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The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025

The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025

This past week’s articles of interest…

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If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.


Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. – The New York Times

IEA Doubles Down On Peak Oil Demand Forecast | OilPrice.com

“Unconditional Surrender!” | ZeroHedge

What Should Individuals Do In A World Filled With Conflict?

A Brief Guide to Status Panic – Ecosophia

The War on Terrorism is Fabricated. “Iran is the Next Phase of this War”. Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research

Trump Has Reportedly Approved Iran Attack Plans But Is Withholding Final Order | ZeroHedge

Why You Should Hate the Rich Even More (w/ Rob Larson)

Demystifying the Dirty Dozen: Why Some Fruits and Vegetables Carry More Pesticides

Wheat and corn crops in Canada’s Prairies, U.S. Midwest could see biggest losses due to climate change | CBC News

‘Like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast’: Calories from food production set to plummet as the world heats up | CNN

What Should Individuals Do In a World In Conflict?

Returns on resilience – by Katharine Hayhoe

Kremlin Warns Against US Intervention In Iran, Tells Israeli Leaders ‘Come To Your Senses’ | ZeroHedge

Interior Dept. Proposes Opening Up 82 Percent Of Alaskan Petroleum Reserve | ZeroHedge

Canada’s Bill C‑2 Sparks Outcry Over Warrantless Data Access and Privacy Erosion

NIRP Is Back As Swiss National Bank Cuts Rates To Zero, Introduces Stealth Negative Rates | ZeroHedge

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Emails Prove UK Gov’t Scripted TV Shows to Push Propaganda | Daily Pulse

U.S. And Europe Face 40% Drop In Food Production, Scientists Warn

‘Planet Wreckers’: 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams

The 10 Core Myths Still Taught in Business Schools

IAEA Chief Warns UN Security Council That Strike On Iran’s Bushehr Plant Would Create Nuclear Disaster | ZeroHedge

How Societies Morph With the Seasons

Alarming Fox Report Says Tactical Nukes ‘Not Off The Table’ For Trump’s Iran Response | ZeroHedge

Liebig’s Law applies

Loss of Narrative Control: How State Power Struggles Against Free Speech | ZeroHedge

How “Green” Wind and Solar Could Trash the Planet

A Long Overdue Reckoning – The Honest Sorcerer

“A Spectacular Military Success” – Trump Says ‘Bully’ Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been “Completely & Totally Obliterated” | ZeroHedge

NO WAR: Avoiding Disaster at the End of Empire

Gas Stations Will Go Empty In The Days Ahead As Oil Supplies Collapse And Prices Skyrocket

Rule of Idiots – Read by Eunice Wong

Governments: Did We Ever Really Need Them? – George Tsakraklides

The U.S. Just Bombed Iran – Biocentric with Max Wilbert

The Half Life of Empire

Global Fertilizer Market Thrown In Chaos After Mideast War Shutters Iran Urea Production | ZeroHedge

Governments: Do We Ever Really Need Them?

It’s Official: We’re Back in the 1970s

The Big Beautiful Land Grab: Technocrats Stand To Profit As 250 Million Acre Bonanza Hidden In H.R.1 – Beef News

Iran Reportedly Agrees To Trump-Backed, Qatari-Mediated Ceasefire With Israel | ZeroHedge

Power Blackout Hits Parts Of Queens, NYC: Con Edison Urges Energy Conservation As Temps Spike | ZeroHedge

How Long Can the US Dollar Remain the Global Reserve Currency? – MishTalk

A Degrowth Coalition – by Matt Orsagh

The Debt Bomb | Art Berman

We are in societal and ecological collapse and there is no way out | by Saumya Sharma | Medium

Global Catastrophe Scenarios. The shorter (than Wikipedia article) of… | by Eric Lee | Jun, 2025 | Medium

The Atlantic’s chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse | ScienceDaily

‘We will seize all 6 rivers’: Bilawal Bhutto says India’s Indus water cutoff is call for another war – BusinessToday

Russia’s Lavrov Says ‘WW3 Could Be Near’ After US Drawn In To Iran War | ZeroHedge

Is Life Now a Snack?

Spare Capacity | Do the Math

Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires: monitor

The Soils Of the World Are Losing Massive Amounts Of Moisture


If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running). 

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing. 

Costs (Canadian dollars):
Book 1: $2.99
Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

Feel free to throw in a ‘tip’ on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents/dollars helps… 

https://paypal.me/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US 

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com.

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.

 

The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025

The Bulletin: June 12-18, 2025

This past week’s articles of interest…

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If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.


