{"id":69403,"date":"2025-10-15T03:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69403"},"modified":"2025-10-14T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:08:13","slug":"the-bulletin-october-8-14-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69403","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: October 8-14, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: October 8-14, 2025<\/span><\/h1>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\"\"<\/a>CLICK HERE<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out <\/b>this overview<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Thermodynamic drag<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It’s Already Started: The Oil Crisis They Said Would Never Happen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

As Colorado River Nears Collapse, It Faces Leadership, Transparency \u2018Crisis,\u2019 Environmentalists Warn – Inside Climate News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

From Fear to Fidelity: How to Live Well in the Return of Normal History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is the U.S. Electric Grid Stable? Policy, Renewables, and Who Is Responsible If Something Goes Wrong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Societal Collapse \u2018On Schedule\u2019 According To 1972 MIT Study – YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Nexus Notes \u2013 Updated Planetary Boundaries special edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pollinator Garden Update: Improving Soil, Using the Most Prolific Plants<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Experts: The key \u2018unknowns\u2019 of overshooting the 1.5C global-warming limit – Carbon Brief<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Says America\u2019s Oil Industry Is Cleaner Than Other Countries\u2019. New Data Shows Massive Emissions From Texas Wells.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Breaking the Industrial Food System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Empire comes home to the U.S. – by Patrick Mazza<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Unconventional Wisdom: A Wide-Boundary Conversation About Oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Senator Warns of Trump’s Secret Watchlist for Americans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

#311: Putting it together, part two | Surplus Energy Economics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn\u2019t Released It.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Playbook Comes Together: NSPM\u20117, the \u2018Antifa\u2019 Spectacle, and a White House Now Eyeing the Insurrection Act to Treat Anything Anti-Trump As Terrorism.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What We Can Learn About Survival From the Show Alone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When Data Becomes Dogma: The Making of Climate Orthodoxy – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: Look Out Below<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is it Really Different this Time? | Wolf Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What Can We Do About The Agrarian Collapse? | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Fifth Joint Point: When Justification Sees Itself<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

#312: A stroll along Revolution Street | Surplus Energy Economics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Food freedom: Catherine Austin Fitts interviews filmmaker and homesteader Graham Meriwether on his explorations of how Americans are taking back food sovereignty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How Journalists Grease the Skids for Worthless Corporate Handouts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

More than half of world\u2019s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Rare Blackouts Hit Southern Odessa Region Amid Russia’s Pre-Winter Strikes | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Plague in Rome – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Mythical Return to Coal – The Honest Sorcerer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Signs of Collapse: The Implosion of \u2018Europe\u2019 | how to save the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump admitted in 2023 he wanted to steal Venezuela’s oil. Hopefully cooler heads will talk him out of that now and he will stop shooting up boats in international waters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Planet\u2019s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing \u2018widespread dieback\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Japan continues to discharge treated water from Fukushima nuclear disaster site<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: More Thunderstorms in Our Warming World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A New Dark Age – by Matt Orsagh – Degrowth is the Answer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Privacy Watchdog Not Consulted on Bill C-8, Enabling Secret Internet & Phone Shutdowns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Intelligence Has Been Enabling Ukraine’s Destruction Of Russian Energy Sites | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“We’re In Wars”: Ray Dalio Warns Of ‘Civil War’ & Soaring Debt | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

‘Very troubling’: AI’s self-investment spree sets off bubble alarms on Wall Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hidden, supercharged ‘thermostat’ may cause Earth to overcorrect for climate change | Live Science<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Our fractured future – by Jan Andrew Bloxham<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Psychology Of Long-Term Survival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: Peak Food Production Draws Near<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The planetary boundaries of green water : Lan Wang-Erlandsson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How Processed Food Became America\u2019s Number One Health Risk.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Year When Everything Happens in No Particular Order<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Big Lie: America Has Defaulted on Its Debt Five Times\u2014And a Sixth May Be Imminent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hong Kong to Install 60,000 AI-Enabled Surveillance Cameras by 2028<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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PLEASE NOTE: This list is just \u2018of interest\u2019. 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 \u2018educational\u2019<\/span>\u00a0and\/or \u2018informational\u2019 purposes, some are for far more nefarious \u2018narrative management\u2019 ones\u2013you, the reader, can decide which is which. Keep in mind a relevant passage from a Bill Rees <\/span>paper<\/span><\/a>: \u201c<\/span>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\u2014even scientific theories\u2014are socially constructed \u201cstories\u201d 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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