Israeli Garlic Smart Bomb used in Gaza

Israeli Garlic 'smart bomb' used in Gaza
08-Jan-2004
Scientists in Israel have developed a new weapon that allows the garlic compound "Allicin" to selectively kill.
Our correspondent reports that Palestinians in Gaza claim that the Israelis are using a new kind of weapon, the "Garlic Smart Bombs", in their attacks against the so called "cancer cells of the middle East", (our correspondent quotes here to a the words of hardliner Avigdor Lieberman, a prominent Israeli Politician who is likely to become Minister of Defense after the Israeli elections next week, who has indicated many times, that the Hamas terrorists are cancer cells in the Palestinian population, and should be destroyed).
Several months ago, a team at the Weizmann Institute reported that they successfully destroyed live by using a new, two-step system to deliver "allicin". Allicin is the substance which gives garlic its distinctive aroma and flavor. It is also potent and has been shown to kill not only cells, but also microbes, and healthy human body cells. Allicin is also highly unstable and breaks down quickly. This rapid breakdown and undiscriminating toxicity presented twin hurdles to creating an allicin-based reaction. Dr Albert Rabin and his team discuss an ingenious delivery method which works with the pinpoint accuracy of a smart bomb.
Up to date, those kinds of weapons are still forbidden to be used in International warfare, as the lasting effects are still little known, even though, the Israeli army claims these weapons to be very selective, and will effect only victims older than 18 years old, and does not harm children nor pregnant females or elder people, which have developed during their life time sufficient antidotes against the Allicin reaction.
A Belgium Journalist Joopi de Haan, touring the Gaza strip after Israel's latest incursion, visiting sites which were flattened by Israeli bombs reported a pungent smell of garlic hanging over the ruins. In an interview with a local Hamas fighter, Hassan Hamor who happened to visit his girlfriend, during the Israelis bombardment, noticed that the Hamas patriot seemed to be confused, especially in subjects such as victims and numbers, or what happened during the last three weeks, the before mentioned site effect of the "Garlic Smart Bomb". This might be the reason, that even now, after the cease fire of one and a half week, no official lists or numbers of the victims have been produced.
The Turkeys Prime Minister intent to refer a complaint of the illegal use of garlic by Israeli Forces to the United Nations Security Council in New York, (after large anti (garlic) Israel demonstrations in Istanbul and Ankara). The British Culinary Society decided to boycott Israel and to banish use of garlic in their kitchens. Their French counterparts refused to participate claiming that Garlic is one of their main ingredients of the French dishes. The Spanish and Italian chefs refused to comment. In Wall Street the cost of Garlic dropped to on known levels after this new rumor started to develop, up to date, the new administration of President Obama failed to comment on the matter.
Venezuela's President Chaves pronounced the celebration of "anti garlic day", and refused a visa for the popular Israeli Television Chef, of the Israeli culinary show, "Garlic and Pepper" Haim Cohen, who was invited by the Jewish Culinary Society in Caracas.
Allicin is an organic compound obtained from garlic. This colourless liquid has a distinctively pungent smell. This compound exhibits antibacterial and anti-fungal properties.[1] Allicin is garlic's defence mechanism against attacks by pests.

24 hours after the end of the world

24 Hours after the End of the World

By David Verveer

It is now about 24 hours after "the end of the World", and I am not sure which law of physics and /or philosophy is now ruling our existence.

Let us start with philosophy, Descartes, the father of modern philosophy stated "cogito ergo sum", which sounds extremely intelligent, and even makes sense after you learn the translation of this statement in English, namely: "I think, therefore I am". I always accepted this statement as true and logical, but now I started wondering, How can I be sure that I really exist (yesterday, before the experience in Switzerland, when one of my front teeth broke, I had the distinct sensation of my existence) but today, after the experiment took place, it might be that I don't exist anymore, and simply because it was not announced officially, and the matter that in combined form makes my body (and soul?) simply continued living on in my mind only, a type of inertia, before the antimatter takes over, and fade us out.

But let us assume that my knowledge of philosophy is based on hear say, without really understanding it, I always considered that "meat is better than bones" (of course this Old Dutch expression relating to a visit at the butcher, and not any macabre reverence of our own body, and in translation means, I believe in reality, based on facts. which brings me to the second argument, "laws of physics".

There are only a very limited number of people who manage or claim to understand what the World of scientists are researching near Geneva. The big bang theory, with scientists researching with enormous expensive, large and complex machinery, created only in order to comprehend how and why our world and the entire outer space were created.

I don't want to sound stupid, but the entire experiment, sounds and looks like "the emperor's new clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen, in which a small boy cries out that "the emperor is naked" as he did not comprehend the theory of invisible clothes, a doctrine and theology which was accepted through out the imperia, by the intelligentsia.

