{"id":69751,"date":"2026-07-22T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69751"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:02:31","slug":"the-bulletin-july-15-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69751","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Bulletin: July 15\u201321, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Bull<\/em><\/strong>etin: July 15\u201321, 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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

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If you\u2019re new to my writing, check out\u00a0<\/strong>this overview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Controlling the World Island<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Being Fined $49,890.13 for Defending a Sacred Site<\/a><\/p>\n

Evolutionary Shrinkflation \u2014 The George Tsakraklides View<\/a><\/p>\n

Why the Media Needs Objectivity \u2014 Lean Out with Tara Henley<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bigger Condo Bailout No One Is Discussing | The Tyee<\/a><\/p>\n

Links of the Month: July 2026 | how to save the world<\/a><\/p>\n

Briefing for the Descent, Revisited \u2014 Ecosophia<\/a><\/p>\n

Producer Price Inflation beyond Energy: \u201cCore\u201d PPI Accelerates to 4.7%, Services PPI to 4.6%. Lots of Inflation Going on in Here | Wolf Street<\/a><\/p>\n

P:C ARCHIVES: James Dyke on Net Zero Won\u2019t Save Us<\/a><\/p>\n

Wetlands,: Nature\u2019s Quiet Heroes We Can No Longer Afford to Lose<\/a><\/p>\n

Ukraine Intensifies Attacks on Russian Tankers in the Black Sea | OilPrice.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia Struggles To Deliver Crude Oil As It Hits 135 Million Barrel Traffic Jam | ZeroHedge<\/a>|<\/p>\n

What Is The Need For Closure?<\/a><\/p>\n

Towards a Thermoeconomically Viable Food System<\/a><\/p>\n

The New World Order Nobody Expected<\/a><\/p>\n

AI Is the Apex of Ultra-Processed Life<\/a><\/p>\n

A Judge Just Recommended Congress Force Apple to Build iCloud Photo Scanning<\/a><\/p>\n

Built to flood \u2014 by Jonathan Tonkin \u2014 Predirections<\/a><\/p>\n

Every oil and gas pipeline moves in the wrong direction \u2014 David Suzuki Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n

Andy Burnham caves to big oil \u2014 Grace Blakeley<\/a><\/p>\n

The next phase of shrinkflation: rolling blackouts | Schiff Sovereign<\/a><\/p>\n

What are tank bottoms? \u2014 U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)<\/a><\/p>\n

What Can\u2019t Be Rebuilt: Irreversible Stakes of an Uncertain Future<\/a><\/p>\n

The Oil Price \u201cMystery\u201d \u2014 The Honest Sorcerer<\/a><\/p>\n

Weaponising Intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n

The Hidden Costs of Making Everything General Purpose<\/a><\/p>\n

Land of the Waning Sun \u2014 Doomberg<\/a><\/p>\n

BREAKING: LARRY & PEPE -China\u2019s 72-HOUR Ultimatum to the US -Fix the Iran DEAL by Monday Or It\u2019s WAR<\/a><\/p>\n

The Great Normalization Nobody Declared<\/a><\/p>\n

The Predatory Logic of the State | Mises Institute<\/a><\/p>\n

Cyclospora is Just the Tip of the Iceberg<\/a><\/p>\n

Strike Three For Hersh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve Burned Through All Buffers\u201d: Oil Traders Warn Market Running On Fumes | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Plato\u2019s Revenge \u2014 by Nathan Knopp \u2014 System Failure<\/a><\/p>\n

EU Livestock Strategy, Part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

Healing Back Pain and Ending The Spinal Surgery Pipeline<\/a><\/p>\n

The Telemetry of Collapse: Sentience, Extraction, and the Immune Response to a Dying Machine<\/a><\/p>\n

Anticipating the Breakdown of Civilizational Psychosis<\/a><\/p>\n

The Collapse Chronicle 07.20.26<\/a><\/p>\n

Famines Ahead? A warning we cannot ignore \u2014 by Ugo Bardi<\/a><\/p>\n

P:C Archive: Media Complicity in the Climate Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n

A response to the World Inequality Lab: Degrowth for global justice? \u2014 Timoth\u00e9e Parrique<\/a><\/p>\n

Houthis Announce Blockade On Saudi Shipping, Threaten Drone & Missile Attacks On Kingdom | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Becoming the Stranger<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh My Fucking God, They\u2019re Doing It Again<\/a><\/p>\n

Narrative control: the collapsing authority of the state<\/a><\/p>\n

Kazakhstan Stops Piping Oil To Black Sea After Spate Of Ukraine Drone
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We Are All on Apollo 13 \u2014 The Minority Report Publication<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally a President Who Believes Polluters Should Pay<\/a><\/p>\n

Signs of Collapse: Things That Can No Longer Be Fixed | how to save the world<\/a><\/p>\n

[Essay] Peak Oil, Ponzi Pyramids, and Planetary Boundaries<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\u00a0paper<\/a>: \u201cWe 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 \u2014 even scientific theories \u2014 are 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<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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