Soaring to the edge of the dawn of the future

Blog for the future; foresight made interesting

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Free, live tracking of the Strait of Hormuz shipping crisis. Ship count, oil prices, carrier status, consumer impact estimates.

When will you feel the impacts of inflation across different things generally?

Next question is: when will people start to judge the abilities of your government's abilities to act fast and quick to relief them from the impacts of inflation?

Immediately!

Then the next question is: when will the voters in your country start to MERCILESSLY PUNISH your governments and political parties that fail to provide solutions?

Depends on the next election cycle in your country.

The world could have much more prepared if they learnt the painful lessons from covid but as the geopolitical tsunamis keep coming, who don't have pants are exposed.

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The races to a disasterous future

Are we GOING TO lost controls or have we ALREADY lost the controls because there is NO sincere political will to regulate the developments of AIs?

Mark their words and the consquences of so! Elon Musk-whatever he 'warned' in the past versus whatever he HAD PROACTIVELY acted as a king maker to pop up the most authoritarian USA regime and USA president in history. Whatever he 'cried out' the dangers of ungoverned AIs to his ACTUAL DEEP involvements in DODGE by axing USAID and closure of Voice of America had SERIOUSLY caused DEATHS AND SPREADS of Ebola in Africa and muted of democratic voices in the rest of the world!

Sam Altman is literally known as LIAR with open eyes WITHOUT blinking eyes for whatever he says versus whatever he actually does via Open AI. He is still there because another big tech monster Microsoft keeps him on the board. Open AI is a classical failure enterprise case which the subsequent paths of the company departs from the original mission, vision and objectives of the initial co-founders.

In the absence of AI governance, what HAS ALREADY BEEN A REALITY is the undermine of democracy in USA as AI big bosses rush to rub shoulders of Donald Trump in order to secure lucrative government contracts AGAINST democracy and FOR destructive wars overseas as they compete with Israel's Plantir and other autocratic regimes' AIs to impose state censorship against ordinary citizens.

In the absence of ethical and social just applications of AIs, not only frontline entry level of jobs and back ends supportive jobs in developed countries are gone, ironically, people work in AI industries in USA are among those being axed. Their jobs went to developing countries where there are deficiencies in fair work laws and protection of labour rights to facilitate the big techs to exert maximisation of exploitations of labours in the name of cost savings while customers of the developed countries receive poor customer services.

In the extreme case, ungoverned AIs resulted in the deaths of minor age people because AI ALWAYS fit whatever the users like. When the 'smart' robot senses that a user is 'interested' about sucides and deaths, they will feed MORE information to reinforce such 'interests' by DEFAULT alogrithms.

In the absence of robut governance and regulations of the big techs, we ARE ALREADY HEADING towards more economic oligopolies beyond just the big tech industries. It is not news that AI enhanced automatic decision makings have resulted in financial harms or discriminations against vulnerable and marginalised sectors of a society because these systems diminish or eliminate human oversights and interventions. Weakened democracies are seen across the world as AIs greatly facilitates the rise of populistic politics via social media platforms. Overly concentration of big techs companies in few developed states, especially among the superstates lead to weakening of protections on individual consumer/user rights and increased risks of assualts on citizenry privacy and civil freedoms.

In the FACADES of 'convenience' and 'tech-chills', the public is brainwashed and blind sighted to sacrifice their privacy and SURRENDER civil rights to the big techs' bosses, politicians and authoritarian governments' state censorships.

D Trump and his regime illustrate how dangerous an authoritarian populistic regime can collude with the big techs in tearing down AI regulations for the protection of the public in the name of 'commercial freedom'. USA is not the only failed case of democracy. What happens there is consistent with other failed cases of democracies that had fallen to authoritarianism and populism. Freedom without governance IS LAWLESSNESS.

Brake absence AI developments without enhancing citizenry to stand up against the threats of politics and big businesses is corporatocracy.

Whether the politicians and powerful corporations wear deceiful 'chill' tech masks, autocracy is still AS IS.

