{"id":69489,"date":"2025-12-24T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69489"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:26:52","slug":"the-bulletin-december-17-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69489","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: December 17-23, 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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A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Should We Be Talking About Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

This Is What It Looks Like When Shit Hits The Fan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance \u2013 Ecosophia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tools for growing the commons – resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

All the Dominant Models Are Collapsing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Global Landlord: How the US Just Abolished Sovereignty<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Visual Math – Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

67% Of Canadians Say Cost Of Living In Their Region Is Worst They’ve Seen | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Memes Are The Masks of Fear | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Exergy Economics | T\u00e2nia Sousa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Decoupling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Money Is About To Get Cheaper But Life Is About To Get Even More Expensive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

From Tehran to Chennai, a city without water is a harbinger of a thirsty planet – The Economic Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 – by James Hansen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Approves Largest Taiwan Arms Package In History At Over $11BN | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Assange Takes Nobel Foundation To Court<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Behavioral Thermodynamics Part 1: Beyond the 4th Law?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Major Climate Unknown: Natural Ecosystems<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Water levels across the Great Lakes are falling \u2013 just as US data centers move in | Technology | The Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Food Freedom and What It Means<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Agency Trap: Why We Must Fail To Survive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Insane Financial Imbalances and Social Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AI\/data center backlash vs. the \u201cprogress\u201d myth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela Defense Minister Vows To Defend the ‘Homeland at Any Cost’ After Trump’s Blockade Threat – News From <\/span><\/a>Antiwar.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ontario and New York Sign Agreement to Build Nuclear Energy and Grow Economies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Watch: US Naval Forces Now Have Suicide Drones | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

China Says Region Closer To War Due To US Record Taiwan Arms Package | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Western elites fear a ‘globalised intifada’ because they are its targets, not Jews<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We’re Fucked, Let’s Escalate – by Max Wilbert – Biocentric<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The next Carrington Event would hit a very different world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

About Stock Buybacks and Other Scams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Garden First, Ask Questions Later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Enough minerals for a solar, wind, & battery transition from fossil fuels? | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Gunboat Diplomacy Accelerated: US Seizes Another Oil Tanker Off Venezuela’s Coast | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

EU blocks protesting farmers in Brussels using barbed wire, tear gas and water cannons, while Orb\u00e1n says farmers are ‘100% right’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Japan Just Raised Rates Again\u2014And a Slow-Motion Crisis Has Begun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How do you deal with the acceptance of collapse?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Jacques Baud Case: Weaponisation Of Sanctions, An Attack On Free Speech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The End of Reason – The Honest Sorcerer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Jacques Baud is being Sanctioned\u2014and Switzerland is Fast Asleep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What Lies Ahead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

James Hansen: A “Super” Record is Coming in 2027<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The US Is At War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Decoupling, Dumb and Dumber | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The challenge of food ecomodernism: a puzzle outlined – resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The AI Bubble – by Matt Orsagh – Degrowth is the Answer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Year\u2019s End<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Roundup Deception: How Monsanto Helped Write the \u2018Science\u2019 That Claimed its Weedkiller Was Safe – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The EIA Thinks OPEC Can Pump More Than Anyone Expected | OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Beijing Condemns Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy After China-Bound Tanker Seizure | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Maduro Must Go, DHS Secretary Noem Says, Vows More Tanker Intercepts | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Carry Trade at Risk: Japan\u2019s 10-Year JGB Yield Hits 25-Year High, Yield Curve Steepens, Finance Ministry Verbally Props Up Yen | Wolf Street<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Theology of Thermodynamics: Why the Meek Inheriting the Earth is a Biophysical Fact (WIP)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Financial Bubbles: How They Make Us Poorer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Blockade of Venezuela and the Collapse of the Global Maritime Order – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Delusion Of Human Separation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Mulls Sanctions On Spanish-Flagged Vessels | ZeroHedge<\/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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