{"id":69512,"date":"2026-01-07T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69512"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:56:10","slug":"the-bulletin-december-31-january-6-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69512","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: December 31-January 6, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: December 31-January 6, 2025<\/span><\/h1>\n

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

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

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USA is the worst pirate on Earth: Trump is stealing Venezuela’s oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Metacrisis Is Metaphysical: The Fallacies That Doom Our Solutions | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2026: Expect a very uneven world economic downturn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Doug Casey on Anarchy and Voluntaryism – International Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The West has found a way to legally end free speech<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hundreds Of Thousands In Moscow Experience Rare ‘Total Blackout’ After Drone Wave | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Climate Change is Dead – by Ricky Lanusse \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Electric Vehicles and Nuclear Power Are Fighting Over One Obscure Mineral | <\/span><\/a>OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“The Fed is lying to your face” Top Economist Warns – YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pretense, Staging, Expediency: the “Solutions” That Implode the Whole Shebang<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Anyone knows a good plumber? – by No1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

An Apostate Against the Machine-God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Krainer: New York Times Reports CIA Attacks on Russian Tankers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Logic of Simplification<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What Have You Done For Your Land This Week?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hidden Dopamine Trap – by A Midwestern Doctor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dropping the Fa\u00e7ade: Propaganda, Power, and the Absurdity of Empire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Video: Monroe Doctrine 2.0. Canada and the Militarization of the Americas – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why Lists of Extinctions Travel Farther Than Explanations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Is \u201cLocked and Loaded\u201d and Ready to Save Iranian Protesters \u2013 MishTalk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, and the Race to Scale | <\/span><\/a>OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate \u2018optimism\u2019 – resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING: Trump Regime Attacks Venezuela, Kidnap’s Maduro Family, Killing Hundreds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Collapse Chronicle: Collapse In Review, 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On Overpopulation and Overconsumption | Damn the Matrix<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Five Takeaways From The US\u2019 \u201cSpecial Military Operation\u201d In Venezuela<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

‘This Is State Terrorism’: Global Outrage as Trump Launches Illegal Assault on Venezuela | Common Dreams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela Attack Raises WW3 Risk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

America bombs Venezuela – by No1 – Gold and Geopolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela Invasion, It\u2019s the Oil Stupid! How Much Can We Steal? \u2013 MishTalk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Important: A Cliff Notes version of Carroll Quigley’s TRAGEDY AND HOPE, to reveal who runs the world and how, and an interview with Norman Dodd on the same subject.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump kidnaps Venezuela\u2019s president to steal the country’s oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Central Banking Cartel Is Bleeding Us Dry And They Are Using The Statist Religion As The Hypodermic Needle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Visualizing All Of The World’s Oil Reserves By Country | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Coal Remains King in India While Exports Optimize Domestic Stock | <\/span><\/a>OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

While the World Watched Venezuela, China Quietly Won the Oil War | John Mearsheimer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wetiko: The Psychosis Eating The World Alive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Video: Trump Announced an Oil Empire In A DISASTROUS Venezuela Press Conference That Should Scare The Shit Out EVERY Country In The Western Hemisphere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

OPEC+ Reaffirms Output Pause as Eight Producers Cite Market Stability | <\/span><\/a>OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Retro-Colonialism: The Thermodynamics of Plunder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Five(ish) charts that give some context to Venezuelan oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Now Says \u201cWe Need Greenland for National Security\u201d and the EU Knows That \u2013 MishTalk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ecomodernism: Modernity Without Ecology | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u200b\u200b<\/span>Part 4 Raven Rock. The government abandons plans to aid the public, only the government to survive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Kill the King, Win the Game. The World as a Chessboard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

Let Us Now Eat The Weeds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: Megadrought Driven by Our Collective Actions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe Just Want the Oil\u201d – Dean Blundell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Keep it in the ground? – by Zeke Hausfather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Denmark Freaks Out Over Possible ‘Venezuela Playbook’ In Greenland, Warns ‘End Of NATO’ | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Must Face the Escalating Polycrisis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fascists and Authoritarians Carving Up a Dying Planet, or The World We’re in Now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Same playbook, different target – by No1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Centrus Energy Soars After DOE Awards $2.7 Billion For Uranium Enrichment | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

‘Don’t Be a Duck’: Corporate Media Outlet Reports Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lost in Space – Doomberg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Monetary Policy Is Monetary Piracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Says “We Need Greenland for National Security”. Absorb Greenland Into Its Sphere of Influence in the Western Hemisphere – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Systemic Stupidity: Why the Political Machine Selects Against Survival [EARLY ACCESS]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

From capitalist food systems to degrowth agrarian futures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Samuel Huntington Is Getting His Revenge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ecological impacts of the war machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Realist\u2019s Protocol: Why Physics Does Not Negotiate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

Global Risks Report 2025: Humanity Approaching Point of No Return as Polycrisis Deepens | PeakD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

China Slaps Export Controls On Japan For Dual-Use Items, Rare Earths, Could Impact Semiconductors | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Can Discern Cycles and Waves, But Not the Outcomes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Unthinkable Is Now Thinkable: Canada is Preparing to Defend Against US Military Incursion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Real Reason Why the US Overthrew Venezuela<\/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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