Mic Drop

Update:

Much of the world is leaning into a debt crisis that could upend our economic “order.” Rising interest rates on top of climate devastation, supply difficulties, labor problems, housing crookery, widespread cost of living increases, and societal unrest are driving a dangerous & negative feedback loop.

OPEC+ cuts oil production 

Fuel prices are set to rise even further with unplanned cuts to oil extraction, as OPEC+ is allegedly considering. As Europe struggles with energy for the long, nuclear? winter, the green transition may never arrive. Coal demand is up, and prices are the highest they’ve been since 2005.

The news is in: the Nordstream pipeline bombings were the largest one-time methane release on record—so far. Culpability has still not yet been established for the attacks.

The United States (and much of the rest of the world) is in the grips of a full-blown mental health crisis, says this post and its many comments explaining why. Sometimes society seems so gaslit that any little spark could set us off.

Go outside and take a long Doombreak if you need one; Collapse isn't going anywhere, except down.

Canada’s maritime provinces will need a long time to recover from Hurricane Fiona, according to this weekly observation from Prince Edward Island. But amid the collapse of infrastructure and BAU, some people have taken comfort in the silver linings.

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk changed his mind—again—and will be buying Twitter after all. The deal is now expected to close next Wednesday. If you think a billionaire 007 villain (?)—who’s getting involved in international affairs—taking over one of the world’s largest consent-manufacturing factories doesn’t pertain to Collapse, consider looking into the medieval history of the papacy, or the modern CIA/CCP.

COVID isn’t going away either, and we will certainly see new diseases emerge—or old diseases like the avian flu worsening—as the earth gets warmer, the forests get smaller, and humans live closer and closer together. We may still be in the first act, and there will be no intermission. It’s going to be one hell of a show.

Monkeypox has been detected in Vietnam for the first time. The American CDC says that monkeypox will be in the U.S. for at least a few years, although confirmed cases are still dropping.

Eyes are on South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh), where melting Himalayan glaciers will threaten the region’s water supply over the coming decades. It will also contribute to landslides, flash flooding, forced displacement, and probably water wars. These ancient glaciers can only melt once.

Update:

The UN and WHO are warning of an increase in Ebola, and cholera cases. The old Ebola vaccine is supposedly not effective against this strain circulating in the DRC.

A Mexican mayor was shot & killed by gangsters along with 17 others in southwest Mexico. This is the “logic” of insurgency; taking out supposed collaborators to send a message. The government is not improving the situation. Situations like this have led to the collapse of Burkina Faso, Mali, Haiti, etc.

Microplastics, which have stealthily become one of the restaurant industry’s secret seasonings, have been detected in breast milk for the first time. They have already been detected in placenta and in human blood.

Cholera has returned to Haiti, where it has claimed at least two lives, and is suspected in several more. Armed gangsters have blocked off clean water & medical supplies from neighborhoods around Port-au-Prince, in a protest against petrol price hikes—that’s their pretext, anyway.

 This video from Haiti was shared last week. It depicts the unstable & heavily polluted mid-stages (?) of Collapse, coming to a neighborhood near you.

Pakistan’s wet drought has damaged its harvest (and much else besides), and millions of people are going hungry there.

Somalia, which has been dealing with a 40+ year megadrought, is on the brink of famine. Resurgent rebel violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is driving hunger in the northeast DRC. Pakistan’s wet drought has damaged its harvest (and much else besides), and millions of people are going hungry there.

Wet Drought: a farming phenomenon wherein crops are ruined by too much water. Eastern Australia is bracing for a “wet drought” as a result of flash flooding projections. This will also reduce cattle numbers, which is Australia’s most profitable agricultural product. Sydney is experiencing its wettest year on record.

Drought in the southwestern U.S. is leading to the collapse of the ranching industry. Cattle herds are down 36% this year alone, a result of the growing megadrought and cost of maintaining thousands of animals.

There were new October heat records in Russia, North Korea, South Korea, in China, in Hong Kong, in Japan, in Cyprus, and in Türkiye. Also new heat records in parts of Canada, and in Utah, USA... Heat waves in Portugal are bringing clouds of dust from the Sahara. Mad Max by Monday?

Putin’s ongoing struggles in Ukraine have left him grasping for some way to flip the script and impose a new strategic calculus in his failing War. Any hope of negotiations is off the table, leaving just one option left. Whose responsibility is it to prevent Nuclear War?

What does life look like in occupied Ukraine? Some say it is “libertarian” and “post-apocalyptic” and “there is not a lot of hope left.” Someone is quoted as saying “money is now spent only on food.”Another person said, “it’s like we were thrown back thirty-five years [to the USSR, that is—and incidentally one year after Chernobyl].”

Can confirm:

North Korea may also be planning a nuclear test this month; they also test-fired another missile on Tuesday, this one over Japan—something they haven’t done since 2017. And then they tested two more missiles on Thursday (these did not go over Japan).

Meanwhile, just a few horus ago, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was disconnected from its external power source—leaving it dependent on emergency diesel generators, which reportedly have fuel for just 10 days. The countdown to a potential nuclear meltdown.

His forecast is quite scary... the vaccination programs are worsening the overall pandemic....

As Ukraine makes massive gains retaking occupied land in the south, and a bridge connecting Crimea to mainland Russia was damaged, Putin’s forces are moving nuclear equipment to Ukraine, in what many people fear could be a nuclear test—probably in the Black Sea, perhaps elsewhere.

It expired on October 2, but fighting has yet to restart…

Interesting that Nike is staying so quiet right now...