Australia – carbon bomber of the Indo-Pacific

The Gas Industry Is Redefining Methane as “Clean Energy”

The role of aerosol declines in recent warming

By Disaster Or Design

The Renewables Farce

US On High Alert In Anticipation Of Potential Israeli Strike On Iran, WaPo Reports | ZeroHedge

‘All US bases within our reach’: Iran responds to threats from Washington

Remember the Future?

Wealth – by Matt Orsagh – Degrowth is the Answer

Globalization End Game: How Localization Builds Resilient Communities & Economies

Why the Environment Always Loses

Putin Reminds West That Russia Has World’s Most Advanced Nuclear Weapons | ZeroHedge

Futurecasting: How Civilization Will Drive Off a Cliff in 2040 | by Julian Scaff | The Futureplex | May, 2025 | Medium

Trump Needs The Money Printer – by Quoth the Raven

Science Snippets: Human Activities Cause Inland Waters to Become Oxygen Sinks

The Folly of A War With Iran – The Chris Hedges Report

And So It Begins

Oklahoma’s loophole: How Tyson’s water use goes unchecked – Investigate Midwest

Collapse Part 4 / 5: Bargaining–Grasping At Reality

For the Love of God, Stop Recycling Plastic

Green New Steal Meets Drill Baby Drill: Farmland Caught In Crosshairs | ZeroHedge

When the Pentagon Orders Pay Attention

Geopolitical Fallout: China and Russia React to Middle East Conflagration

Trump Hints At ‘Possible’ US Entry Into War Amid Stepped-Up Israeli Daytime Attacks On Tehran | ZeroHedge

The Bull and the Crow

What if the ruling class finally realized that this civilization is over?

Moving Beyond Two Sides-ism – Charles Eisenstein

Cheap oil will come at a cost for the US | Semafor

WHERE TO DIG: Forging a Collapse-Aware Grower Community in the City, Suburb, or Country.

The End Of the Consumer Society and the Militarization of the Economy

Speech and Protest Won’t Work. Here’s What Will.

Chokepoint Watch: GPS Jamming Impacts Tankers Across Strait Of Hormuz | ZeroHedge

Trump Says US Forces ‘Could Get Involved’ as Israel Expands Deadly Assault on Iran | Common Dreams

Mossad spent ‘eight months’ preparing surprise attack against Iran: Report

Scientists looked back in time to find the first signs of human-caused global warming. It’s far earlier than previously thought | CNN

The Hands That Sustain Us: On Skill, Respect, and Gratitude

We Must Oppose War With Iran At The Top Of Our Lungs

After Iraq There’s No Excuse For Buying The War Lies About Iran

Japan Is Broke and Its America’s Problem

Report: How The United States is Months Away from Full Collapse | by HR NEWS | Jun, 2025 | Medium

Trump Demands “Unconditional Surrender” by Iran, Threatens to Enter the War – MishTalk


If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running). 

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing. 

Costs (Canadian dollars):
Book 1: $2.99
Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

Feel free to throw in a ‘tip’ on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents/dollars helps… 

https://paypal.me/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US 

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com.

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.

The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025

The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025

This past week’s articles of interest…

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If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.


In the Sightlines of Empire: The Gift and Curse of Thermal Optics

The Superfood That Replaces Every Toxic Oil in Your Kitchen

Why Analysts Misjudge Oil’s Future | Art Berman

CO2 is Good For You – by Ugo Bardi – Living Earth

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

India-Pakistan conflict over water reflects a region increasingly vulnerable to climate change

The Untold Story Of How Water and Plants Already Cool Our Climate

U.S. and Global Money Supply Surges to Record Highs

Trust, Dirt, and Firelight: Shared Answers for a Collapsing World

The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies. Chris Hedges & Joseph Tainter. | Kevin Hester

A GPS Blackout Would Shut Down the World | WIRED

Dark Irony: 75th Anniversary Edition Of Orwell’s 1984 Comes With Trigger Warnings – modernity

The Ratchet Effect: Easy To Spend More, Spending Less Triggers Collapse

Short Bursts Of Movement Ignite Calorie Burn

WHERE TO DIG: Forging a Collapse-Aware Grower Community in the City, Suburb, or Country.

