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The Bull<\/em><\/strong>etin: December 10\u201316,\u00a02025<\/h1>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/h4>\n
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If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out <\/strong>this overview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Aussie Data Centers Could Swallow 40 Million Litres Of Water Per Day, That\u2019s About 80,000 Households | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Army Looks to Build Small Refineries for Critical Minerals | <\/a>OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

White House Draws Up Post-Maduro Plans As Trump Warns His \u201cDays Are Numbered\u201d | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Not Responsible For the Shit You Experience While Reading This<\/a><\/p>\n

Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

An Illustrated Guide to Knocking Out Viruses<\/a><\/p>\n

The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is one the government isn\u2019t telling you about | Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Number Facing Starvation Tripled In the Past Decade<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING: Trump Elevates Fossil Fuels in National Security Plan\u200a\u2014\u200aGlobal Research<\/a><\/p>\n

The Myth of Progress | Samuel Miller McDonald<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump administration switches from murdering fishermen to piracy<\/a><\/p>\n

The Economy Is Completely Rigged\u200a\u2014\u200aHere\u2019s How<\/a><\/p>\n

You are not imagining it, the world\u2019s insects are rapidly vanishing<\/a><\/p>\n

Waking Up To What Others Don\u2019t See<\/a><\/p>\n

How We Fail: The Empire Is Forever<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the last Ancient Temperate Rainforests on Earth is being clearcut in the headwaters of the Walbran valley, BC now (please share)<\/a><\/p>\n

Prepare For Coming World War, NATO Chief Says | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Putin Doubles Down On Backing Maduro As US Prepares To Seize More Oil Tankers| ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

US \u2018Answers\u2019 China By Sending Pair Of Nuclear-Capable Bombers Over Sea Of Japan | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

The Seven Richest Billionaires Are All Media Barons<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Is Europe Feverishly Preparing For World War III?<\/a><\/p>\n

Technological Somnambulism and the Failure of the Scientific Imagination<\/a><\/p>\n

Sunk Cost and the Superorganism\u200a\u2014\u200aby Nate Hagens<\/a><\/p>\n

A Seneca Cliff for Global Democracy?\u200a\u2014\u200aby Ugo Bardi<\/a><\/p>\n

Gringo Piracy in the Caribbean? Venezuela Strikes Back\u200a\u2014\u200aGlobal Research<\/a><\/p>\n

The Gravity of the Situation\u200a\u2014\u200aby Steven J. Newbury<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others<\/a><\/p>\n

Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero | Climate & Capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Propane shortages during cold outbreak trigger state of emergency in New Jersey, U.S.\u200a\u2014\u200aThe Watchers<\/a><\/p>\n

60,000 multimillionaires own 3 times more wealth than half the world\u2019s population<\/a><\/p>\n

To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Boom\u200a\u2014\u200aYale E360<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING: Canada Just Launched a 300,000-Person Civilian Army. Ask Yourself Why.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ozymandias on the Potomac: American Decline in the Fossil Fuel Age | Common Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n

How the World Ends<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry, be happy. All those who feared a dystopian future got it wrong<\/a><\/p>\n

Dearth Of Progressive Voices In Canada<\/a><\/p>\n

Look what I found: DOJ Brief to the Supreme Court misstates the IARC conclusion that glyphosate was a *probable* carcinogen in 2015<\/a><\/p>\n

2025: The Year Energy Sanity Returned | Schiff Sovereign<\/a><\/p>\n

Orbital Data Centers Will \u201cBypass Earth-Based\u201d Constraints | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Martin Armstrong: Hyperinflation is Probable<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not become attached to collapse\u200a\u2014\u200aProf Jem Bendell<\/a><\/p>\n

How Much Additional Power Will Data Centers Need by 2035?\u200a\u2014\u200aMishTalk<\/a><\/p>\n

A Frantic Search for the Pause Button<\/a><\/p>\n

What Is Technology Addiction?<\/a><\/p>\n

Sustainable\u2122 Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ecology, Public Health, and Peak Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

At the Beginning of Credit Destruction Cycle\u200a\u2014\u200aEd Dowd | Greg Hunter\u2019s USAWatchdog<\/a><\/p>\n

Three Years Ago I Predicted Europe\u2019s Collapse. I Was Right.<\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: Nanoplastics Proliferate in the World Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n

What is societal collapse? Lessons from the past can help us understand our future, but only to a point<\/a><\/p>\n

An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food<\/a><\/p>\n

Links of the Month: December 2025 | how to save the world<\/a><\/p>\n

There May Be Hope Yet<\/a><\/p>\n

The flatness of it all.\u200a\u2014\u200aby Claire Hartnell<\/a><\/p>\n

America\u2019s 350,000 Unregulated Chemicals\u200a\u2014\u200aby Justin McAffee<\/a><\/p>\n

Cory Doctorow and How To Get Control Of Technology<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wile E. Coyote Insight: What We \u201cKnow\u201d Is More Dangerous Than the Unknown<\/a><\/p>\n

AI\/Data Center Backlash Vs. the \u2018Progress\u2019 Myth<\/a><\/p>\n

How To Prepare Your Apartment for a Four Day Winter Blackout<\/a><\/p>\n

Linking the Past with the Present: Resources, Land Use, and the Collapse of Civilizations<\/a><\/p>\n

Pruning for the Future\u200a\u2014\u200aby Nate Hagens<\/a><\/p>\n

Europe Is About to Commit Financial Self-Immolation And Its Leaders Know It\u200a\u2014\u200aThe Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity<\/a><\/p>\n

Ford Takes Record $19.5 Billion Charge As EV Bet Implodes, Pivots To Grid Batteries | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Privacy for the Powerful, Surveillance for the Rest: EU\u2019s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far | The Daily Economy<\/a><\/p>\n

Brussels Slams Brakes On 2035 Combustion Engine Ban | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

11 Warnings For 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Liebig\u2019s Law<\/a><\/p>\n

Decoupling\u00a0\u2026\u2026 again\u200a\u2014\u200adegrowthUK<\/a><\/p>\n

The Consequences of Stealing Russia\u2019s Money\u200a\u2014\u200aGlobal geopolitics<\/a><\/p>\n

Everything the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela involves oil and regime change\u200a\u2014\u200aeven if the White House won\u2019t admit it<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Collapse is Inevitable<\/a><\/p>\n

Earth\u2019s oceans have officially crossed another crucial planetary boundary<\/a><\/p>\n

How the Pandemic Accelerated the Geopolitical Breakdown | naked capitalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Toxic chemicals in food cost the world $3 trillion a year, new report finds<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S. Special Forces Attack and Destroy Chinese Cargo in the Indian Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\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 paper<\/a>: \u201cWe 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\u200a\u2014\u200aeven scientific theories\u200a\u2014\u200aare 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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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