Any technology developed without bound by governance and regulations is DOOMED to be harmful as there is no brake to prevent nor stop the technology being misused or fallen into the wrong hands.

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Greece is paying the price of severe population decline

Longdated driver: debt crisis in the last decade causing many Greeks to flee overseas. Most of them never return.

Current hindrance: hard-line right wing political party only prefers Greeks to be born or return because they can't put down ethnic pride and prejudice. The populistic rhetorics around immigration is 'only' Greek is better for maintaining the Hellenization heritage and culture.

Current limitations: Greece makes up of many islands that are paradise to visit as tourists but hell to live as locals. These offshore islands are cut off from the Mainland. The current oil crisis means a normal everyday trip to and from Mainland becomes expensive. Even for the most popular tourism islands, the local ferries are not frequent. Lack of schools, severely lack of promising employment opportunities and absence of essential critical services don't make these islands livable for settlement purpose. How can young people live on shepherding goats, throwing fishing nets and ride on donkeys for life on the islands in 21st century? In addition, there are geographical threats. During emergency, such as the earthquakes that shook Santorini last year forced 11000 to evacuate, living on the islands became nightmares.

Current reality: even few young people choose to return, they only stick to Athens. They can't re-populate the entire country that is dying from population lost.

Question is how long Greece can survive before political bias and pride breaks the donkey's neck?

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Australian Prophetic Council and The Prophetic grift of Gary Morgan exposed

Mike Winger drops another name in his attempt to expose cover-up culture. Read more…

Welcome to the era of AI social media fake accounts, false prophecy and data minings.

Social media becomes automatic cults platforms, just like all sorts of junks being spreaded.

Those who stick to biblical teachings don't need to find new prophecies outside the Bible. Those who seek to deceive find new platforms to lead the blind sheep into the pit, just with a click or without any click, all thanks to the AI automatic machine learnt to generate any contents based on big data.

Those churches without biblical solid grounds and divine discernments can't deserve wolves and sherpherds.

Those big social media companies rip money from anybody for their own big data profits before anybody rips anybody downstreams. Anything wrong, closed the accounts or not. Let the users and viewers bear the consequences of whatever they read and watched. Whoever being radicalised, deceived, and led into the pit is ALWAYS none of the business of the social media companies.

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Who pays for population decline?

The story everyone is reading: Anti-migration rhetoric populistic driven politics is rising across advanced economies.

The story most are missing: Those same economies are quietly bidding against each other for the workers they say they don't want.

What the election cycles driven politicians rhetorical comments don't address are the four pivitol shifts that are now reshaping labour, capital, and sovereign credit beneath the political surface.

1. The demographic deficit is binding

OECD working-age population is projected to decrease 13% by 2064. Demographic decline in OECD ageing economies is now an operational constraint on workforce planning, not a political choice - and the only response architectures that close the gap on the relevant horizon are migration (managed via bilateral pact) and AI / automation productivity only closes a fraction, not the whole.

2. Bilateral pacts are the new migration architecture

Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Japan and Korea have all signed new labour-mobility pacts since 2023. India, Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam are setting the terms.

 3. Sectoral labour costs are repricing operating models.

Foreign-born doctors and nurses already account for 22% and 17% of the OECD health workforce; Ireland 52% of nurses foreign-trained. Wage pressure compounds.

 4. Financial markets are pricing demographic risk.

Ratings agencies, the IMF, BIS and major asset managers are all naming demographic trajectory and migration architecture as material long-term inputs.

The pricing of sovereign bonds in demographic-deficit economies is starting to differentiate from peers for the first time since the eurozone-crisis era.

Capital-allocation tilt toward sending-economy sovereigns. Institutional allocators starting to capture spread differentials over demographic-deficit advanced-economy bonds.

The point is not that migration is rising. What was a political debate is now a financial-market, operating-model, and sovereign-credit story.

The structural shift is operating beneath the political surface. If your policy-tracking is tuned to electoral cycles and ministerial announcements, you are likely missing the architecture that defines the next decade's labour mobility.

The Board question

What other structural shifts are we systematically missing because they don't fit the political-event horizon our intelligence apparatus is tuned to?