India Central Bank Shocks With Biggest Rate Cut Since Covid As Growth, Inflation Stall | ZeroHedge

Rich Countries’ Energy Transitions Threaten Indigenous Peoples and the Environment – Inside Climate News

Empire Of Extraction: AI, Capitalism, And The Unraveling Of The Biosphere | Collapse of Industrial Civilization

Our Atmosphere’s Growing Thirst Is a Hidden Cause of Worsening Droughts : ScienceAlert

The Cultural Consequences of Inflation | Mises Institute

Five Things to Know if Martial Law is Declared and How to Prepare

Small Modular Hallucinations – The Honest Sorcerer

The Real Energy Crisis No One’s Talking About

The Carbon Capture Mirage: Why We’re Betting on a Fantasy

The End of the Fiat Currency Experiment, in Seven Charts

Collapse Revisited: How do we Stand in Terms of Existential Risks?

War Is Peace, Gas Is Now “Clean Energy”

Get To Work – by Rachel Donald – Planet: Critical

UK: Mainstream Beliefs Meet the Terror Watchlist

Democracy Is the Ideal Distraction – Doug Casey’s International Man

Capitalism Doesn’t Want You To Survive What’s Coming – George Tsakraklides

Energy and debt – by Gunnar Rundgren

New study shows huge groundwater losses along Colorado River | Grist

What Should / Can / Could / Will We Do?

How Did We Get Here?

Take the Fast Eddy Challenge

The New World Order’s Endgame – OffGuardian

Secret Document: Is Germany’s Bundeswehr Preparing to Wage War on Russia? – Global Research

Test Case for Martial Law? What Trump Might Really Be Doing In Los Angeles.

AMOC decline linked to increased dry season rainfall in parts of the Amazon rainforest

Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough – by Seemay Chou

Could AI Decide to Kill All Humans to Save the Planet?

WE ARE BEING AMUSED AND ABUSED TO DEATH – The Burning Platform

How Power Turns Chaos Into Currency

European Union Unveils International Strategy Pushing Digital ID Systems and Online Censorship


If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running). 

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing. 

Costs (Canadian dollars):
Book 1: $2.99
Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

Feel free to throw in a ‘tip’ on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents/dollars helps… 

https://paypal.me/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US 

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com.

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.

 

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 Alarm on Looming Russian Energy Crisis

New Evidence Links Microplastics with Chronic Disease – Global Research

Homesteading: Gardening, Cognition, and Longevity

The Emergency We Cannot Feel: On the Psychological Unreadiness for American Collapse

Heavy Metal – by Roger Pielke Jr. – The Honest Broker

Why 2025 Is Becoming the Year of Living With Less | Atmos

Iraq Seals Major Oil Deal with Chinese Company | OilPrice.com

The End of Prepping: When Does Collapse Become Impossible to Survive?

‘It’s a critical time’: European farmers struggle through driest spring in a century | Environment | The Guardian

Canada’s PM Mark Carney Revives Online Censorship Agenda

Power Hungry Race: Aluminium Smelters Versus AI Data Centers | ZeroHedge

Living with Uncertainty: Rethinking Truth in a Quantum World | Art Berman

Microplastics are ‘silently spreading from soil to salad to humans’ – Scimex

Climate Illusionists. Addressing Climate Change, will not “Save the Planet.”

Now Comes the Hard Part – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack 

The Two Achilles Heels of Complex Systems

Shifting Baseline Syndrome – by Matt Orsagh

Food Crisis—The Greatest Threat to Social Stability – Doug Casey’s International Man

Propaganda and Power

“This Is War”: Catherine Austin Fitts On Land Grabs, The Evils Of CBDC, And Fighting ‘The Most Invasive Form Of Tyranny That’s Ever Existed’ | ZeroHedge

Research suggests creating renewable energy might not lower production of fossil fuels

Next Stage of WWIII

Iraq’s water reserves fall to 80-year low, official warns

Fed Quietly Buys $43,600,000,000 in US Treasuries in Alleged ‘Stealth QE’ Operation After China Abruptly Dumps Billions in Bonds – The Daily Hodl

Physics Will Cause the Economy to Shrink; a Look at the Next Ten YearsOur Finite World

WWIII Watch: For the first time, Germany’s Merz authorizes Ukraine to use German weapons against targets on Russia territory

How Much Money Is There In the World? – by Jared A. Brock


If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running). 

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing. 

Costs (Canadian dollars):
Book 1: $2.99
Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

Feel free to throw in a ‘tip’ on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents/dollars helps… 

https://paypal.me/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US 

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com.

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.

 

The Bulletin: May 8-14, 2025

The Bulletin: May 8-14, 2025

This past week’s articles of interest…

If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.


