The always-reliable ‘Sarah Connor’ reminds us that when a villain tells you what they are going to do, it’s best to believe them. Next year's plans are documented in The Heritage Foundation's 2025–2026 Policy Priorities and the National Security Strategy. They contain 11 warnings.

I’m fine with insignificance.

A few words of reflection about the holiday break and the future of this newsletter.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Seeing a lot of AI-generated holiday memes and images. Reflected on them over the weekend and more in this piece www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

New calculations show a major solar storm could trigger cascading failures across GPS, communications, and navigation.

The shit storm around us - none of it should come as a surprise. They told us their plans and now they're acting on them. It was all clearly laid out in Project 2025. Want to know what will happen in 2026? Well, they're telling us again. When they tell you what they're going to do, believe them.

What will determine our fate when TSHF, the organic free-trade lattes stop arriving, and our frequent flyer card has expired, when the last Prime package has plopped on our doorstep, and Walmart is full of zombies? Not gardens, ammo, canned goods, nor an “off the grid” power supply, but community.

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others, What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common, Why Collapse is Inevitable, How The World Ends, 11 Warnings for 2026, The Next Carrington Event, Alaska’s Rivers Red With Toxic Runoff, Worldwide Water Crisis in Slow-Motion… in The Collapse Chronicle!

“We cannot negotiate with the melting point of ice.” That from more than 50 leading scientists who study the Earth’s frozen regions. Last year ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are likely to have shed around 370 billion tons of ice, with a further 270 billion tons from the world's glaciers.

A new study reveals when glacier loss will peak and how warming levels determine how many glaciers survive this century.

What a Year of Climate Whiplash Really Looked Like, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card: Rapid Warming, Rusting Rivers & Record Ice Decline, Glaciers Disappearing Faster than Ever, America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters, Big Tech Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic… in The Collapse Chronicle!

George Tsakraklides: “Religion and the Unhappiness Machine exercised control through the myth of human purpose: not only were we supreme beings, we also had a “divine purpose”. We were meant to excel in everything, using our incredible intelligence to patronisingly preside over the creation”

Samuel Huntington once observed, “America’s elites increasingly define national identity in purely economic and ideological terms, not cultural ones.” The turning point came during the Cold War when capitalism stopped being merely an economic system and became a core part of American identity.

Money About To Get Cheaper But Life About To Get More Expensive, How Capitalism Replaced America, A Civilization of Strangers, The Myth of Human Purpose, Should We Be Talking About Collapse? Climate Hot Takes on 2025, A City Without Water: Harbinger of a Thirsty Planet… in The Collapse Chronicle!

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In post-apocalyptic fiction, the US has ended, but America continues. The question is: How? There's an entire genre of U.S.-centered, post-apocalyptic fiction, with plenty of maps to illustrate its dismal point. That point is not the future, but the present.

Mountain glaciers are melting. Permafrost is thawing. And worsening droughts are leading people to pump more groundwater for drinking water and irrigation. Continental drying contributes to water shortages and worsens sea level rise, because as water runs off it has to go somewhere.

Language matters and this article goes to how this regime has weaponized it. Vagueness of language proves a useful tool, in the manner of imperial China, whose mandarins were highly legalistic but kept written law purposely ambiguous so as to maximize the prerogatives of imperial power.

William Rees: “Humans are wrecking their home planet, geo-politics is boiling over, civil unrest is palpable and human nature is at the heart of it all. Modern techno-industrial society has self-organized for ignominious collapse… and there is nothing much we can do about it.“

Longest suicide note in US history, Why collapse is inevitable, Trump and the end of history, America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal familiar fault lines, Slow-motion water crisis unfolding around the world, Energy bills in US have increased 13%, Unemployment Reaches 4.6%… in The Collapse Chronicle!

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?

Ford announced a series of moves in its EV business, pivoting to a hybrid and extended-range EV strategy instead of full EVs, and will take a whopping $19.5 billion in charges related to the move.

According to private and federal lawsuits, the country’s biggest meat processors have been using a secretive data company to share sensitive information, enabling them to hike up prices and suppress wages for decades.

The numbers tell the story. By February 2025, American treasury yields hit 4.22 percent while Chinese bonds sat at 1.79 percent. A 250 basis point gap. High American interest rates meant dollar debt became impossible for most of the Global South. China saw the opening.