Source: https://www.shapingtomorrow.com/strategic-intelligence-reports/who-pays-for-population-decline#section-key-findings

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https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/10/eastern-approach-strategic-foresight-future/

Why Eastern philosophies matter in strategic foresight

Western-rooted approaches to strategic foresight are valuable, but they can leave leaders trapped in the illusion of control, rather than prepared for uncertainty.

Many Eastern philosophies meanwhile have cultivated wisdom to be at ease with navigating change.

Leaders should consider opening themselves to the flexibility, wisdom and surrender embedded in Eastern philosophies.

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Contributors of this documentary suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy, sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government.

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DEADLY predicament of the futre of energies

Continue reliance of fossil fuels dragged the war into endless oil driven wars in the Middle East. Countries destroyed to suit the Western hegemonic interests there. Millions of people displaced in the courses of the oil wars.

Switch to green energies? Not green AT ALL because extraction and processing of MANY MORE different types of minerals and rare earths lead to FAR MORE extensive environmental and ecological destructions. TENS OF MILLIONS of forced labours are enslaved in the developing countries.

This time, the global player is another ruthless hegemon power: China. They suppress anything reported regarding their modern slavery, enviornmental distructions and corruptions (heavy bribes paid to politicians, bureaucrats and powerful interests where they mine).

Whether it is US-Western dominated fossil fuels or China dominated green energies, the world still doesn't get genuine sustainable, enviornmental and social responsible sources of energy.

Australia is NO DIFFERENT from Africa for being MASSIVELY destroyed and exploited environmentally because the big parties in Australia runs the continent with 18th century colonial settlers' mentality whenever it comes to digging out or logging down ANYTHING on Australian soils TO SERVE the political and encomic interests of BIG GLOBAL BUSINESSES from the superstates.

In the course, they try to convince Australian public they are 'greener' than their political rivals.

The Iran wars triggered global oil crisis has fully exposed Australia's EXTREME WEAKNESS AND VULNERABILITY in energy security and sustainability.

For the big parties here, their quick patchy fixes DO NOT help to improve the future of energy security and sustainability.

The Coalition's "solution" is drill more oil in Australia like no tomorrow.

The Labour party's "solution" is TRIPLE DOWN handing over rare earths to USA while letting PRC state owned wind turbines companies and solar farms big players to mine in Australia LIKE THEY DO IN AFRICA, which is TOTAL TERMINATION OF Australia's prestine environmental heritages.

Even Elon Musk's solar battery farms in Australia use PRC Congo blood colbalt. Bearing a USA company logo DOES NOT make the 'green' energy truly green.

Since Industrial Revolution, no country can resolve one biggest paradoxical predicamen question regarding energies:

HOW CAN WE POWER MODERNISATION OF ECONOMIES WITHOUT WARS, DESTRUCTIONS OF THE ENVIORNMENT AND CREATION OF MANY MILLIONS OF WAR DISPLACED PEOPLE AND MINING SLAVES?

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Misuses of classified state information to reward insiders become a signatory phenonmenon under D Trump's nepotistic crony capitalism.

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How AI is being used to target Palestinians

We examine how emerging military tech is used in war zones and how Palestinians try to use tech to their advantage.

Plantir, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Intel are just examples of how the big techs support systematic application of AIs to persecute the Palestinians driven by political, ideological and for profits motives.

Israel is not the only authoritarian regime that weaponise AI for political persecution.

Donald Trump and his administration are very aggressive in using AI against Americans in the following areas:

Key details regarding AI monitoring of political critics in the USA:

DOGE Surveillance: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has reportedly deployed AI tools to monitor federal worker sentiment for signs of disloyalty to the Trump administration and Elon Musk.

Social Media Monitoring: Agencies like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) use AI to analyze social media posts, searching for "extremist" rhetoric or "antisemitic activity," a practice that critics fear could be used to label critics of the administration as "terrorist sympathizers".

Military/Intelligence Interest: The Department of Defense (DoD) has faced scrutiny for attempting to use advanced AI to analyze data on American citizens, sparking disputes over surveillance safeguards.