“The Fourth Turning Is Now Raging…” And Neil Howe Warns “It’s Gone Global” | ZeroHedge

Disaster of Diesel’s Decrease

Musical Chairs on the Global Chessboard: Greenland, Panama, and the Coming Resource Grab

The Fall and Rise of Peak Oil – Ecosophia

Balsa Wood Logging For Wind Turbine Blades Is A Nasty Scene

The Blackout That Shook Spain: Exploring the Fragility of Modern Electric Grids

Complexity, energy, people and inequality

The Money is in Tomorrow’s Denial – by Misanthropocene

Heat and drought are quietly hurting global crop yields

U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Increase Spying on Greenland – MishTalk

Fact Check on Trump’s Claim “We Don’t Do Much Business with Canada” – MishTalk

Ontario To Debut World’s First Small Modular Reactor, GE Predicts | ZeroHedge

The Pillars of Human Dominance and the Path to Ecological Collapse: A 21st-Century Reckoning

Global emergence of unprecedented lifetime exposure to climate extremes | Nature

50,000 Foot View

I’ve been talking civilisational collapse on MSM… and NOT been laughed out of the country!

Social Overshoot? Dunbar’s Number, Real Relationships, and Musical Chairs

Are we heading for another world war – or has it already started?

Plant communities in the Arctic are changing along with the climate, study finds | CBC News

War Is A Growing Concern Across Europe | ZeroHedge

India And Pakistan Agree To US-Mediated “Full & Immediate Ceasefire” | ZeroHedge

America’s Largest Grid Operator Warns Of Summer Power Shortages | ZeroHedge

Carrying Capacity and Overshoot

On Preempting Collapse – The Honest Sorcerer

Technophilia: The Mental Illness Behind Civilisational Collapse – George Tsakraklides

What if Malthus Was Right? – by Ugo Bardi

The Multi-Pronged Relentless Attacks on Our Oceans. | Kevin Hester

Antibiotics from human use are contaminating rivers worldwide, study shows

A River Starves Through It

The Greatest Disasters In Human History

It’s Not “If;” It’s “When” – Doug Casey’s International Man

Russia, Ukraine Exchange Large-Scale Drone Fire Despite Plan For Istanbul Peace Talks | ZeroHedge

The Green Energy Scam and the Deceptive UN/WEF Narratives of Green Politics – Global Research

Signs of Collapse: How It Seems To Be Unfolding

Finding Lights In a Dark Age

How To Make Your Mind Harder For The Propagandists To Manipulate

Paradise Lost

Journey To End Of Empire


If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running). 

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing. 

Costs (Canadian dollars):
Book 1: $2.99
Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

Feel free to throw in a ‘tip’ on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents/dollars helps… 

https://paypal.me/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US 

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com.

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.

 

The Bulletin: April 24-30, 2025

The Bulletin: April 24-30, 2025

This past week’s articles of interest…

If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview.


Killing People by Lies: The New CO2 Campaign

$10T Money Print! Fed’s New Plan Will Dwarf Bernanke Era | ZeroHedge

The Wile E. Coyote Recession

How I Unintentionally Became an Urban Farmer

Banned DDT discovered in Canadian trout decades after use, research finds | Pollution | The Guardian

The Once and Future Nuke – by Albert Bates

By Disaster or Design – by Matt Orsagh

Rights of Nature as Direct Action to Confront Unjust Systems of Power

Brace for rapid changes in the economy; the world economy is reaching Limits to Growth

The 19 richest households in America added $1 trillion in wealth last year

Pakistan Warns Of ‘Act Of War’ After India Cancels Landmark Water Treaty | ZeroHedge

Kremlin Issues Nuclear Warning Aimed At West As Ukraine Peace Efforts Stall | ZeroHedge

Told You So. Trump’s Top Adviser Just Confirmed the Reset

Bringing Back the Rains To Southern Africa

“Fragile, impermanent things”: Joseph Tainter on what makes civilizations fall – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Seeing lost winters, not just rising temperatures, shakes climate indifference

India Warned of ‘Act of War’ By Pakistan As Relations Collapse – Newsweek

India, Pakistan Trade Gunfire & Build-Up Militaries After Kashmir Terror Attack | ZeroHedge

There is No Way Out of This That Doesn’t Involve Money Printing | ZeroHedge

Major Iranian Port Paralyzed: 700 Injured, 5 Dead After Massive Explosion | ZeroHedge

“Take Control Of Their Food Supply”: Tractor Supply CEO Says Backyard Chicken Demand Skyrockets | ZeroHedge

Tensions over Kashmir and a warming planet have placed the Indus Waters Treaty on life support

Health Prepping: Seed Oils Are Poison

Energy transition: the end of an idea – by Chris Smaje

Thorium nuclear bombs and reactors have too many challenges – Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse

How Much Is Enough? – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack

Part 2: Interview With Just Collapse

Longtermism: The Key to Human Survival?

