{"id":69502,"date":"2025-12-31T03:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69502"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:27:16","slug":"the-bulletin-december-24-30-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69502","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: December 24-30, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: December 24-30, 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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You may delay, but time will not. – New Zealand Energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hidden Crisis: Why America Can’t Survive Without Venezuelan Oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Effects of Future Climate Extreme Heat Events and Land Use Changes on Land Vertebrates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Moves Special Operations Aircraft Near Venezuela: ‘Prepositioning For Action’ | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

EXCLUSIVE: False Flags Are Coming… and They Know It | Daily Pulse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Paralyzed By Complication: Our Broken Systems | how to save the world<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Blood For Oil At the United Nations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The New World Order Crisis and “The Reproduction of Real Life”: Food, Water and Energy. Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

3 Action Items for 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tense UN Meeting Sees Russia, China Blast US ‘Cowboy Behavior’ Against Venezuela | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Happy Holidays! I Have Brought Hopium!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CHINA HITS BACK After US Seizes Venezuela Oil Ship | OpenmindedReporter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Physics of the Fall: Entropic Gravity and the Economic Event Horizon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Resources and Anthropocentrism – by Guy R McPherson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Continental Bait-and-Switch | Mises Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Good News Is People Are Realizing We’re On Our Own<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Myth or reality? The circular economy – by Catherine Knight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Important article on oligarchy and monopolies that I tried to cross post–and again Substack refused. So here it is, from Matt Stoller.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Regenerative Resources 2.0 (a recommended reading list from my library and beyond updated for 2025)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lawrence Wilkerson: Economic Collapse Will End the US Empire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Small and the Big: Life’s Fundamental Energetic Dichotomy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Chinese Military Simulates Caribbean War Scenario Amid Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Managing Shortfall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Don’t Need Any More Renewables – by TheLastFarm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Decline and Fall – The Chris Hedges Report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Original Sin – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Paulo Nogueira Batista: West Destroys Global Economics System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2025: The Year Of Peak Everything – The Honest Sorcerer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Your Bank Doesn\u2019t Have Your Money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Empire Ended In 72 Hours<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What if Predicting Collapse Hastens Collapse?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why collapse is inevitable – by William E Rees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Lifespan Of a Country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How To: Solitude During Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Everyone\u2019s a Lender Now: Shadow Banking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Visualized: Where Do Microplastics Come From Anyway?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

CIA Drone Carried Out First Known Land Strike On Venezuela | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Are Forests Now Emitting More Carbon Than They Absorb?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Recommended Substacks for environmental advocacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Fourth Turning: How Societies Break, and How the Next Era Begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

General Mike Flynn Demands Accountability From Trump<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Putin Authorizes Military Reserve Call-Up To Protect Critical Energy Sites | 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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