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Meirav Crystal
Published: 09.03.09, 14:01
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31. 29 David, you are troubled by many things.
Rivkah   (03.10.09)
The Lord loves a broken heart and He hates pride. The devil fell because of pride. You think that protecting oneself from slow poisons is a fault. The Bible says, "My people perish from lack of knowledge." I try not to have a lack of knowledge of the wiles of the devil who is a lot more intelligent being than I am. it is a battle and at times a war to stay healthy and alive. The devil roams about as a raging lion, seeking who he may devour. There are a lot of things I do not do that others do. I have flown to Israel several times, so I do fly in airplanes. I drive when that is necessary when I used to drive for fun to see the ranches, farms, flowers on hills and mountains before the price of gas made that too expensive. I have a life, but it sounds like you do not if attacking God is your idea of fun. The Holocaust enabled the Jewish people to have a homeland after two thousand years. Do you really think the world would have given Israel to the Jews as God intended if they had not been shamed into it? Israel became a nation by ONE vote after the deaths of six million Jews in the Holocaust. It should have been a unanimous vote. Look at the punishment of Germany: divided for fifty years, half the population under the cruel Russians. They got judged for what they did to the Jews, unlike the Turks who got away with genocide long before that.
32. #27 Rivkah, coconut oil is 90% saturated fat.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.10.09)
You see, there's a reason for why coconut oil is also used as machine oil. And why it doesn't see much use in food. The only reason it was ever used in baby formula, Rivkah, is because it also contains essential substances only otherwise derived from mother's milk. But this does not change the fact that the oil is almost pure saturated fat acids. As for the article from Snopes, it's one of the most reliable myth-buster websites around. Your conspiracy theories just amuse me further, but also scare me a bit. The shadow cartels ruling your life simply... don't exist. Now show me the article in question, prove me the reliability of *your* source material, or stop spreading nonsense.
33. #28, you mean Isothiocyanate, Rivkah?
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.10.09)
Isothiocyanate isn't cyanide. Not even remotely close - do you realize that you're quoting an article whose "research" equates compounds based on how similar their names sound? That's not science - that's just being silly. Isothiocyanate - specifically Allyl isothiocyanate, is a compound found in any mustard oil. It gives mustard, horseradish, and wasabi its pungent taste. That's pretty much all it does. It is *not* cyanide. As far microwaves and cell phones are concerned, no one is hiding their dangers - I'm a communication systems engineer by profession. It's common knowledge that close proximity to a wave transmitter is not safe - in fact, that's the very reason that every Microwave comes with so many warning signs on it! How the radiation from the transmitters in our cell phones affects our brain is unknown - but we do know that it does *something*, and likely bad. Which is why Bluetooth ear-phones are so popular. Or didn't you know that? Oh, and scrapie... it's an animal disease, not a human one. Specifically, it affects goats and sheep. It's names derives from the constant attempts of the animals to scrape off their fleece, due to the constant itching sensation caused by the disease. Scrapie is not transmittable to humans, Rivkah.
34. #30 Do we even live in the same world, Rivkah?
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.10.09)
There was no USSR-Canada mutual defense treaty. Canada was part of NATO since it was formed - it was one of its chief advocates! Where did this totally unrealistic notion of a "Canadian invasion" come from?
35. Blleechhh!
Valerie ,   Tel Aviv   (03.10.09)
Oh yum! Soy! Lets ruin a good thing by making it gross and kosher. "Identical in taste"....right...like I believe that. The day KFC becomes fully kosher is the day I stop eating there. More dosim establishments....
36. This is bad for Jews who keep kosher.
Michael ,   Galut   (03.10.09)
KFC may become kosher, but I highly doubt that they'll become healthy.
37. #35 More anti-religious sentiments. Much better than mere
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.10.09)
food, right? Isn't hating the "dosim" a wholesome meal in and by itself?
38. quality problems at KFC in New Zealand
Imbar ,   New Zealand   (03.11.09)
The chicken - if that's what we can c all it - has barely any meat in it but contains many pockets of pure oil, and is completely flavorless - the bread is very low quality, the mayo is very low quality. The mashed potatoes smell rotted. The hygiene is questionable. This chain is not what it used to be...
39. Rivkah...
Matan ,   Kibbutz Zikim   (03.11.09)
While sometimes she may need to take off her tinfoil hat, love her or hate her, I've missed her talkbacks.
40. KFC
David ,   London UK   (03.11.09)
KFC can henceforth stand for Kosher Fried Chicken!!