Resources and Our Future

Belligerence On ‘Energy Dominance’ Is Losing The U.S. Respect

It’s Always About the System

The CEOs of Walmart, Target, Home Depot Warn That Store Shelves All Over America Could Soon Be Empty

‘They Lied To Us About Iraq’s WMDs, But They’ve Taken It To Another Level With Ukraine…’; Hitchens | ZeroHedge

The Endlessness of a Temporary Tax – Doug Casey’s International Man

Population Control Versus Population Growth

William of Ockham and the Collapse Of Complexity: A Razor’s Edge for the End Times

Supply Chain Crisis Looms: Shortages Set to Slam Markets! | ZeroHedge

Product shortages and empty store shelves loom with falling shipments from China

How a solar storm could lead to a US nuclear disaster worse than Chernobyl | Mark Leyse | The Guardian


If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, please consider ordering the trilogy of my ‘fictional’ novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian), via my website or the link below — the ‘profits’ of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running). 

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing. 

Costs (Canadian dollars):
Book 1: $2.99
Book 2: $3.89
Book 3: $3.89
Trilogy: $9.99

Feel free to throw in a ‘tip’ on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents/dollars helps… 

https://paypal.me/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US 

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com.

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton’s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter’s Collapse of Complex Societies: see here.

The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025

The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025

Collapse or Extinction: The Unholy Double Bind of the 21st Century

US Will Likely Stop Buying Oil From Venezuela: Trump | The Epoch Times

The End of the Regenerative Illusion?

Germany’s Outgoing Economy Minister Warns Europe Not to Over-Rely on US Energy | The Epoch Times

Modern Civilization is Proving to be a Very Fragile Thing

Canada Can’t Afford To Play Trade Chicken With the US

Do Money Supply, Deficit And QE Create Inflation? – RIA

Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis | Scientific Reports

Storm Éowyn: man killed and 725,000 properties without power in Ireland

Misled Climate CO2 Fanatics – Green Energy Is a Road to Nowhere – Global Research

Medical Journal Article Criticises Corrupt Medical Journals

Visualizing Europe’s Dependence On Chinese Resources | ZeroHedge

Gazprom In Turmoil, Forced To Hike Prices On Russians In Middle Of Winter | ZeroHedge

Should You Just Give Up?

Warming, cooling, or we don’t know?

Homo Sapiens Are Working Overtime to Join ‘The Great Silence’ | Collapse of Industrial Civilization

Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going

Is Russia Running Out of Gas?

When Renewables Meet Their Limits to Growth

Letter From a Young Canadian: Authoritarianism, Media Propaganda and Repression

World Economic Forum Panel Praises EU Censorship Law

Green Deception: Environmental Activists Serve China’s Energy Agenda | RealClearDefense

Climate change is disrupting food systems across Latin America, UN report says | CNN

‘Last Ice Area’ in the Arctic could disappear much sooner than previously thought

Nursery Rhymes | Do the Math

“Landman” vs. the Environmentalists | Mises Institute

2025: On the Brink of the Biggest Oil Shock in History – International Man

The Uncertain Future of Oil: Energy Poverty, Depletion, and ‘Green’ Ambitions

Eating oil – by Gunnar Rundgren

The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025

The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025

The Falsification of Everything | how to save the world

Emissions Are SO Not the Only Problem with Cars

Rhyming History: Weimar Germany’s Hyperinflation

At least 6 dead, more than 300 000 without power as major winter storm sweeps through U.S.

