30-09-2016, 03:07 PM
Slight aside:
Tom Magolds book Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare' Paperback 1 Mar 2001 is a good read, some scary Russian stuff (Marburg + Ebola).
Israeli "ethno-bomb" controversy[edit]
In November 1998, The Sunday Times reported that Israel was attempting to build an "ethno-bomb" containing a biological agent that could specifically target genetic traits present amongst Arab populations.[SUP][8][/SUP] Wired News also reported the story,[SUP][9][10][/SUP] as did Foreign Report.[SUP][11][/SUP]
The article was quickly denounced as a hoax. Microbiologists and geneticists were skeptical towards the scientific plausibility of such a biological agent.[SUP][12][/SUP] The New York Post, describing the claims as "blood libel", reported that the likely source for the story was a work of science fiction by Israeli academic Doron Stanitsky. Stanitsky had sent his completely fictional work about such a weapon to Israeli newspapers two years before. The article also noted the views of genetic researchers who claimed the idea as "wholly fantastical", with others claiming that the weapon was theoretically possible.[SUP][13][/SUP]
A planned second instalment of the article never appeared, and no sources were ever identified. Neither of the authors of the Sunday Times story, Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin, have spoken publicly on the matter[SUP][citation needed][/SUP].- from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon
It seems to me, that early applications of technology are specifically exploited towards killing people.
Incidentally, some interesting points mooted & unexplored on Newsnight last night, on the panopticon & it's effects - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07...t-29092016 +35:11 : I tend to think this is just more stressing for the population in general, but a delicious masturbatory trip for the "technology!"-gurning securitate - "there are only hunters and farmers!" is a very real and highly distopian stanza. I got the expected and oh-so-standard refs throughout the piece, especially to the Orwell quote "You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized." (1984), which minded me of the many refs I've had to "infra-red/see in the dark/(and all-but-) starlight scopes", which simply covers the Ranger-R mm-wave eyes-on. Not even not in the dark-....
Tom Magolds book Plague Wars: The Terrifying Reality of Biological Warfare' Paperback 1 Mar 2001 is a good read, some scary Russian stuff (Marburg + Ebola).
Israeli "ethno-bomb" controversy[edit]
In November 1998, The Sunday Times reported that Israel was attempting to build an "ethno-bomb" containing a biological agent that could specifically target genetic traits present amongst Arab populations.[SUP][8][/SUP] Wired News also reported the story,[SUP][9][10][/SUP] as did Foreign Report.[SUP][11][/SUP]
The article was quickly denounced as a hoax. Microbiologists and geneticists were skeptical towards the scientific plausibility of such a biological agent.[SUP][12][/SUP] The New York Post, describing the claims as "blood libel", reported that the likely source for the story was a work of science fiction by Israeli academic Doron Stanitsky. Stanitsky had sent his completely fictional work about such a weapon to Israeli newspapers two years before. The article also noted the views of genetic researchers who claimed the idea as "wholly fantastical", with others claiming that the weapon was theoretically possible.[SUP][13][/SUP]
A planned second instalment of the article never appeared, and no sources were ever identified. Neither of the authors of the Sunday Times story, Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin, have spoken publicly on the matter[SUP][citation needed][/SUP].- from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon
It seems to me, that early applications of technology are specifically exploited towards killing people.
Incidentally, some interesting points mooted & unexplored on Newsnight last night, on the panopticon & it's effects - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07...t-29092016 +35:11 : I tend to think this is just more stressing for the population in general, but a delicious masturbatory trip for the "technology!"-gurning securitate - "there are only hunters and farmers!" is a very real and highly distopian stanza. I got the expected and oh-so-standard refs throughout the piece, especially to the Orwell quote "You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized." (1984), which minded me of the many refs I've had to "infra-red/see in the dark/(and all-but-) starlight scopes", which simply covers the Ranger-R mm-wave eyes-on. Not even not in the dark-....
Martin Luther King - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."