{"id":69528,"date":"2026-01-14T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69528"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:23:51","slug":"the-bulletin-january-7-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69528","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: January 7-13, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: January 7-13, 2026<\/span><\/h1>\n

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

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

CLICK HERE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

\n

Chemical emissions from offshore wind farms: From identification to challenges in impact assessment and regulation – PubMed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Enemies not allowed to control large oil reserves, US ambassador to UN says | Middle East Eye<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

‘What an Authoritarian Oligarchy Looks Like’: Trump Says Oil Execs Tipped Off About Venezuela Attack | Common Dreams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It Was Never About the Oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales, Part Four<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What Is an Ecosystem? – by Ernesto Van Peborgh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Is the Western Alliance Breaking? – Glenn Diesen\u2019s Substack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Has the Economy Outgrown the Planet? \u2014 Degrowth Institute<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Plants can\u2019t absorb as much CO2 as climate models predicted | ScienceDaily<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Colonialism, Stupid! – by Boaventura de Sousa Santos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

U.S. vs Europe: Will Trump’s Greenland Ambitions Break NATO?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Global study reveals widespread burning of plastic for heating and cooking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Walking Away: Why the Smartest People are QUITTING Society<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

With Great Power Comes No Responsibility – by Matt Orsagh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Perverse Incentives Dominating Our Lives<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Farmland Shock: Georgia Grower Drops 3,000 Acres, Warns of Unplanted Ground in 2026 – AgWeb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

American Fascism is Coming For the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Toxic Innocence Of Empire: The US And Israel, Forever Blameless, Always Pure In Motive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How to delete 99% of your digital footprint from the internet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Big-Oil Billionaire Makes Big on Trump’s Invasion of Venezuela<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Max Blumenthal: Venezuela – Deal-Making, Plunder & the Rule of Law<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Our Changing Planet, as Seen From Space – Yale E360<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

They’re Not Kidding about Greenland.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The End of the Growth Story – by Ernesto Van Peborgh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Medium is the Message\u201d and the Message is a Lie – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How to Shut Off An Oil Pipeline – by Max Wilbert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Detoxing from the Hope Porn: Why Collapse Realism Is the New Activism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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

Peak Oil, the Coming Wars, and the Word Decade of Humanity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Three Takeaways From The US\u2019 Seizure Of A Russian-Flagged Tanker In The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The End of Surplus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Environmentalism is Anti-Humanism | Mises Institute<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Reprise: Covert Fleets of Oil Tankers Power the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Diego Sequera: Venezuela Is Just the Beginning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why the World Is Crazy – Charles Hugh Smith’s Substack<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Are we just letting this happen again?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

After Ruining a Treasured Water Resource, Iran Is Drying Up – Yale E360<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

FOUR HUNDRED JOURNALISTS ON THE CIA PAYROLL AND YOU STILL TRUST THE NEWS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

‘Straight-Up Piracy and Extortion’: Trump Says He Will Control Money From Sale of Venezuelan Oil | Common Dreams<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING: Canada\/EU\/UK Prepare For War As Trump\u2019s Orders Greenland Invasion Plan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

2026: The Year Of The Coyote – The Honest Sorcerer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

VIDEO: Trump’s $100-Billion, Dementia Laden Pitch To Oil Executives Last Week, Smelled Like Shit. Literally.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

US Warns Americans To Leave Venezuela Immediately | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How To Protect Yourself From the Great Taking & The Coming Financial Reset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Iran and the Next Phase of Forced Regime Change \u2013 Global geopolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Triumph of the Material, Part One<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Bioregionalism As Our Economic System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Return of Informal Economies – by Craig – ON SURVIVAL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Seyed M. Marandi: Violent Riots & a Massive War Coming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Why Is Everything Such a Hot Mess?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Big Chemical Wants to Prevent EPA From Revising Pollution Rules Based on Latest Science, claiming EPA can only revise a risk assessment once, despite new evidence of harms emerging later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