Law Enforcement Use: Law enforcement agencies have historically monitored social media to track protesters, including those involved with BLM and recent political protests, a practice now amplified by AI tools. 

The weponisation of AIs as state surveillance and political persecution tools threatens the future of democracy, humanity, civil rights and sustainability of an open civil society.

Read more: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-ai-can-enable-public-surveillance/

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Is space solar energy the future?

China is developing a massive solar power station in geostationary orbit that could generate gigawatts of electricity and beam it directly to Earth. If China works it out successfully, she will reshape the future of electricity, global influence and the way space is used as strategic territory.

If China can beam energy from the space solar farms without any need to cross border lines, pipes, cables and choked navigation points, she will gain power that no nation can ever held.

The space will no longer just about orbits of satelite and communication, it becomes an energy platform, a new industrial zone above the atmosphere. The question is NO LONGER about who can build rockets but who can build and maintain space infrastructures to stay there.

This video demonstrates the concept of China's space base solar farm station.

NASA doesn't progress far for several reasons:

US politics is overly sold out addicted to the ideology of oil and fossil interests.

US spent most of its finance in oil related wars in the last two decades WHEN China took it seriously to progress from previous known research and studies and began their works.

Toxic USA partisanship and recurring budget stand offs between the two parties make it impossible for continous of fundings from the Congress.

Ironically, the only person that axed MOST of US funding was Elon Musk via DODGE. Musk has his own space agenda outside WH.

Before the Iran war, US national debt had already surpassed ONE TRILLION. The scale require to make space solar farm operational viable (let alone commercially profitable) is MUCH MORE than trillion. Where can US find this money?!

Japan is another leading in research and experiment on smaller scale but the size of country is hard to make the gigantic capital investments (in China's words to describe what they are doing is build another 3 Gorges dam on the space) required. Japan government will face the political risks of any failures on big investment projects.

EU is the nearest close player because EU widely accept uptaking of renewable energies but EU is dwarfted by internal divisions in approval ANYTHING big and financially tied up in the ongoing Ukraine war as Trump's USA is throwing out threats to leave NATO and cutting back financially supports for Ukraine. If EU can unite for this strategic future in coming decades, they may success or at least close the space racing gap with China.

UK has started something on space solar energy projects but same as Japan, the size of country is too small to reach the gigantic scale that justify ONGOING HUGE capital and funding. UK leaving EU dwarfts it A LOT of aggregated advantages.

China on the other hand:

does not need to accountable to anybody for their actions and therefore doesn't need congress/parliament approval.

does not involve in wars like USA.

big strategic investments are always means to serve political strategic purposes. Any loss is justified for the purposes without any big political consequences.

can move any capital, resources and manpower to serve what CCP prioritised as strategic industries.

Putting aside difference of political conflicts, space solar energy if works out successfully, is INDEED is the most peaceful and sustainable way of renewable energy because it totally transcends all the political fault lines of earthy territories. In foresseable future, there won't be space wars because even other players can also join in and reach technological, commercial, and operational scales, NOBODY will be insane enough to destroy each other's solar energy space stations up on the orbits. (Even during the cold war, USA and USSR cooperated up there on their space stations.) In this sense, everyone down on Earth is better shield from unncessarily oil-resources driven wars. Within such context, the success of space solar farm stations may be a game changer for the future of energy and peace.

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Chinese idiom: A crafty rabbit has three burrows

How do the crafty rabbits in the Middle East built their three burrows to hedge the geopolitical risks?

In this cartoon English subtitled video, the presenter explained how do the three oil big rabbits in the Middle East Saudi Arabia, Iran and Qatar built their burrows to hedge the geopolitical and economic risks surrounding the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab.

Whether the burrows are successive depends on how each rabbit or other rabbits under the strategic importances of their critical resources well and how well they can leverage the most economic viable geographically and diplomatically WITH STRATEGIC FORESIGHTS. At the end of this video, the presenter raised an IMPORTANT thought provoking message: hedging doesn't just apply to oil but other strategic sectors such as semiconductors and emerging high techs industries.

