{"id":69576,"date":"2026-02-11T03:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69576"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:11:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:11:54","slug":"the-bulletin-february-4-10-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69576","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: February 4-10, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: February 4-10, 2026<\/span><\/h3>\n

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

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\"\"<\/a><\/span>CLICK HERE<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n

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

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Beyond The Appearances. – by Aurelien<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Nuclear survival advice they never broadcast – by Craig<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe\u2019s Industrial Decline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Biology Lessons In Degrowth: The Three Stages of Civilisation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Plastic pollution may be supercharging algae blooms – <\/span><\/a>Earth.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Understanding Deglobalization: The Role of Diesel and Jet Fuel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Central Bank Global Financial Coup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Do You Care About the Environment?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Liar Liar Pants on Fire\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Scotland Blazes a Post-Growth Trail<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Re-Set: Reversing the Debt-Debasement Death-Spiral<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The US Occupation of Nigeria Begins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Who Will Lead the Future? | Roger Hallam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Disagree well – by Jonathan Tonkin – Predirections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I have some Distressing News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Electricity Market Is F**ked”: Finland Wind Turbine Blades Freeze, Curbing Green Power Output | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Degrowing tomorrow in today’s soil – by WeRepair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Everything Bubble is Bursting … Well, Bursting Everything!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Total Financial Subjugation of Iraq After 2003 by the United States \u2013 Global geopolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

1953 Redux: The Washington Neocons Now Want to Saddle Iran With the Son of the Persian Stalin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food \u2013 study | Global development | The Guardian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Venezuela\u2019s Oil Fantasy Meets Physical Reality<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Tractor Mode: The Thermodynamics of a Dying Laptop (and a Dying Civilisation)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On the Road to Nuclear War – ZNetwork<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Davis: U.S. Attack on Iran Will Trigger Regional War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

NERC: Half of America At A High Risk of Blackouts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What Few Understand About Money<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“We find that the principal drive for global warming acceleration began in about 2015, which implies that 2\u00b0C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Roman Kingship – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The High Cost of Throwing Things Away – Ethos<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s Getting Drier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Silver: A Story of Converging Supply Crises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Maple Leaf Rag: Why the American Empire Will Swallow Canada Whole by 2040<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Endgame of Fiat Money – by fabio vighi – Savage Minds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Pizarro World: Trump’s $23 Barrel of Oil, MILEX Barrel Cost, and a Potential Roadmap for Beneficial Imperialism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Wide Boundary News: Peak Oil (Not!), Peak Dispatchability, and WEF Risks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The New Master of the World: Power to the Technocrats. Unrestrained Use of Technology – Global Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Protecting the Sacred Wild in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia & Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control Of Europe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

‘Today, we are preparing for war’ \u2013 French defense chief says Europe has until 2030 for war, cites Russia as biggest threat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Nature’s ‘engine is grinding to a halt’ as climate change gains pace, says study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Creature in the Machine (Essay) – by Nate Hagens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How the British Empire Still Secretly Owns the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The \u2018Empire Killer\u2019 Strikes Again – International Man<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

AMOC current could collapse within 20 years \u2013 Richard Mills<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Walls They\u2019re Building Aren\u2019t For Our Safety<\/span><\/a><\/p>\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

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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

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The Bulletin: February 4-10, 2026 This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026 CLICK HERE If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out this overview. Beyond The Appearances. – by Aurelien Nuclear survival advice they never broadcast – by Craig How to Read the Signs of Collapse: Economic Stagnation, Resource Scarcity, and Europe\u2019s Industrial Decline Biology Lessons […]<\/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":[34179,79,5312,103,124,138,141,150,203,34908,2165,259,281,17853,3918,5809,34907,369,34909,10956,441,522,536,1789,571,581,617,6361,5923,706,730,3237,786,15173,34813,827,851,862],"class_list":["post-69576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-amoc","tag-blackouts","tag-british-empire","tag-canada","tag-central-banks","tag-civilisation","tag-climate-change","tag-collapse","tag-degrowth","tag-dispatchability","tag-economic-stagnation","tag-empire","tag-europe","tag-everything-bubble","tag-fiat-money","tag-financialisation","tag-french","tag-global-warming","tag-green-power","tag-imperial-collapse","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-money","tag-nature","tag-nigeria","tag-nuclear-war","tag-peak-oil","tag-resource-scarcity","tag-roman-empire","tag-scotland","tag-silver","tag-supply-chains","tag-technology","tag-thermodynamics","tag-ultra-processed-food","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576","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=69576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69577,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576\/revisions\/69577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}