Reading & Research List April 2024

aagabriel in #pob • 7 months ago

Reading & Research List April 2024

It's the first week of April 2024 and the Easter Holiday season ended at the start of the month. I had a four days in a row break from work over Easter, and probably could have done more during it. Nevertheless, spending time with family and over-indulging in food and drink together was enjoyable enough, and I even managed to fit in some interesting conversations when hanging out with family and friends over Easter.

One conversation with a friend of the family who's a retired Civil Engineer was particularly interesting to me. We talked on several different subjects but the recent Baltimore Boat & Ship Insurance Catastrophe was where I learned the most from him sharing many decades' worth of industry knowledge, and firsthand experience. I too had a lot to say because of my industry knowledge, and firsthand experience of Insurance Claims Management.

I'll start on this story.

Baltimore Ship & Bridge Insurance Catastrophe

The Baltimore Ship & Bridge Insurance Catastrophe happened early Tuesday morning March 26th, 2024, when a container ship "crashed" into the central section of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. The impact from this collision caused the bridge to collapse, and insurance experts made early forecasts of collapse costs running into the billions (USD).⁽¹⁾ One day later, the insurance industry estimated insured losses to be above $1.5 billion and up to $4 billion of potential industry losses.⁽²⁾

Latest news from AM Best published yesterday indicates that Grace Ocean Pte Ltd., owner of the Singapore-flagged container ship “Dali," and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., vessel manager, filed a petition for exoneration from or limitation of liability in U.S. District Court in Maryland ⁽³⁾.

The language employed in the AM Best article reads as if it was intended to confuse the reader, with oxymoronic statements such as;

The petition claims the event "was not due to any fault, neglect or want of care on the part of petitioners, the vessel, or any persons or entities for whose acts petitioners may be responsible."

To claim the event wasn't the fault of any parties (petitioners) who own the vessel or are (may be...?) responsible for the management of it implies causation of the event and how it became an insurance catastrophe are not related factors... Stupid and nonsensical to claim as such.. Reading further, we witness blatant cognitive dissonance in phrases such as;

While an investigation of the damage to the vessel is ongoing..

..petitioners claim they are "aware of potential demands or claims against them and/or the vessel arising out of the casualty..
..petitioners said they claim exoneration from liability for any and all losses or damage from the event..

It will take time to determine insured losses for the container ship that hit a bridge in Baltimore, as a number of investigations will be involved..

While determination of the cause will have to await an investigation.. ..it appears there may have been a loss of power and propulsion on the container ship before it hit the bridge as it appeared lights were going on and off in the last few moments,..

Baltimore bridge collapse costs could ‘run into the billions’ - ..total cost of Baltimore bridge collapse & associated claims could run into the billions of dollars & add to challenges in the reinsurance market..
insurancenews.com.au - Mar 27th, 2024
Baltimore bridge collapse insured losses estimated up to $4bn
Steve Evans @ artemis.bm - Mar 28th 2024
Container Ship Owner, Manager Seek Legal Shield Against Baltimore Disaster Claims
David Pilla @ AM Best Best's News - Apr 2, 2024
Rio Tinto’s autonomous train derails in Western Australia - No one was injured in the incident that involved 38 wagons.
Alfie Shaw @ mining-technology.com - Feb 13th, 2024
Related, or no? What is the purpose of the addition of A.I into transporting control systems?

Respect Your Elders to Reconnoiter Memory-holed History

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=reconnoitre

Pier Paolo Pasolini's Posthumously Published Book "Petrolio"

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Jairus Banaji @ historicalmaterialism.com

Pasolini’s horrific murder on an Ostia beach at the beginning of November 1975 was a political crime camouflaged (and widely accepted) as a homophobic hate crime. It was part of a chain of murders that stretched back to the assassination of Enrico Mattei, head of the Italian oil giant ENI, in October 1962..

