{"id":69690,"date":"2026-06-10T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69690"},"modified":"2026-06-09T18:50:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T23:50:27","slug":"the-bulletin-june-3-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69690","title":{"rendered":"The Bulletin: June 3-9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Bull<\/i><\/b>etin: June 3-9, 2026<\/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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Why Another Oil Spike Isn\u2019t Off the Table<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oil – The Master Resource – New Zealand Energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s NOT the Drought: The Real Reason Lake Mead Lost 100 Feet!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing ‘Tank Bottoms’ Loom | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lest We Forget, Private Credit Is Still Imploding<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Regression to the norm: How to manage accommodation in system change efforts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Back to the Land: Why Restoring Earth’s Capacity Will Take All of Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Strait of Hormuz Closed When Insurance Companies Dropped a Giant Bomb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Personal History of CO\u2082 – by Prof. Eliot Jacobson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Collapse Chronicle 06.04.26<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

MarketWatch: Why the Current Oil Crisis Could Haunt Markets for Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Concerning Interest In Redefining \u201cInflation\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Energy Crunch Is Starting To Bite<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Philly Cops Admit That They\u2019re Tracking \u201cFirst Amendment Activity\u201d Critical of AI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Manufacturing Consent in Crisis: Chris Kaspar de Ploeg on Media, Empire, and the Collapse of Political Credibility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The population conundrum – by William E Rees<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Paradigms and Revolutions in Science – by Steve Keen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Energy Shock of the 14th Century<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Could it be That Trump and Willis are Closet Degrowthers?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The rsync Singularity: AI, \u2018Worse is Better\u2019, and the Thermodynamics of Software Collapse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

How to Think About the Future (Part 3): Uphill Futures in a Downhill World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Long Run<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

On The Possibility of World War III…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Organism Blindness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

THE HUNGER GAP IS COMING (2 of 2) – by Margi Prideaux, PhD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Studying past civilizational contraction could feed imagination on managed descent \u2013 Prof Jem Bendell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Inspirational Collapses? Learning from the civilisations that tried to break down well – resilience<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Top Economist: The Unthinkable Is About to Happen to the Financial System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Seyed M. Marandi: Hormuz Toll, Strike On Kuwait, Israel Decline & Iranian Nuclear Bomb?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Pollution We Breathe Without Seeing – by Lyle Lewis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Recycling Plastics: the Great Scam – by Ugo Bardi<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Devouring the Future – by Nathan Knopp – System Failure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Our Oil Savings Account is Dwindling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Protesters target NV Energy at electric utility conference as anger over affordability rises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

WAR III Has No Battlefield: The Supply-Chain War<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Paul Craig Roberts explained what happened to the USS Liberty 59 years ago tomorrow\u2013Congressman Massie is publicizing this crime and its coverup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Societal Blink Reflex – by Steven J. Newbury<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Spain-Style Blackout Risk Rises As ERCOT Flags Boston-Sized Data Center Loads Tripping Offline | ZeroHedge<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Battle For Civilization is Raging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

We Are Being Warned That A “Godzilla El Ni\u00f1o” Could Absolutely Devastate Global Food Production<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The economic path ahead: four or two things to think about for surviving the future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

What really happened to the twin towers on 9\/11\/2001? My interview with Madhava Setty, MIT engineering graduate and MD.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun | OilPrice.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Diesel Powered Pellets – New Zealand Energy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Hormuz: A Logistics Crisis, Not Yet an Inventory Crisis | Art Berman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Proxy Doctrine: How Washington Wages War Through Tel Aviv While Feigning Ignorance \u2013 Global geopolitics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fuel, Food, and Inflation: The Problems Continue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

[Essay] How to Think About the Future (Part 2): Four Variables Shaping the Coming Decades<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Lawful Anarchist | Do the Math<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Start of Doom to Come<\/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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