The Smart_city can be quite beneficial, as long as it doesn't become a totalitarian trap.
Henry_Kissinger was a very well connected and highly influential man for several decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Computers_and_nuclear_weapons
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/05/17/henry-kissinger-explains-how-to-avoid-world-war-three
He was quite an integral part of the system for so much of his life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Death
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/henry-kissinger-dies-age-100-influential-controversial-diplomat/
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/henry-kissinger-war-criminal-dead-1234804748/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_6376933ae4b0afce046cb44f
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/29/henry-kissinger-death/
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/henry-kissinger-at-100-still-a-war-criminal/
https://www.justsecurity.org/87043/is-henry-kissinger-a-war-criminal/
https://etan.org/issues/kissinger.htm
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Henry+Kissinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSyRskFFXCk
Do we live in a giant void that could solve the puzzle of the universe’s expansion? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBAv7rytktU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JuCx5FCVyQ WSJ
Why China Needs Korea more than Taiwan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS9VfNjH4Bc
China's Brand New Aircraft Carrier vs USS Gerald R. Ford Supercarrier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggh1Zc3Lf0s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger#Computers_and_nuclear_weapons
https://www.cop28.com , https://unfccc.int/cop28
This Climate_Change_Conference is certainly in one of the hotter parts of the planet.
https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-uae-venue
https://www.cop28.com/en/cop28-faqs
https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-who-wants-what-at-the-cop28-climate-change-summit/
It's foolish to think that oil will be totally phased out in the foreseeable. However, oil can certainly have several energy alternatives.
https://sdg.iisd.org/events/2023-un-climate-change-conference-unfccc-cop-28
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference#Controversies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference#Digital_Surveillance
Groups of protesters took turns paddling out into Port of Newcastle’s shipping lane to maintain a 30-hour blockage
People should be able to protest, but the shift over to better energy sources takes time.
The push to diversify energy options should have started decades ago.
Of course there are no similar protestors in China. There is no, SHUT IT DOWN MOVEMENT allowed there at all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/29/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon
https://www.power-technology.com/news/china-permitting-two-coal-fired-power-plants-per-week/?cf-view
https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-new-coal-power-plants-per-week-in-2022/
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/12/china-coal-climate-change-carbon-emissions-pledge-plants-apec/
There are people that would really like to shutdown Australia and Canada, while several other countries could keep building and growing.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/05/30/australias-crackdown-on-climate-activists
Protests can keep bringing awareness to various issues, but it really does take a lot of time to transform civilization into having a series of effective energy choices.
https://www.greenmatters.com/climate-action/bill-gates-cutting-down-trees
While this agenda in of itself doesn't quite fit the type of James_Bond_villains, it's still very concerning.
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-marc-benioff-argue-planting-trees-climate-change-2023-9
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/3/can-planting-trees-really-help-fight-climate-change
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-mars-may-have-been-its-own-worst-enemy/
https://earthsky.org/space/life-on-mars-methanogens-extinction/
Hopefully, this mentality won't spread to Brazil & Canada.
Brazil still has plenty of room for growth without taking down more of its forests & jungles.
Canada also has plenty of room for growth and can still protect most of its forests while having a lumber industry.
https://researchoutreach.org/articles/new-technology-earthquake-prediction-nankai-trough-japan/
Earthquake_prediction requires a lot of telemetry and more recently, the assistance of AI.
https://news.utexas.edu/2023/10/05/ai-driven-earthquake-forecasting-shows-promise-in-trials
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952197623000404
https://www.preventionweb.net/news/earthquake-prediction-gsi-sensor-technology
https://frankhoogerbeets.com/category/earthquake-prediction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_prediction#Notable_predictions
While some people say that Earthquake Prediction Technology exists, others say that it doesn't.