PETROLIO By Pier Paolo Pasolini - Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
George Armstrong @ LAtimes.com - Mar 23rd, 1997

PETROLIO - page 109

“Although he had frozen and his hair was standing up on his head, he understood that the Devil had /spoken/ the truth. Power was in fact the purpose of his life, he admitted, preserving by his reticence a possible way out for himself.
<...> “'If you say so...’
<...> "'l am here to help you.’
<...> “'But how?’
<...> “‘Ask me for the means by which you wish to reach Power, and I will give it to you.’
<...> “A flash of intelligence gleamed in the eyes of the intellectual, lighting up for an instant his feigned torpor of a bloated child; and what he finally said, after some seconds of concentration, of hesitation, and, I would say, of inspiration, was surprising.
“He could have /named/ a thousand ways of reaching power, swift and secure: /literary/ fame, won by writing literary works, or works of sociology and essays, to which perhaps he was better suited: fame that would have to be crowned, let’s say, by the Nobel Prize (it would be easy for the Devil to help him in Sweden); or he could have asked to become an employee of one of the great firms that are traditionally inclined to steer intellectuals to technical work (obtaining excellent results): in that case, too, it would be very easy for the Devil to have him rise rapidly in the company, until he was directly alongside the top management of the /immense/ <...> /indeed/ international firm; or still, finally, he could have asked to have an openly political career, becoming
a member of a large and powerful political party, perhaps the largest: and here it would have been /extremely easy/ for the Devil to control the exchanges of favors, the opportunities <...>, which (/joined/ to the innate, even if still potential, demagogic capacity of our provincial intellectual) would conduct him to the real and formal summit of power: he would become a minister, in fact Head of State, perhaps of a semi-dictatorial government of the right.' (18)

(18) 'The father of our intellectual had been a well-known Fascist in his provincial city, but the intellectual did not confine himself to hiding this in the larger provincial city where he worked; rather—a definite sign, this, of his malady—he had made his father pass for a heroic anti-Fascist.

Cybernetic Supremacy Through Socio-Psychological Technicality

All the media, entertainment and communication industries are co-opted by military and political forces. All of it. Yes, it shall be hard to accept but from birth, youv'e been acclimatized to engaging with and acceptance of The Military Entertainment Complex.

RED VS BLUE MIND CONTROL - Podcast #193
Jason Christoff - Mar 23rd, 2024

The Psychology of Freedom · Podcast #193 - Jason Christoff - RED VS BLUE MIND CONTROL

EDOM - Electronic Dissolution of Memory

EDOM (Electronic Dissolution of Memory)
quoted by /x/ anon - Jan 12th, 2024

"EDOM (Electronic Dissolution of Memory) is nothing more than 'missing time' itself — the erasure of memory from consciousness through the blockage of synaptic transmission in certain areas of the brain. By jamming the brain’s synapses through a surfeit of acetylcholine, neural transmission along selected pathways can be effectively stilled. According to the proponents of RHIC-EDOM, acetylcholine production can be affected by electromagnetic means. (Modern research in the psycho-physiological effects of microwaves confirm this proposition.)"

https://hebrew.jerusalemprayerteam.org/edom/
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=EDOM
https://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Edom.html
Freedom has Edom in it.

Lastly - Investigate, Expose, Educate

Keep your eyes peeled and ears keen for the telltale signs of current affairs and actual noteworthy news. Here's some examples:

Medical Research Future Fund News
Australian Government Dept of Health & Aged Care - Mar 24th, 2024

Best's Review - Parametric Progress
AM Best's Monthly Insurance Magazine - April 2024 - Volume 125 - Issue 4

Australia Christmas storms industry loss lifted 11% to AU $1.55bn by PERILS
Steve Evans @ artemis.bm - Apr 3rd, 2024

Disaster Ready Fund should more than double, councils say
insurancenews.com.au - Apr 3rd, 2024

