Breaking Down: Collapse

A new analysis on the negative impact that the ultra wealthy have, compared to the average person:

The Ultrawealthy Produce More Carbon Pollution Than Nearly Half of Humanity

Disaster Divide | Oxfam

U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says

Everyone Is Buying Electric Cars—Except Americans - The Atlantic

Musk ordered Starlink slowdown for Ukraine: WSJ | Just The News

US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect

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Narcissists don't like losing, and they don't like being told that people don't like them. What often results is a "narcissistic injury" - an existential threat to their self-worth, and a resulting fit of rage or need to exert power or control, fueled by ego. When the person expressing that rage is one of the most powerful people in the world, it can have lasting and out weighted impacts.

JD Vance cancels Minnesota visit to discuss fraud, officials say | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul

Trump Moves Natalie Harp Into Ultra-Private White House Hideaway

Pentagon orders bases to plan for 90 days without the grid as Britain urges to stockpile supplies | Fortune

US warns allies to prepare for potential Iran strikes after election | AP News

US Army Starts Practicing Digging Mass Battlefield Graves - Newsweek

What Is FORTRESS? Pentagon’s 90-Day Plan to Keep US Military Bases Running - Newsweek

Senator Reveals Trump’s ‘Insane’ Plan for After the Election

Hegseth Fires a Top General - The Atlantic

Trump's 'no more elections' during wartime quip revives fears about American democracy | Fortune

Pentagon Secretly Braces for Embarrassing Trump Defeat

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A look at two aspects of Trump corruption:

Jared Kushner pushes back on report involving hacked phone, spies, billion-dollar transfer - CBS News

White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff - The Washington Sun

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Apologies, as expected I didn't have time to record a new episode today, so we'll revisit an old classic on our oceans, which is more relevant today than ever.

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Corporations are gaining more and more power to do as they please. As that translates to more profit, they will continue to do so at the expense of the planet and its citizens (both human and not).

Woody Harrelson: "No one loves you more than Exxon" | New Exxon El Niño Commercial

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre | Environment | The Guardian

Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers — forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud | Tom's Hardware

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It's becoming evident very quickly that the advancement of AI will bring an increase in cybersecurity issues - making the internet an increasingly dangerous foundation to rely on.

AI's 'Black October': PHP vulnerabilities trigger fresh wave of alarms

Altman admits the cybersecurity crisis is going to get worse: "I no longer think we're gonna be able to patch all the bugs." : r/OpenAI

Impact of AI on cyber threat from now to 2027 | National Cyber Security Centre

AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say | Reuters

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As geo-engineering becomes more of an inevitable reality, we look at the results of one war-gamed scenario:

They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think | WIRED

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Sources:

FCC Threatens Broadcasters Over Polls Predicting Disaster for GOP | The New Republic

If Democrats Win Congress, Could the G.O.P. Refuse to Seat Them? - The New York Times

How the Trump Administration Politicized the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — ProPublica

'Don’t let them rig this' | Dolly Parton’s sister claims she had to correct her ballot selection while voting in Tennessee | wbir.com

Texas Sued After Glitch Delays 600,000 Voter Registrations | The New Republic

Exclusive: Thousands of North Carolina ballots set to be rejected after GOP imposed strict new rules, data shows - Democracy Docket

Armed federal agents knock on doors looking for noncitizen voters

DOJ accuses California of facilitating 'unlawful voting'

‘They will all go to jail’: Trump threatens California officials amid push to reject 20,000 ballots - Democracy Docket

Trump DOJ’s California crackdown rests on 25 potentially illegal votes out of 45 million ballots cast - Democracy Docket

Todd Blanche must confirm DOJ won’t seize ballots, senators demand - Democracy Docket

https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/s/z2671NMevR

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Things can change quickly in a collapsing world. We often think of what the future will be like, and forget that collapse is being experienced today, in a million different little ways:

French supermarkets targeted by massive defrost cyberattack

‘We are suffocating’: protests spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living cost tensions intensify | Protest | The Guardian

FEMA tells states to handle disasters on their own - POLITICO

Tap water no longer drinkable in Norwegian village as climate-related thawing releases heavy metals | Norway | The Guardian

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The way that we measure the economy is deeply flawed, as is manifest by the fact that the government says the economy is currently healthy. Do you feel confident in our current economy?