We like to believe in the idea human progress and social justice. Yet climate change and ecological collapse are very likely to cause political stresses that nullifies legal precedents like abolition, and which bring about agrarian and manufacturing crises in which people are forced into labor.

The Arctic may feel distant, but some of the most important climate changes on Earth are unfolding there right now. Chemical reactions in the Arctic atmosphere are accelerating warming and reshaping climate far beyond the polar region.

Earth is a balanced system where anything may tip the balance and trigger a long chain of harmful events. In response to global climate change, other systems, such as global oceanic circulations, could collapse, with devastating consequences.

Questions about how much Earth has warmed, How Arctic air amplifies global warming, could lead to catastrophic freezing, Climate change broke the Pacific Northwest’s plumbing, How the pandemic accelerated geopolitical breakdown, The secret algorithm behind your $20 burger… in The Collapse Chronicle!

When the Apocalypse Strikes, What Will Save Us? Why Some People See Collapse Earlier Than Others, What History’s Fallen Societies Have in Common, Hundreds of Quakes Detected at Antarctic Doomsday Glacier, Global Emissions 10 Years After Paris, How The World Ends… in The Collapse Chronicle!

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An ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem. It is China’s flagship infrastructure investment in South America.

Why It’s a Wonderful Life Still Matters, Will There be Food? Were Bread and Honey Once Superfoods? The Race to Grow More Food on Less Land, How Climate Change has Become the Property Market’s Biggest Threat, How the Supreme Court and Corporate Money Captured America… in The Collapse Chronicle!

Just in case you forgot: An infinitesimal 0.001 percent of the world’s population controls society through its vast wealth.

Thirty years of forest demographic data, combined with recent ecophysiological measurements, reveal that intense Amazon droughts sharply increase tree mortality once soil moisture falls below a threshold, and that these hot droughts will become more frequent.

A new study challenges the general belief that after net zero conditions, will begin to improve for future generations. Deadly hotter and longer heatwaves, which worsen in severity the longer it takes to reach net zero carbon emissions, will become the norm according to ew climate research.

By 2029 this country will be distinctly on the imperial decline despite a Gilded Age ballroom, plans for an imperial arch, and his face on a coin. History won’t care. These vanities will remain largely irrelevant to the ceaseless struggle for geopolitical power, and to the inexorable math of energy.

The year the US gave up on climate, and the world gave up on us, Ozymandias on the Potomac, Deadly heatwaves will intensify for 1,000 years after net zero, Amazon droughts, Washington floods, East Coast freeze, Measles in SC, ‘Super flu,’ Seneca cliff for democracy… in The Collapse Chronicle!

In her most recent, Sarah Connor has taken on RTO, or the “return to office" fetish so beloved by corporate managers. Employees LOVE working at home, which seems to be a perverse challenge to C-suite types. RTO forced a transition from management by sight to management by result.

Regular readers of this newsletter know that we cast far and wide for news items, owing to our reflexive distrust of billionaire-owned corporate media, who collectively have shown themselves to be untrustworthy stewards of public trust.

Days of heavy rain from an atmospheric river triggered major flooding in western Washington state that topped all-time record crests in some areas. Moisture from this storm system will help two fast-moving winter storms spread snow across the eastern U.S., with another atmospheric river on its way.

The regime sided with officials from Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iran in a successful effort to block part of a UN report about the dire state of the planet because it called for phasing out fossil fuels, switching to clean energy and reducing plastics, according to participants.

[U.S] Water reaches roofs in Washington towns, forcing water rescues and evacuations edition.cnn.com/weather/live... #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Storm #Flood #Washington #America

Though few would ever think of it this way, a child born today is, in truth, being delivered into the slow-motion climate equivalent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, for such a kid, there’s unlikely to be any ducking and covering. And yet all too many global leaders are at work making things worse.

Don’t Go Buying Any Beachfront Property, Each Child Today Born Into a Slow-Motion Hiroshima, You’re Losing an Information War You Didn’t Know You Were Fighting, RTO: Class Warfare by Executives, The Empire Is Forever, Seven Richest Billionaires: All Media Barons… in The Collapse Chronicle!