– Imperial Longevity, ‘Collapse’ Causes, and Resource Finiteness

• The Bulletin: February 27-March 5, 2025

• The Bulletin: February 20-26, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVIII–Beyond Peak Oil: Will Our Cities Collapse?

• The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025

• The Bulletin: February 6-12, 2025

• The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVII–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 3

• The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVI–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 2

• The Bulletin: January 16-22, 2025

• The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCV–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 1

• The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025

• Wild Free and Happy–free ebook by Richard Adrian Reese

• The Bulletin: December 26, 2024-January 1, 2025

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIV–US Peak Shale Oil & Gas: When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down.

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CL–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 2

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIX–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 1

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXI–Sociopolitical Agency, Narrative Management, And Collapse

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLVIII–What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXV–Collapse Now To Avoid the Rush: The Long Emergency

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXV–Hydrocarbons And The Maximum Power Principle: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

• The Bulletin: December 19-25, 2024

• The Bulletin: December 12-18, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIII—Societal Collapse, Abrupt Climate Events, and the Role of Resilience 

• The Bulletin: December 5-11, 2024

• The Bulletin: November 28-December 4

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCII–Sorry, folks, but ‘renewables’ are NOT going to save humanity or the planet.

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCI–The Nexus of Population, Energy, Innovation, and  Complexity

• The Bulletin: November 21-27, 2024

• The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXC–Beyond Collapse: Climate Change and Causality During the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition

• The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024

• The Bulletin: October 31-November 6, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVIX–Problem Solving: Complexity, History, Sustainability

• The Bulletin: October 24-30, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVIII–Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 4

• The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVII–Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 3

• The Bulletin: October 10-16, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXVI– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 2

• The Bulletin: October 3-9, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXV– Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s), Part 1

• The Bulletin: September 26-October 2, 2024

• It Bears Repeating: Best Of…Volume 2

• The Bulletin: September 19-25, 2024

• The Bulletin: September 13-19

• The Bulletin: September 6-12

• The Bulletin: August 30-September 5, 2024

• The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024

• The Bulletin: August 16-22, 2024

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIV– ‘Renewables’: The Great ‘Solution’ (NOT)

• The Bulletin: August 8-15, 2024

• The Bulletin: August 1-7, 2024

• July 12-31 Articles of Interest

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXIII–Complexity and Sustainability 

• Taking a Break…

• July 11, Readings

• July 10, 2024 Readings

• July 9, 2024 Readings

• July 8, 2024 Readings

• July 7, 2024 Readings

• July 6, 2024 Readings

• July 5, 2024 Readings

• July 4, 2024 Readings

• July 3, 2024 Readings

• July 2, 2024 Readings

• July 1, 2024 Readings

• June 30, 2024 Readings

• June 29, 2024 Readings

• Scary Stat Alert: The Government Liquidity Index

• The pervasive belief in the eternal progress of mankind has been a crucial, driving element of Western liberalism for generations. It is starting to break down.

• Bring Back Capitalism

• Dollar Doom Is a Slow Burn!

• Odds Are High You’re Going To Need Your Survival Supplies In The Next Few Years

• “Wiki-Gate”: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him

• Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done

• Exposed: How Climate Racketeers Aim to Force Us into Smart Gulags

• Canada, The Unexpected Winner in the Global Oil Boom

• Debt Brakes and Treaty Requirements About to Smash the EU

• U.S. Government Historical Debt

• Chaos is Spreading Everywhere!

• Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXII–Tech ‘Solutions’ Are Us

• “Julian Is Free!” Assange Released After ‘Time Served’ Plea Deal With DOJ, Departs For Home

• Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please?

• Common Sense and Memes Are Viruses to the New World Order

• The Advanced Economies are headed for a downfall

• Episode 61: Psychological Warfare in Pharma Marketing ft: Robert Malone

• U.S. Government Debt vs. GDP

• The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus

• Brazil’s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters

• The Death of Environmentalism at 20

• EU’s Mass Surveillance Faces Fierce Resistance

• David Stockman on The Ukrainian Border War Folly

• This Is What Collapse Looks Like

• St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2024: Marking the Rise of the Global South Century and Decline of Western Economies

• Netanyahu’s “False Flag” Is a “Copy and Paste”: The Pentagon’s Secret “Operation Northwoods”(1962) Directed Against Cuba. “Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”

• The Anxiety Economy

• Chemicals from East Palestine derailment spread to 16 US states, data shows

• ‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits

• Selling a Mirage