{"id":69849,"date":"2026-10-14T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69849"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T23:25:22","slug":"the-bulletin-october-8-14-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=69849","title":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Bulletin: October 8\u201314, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The\u00a0Bull<\/em><\/strong>etin: October 8\u201314, 2026<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

This past week\u2019s articles of interest\u2026<\/h4>\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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Explosion Rocks Venezuela\u2019s Second-Largest Refinery | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/div>\n
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Why You Are Getting Poorer While the Economy Grows \u2014 global geopolitics<\/a><\/p>\n

French Budget Deficit Explodes Into a Major Debt Crisis and Riots \u2014 MishTalk<\/a><\/p>\n

Feeding America Sounds the Alarm: More Americans Are Going Hungry!<\/a><\/p>\n

A World-Changing Event: We\u2019re Not Going Back to January 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

World Bank Warns Asia is Running Out of Money to Fight Energy Shock<\/a><\/p>\n

France Riots: Mayor Wants Teen Social Media Access Cut<\/a><\/p>\n

Has Trump just announced the next false flag, the next 9\/11 to finish off Iran?<\/a><\/p>\n

What If The Oil Crisis Gets Much, Much Worse?<\/a><\/p>\n

The Big Bond Bust Keeps Expanding \u2014 by David Haggith<\/a><\/p>\n

How the White House Sold a Pyramid Scheme to the American People \u2014 global geopolitics<\/a><\/p>\n

The Weekend the Money Stops: A Bank Collapse, Hour by Hour \u2014 Preppgroup<\/a><\/p>\n

Just Print Up Some Electrical Transformers<\/a><\/p>\n

Your Go Bag\u2019s Dead Battery Problem \u2014 by Travis Wolfe<\/a><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Crown Jewel Refinery Ablaze After Drone Strike, Data Center Also Hit In War First | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Ivana Nikoli\u0107 Hughes: AI Meets Nuclear Weapons \u2014 New Nuclear Arms Race<\/a><\/p>\n

THE HORROR BEGINS: Mining the Ocean Floor \u201cto Save the Planet\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s beginning to look like proper forests are natural aircon systems, and realising that could be a positive tipping point. Here\u2019s how.<\/a><\/p>\n

London Calling: A Journey into Our Techno-Totalitarian Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Spain General Strike: Housing and Wages \u2014 by Ana Vra\u010dar<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSmall Disruption Now Has Outsized Price Consequences\u201d: Jefferies Warns As Hurricane Takes Aim At US Gulf Energy | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

France\u2019s debt: too heavy to lift, too big to spot \u2014 Bond Vigilantes<\/a><\/p>\n

2027 Will Be a Year of Massive Shortages<\/a><\/p>\n

Eyewitness in Madrid: the Masses Demand a General Strike \u2014 ZNetwork<\/a><\/p>\n

Planning For Pitchforks: AI Labs Are War-Gaming A Catastrophe, Public Revolt, And The Crackdown That Follows | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Every Drop Counts: Germany\u2019s Water Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n

The Other Hormuz Shocks: LNG and Helium. Economic effects of the Persian Gulf cutoff, from first-order to tertiary<\/a><\/p>\n

First 50 Foods in the Amish Pantry That Almost Never Expire \u2014 Forgotten Survival Secrets Most People No Longer Know<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember David: thoughts on Luke Kemp\u2019s \u2018Goliath\u2019s Curse\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

French Students Vs. NATOf<\/a><\/p>\n

Beyond AI: NASA And DOE To Push Nuclear Power Into Space | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Hurricane Isaias Slams Gulf Coast, Knocks Out Power To 830,000 As Major Refineries Are Spared | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rutherford Institute :: AI Authoritarianism: A Government Without Constitutional Brakes | By John & Nisha Whitehead |<\/a><\/p>\n

Counting the Debt, Not the Diesel<\/a><\/p>\n

A Thimble for a Flood: Trump\u2019s Russian Diesel Deal\u2026 Why the announced volumes barely register against the global distillate shortage<\/a><\/p>\n

Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us \u2014 by Caitlin Johnstone<\/a><\/p>\n

Last Week in Collapse: October 4\u201310, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

How Dystopias Survive Through Collapse<\/a><\/p>\n

All the Canaries are Dead! \u2014 by Prof. Eliot Jacobson<\/a><\/p>\n

THE DEEPER DIVE: An Enormous Triple Bubble Bust Has Begun<\/a><\/p>\n

Oil Rises After MidEast Attacks Spread And Escalate, Stoking Supply Fears | ZeroHedge<\/a><\/p>\n

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Did Trump Approve an Israeli Nuclear Strike on Iran?<\/a><\/p>\n

Human Extinction Now Possible<\/a><\/p>\n

For Earth\u2019s Sake | how to save the world<\/a><\/p>\n

Death will come suddenly \u2026 \u2014 by Ismaele \u2014 GeoPolitiQ<\/a><\/p>\n

Winning On Science, Defeated On Politics<\/a><\/p>\n

The Biggest Winners and Losers From the Petrodollar\u2019s Decline \u2014 Financial Underground<\/a><\/p>\n

Cornucopian\u2019s Phantasmas in Charts<\/a><\/p>\n

Hundreds or thousands of supermarket refrigerators were cyber attacked, leading to enormous food losses in many countries<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Didn\u2019t 2008 Bank Bailouts Produce COVID-Level Inflation?<\/a><\/p>\n

[Essay] The Real Work: Four Things We Can\u2019t Afford to Get Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n

Stop Spraying Poison on Our Food Before Harvest<\/a><\/p>\n

The Trumpian Plan to Replace the Dollar<\/a><\/p>\n

Yemen-KSA war spiralling out of control \u2014 by Ismaele<\/a><\/p>\n

Belgium Protests: Tens of Thousands Resist Austerity<\/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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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\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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