41. kfc going kosher
debbie ,   israel   (03.11.09)
1) Rivka, I'm impressed by your vast knowledge about so many different subjects. 2) Having sampled KFC here and in the U.S. and also other US chicken chains, I can only say that in Israel, the price is VERY HIGH and compared to the U.S. in Israel you get very little in the meal, and the chicken pieces are miniscule, mostly fried covering and very little chicken inside. Side dishes are scanty, no roll, etc. Pieces are huge in the U.S. and much cheaper. Read that Atlanta-based Chick-fil-a is the best chicken fast food chain. In Israel you pay a lot and leave hungary. Won't go back to KFC.
42. kfc going kosher
debbie ,   israel   (03.11.09)
TO TAHL I don't know about tastier, but in the U.S., prices are definitely lower and portions are heartier. Wendy's is the best as far as menu.
43. 39 Matan: Thank you for missing my tb's.
Rivkah   (03.11.09)
44. 32,33,34 Roman: Coconut oil is unusual in that it can be a
Rivkah   (03.11.09)
solid at certain temperature, but it does not raise the cholesterol and is not a trans fat. It is full of nutrients, too. Check articles on coconut oil in Dr. Julian Whitaker's medical newsletters, Dr. David Williams' medical newsletters, Dr. Jonathan Wright's medical newsletters, Dr. Al Sears' medical newsletters, Dr. Russell Blaylock's medical newsletters and the other HONEST (not seed oil cartel bribed) news sources. Yes, isothiocyanate is the correct spelling. It is not cyanide, but it causes blistering of the lungs and deaths from suffocation when Canola oil is made into mustard gas which was used in World War I. Disbelieve the toxicity of Canola oil at your own risk and your family's health. The science of cell phones is well published, but not in main stream media outlets as a general rule. The radiowavelength of cell phone transmissions is the same as the radiowavelength of brain cells. It has been known since the 1920's and Dr. Royal Raymond Rife's work on treating diseases by bombarding the body with the specific radiowavelength of the virus, bacteria, or parasite which kills them. So bombarding the brain with cell phone transmissions from cell phones and cell phone towers kills brain cells. US Senator Edward Kennedy has a brain cancer that is known to be associated with cell phone use. He used a cell phone on his ear for convenience. Brain wasting disease, caused by a viral prion in canola plants and canola oil given to pigs can be called scrapie or Mad Cow Disease or CJD, etc. Normally, transmission has a twenty year delay in onset of symptoms in humans,and is often misdiagnosed as Altsheimer's or Parkinson's. Altsheimer's and Parkinson's are a constant percentage of the population, being genetic in origin in most cases. But in recent decades, both diseases have skyrocketed. Why? Because Brain Wasting Disease is being misdiagnosed. The Brain Wasting Disease in elk and deer and salmon in Northeastern Colorado does not have a twenty year delay of onset of symptoms in humans. The delay is WEEKS. So Colorado requires hunters and fishers to give the brains and spinal cords of their kills to a lab and the rest of the booty is shipped to the hunter/fisher AFTER the animal is clears of Brain Wasting Disease. A delayed onset of symptoms does not mean scrapie/CJD/Mad Cow Disease/Brain Wasting Disease is not transmitted to humans. Like with Chiagas, a small insect that devours the internal organs after first climbing into the mouth, there is a twenty year delay in onset of symptoms in humans. But is does happen and the cause is well known. There is a mutual defense treaty between Canada and Russia and between Mexico and Russia. Speakers at the Prophecy Club of Topeka, Kansas, whose lectures you can purchase, have spoken of it. Retired US Army Colonel Jim Ammerman of Dallas, Texas, was told by a US Senator that there are a million pre positioned foreign troops in Canada ready for invasion, as there are a million in Mexico; and a vast number of troops in the USA who are foreign, mostly in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Retired US Marine Colonel Craig Roberts also talks about this in some of his lectures to the Prophecy Club. Ezekiel chapter 38 confirms this future invasion from the North. When Gog of Magog (Russia, China, Turkey, Islamic?) attacks Israel, Gog will ALSO go UP (North) to the land of unwalled villages to take a spoil in CATTLE. Most of the hundred million head of cattle in America are between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains. So an invasion of the USA for forgetting God from Canada is prophesied to come to pass. The coastal cities will be nuked and Red China will likely invade the West of the USA.