#vyb #palnet #deepdives #informationwar #aagabriel

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I quite enjoyed the refreshing sincerity of Professor Hamamoto, whom I am previously unacquainted with, and noted the picture of the young, handsome Mao he brandished at the end of the diatribe, which made me recall the young, handsome Stalin picture I have seen, that made it very apparent Stalin was once one of the cool kids, in his early 20's, with a dashing red sash tied around his neck, wowing the ladies and stunning his peers into submission with his beauty and charisma. It's things like that, hints that had I only been more cruel, more pathological, I too could have murdered tens of millions and been lavished inches in the encyclopedias. Then I rejoice at my poverty and lack of power to effect my twisted desires.

Regarding the Christoff podcast, I have long been employing goodwill in lieu of money insofar as I can. A side effect of transacting with goodwill instead of money is that you can only transact with good people, which is a great benefit. A while ago I crawled under a little old lady's house and installed a new water line. I refused payment (which is how we amass goodwill) and walked away, but she literally chased me down and thrust a handful of money at me. I think some people just don't feel comfortable carrying a goodwill balance and would rather just pay money.

Interestingly, a couple days ago I awoke from a dream aware I had deliberately precipitously ejected myself from in order that I would begin recalling my psychological state, and the circumstances of the dream, that is ordinarily impossible to recall of dreams. There is a functional purpose to our lack of recollection of our dreams. We are in conference with our (vast hierarchy of) selves when we sleep, and our conscious person needs to not know the reality of our collective state of consciousness in order to function properly. Apparently I am so rebellious that I let me know about it against orders (from the boss me), and suffered tortuous pain (from my testicles) as punishment for my disobedience (most of our physical movements are somewhat unconscious, which isn't a real mental state, but is rather when one of the me's we are acts so that our conscious me isn't overwhelmed with the minutiae of intimate control of our movements, which made it easy to jam my testicles against the mattress, like kicking me, when I ejected me from my dream. In my dream I leaped out of an office which was in the 'no recollection' zone as I was being berated/instructed by the boss me. There was a sharp demarcation between the zones, which looked like a silvery force field from immediately without, and the process of recollection began instantly when my dream head transgressed that boundary and exited it. I recall my rebellious feeling, my sense of victory over the collective, during that latter portion of the leap, but not the specific instructions I was rebelling against (as they were given inside the zone), except that I was exulting I had defeated the orders by enabling me to recall that specific feeling, which leads me to think I was contesting the lack of recollection itself. I mention the torture because it reveals the collective consciousness isn't some kind of holy spirit realm, but is a very ordinary sort of spirit realm, and that I wasn't turning to the dark side by rebelling, but perhaps turning away from the dark side. Who else uses torture?
Also, it reveals that the conscious me isn't the boss of the collective. I didn't have the ability to turn recollection on or off, and that lack of recollection is used to control us (the collective). I have gathered only bits and pieces of understanding of this collective consciousness we are from such dream states where I am able to observe from without the no recollection zone. BTW, it was a very nice office, with a large picture window showing a beautiful stellar landscape behind the bosses desk, but it was clearly a mid-level manager's office, not the ultimate pinnacle of the hierarchy). So, EDOM doesn't seem to me to be a particularly difficult thing to achieve from a technological standpoint, because we have a natural mechanism that creates conscious states incapable of recollection while we sleep.

However, I will also note that when I was put under during my heart attack preparatory to surgery, I inquired of the nurse what each of the injections she was giving me were, and I was annoyed at one she said was to make me forget what was going to be done to me. A bit later I actually awoke during the surgery, and when the surgeon threw up his hands in irritation asked him what was wrong. He told me I wasn't supposed to move, so I said 'Ok', and returned to unconsciousness (I very much wanted the surgery to go well).

But, I remember these events with crystalline clarity. I think we have some tricks and tools we can apply to recall things even if they use EDOM to 'wipe' our memories.

Thanks!

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