Net Energy Cliff & the Collapse of Civilization

Quarter of Freshwater Animals Face Extinction, New Study Warns – Newsweek

A Nickel Rush Threatens Indonesia’s Last Nomadic Tribes and Its Forests, Fishermen and Farmers – Inside Climate News

Arresting and Killing Greenies: Targeting Climate Change Protests – Global Research

The Science of Anti-Russian Propaganda – by Glenn Diesen

Decoupling what!? – by Gunnar Rundgren

One Way or Another, the World is Headed for a Degrowth Future | by Doug Bierend

The UK’s Strange Collapse – John Rubino’s Substack

Trump’s Threats Against Greenland, Canada and Elsewhere Are All About Energy Interests – Global Research

Positioned For a Historic Crash – The Daily Reckoning

Natural Gas Production is Contracting

The blackouts are coming – by Elisabeth Robson

The Energy March of Folly | Art Berman

Government Spending Will Cause the Next Financial Crisis | Mises Institute

America’s Great Climate Migration Has Begun. Here’s What You Need to Know. | Columbia Magazine

From Crisis to Connection: Why Radio is the Lifeline You Need to Learn Now

#296: Predicament, not outcome | Surplus Energy Economics

Escobar: Empire Of Chaos, Reloaded | ZeroHedge

The Human Souffle – The Honest Sorcerer

Oh, YouWhat the world needs now is directions for reducing our dependence on technology

Grabbing Greenland’s Oil. But does it Exist? – by Ugo Bardi Mean THAT Democracy | how to save the world

The adverse, long-term health effects of wildfires

Have You Been Faked Out by the Panama-Canada-Greenland Syndrome? – Global Research

What If Tech, the Market and the State Are No Longer Solutions?

Russia, Iran To Sign ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ Treaty This Week | ZeroHedge

Extreme rainfall leaves 10 dead in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil – The Watchers

Thrust Into Power: A Thought Experiment | how to save the world

Never Mind the Propaganda, the World Should Know About America’s Countless Wars – Global Research

Chapter 3 – How energy and natural resources inhibit growth

Going, Going…

Los Angeles burns: What you need to know

Credit Card Default Wave Hits U.S. Banks

2025: The Year the Federal Debt Bubble Bursts – International Man

Cool Nights Needed to Grow Potatoes Slipping Away

The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025

The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025

End Of An Era: Ukraine Halts Transit Of Russian Gas To Europe | ZeroHedge

By Charles & Chris: Doomers Anonymous

We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? | Climate crisis | The Guardian

The System’s Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off

Seeing overshoot – by Elisabeth Robson

Fear of the New Year – by Geoffrey Deihl

Three-quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on Earth’ | Grist

Six Dynamics That Will Shape Our Future

1.3 – Our Energy Slave Boom and Bust

That Sense of Impending Doom: Could Anything Shock The World?

Russia promises retaliation after saying Ukraine fired US-supplied missiles

What If We Burned Everything

After Overshoot Can Life Prevail?

Norway Doubles Down on Oil and Gas | OilPrice.com

Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds | Extreme weather | The Guardian

How much oil remains for the world to produce? Comparing assessment methods, and separating fact from fiction – ScienceDirect

Degrowth is the Answer – by Matt Orsagh

Status of US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency: USD Share Hits 30-Year Low as Central Banks Pile on Other Currencies & Gold | Wolf Street

Debate On “Peak Cheap Oil”: Fact Or Overblown Fear? | Doomberg vs Adam Rozencwajg

Energy Prices, Shale, Global Populism, & the Huge Problem We Must Address – Art Berman | #37

We Are Living In The Good Old Days

A Reality Check on Our ‘Energy Transition’ | The Tyee

Billionaires dangle free speech like a bauble. We gawp like open-mouthed babes

Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world

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

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

Too Complex Not To Fail | how to save the world

Reporter Seymour Hersh on “How America Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview

Dave Collum’s 2024 Year In Review, Part 1: What Is A Fact? | ZeroHedge

The Weaponization of Information and Digital Tools to Occupy and Derail Your Mind

My Substack Recommendations for 2025

Renewables Aren’t Ready for Prime Time: The LCOE Illusion and the Realities of Energy Demand | Art Berman

2024: Year of the Coverup – by Matt Taibbi – Racket News

With Nuland in NED, Get Ready for More Color Revolution Bonanza – Global Research

An Unpopular Essay: What’s Ahead 2025-2035

Europe: The Fall of the Holy Renewable Empire :: Gatestone Institute

The Spies Who Hate Us ⋆ Brownstone Institute

European Gas Prices Soar As Putin Says A New Ukraine Transit Deal Is Unlikely | ZeroHedge

What a Year 2024 Was – The Honest Sorcerer

All Of Western Civilization Owns This Genocide

The Left is Now the Right – by Matt Taibbi – Racket News

Government Spending Will Cause The Next Financial Crisis | dlacalle.com

“Too Big to Care” and the Illusion of Choice

Science Snippets: Why Humans Dominate – by Guy R McPherson

The Looming False Flag That Could Ignite World War 3 in 2025

What Comes In 2025?

