{"id":69438,"date":"2025-11-05T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69438"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:32:43","slug":"the-bulletin-october-29-november-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69438","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: October 29-November 4, 2025<\/span><\/h1>\n

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

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

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

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New Mexico Officials Report High Rate Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Residents Near Air Base | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Censorship Is Now A New Form Of Journalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When Hunger Is Weaponized: The Age Of Food Terrorism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Manufacturing Dissent: How America\u2019s Most Popular \u201cOpposition\u201d Media Protects Oligarch Power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why Capitalism Is Unsustainable \u2014 And Headed for Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Catastrophic Hurricane Melissa hits Jamaica as the strongest landfalling Atlantic hurricane on record<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Material Dependencies | Nina Djukanovi\u0107<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The dance of groundwater and vegetation – by Alpha Lo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, Everything Crashed–Just Not For You<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd34 KEY INTEL: Economic COLLAPSE Being PLANNED RIGHT NOW! (they want your wealth) | Simon Michaux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Are We Running Out of Road?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Diminishing Returns of \u2018Victory\u2019: Empire in the Age of Climate Tipping Points | naked capitalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s Leader Says CIA Plotted \u2018False Flag\u2019 Attack on U.S. Warship to Create False Pretext for Invasion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Later Is Now: The Speed Of the Sixth Extinction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Death Of Progress: Liberalism At the End Of the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Americans Have No Idea Who Their Government Is Bombing, And Other Notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Digital ID: The Next Step Toward Total Control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Nuclear Test Plans Might Be Meant To Manipulate Russia Into An Escalation With Europe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is This When the AI Bubble Pops? – by David Haggith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A lack of very cheap oil is leading to debt problems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked – resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Jordan Probes Stanford\u2019s Secret Meeting with Foreign Regulators over Alleged Coordination of Online Censorship Efforts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Is Moving Relentlessly Toward Illegal War in Venezuela | Truthout<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Found Errors in Lazard’s Firming Cost Calculations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Micro-Survival: Everyday Resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Civilisational Collapse: Your Questions Answered<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Economics needs a Mark Twain Award – by Steve Keen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Life Is Essential To the Climate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Have Never Been Austere – by Quoth the Raven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Emirates Shows Us How Not To Build Solar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Societal Collapse Isn’t an Accident It’s a Predictable Feature of Growth – Daily Neuron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

By a strange coincidence, all the countries Trump wants to bomb are rich in oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

11 Charts To Keep You Up Tonight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OR BUST: Survival or Servitude<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: Localized Aerosol Masking Effect Identified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oil, Lies, and Videotape – by Mary Geddry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In practice, \u2018net zero\u2019 was exactly how much such pledges were worth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cash Control, Lockdown, CBDC, Digital ID, Biometrics? Whitney Webb’s Extraordinary Geopolitical Analysis – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Easy-Money Policy Accelerates as the Fed Freezes QT and Lowers the Target Interest Rate | Mises Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How will the invasion of Venezuela end?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When a Train Wreck Is No Accident – Doug Casey’s International Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A cautionary solar tale: Billions wasted thanks to a rush to market – TEA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Peak EVs | Damn the Matrix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The descent – by Gunnar Rundgren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: The Living Planet on the Brink<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What kills societies – by Antonio Melonio<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Global study reveals soaring freshwater demand in material production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Drinking water in Tehran could run dry in two weeks, Iranian official says | Water News | Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How did the Roman Empire view nature and its seasons? | Aeon Essays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If Solar and Wind Are Now Cheaper than Fossil Fuels, Why Don\u2019t We Have More? \u2013 MishTalk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Illusion of Greening<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trust Bill: Climate Change Won\u2019t Lead to the End of Civilization<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Quarter of Americans Now Believe Political Violence is Justified \u2013 JONATHAN TURLEY<\/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><\/p>\n

\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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You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton\u2019s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter\u2019s Collapse of Complex Societies: see <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bulletin: October 29-November 4, 2025 This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026 CLICK HERE If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out this overview. New Mexico Officials Report High Rate Of ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Residents Near Air Base | ZeroHedge Barack Obama Proposes a Scary Idea for Social Media Censorship Is Now A New Form […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[33468,13681,34853,1035,28642,120,124,141,150,29823,209,4896,236,34852,259,16000,287,33672,17592,409,34856,1535,34854,482,29428,512,538,30673,2583,588,20722,12569,1825,15442,5923,1169,14221,34855,1859,765,2662,34857,9740,10522,827,3142,851,16547,2654],"class_list":["post-69438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-aerosol-masking","tag-ai","tag-ai-bubble","tag-cash","tag-cbdc","tag-censorship","tag-central-banks","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-digital-id","tag-diminishing-returns","tag-easy-money","tag-economic-collapse","tag-emirates","tag-empire","tag-evs","tag-extinction","tag-forever-chemicals","tag-freshwater","tag-hunger","tag-hurricane-melissa","tag-hydrocarbons","tag-lcoe","tag-liberalism","tag-lockdowns","tag-media","tag-money-printing","tag-net-zero","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-oil","tag-political-violence","tag-potable-water","tag-progress","tag-renewables","tag-roman-empire","tag-social-media","tag-societal-collapse","tag-societal-control","tag-solar-power","tag-surveillance","tag-tehran","tag-terror-management","tag-tipping-points","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire","tag-venezuela","tag-water-shortages","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69439,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69438\/revisions\/69439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}