War and Rumours of War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ken Paxton, Texas AG, investigating grocery chains over spraying pesticide on “organic” produce. The organic label is not to be relied on.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Empirical Cliodynamics: the Use of Proxies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump Imposes 25% Tariff On Any Country Doing Business With Iran “Effective Immediately” | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Apocalyptic Voices 2: Precedents and Proxy Questions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Problem with Limits – by Max Wilbert – Biocentric<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

India and the Agri-Cartel\u2019s 35-Year Siege: From the 1991 Crisis to the 2026 Seed Act – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists detect hidden plastic clouds hovering over Chinese cities<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Geologist Explains What Makes Greenland So Incredibly Special : ScienceAlert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Resource Insights: Venezuela and Greenland: ‘Smash-and-grab’ diplomacy in the age of scarcity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

EVERYTHING YOU WATCH OR READ IS OWNED BY SIX BILLIONAIRES AND THEY HATE YOU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Weaponization of Everything – by Mary Geddry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Headlines of War and More Wars<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Spikes After Trump Urges Iranians To Keep Protesting, Says “Help On Its Way” | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Definancialisation Doesn’t Mean Peace, It Means Prep For War | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\n

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

\n

If you have arrived here and get something out of my writing, <\/span>please consider ordering the trilogy of my \u2018fictional\u2019 novel series, Olduvai (PDF files; only $9.99 Canadian)<\/b>, via my <\/span>website<\/span><\/a> or the link below \u2014 the \u2018profits\u2019 of which help me to keep my internet presence alive and first book available in print (and is available via various online retailers).<\/span><\/p>\n

Attempting a new payment system as I am contemplating shutting down my site in the future (given the ever-increasing costs to keep it running).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are interested in purchasing any of the 3 books individually or the trilogy, please try the link below indicating which book(s) you are purchasing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Costs (Canadian dollars):<\/span>
\n<\/span>Book 1: $2.99<\/span>
\n<\/span>Book 2: $3.89<\/span>
\n<\/span>Book 3: $3.89<\/span>
\n<\/span>Trilogy: $9.99<\/span><\/p>\n

Feel free to throw in a \u2018tip\u2019 on top of the base cost if you wish; perhaps by paying in U.S. dollars instead of Canadian. Every few cents\/dollars helps\u2026\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/paypal.me\/olduvaitrilogy?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

If you do not hear from me within 48 hours or you are having trouble with the system, please email me: <\/span>olduvaitrilogy@gmail.com<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can also find a variety of resources, particularly my summary notes for a handful of texts, especially William Catton\u2019s Overshoot and Joseph Tainter\u2019s Collapse of Complex Societies: see <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bulletin: January 7-13, 2026 This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026 CLICK HERE If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out this overview. Chemical emissions from offshore wind farms: From identification to challenges in impact assessment and regulation – PubMed Enemies not allowed to control large oil reserves, US ambassador to UN says | Middle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6,7],"tags":[34894,34895,23801,2688,33245,103,34896,135,34878,150,3641,34890,20442,7844,1057,259,34893,1470,279,281,31327,31326,1491,23706,391,441,462,485,34892,522,536,1180,553,588,592,617,2516,16863,638,8844,1343,1709,1589,694,2247,9937,820,827,34891,862,866,5482],"class_list":["post-69528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-anti-humanism","tag-authoritarian-oligarchy","tag-big-ag","tag-big-oil","tag-bioregionalism","tag-canada","tag-chemical-emissions","tag-cia","tag-cliodynamics","tag-collapse","tag-colonialism","tag-definancialisation","tag-digital-footprint","tag-donald-trump","tag-ecosystems","tag-empire","tag-envrionmentalism","tag-epa","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-fairy-tales","tag-fantasies","tag-fascism","tag-financial-reset","tag-growth","tag-iran","tag-journalism","tag-limits-to-growth","tag-micorplastics","tag-middle-east","tag-money","tag-myths","tag-nato","tag-oil","tag-oil-price","tag-peak-oil","tag-pesticides","tag-plunder","tag-pollution","tag-realism","tag-regime-change","tag-riots","tag-rule-of-law","tag-russia","tag-surplus","tag-tariffs","tag-uk","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela-greenland","tag-war","tag-water","tag-world-reserve-currency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69529,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69528\/revisions\/69529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}