After watching this interesting inspirational cartoon video, I am thinking HOW ABOUT even more sly creatures who see the whole world clear and forward enough leave other new sly rabbits at wherever they want, then it will become 3x3=9 burrows. Each existing and new rabbit can give birth to further rabbits that in turn build their 3 burrows.

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https://www.reuters.com/investigations/china-is-mapping-ocean-floor-it-prepares-submarine-warfare-with-us-2026-03-24/#:~:text=While%20the%20research%20has%20civilian,Pacific%2C%20Indian%20and%20Arctic%20oceans.

While D Trump is obssesive in striking and bombing Iran, PRC is busy in surveying the world's most strategic oceans bottoms in the races of deep sea mining and submarine military capabilities.

Even where data is gathered for scientific purposes, the integration of civilian scientific research and military technology development has become a key focus of the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping. Beijing refers to this approach as “civil-military fusion.”

China had dramatically expanded its surveying efforts, providing data that enables submarine navigation, concealment, and positioning of seabed sensors or weapons.

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Stalin had a dream to build a transartic Siberian train for strategic military and economic developments in the icy wilderness. His dream didn't come true because there was no gas discovery in his time.

With the need for a shorter transportation route to transport the large gas reserve in the Arctic region to Europe, Stalin's dream has been revived, though the route was different what his visioned.

Starting in Tobolsk, the journey heads 1,000 miles north to Novy Urengoy, Russia’s largest gas field. The railway is crucial for exporting condensed gas, and snowplough trains work tirelessly to keep lines open. From Novy Urengoy, the journey continues across the gas fields to Nadym, where a new railway is being built over Stalin’s infamous "Railway of Death." The journey ends at Labytnangi, where a private train line runs to the Bovanenkovo gas field, the world’s northernmost railway.

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An oil world hinging on politically unstability

A total of the world's 38.3% of oil is transported through three of the MOST POLITICALLY unstable choked points in the Middle East!

Simply because of the obsession and addiction to oil and fossil fuels based unsustainable ways of powering modern economies.

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The strategic importance of having diversified trade routes in the rupture era of geopolitics

These routes are not just some plan B, C, D, their importances may rise to become a plan A 2 as political instability plague many traditional sea routes.

Given that approximately 40 per cent of total cargo between China and Europe is high-value product, the Trans-Eurasian Land Bridge offers new opportunities for rail to win traffic from the air and sea transport sector. The work of the CCTT and the Belt and Road Initiative are enhancing these opportunities.

The Trans-Eurasian Land Bridge offers opportunities to improve Trans-Eurasian trade and manufacturing processes based on a high-performance railway pipeline that links the strategic logistic hubs of the main socio-economic mega-regions of Europe and Asia.

The Middle Corridor has emerged as the fastest and most direct trade route between China and Europe, reducing distances by approximately 2,500 kilometers compared to the Northern Corridor. Transit times range from 10 to 15 days, significantly improving upon traditional routes, which required anywhere from 15 to 60 days. By circumventing Russia, the corridor offers an opportunity to enhance supply chain resilience and mitigate risks associated with trade restrictions.

Some of these routes offer significantly faster delivery times compared to traditional maritime transport, with rail journeys taking roughly 15-20 days compared to 30-45 days by sea, aiding industries requiring quicker turnaround, such as electronics and automotive parts.

Read also:

https:// www.globalrailwayreview.com/article/75791/trans-eurasian-one-belt-one-road

https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-middle-corridor-a-route-born-of-the-new-eurasian-geopolitics/

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On surface, the military attacks on Iran are against Iran. In reality, USA-Israel create an energy war against Europe by suffocating them to collobarate with US's Russia oil and gas sanctions to their access to Gulf oil.

Whether USA extends emergency exemptions to other countries for imports of Russian oil, Russia's invasion of Ukraine can be financially benefited to sustain the war.

Even USA doesn't extend emergency exemption to other countries regarding Russian oil and gases, other countries will be pressured to find their ways to alternative supplies, including Russia oil and gases if the Gulf situation doesn't improve.