{"id":69789,"date":"2026-08-19T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69789"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:25:35","slug":"the-bulletin-august-13-19-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69789","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Bulletin: August 13\u201319, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Bull<\/em><\/strong>etin: August 13\u201319, 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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

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Articles of Interest: August 12\u201318, 2026<\/h3>\n

Another Earthshaking Financial Collapse Like 2000 and 2008 is Underway<\/a><\/p>\n

Risk Kills. Will We Ever Learn?<\/a><\/p>\n

Could the Crashing Yen Trigger Hyperinflation in the U.S.? \u2014 Global Research<\/a><\/p>\n

Homesteading: We All Need to Become Farmers Again<\/a><\/p>\n

US Now Expects Iran War Oil Supply Disruptions To Last Through End Of 2027 | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

While We Focused on Fripperies, the Foundations Have Rotted Away<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fundamental Theorem of Doomism<\/a><\/p>\n

The Collapse Engine : A Critical Mismatch \u2014 by Jackrabbit<\/a><\/p>\n

Solution-delusions<\/a><\/p>\n

The art of brainwashing \u2014 by POLITICAL SONAR \u2014 GeoPolitiQ<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Foundations Have Rotted Away While the Bubble Benefited the Top 10%<\/a><\/p>\n

Danube Water Levels Sink To Historic Lows | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

If We Could See Everything, It Would Radicalize Us All Instantly<\/a><\/p>\n

This is How We Stop the End of the World<\/a><\/p>\n

The ecosystems that store more carbon than you think<\/a><\/p>\n

The Greater Good is Not Your Good<\/a><\/p>\n

Alastair Crooke: Iran & Russia Give Up on Diplomacy & Go on the Offensive<\/a><\/p>\n

Diesel Crack Spread Explodes To Record As Wall Street Warns Of Refined-Products \u201cPerfect Storm\u201d | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWorldwide Genocide\u201d? History of U.S. Mass Killings of Civilians<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s Trade War With Canada on Verge of Becoming Economically Nasty \u2014 MishTalk<\/a><\/p>\n

The Predicament of Limits<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia Threatens Reciprocal Ship Seizures as Warship Maintains Permanent Channel Presence<\/a><\/p>\n

Thatcher warned in 1989 of a climate crisis. She did nothing. Nor will her successors<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Look Up \u2014 Grace Blakeley<\/a><\/p>\n

John Mearsheimer: U.S. Grand Strategy After Hegemony<\/a><\/p>\n

Who Broke the World? The Villains We Choose and the Work They Give Us<\/a><\/p>\n

Coal: The Next Chokepoint \u2014 The Honest Sorcerer<\/a><\/p>\n

When the Tourniquet Fails: The Medical Collapse Guide That Will Haunt Your Dreams \u2014 Preppgroup<\/a><\/p>\n

Forest Thinning Isn\u2019t Forest Restoration<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump says he will declare Strait of Hormuz a US \u2018territory\u2019 amid Iran war | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n

The Trillionaire\u2019s World \u2014 by Mike Meyer \u2014 Future Search<\/a><\/p>\n

Code Red For Humanity: Climate Governance Commission Advocates Large-Scale \u201cReal-Time\u201d Monitoring System to Manage the Earth System<\/a><\/p>\n

Five Contracts, One River \u2014 Craig Tindale<\/a><\/p>\n

The Petro-less Dollar \u2014 global geopolitics<\/a><\/p>\n

Run to Failure: When Self-Interest Cripples Society\u2019s Self-Correcting Mechanisms<\/a><\/p>\n

Art Berman: The Global Energy Order Is Breaking<\/a><\/p>\n

When the World Changes Faster Than We Can Think<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Being Against Excess CO\u2082 the Same as Committing Genocide?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Long Emergency: Unmaking Modern Life | Collapse of Industrial Civilization<\/a><\/p>\n

Why We Defend the Systems That Are Failing Us<\/a><\/p>\n

The State I\u2019m In<\/a><\/p>\n

Tokenization of H2O, What\u2019s Next O2<\/a><\/p>\n

The Colorado River, Lake Powell, Lake Mead Problem Finally Hits Crisis Level \u2014 MishTalk<\/a><\/p>\n

The Things We Once Called Someone Else\u2019s Problem<\/a><\/p>\n

We All Know This Civilization Is Doomed, But They Keep Telling Us Everything\u2019s Normal<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some frameworks for helping each other amidst the mess<\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: Human Lives Shortened By Extreme Heat<\/a><\/p>\n

To What End<\/a><\/p>\n

We Are at Serious Risk of Nuclear War<\/a><\/p>\n

Origins of the Empire<\/a><\/p>\n

Geopolitical Reality Has Ended The Rush To Renewables | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

14 Charts on Planetary Heating<\/a><\/p>\n

In Our \u201cEverything is Disposable\u201d Economy, We\u2019re Disposable, Too<\/a><\/p>\n

The Most Radical Post Growth Text I Read This Year Came From Wall Street<\/a><\/p>\n

The Yen Crisis is a Tsunami Like No Other on the Dollar Hegemony \u2014 global geopolitics<\/a><\/p>\n

Science Snippets: No Space to Store CO2<\/a><\/p>\n

The Political Petroleum Reserve<\/a><\/p>\n

Safety in Nimbers<\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises | ScienceDaily<\/a><\/p>\n

The Colorado River is Running Dry<\/a><\/p>\n

Chaos, Life, Death, Awakening<\/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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