Another relevant example is the enjoyable promotion clip on TV by Muller (dairy products) where the driver of the van asked the question: What does it matter, how the cow produces milk, the importance is, that she is good in doing it". I know it should have been in Latin, stated by scientists such as Einstein or Zweistein, but really, let us get back to reality, what are they doing, trying to establish a new fable (sorry, I mean religion).

Somebody really mixed up our priorities, if I understand, we are running out of potable water, energy, food, space to live in, clean air, public health, but the question of the big bang is certainly not one of them, that can wait until we solved the above shortages, which are about to eliminate our existence on this globe, long before an anti-bang theory end this world with every on it or circling around it, even though, I think this will not happen during my, my children and grandchildren's life time.

The alternative energy development is much more important, using underground thermal (inner globe) massive energy resources which never have been taken into serious research, nor the use of nuclear / plasma power been considered as energy source (not that we do not have the knowledge how to use this unlimited source of energy, but because the world powers backed by the oil industrials, oppose development of alternative energy sources, which will surely be cheaper and cleaner than oil energy.

But coming back to the experiment of the big bang theory, indeed, if we knew what created us, how this world came into existence, we really got one step further in our knowledge, but perhaps this will destroy us as which probably has happened before, during the billions of years, this globe exists and is circling around the sun in this universe. Humans, as we know them, have lived only in a part of a second, in the existence of our globe and solar system, who knows, humans or other living creatures might have reached the same or higher degree of civilization before, and were wiped out by man made (creature made) catastrophes such as research and experimenting with the big bang.

If there is a God, he most likely has given up on us, and is planning to replace us with a more intelligent creation, such as the blue men of Mars (why we always talk about Green Martians?).

artificial memory

Artificial memory

By David Verveer

This is a fantasy, just based on building a logic scenery taking into account that we the humans do not know where to stop and realize what are our forbidden apples, what is supposed to be good for humankind and what are dangerous games to play with such as cloning, etc.

It were of course pure humanistic reasons which made the scientist of the early twenty first century to develop artificial memory, in order to assist those people suffering of memory loss. Memory loss is in actual fact, loosing the taste for life, as without knowing your past and present, living is tasteless and meaningless, not only for the patient himself but also for his loved ones. It is clear that if artificially one can compensate the slow decay of memory cells, by filming and interpretation of memory flashes, which are typical in people suffering from illnesses which somehow cause a memory loss.

The principle of the artificial memory is to freeze these flashes and reproduce repeatedly in order that the patient will regain some of the lost data associated with his past surroundings, his family and friends. This is a question of give and take, which needs to adjust itself to the situation and status of the patient.

In nature, memory (brain flashes) are caused and created by the brain, which is operated through a nerve center and flow of blood. Artificial brain power however can not rely on this energy and will have to operate on external electrical (battery fed) pulses. This has of course its advantages, as strokes won't kill it.

In fact the artificial memory bank (AMB) became a success overnight, and people who were suffering of brain decay rejuvenated in a very short period of time, with all side effects of re-conquering the use of failing limbs, muscles and nerves. Of course, like with every thing of this kind of equipment, it knew its failures, causing sudden death due to power failure, or insanity, when the dose of memory flashes were not replayed with comprehensible interval and strength. Most failures were caused when the AMB was used to treat insane patients, or people with a low IQ. But like many of those new kind of inventions, once it got on, nearly everybody nearing the end of his natural life, chose the AMB to enjoy life in his last years, causing religious problems, as AMB kept on working, even when the brain died, and decisions if the patient had really died, became base for heated arguments, just as stopping life support machines, several decades ago.

But than due to too much confidence of the engineers, the artificial brain started to become independent from the body it served. It did not anymore accept the individual owning the body and the failing brain; instead it became the individual itself. It stopped supplying flashes to the brain, and by becoming independent it designed artificial tools to compensate for those belonging to the body of the patient. We have no data if some of these developments were human assisted, but 50 years later, the world had to cope with independent artificial units which acted to serve their own lives rather than the humans for which they were originally created.

We have to remember however, that those AMB's were still based on human individuals, and somehow accepted the human supremacy, but then came the 2 wave of ABM's which were created by the AMB's themselves, the new wave did not need the human individual input, they created their own and clearly understood the weaknesses of the humans, their dependence on environment, their weak body and poor engineered limbs, etc., and slowly but surely, the new wave of AMB's took over the world. Humans still existed, but their living environment was restricted to certain areas where they could live without a too great danger to their own health and constitution.

Of course the AMB's did not encourage multiplication of humans and families were more or less limited to one child per couple. This was based on their human origin, caring what happened to this weak creation of the human kind.

With the AMB's advanced technological knowledge they soon discovered that there are many worlds in outer space with life, most of them advanced like the AMB's but some of them, primitive like the human earthling.

The new AMB's are now suffering of a new identity crisis, they do not know why they exist or what is the purpose, their contact with the individuals in the first wave of ABM's was taken over by efficiency, at all costs, but no will to live. The only hope for this world will be a human revolution braking out from their reservation, fighting to take back the world they lost, even though, they have forgotten the reason why.