Ever Decreasing Circles – Why The Worldwide Banking Ponzi-Scheme Must Be Reset | ZeroHedge

THE FUTURE’S UNCERTAIN AND THE END IS ALWAYS NEAR – The Burning Platform

President Carter’s energy solutions 1977 – Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse

Engineering Reality: Part III – Joshua Stylman

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 War Is Turning ‘Hot’ | ZeroHedge

Full Lavrov-Tucker Interview: US & Russia Need To Cooperate ‘For The Sake Of The Universe’ | ZeroHedge

‘Scary’ drought empties one of Bosnia’s largest lakes

Chevron Cuts Permian Capex for 2025 | OilPrice.com

Money is a Claim on Energy – Nate Hagens (The Great Simplification)

The war whores of the military-industrial complex are lighting the world on fire

Global Food Prices Hit 19-Month High As Upward Momentum Sparks Fears Of Stickiness | ZeroHedge

The Three Types of Elites – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack

Ecological Overshoot: Humanity’s Countdown to Extinction

Too Many Elephants In The Room: The Overpopulation Taboo (Readers’ Poll) – George Tsakraklides

Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed

Lead In Gasoline May Have Caused Over 150 Million Excess Cases Of Mental Health Disorders, New Study Shows | ZeroHedge

Escobar: The Syria Tragedy & The New Omni-War | ZeroHedge

‘An existential threat affecting billions’: Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last 3 decades | Live Science

Grey Swans Are Circling – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack

The Fall of Assad & What it Means for The Middle East (w/ Alastair Crooke) | The Chris Hedges Report

Oil, Power, and Statecraft: The Geopolitics of Energy in a Changing World | Art Berman

Disarming Propaganda | how to save the world

The future of extraction, energy dominance, and federal lands under Trump – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Shortcut Brains | Do the Math

Ray Dalio predicts global debt crisis, backs Bitcoin, gold

De-Banked: It’s Only a Matter of Time Before It Happens to You

Grass, Roots, and Politics

World Coal Demand and Exports Set for New Record Highs in 2024 | OilPrice.com

East vs. West: A Global Dollar Dump Is Inevitable And The US Must Prepare

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 science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion | George Monbiot | The Guardian

Science Snippets: The Reality Of Abrupt, Irreversible Climate Change

Power Play: The Future of Food – Global Research

Why Hope Is Hopium

The Cantillon Effect Explained: Why Inflation Helps the State at Your Expense

UN’s Latest Climate Agenda Sparks Alarms Over Online Censorship

Today In Imperial Recklessness And Insanity

Rooted In Reality: Onions and Building Community

Mining fuels global deforestation and CO₂ surge: Study warns of climate risks

Taking the pulse of beans – by Gunnar Rundgren

Anti-Progress, Breakdown, Reset

If You Want To Help The World, Focus On Fighting The Empire

How Billionaires Manipulate the Public

Fueling the Flames: How the West’s Military Emissions Undermine Climate Action | Common Dreams

How the Global Distribution of Wealth Has Changed (2000-2023)

Rhyming History: Rome’s Hyperinflation

Blissful Ignorance is Blissfully Deceptive

Solutions Without Understanding: Why We’re Asking the Wrong Questions | Art Berman

A Diesel Powered Civilization – The Honest Sorcerer

‘It’s not drought – it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water

Population Decline A Challenge Or A Chance For A Better Future?

Does Anyone Think the COP Meetings Are Useful?

Russia’s Final Warning to NATO – You’ll Get your War, but It’ll be Over in 15 Minutes. – Global Research

Ukraine’s Former Top Military Commander Claims ‘World War 3 Has Officially Begun’ | ZeroHedge

Inflation: Savior of the Rich

Days of Thunder

Political Perfection | Do the Math

The Average Person’s Reaction to Collapse – by Lillian

Iraq Invasion – The Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History. “Terrorism of US-UK-NATO-Israel” – Global Research

Transfer Of Nukes To Ukraine Would Be Tantamount To Attack On Russia: Medvedev | ZeroHedge

The ‘Empire Killer’ Strikes Again – International Man

Globalists Go For Broke: Plan To Trigger World War III Moves Forward – Alt-Market.us

A Practical Guide to Money During Collapse | by Climate Survivor | Nov, 2024 | Medium

The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024

The Bulletin: November 14-20, 2024

What We Refuse to Believe | how to save the world

“That’s Bait…” Chumming the Media Waters Doesn’t Work Like it Used To – Gold Goats ‘n Guns

US Deficit Explodes: Blowout October Deficit Means 2nd Worst Start To US Fiscal Year On Record | ZeroHedge

When The Show Is Over, The Actors Hold Hands And Take A Bow

Can we keep producing more food in a warmer world?