https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/earthquakes/earthquakes-probabilities
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/07/1154893886/earthquake-prediction-turkey-usgs
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-you-predict-earthquakes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_prediction#Difficulty_or_impossibility
EARTH'S DANGEROUS RING OF FIRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98bGheb22UU
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
https://www.kcra.com/article/protesters-shut-down-bay-bridge-heading-san-francisco/45862462#
There should be a way to protest without shutting down the entire bridge deck.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/protesters-block-bay-bridge-18496142.php
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/protesters-block-bay-bridge-18496142.php
Whether its a protest, or it's a fire, any major highway can be abruptly shut down, unfortunately.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/i-10-closure-california-state-of-emergency-18486449.php
Unlike the San_Francisco-Oakland_Bay_Bridge, the Jacques_Cartier_Bridge only has one 5 lane deck.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/protest-jacques-cartier-bridge-1.7029971
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/jacques-cartier-bridge-closed-in-both-directions-1.6647453
Interstate_10_in_California or any major highway, should never have a pile of flammable material under it or close to it in any way.
https://apnews.com/article/los-angeles-interstate-10-fire-1f0f48f2ac55342d9860f484cd84afc0
https://dot.ca.gov/~/link.aspx?_id=237E3123447D4C9A8B98571CE53B2E21&_z=z
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Highway+101
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/people-performing-on-transamerica-building-sf-18488992.php
Its still quite a striking building after all these decades.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67400164
Disruption of any essential infrastructure can have such far reaching inconveniences.
Thus, Australian+ports have been hit hard.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-13/dp-world-deals-with-impact-of-cyber-attack/103097658
https://www.dpworld.com/australia/ports-and-terminals
https://www.portsaustralia.com.au/value-of-ports/economy
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Australian+ports
There must be some sort of redundancy in place. Otherwise, anything without a proper backup system runs the risk of descending into chaos.
https://www.cnxtrans.com/post/exploring-the-5-major-sea-ports-of-australia
https://www.marineinsight.com/know-more/8-major-ports-in-australia/
https://www.icontainers.com/us/2020/01/20/top-10-ports-australia/
https://container-news.com/top-10-the-busiest-container-ports-in-oceania/
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Australian+ports
The growing anticipation and suspense of it all.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67387827
Iceland is facing some potentially serious disruptions.
https://iceland.nordicvisitor.com/iceland-volcano-eruption-fagradalsfjall/
https://www.visiticeland.com/eruption/
https://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/nepal-hit-by-64-earthquake-felt-new-delhi-2023-11-03
Some parts of the world have frequent earthquakes while other area are less common. Regardless as to how often, it's the very intense earthquakes that usually cause the most death and destruction.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67317442
https://www.britannica.com/news/2024843/e3fbed76b72419339d3c0edd9ad44ee2
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Nepal
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nepal-earthquake-of-2015
https://www.seismonepal.gov.np
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
https://qz.com/elon-musk-says-his-ai-company-is-ready-to-release-its-f-1850990564
X Twitter provides so much essential data input for xAI.
EM has planned this out for a long time.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-xai-set-launch-first-ai-model-select-group-2023-11-03
The Timeline_of_Twitter into becoming X and AI or xAI. Twitter had a long path to take with gradual AI upgrades all along the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk
It's all part of the EM plan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Rebrand_to_X
Now it's the dawn of xAI after so much X and Twitter data have been fed into it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-whole-foods-palm-hand-scanners-checkout-work-amazon-one-2023-10
Amazon_One is certainly a very convenient pay method, but at what cost?
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/retail/generative-ai-trains-amazon-one-palm-scanning-technology
https://www.investopedia.com/amazon-launches-palm-scanning-payments-at-all-whole-foods-7563543
https://mashable.com/article/amazon-one-palm-scan-biometric-data-privacy-concerns
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/26/amazon-biometric-payments-privacy-concerns.html
Sometimes it doesn't take that much to really slow things down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_101#California
Unfortunately, the California_Highway_Patrol can't keep watch of every mile, every minute of the day. It's just not possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_101_in_California#Central_Coast
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/3-fires-along-highway-101-231243341.html#