{"id":69446,"date":"2025-11-19T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69446"},"modified":"2025-11-18T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:56:03","slug":"the-bulletin-november-12-18-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69446","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: November 12-18, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: November 12-18, 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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Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs \u2013 Consortium News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Latin American Kuwait: Trump\u2019s Looming War In the Caribbean Might Have Nothing To Do With Narco Terrorism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The seminal papers on water – by Alpha Lo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Admin Expands Oil & Gas Drilling In Gulf Of America, Eyes Alaska Next | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Citizens On Patrol, Eh? Canadian Military To Teach 300,000 To Shoot Guns, Fly Drones, And Drive Trucks | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Your Freedoms Won’t Survive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

QE Is Coming: The 2008 Roots Of Fed Dominance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Giant Problem Emerges For the AI Trade: A Power Shortfall Of 44 Nuclear Power Plants By 2028<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Secret History #2:\u00a0 How Societies Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Britain Halts Intelligence Sharing With US Over Caribbean Killings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Doomberg: Critiquing the \u201cEnergy Transition\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince May Provide Boost To US Nuclear Industry | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why “Solutions” Fail | Dave Snowden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Are We Running Out Of Road, Part Two<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

New databases and testing theories of social evolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Social Costs Of Inflation – by Quoth the Raven<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela Mobilises For Asymmetric Warfare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

World Oil and Gas Demand Could Grow Until 2050 IEA Says<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A New Oil Price War Is Now Underway | <\/span><\/a>OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

End of American Empire Nears \u2013 David Morgan | Greg Hunter\u2019s USAWatchdog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

RFK Jr. Exposes Big Pharma’s Stranglehold On American Media | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Collapse: Part 3 of 5, Anger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Rutherford Institute :: Who Really Owns America? The Banks, the Billionaires, and the Deep State | By John & Nisha Whitehead |<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Climate Collapse, Imperialism, and Technological Solutionism in Academia with Aashis Joshi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Making of a Too-Big-to-Fail Bubble – by Lau Vegys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The big groundwater crisis – food, water, pollution, and social unrest : John Cherry interview Part I<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Imperial Violence and Greenwashing in the Era of Climate Collapse with Aashis Joshi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

White House insiders knew of 2020 Venezuela coup in advance, files show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview – by Nate Hagens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Key Ocean Current Faltering, Raising Risk Of “Ice Age”-Like Cooling | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Iran’s Elite IRGC Seizes Tanker In Strait Of Hormuz | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Video: Meta Is Reading Your Private Messages to Feed Its AI – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Poll Of The Month: Are All Involuntary Governance Structures Inherently Ecologically Degenerative?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Tried to Save Elephants \u2014 and Ended Up Choking the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“The Arrogant Ape”: A Strong Case Against Human Superiority | Psychology Today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The US military\u2019s plan to revive old bases in Latin America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Video: How Big Tech is reviving colonialism – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In Canada, the Free Market Fairy failed to cut emissions. As expected. | Climate & Capitalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Talking With Friends and Family About Collapse and Prepping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Germany Marches Toward Reinstating Military Conscription, Starting With Fitness Database | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Problem with Problems: Solutions Real and Fake<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hard Landing Ahead \u2013 Why Current Disaster Strategies Are Doomed to Fail \u2013 Adapt Research Ltd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Prophecies of Doom – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fatal delusions and the curse of \u2018maximum power\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Who Benefits From Debt?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Discovered, recoverable oil resources increased by 5 billion barrels despite production growth in 2024<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Will oil and gas consumption keep rising through 2050?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The EU\u2019s new censorship machine – UnHerd<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is it Happening All Over Again? – by Eric Salzman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Will there be food? – by Gunnar Rundgren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Living beyond limits: Consequences of missing the decisive decade for preserving our planet\u2019s life-supporting systems – ScienceDirect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why Doesn\u2019t Anyone Trust the Media?, by Jelani Cobb, Taylor Lorenz, Jack Shafer, Max Tani<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Interrogation of Richard Falk: When Speaking Truth Becomes a \u201cNational Security Threat\u201d – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

GLOBALSHIFT – Global Oil Production Charts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What We Burn To Speak To Machines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

When everything sells off together – by No1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

David Suzuki on Systemic Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How Bad Could the Crash Be?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Severe floods cut global rice yields, threatening food security for billions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Rising CO2 is quietly weakening the nutrients in our food – <\/span><\/a>Earth.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Sachs & Mearsheimer on \u2018Spheres of Security\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Poland Suspects Russia In “Unprecedented Act Of Sabotage” Of Rail Line | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dangerous Crossroads: The EU Is Preparing for \u201cNew Big War Against Russia\u201d? Warning of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Modern Humans: Unsustainable by Nature and Nurture” – William E Rees, PhD, FRSC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Thinking About Starting a Garden?<\/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 and\/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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