Civilizational Looting

The US Economy Will Collapse: How Trump Should Handle It

Microplastics In Clouds Impacting Weather

The Seeds of Social Revolution: Extreme Wealth Inequality

The Face At The Front Desk Changes, The Corporation Remains The Same | Patreon

Canadians to Hold National Day of Action Against F-35 Exports to Israel Via the United States – Global Research

Pressure on Canada to Export Water Will Be Immense | The Tyee

Refining Reality: The Hidden Struggles of a World Still Dependent on Oil | Art Berman

Canada Promises Climate Reparations at COP29 While Courting Big Oil at Home – DeSmog

Gazprom Cuts Gas To Austria Off, Just in Time for Winter | OilPrice.com

The Best Mental Health Hack

The 8 Essentials We Need to Control

“We Don’t Have Enough…”: Russia Temporarily Limits Exports Of Enriched Uranium To U.S. | ZeroHedge

A Diesel Powered Civilization – The Honest Sorcerer

Net Zero Rollback

The Impending Collapse of the European Union – by Ugo Bardi

The Great Silence of The Human Lambs – George Tsakraklides

Kremlin Responds To Joe Biden’s Authorization of ATACMS Missile Strikes – Newsweek

The Ten Commandments of War Propaganda

The Cure for What Ails Us: Market Crash and Mass Defaults

Too Much Focus on Carbon – by Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Gaia’s Forge: When You Are the Hammer

2024 John Peach Peak Oil Report

Nuclear War Threat Mushrooms

The Bulletin: August 30-September 5, 2024

The Bulletin, August 30-September 5

MM #18: What Can I Do? | Do the Math

Japan Declares State of Emergency After ‘Nanobots’ Found in 96 Million Citizens – Global Research

Will science and technology save us? – by Gunnar Rundgren

“A NATO invasion of nuclear Russia is currently underway, and the world is unaware that it is in World War III”. Has President Putin’s Patience Reached Its Limits?


“Something’s Coming, We Don’t Know What It Is” … But It Is Going to be Bad. Edward Curtin – Global Research

Exxon Joins OPEC in Warning of Looming Oil Supply Crisis

Present Day Trends of a Collapsing Society

Elevated Plutonium Levels Near Los Alamos Similar to That Of Chornobyl – One Green Planet

The National Security State Is Killing Free Speech. Dr. Philip Giraldi – Global Research

Robert Reich Calls for the Arrest of Elon Musk for Resisting Censorship – JONATHAN TURLEY

You Can Measure The Health Of A Society By How It Treats Its Warmongers And Its Peacemongers

The Science of Conquest – Biocentric with Max Wilbert

OPEC: To Cut or Not to Cut | Art Berman

Our Actual Reality–the Disappearance of Modernity

Expanding WHO’s Role: Canadian Stakeholders Eye “Misinformation” Control

July 6, 2024 Readings

July 6, 2024 Readings

The meme that is destroying Western civilisation—Part III–Steve KeenI

World’s Largest Fusion Reactor is Finally Completed, the Test Run Is 15 Years Away – MishTalk

George C. Marshall, Architect of U.S. Military Expansion, the Post War European Reconstruction Marshall Plan, Founder of the Orwellian “Deep State”? – Global Research

Back in the USSR. Are We the Soviets Now?–Robert Malone

David Stockman on Why the Federal Reserve is Running Out of Monetary Oxygen–David Stockman

Finland gives US control over 15 military bases–InfoBRICs

Can We Rest Assured That Just Because of the Unacceptably High Costs of Nuclear War and World War III, These Will Never Happen? – Global Research

Russia Finally Acknowledges That She Is at War with Washington – Global Research

Biden and Trump Battle over a Rattle – Edward J. Curtin, Jr.

Who Turned Off the Gaslight–James Howard Kunstler

War Games | how to save the world–Dave Pollard

Crash Or Bear Market, Either Way Stocks Going “Down, A Lot”: Mark Spiegel–Quoth the Raven

10 Signs That Global War Is Rapidly Approaching–Michael Snyder

The coming population collapse — Part 2 | by Subhash Kak

‘They’re Everywhere’: Common Foods Linked to Elevated Levels of PFAS in Body–Common Dreams

Russia Holds Mobile Nuclear Missile Launcher Drills Days Before NATO Summit In DC | ZeroHedge

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