US families are behind on bills at rate not seen since Great Recession of 2008 | The Independent

IMF warns global economy ‘could soon test the limits of resilience’ | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | The Guardian

Global Oil Tanker Shortage is Getting Worse By the Day

America Is Measuring Its Economy Wrong

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New papers have come out emphasizing the increase in the rate of change, when it comes to the warming of the planet

A recent doubling of global warming rate signals a 1.5 °C breach by 2028 | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Climate Change Is Accelerating Faster Than We Can Respond, Scientists Warn

Global Warming Rate Has Recently Doubled Meaning We Pass 1.5C By 2028 and 2.0C by as Early as 2038 : r/collapse

Scientists say Doomsday Glacier melting ‘aggressively’ | CNN

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A new report analyses the 17 biggest threats that humanity faces, including a couple of possibilities for extinction:

Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment | Global health | The Guardian

The Lancet Commission on 21st century global threats to health

Rethinking threats to human survival - The Lancet

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Sources:

Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize member: Report

ICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American Prospect

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Species are declining at an accelerating rate. Here, a glimpse into some of them:

‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record | Birds | The Guardian

Populations of wild species fell by an average of 73% from 1970 to 2022, WWF says - The Japan Times

World's largest penguin colony hit by climate-driven decline

Puffin island Lundy on cusp of closure as it runs out of water

Redwoods are iconic ecosystems. But now they’re overheating. | Vox

Vegetables are now half as nutritious than 60 years ago. Experts have worked out why | The Independent

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Just because we don't talk about it often doesn't mean it isn't happening... Methan emission are growing and aren't accounted for in the models:

Revealed: the methane mega-leaks from UN climate summit host Turkey | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian

US will rescind policy targeting oil and gas industry methane leaks | Reuters

Heat-trapping gas once frozen in Arctic ground is slowly leaking and warming the planet

Decadal doubling of Siberian methane emissions due to warming-induced fires and methanogenesis | Science

Siberian methane emissions have doubled in a decade, study co-led by UK scientists finds | EurekAlert!

Siberia's growing methane threat could offset 20% of global methane reduction targets by 2050

Extreme weather likely to increase methane emissions from landfills | Research | Chemistry World

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As pressure builds on the nations first (and most severely) impacted by Climate Change and collapse, a Substack article considers the force that will be used against migrants fleeing the chaos.

Comments - The Massacres are Coming - by Sarah Connor

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As the Super El Nino continues to grow, local governments are taking pre-emptive actions:

We're gonna need a bigger chart : r/collapse

We have a bigger chart : r/collapse

The clocks are changing and so is the season - get ready for a summer of weather surprises Auckland - OurAuckland

‘Like an earthquake’: El Niño is coming for California – is the state ready? | California | The Guardian

How California is bracing for a winter of floods, fires and extreme storms all at once | Environment | The Guardian

El Niño high tides will batter California Thanksgiving, Christmas

Ten things to do right now to prepare for predicted severe El Niño impacts | ANR News Releases

The Godzilla El Niño Is a Rehearsal for the Rest of Our Lives - Bloomberg

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This time, take Trump literally

'Should Concern All Americans': Records Show ICE Has Gathered 50 Million Voter Records Ahead of Midterms | Common Dreams

Trump plan to send 1,000 DOJ monitors to the polls could ‘jeopardize the election,’ NAACP lawsuit warns | The Independent

DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms - Democracy Docket

ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls - Democracy Docket

Trump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit says - Democracy Docket

GOP-controlled Georgia election board asks DOJ to declare state’s voting machines illegal - Democracy Docket

Election deniers Cleta Mitchell and Tina Peters want Trump’s commerce secretary to regulate voting machines - Democracy Docket

New Jersey GOP operative, pardoned by Trump, accused of scheming to purge Democratic voters ahead of midterms - Democracy Docket

Can Trump really pay for campaign ads with your tax dollars?

Trump Calls for Media Outlets to Be Arrested Over Rally Coverage

ABC to federal judge: Trump’s FCC is holding our head on a ‘guillotine’ | CNN Business

FBI Whistleblower: Trump Ordered Probe of Protesters Over a TikTok | The New Republic

Pete Hegseth's New Religious Affairs Office Sparks a Legal Church-State Fight

Veterans at NYC Homeless Shelter Could Lose Funding; City Clashes With VA Over Trump Orders

Congress’ Watchdog Finds Trump Illegally Withheld More Than $1 Billion in Federal Funds - The Washington Sun

Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies by suicide - The Banker

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Revisiting Episode 63: Why we're wrong or so they say - Resource Scarcity

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Revisiting Episode 51: A conversation with Tom Murphy

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