45. #44, Rivkah - continued.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.11.09)
As for the doctors you mentioned... funny how all of them focus such a great deal on alternative medicine. Whitaker in particular is known for his games with growth hormones and megavitamins - the modern-day snake-oil salesman. I wouldn't trust them to go anywhere near me, really. As for Royal Rife, he was no Doctor. He was an inventor who never actually achieved anything. His supposed results, as claimed in his notes, were never replicated in a lab environment. By and large, he remains a throw-off of the Victorian Era - a pseudo-scientist whose works did not achieve anything, but sounded cool to those who lacked basic education. Cell-phone radiation does not transmit in the "brain-wave length". It transmits in near the microwave wavelengths. As such, the main by-product is heat - which isn't very healthy at all, but shoudn't be mixed in with pseudo-scientific nonsense. As for brain-related diseases - congratulations! You have mistakenly mixed in several distinct diseases together. Chronic Wasting Disease affects deer, elk and moose, and results from infectious agents called prions. Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a *different* brain disease, also caused by a form of prions - and is fatal. Mad Cow Disease is somewhat related to CJD, in that MCD, when the disease spreads to humans, is identified as nvCJD - new variant CJD. Scrapie is what affects goats and sheep, and is sometimes identified with MCD indirectly. But largely, they have only a single factor in common - they are all caused by "wrong" prtoiens that bring about mutation. Different proteins. Different results. Different affected groups. It's like grouping viruses together and saying they are all the same virus! As for the supposed mutual defense treaties between Canada and Russia (again, Canad is one of the longest-standing members of NATO!), and Mexico and Russia (where did *that* come from, eh?), I see no factual basis for it. Nor will I consider conspiracy theorist gospel to be anything remotely close to the truth. The Prophesy Club looks like little more than Global Conspiracy and "The Illuminati are Right There!" types dressed up in Christian evangelical garb. Which, by the way, just harms Christianity and your message. Not everyone who claims to serve the Almighty does so - he is simply claiming it. And anyone claiming so actively to possess prophetic abilities is, frankly, someone who either has delusions of grandeur or sinister undertones. Usually it's the former. Sometimes it's the latter. Either way they're not good-natured representatives of their faith, or humanity at large.
46. 45 Roman: You are wrong about Dr. Julian Whitaker's Wellness
Rivkah   (03.12.09)
Center in Newport Beach, California, south of Los Angeles. As a retired pharmacist, people ask me what to do when the physicians and specialists have given up on them. One elderly woman named Michi Takeda of Hanford, California, could hardly walk from being crippled up with Parkinson's Disease. She had severe neuropathy (nerve pain), too, in her legs. I suggested Michi go to the Whitaker Wellness Center for a week that cost about seven thousand dollars for the tests and instructions. She did that and followed the instructions and get BETTER, to the point that she walked normally instead of in a shuffle and she had no nerve pain. As a pharmacist, I had never seen a case of Parkinson's Disease go in reverse. It might go into remission, but Michi's illness reversed. That was the first reversal of symptoms in Parkinson's I had observed in 30+ years as a pharmacist. So, mister, you are wrong. Dr. Whitaker's Wellness Center is not snake oil medicine. It is better medicine than conventional even though he incorporates a lot of conventional medicine into his therapies. Dr. Royal Raymond Rife went to Johns Hopkins Medical School, but did not finish. In those days, it was not necessary to finish medical school to hang out a shingle with the name doctor on it. His Rife Machines do work and Dr. Susan Lark, who writes a women's health newsletter said she would use a Rife Machine if antibiotics were not available. Dr. Rife's Machine was widely accepted in America until the President of the American Medical Association wanted to buy the patent from him which Dr. Rife refused to sell. So the President of the AMA set out to destroy Dr. Rife's credibility and machines with lies in the AMA Journal, to force physicians to stop using them. The jealousy of Dr. Rife was so profound that he was murdered at Grossmont Hospital in San Diego with a valium injection overdose. Brain Wasting Diseases of the viral prion sort are very infectious, but the onset of symptoms can vary up to twenty years. It is like connecting HIV to smallpox vaccinations and tetanus vaccinations twenty years before. The outbreaks of HIV were an identical map to the World Health Organization vaccinations for tetanus and smallpox 20 years before. The way Brain Wasting Diseases of the viral prion sort are connected was to an island in the South Pacific where cannibalism of the brains of dead relatives that resulted in the Brain Wasting Disease that British researchers wanted to study and so brought infected brains back to Britain. When they got bored with the research, they tossed the matter out with the trash. The prions blew into farms and animals ate them and then people got infected with prions from eating infected animal carcasses, in particularly brains. Now prions are infecting Canola plants in North America as well as animals. The animals were imported from Britain and pooped on the ground, leaving prions that way or when the animal died and rotted. You are very foolish not to be informed of dangers to America and Israel and the world. Retired high ranking military officers put a lot on the line to inform the public. "My people perish for lack of knowledge." That is what the Bible says. You appear to wish to perish from lack of knowledge.
47. #44, Rivkah, the first part of my reply wasn't posted.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.12.09)
Here it is: #44 No, it is not a trans fat. That's because trans fat is a form of *unsaturated fat*, a specific kind that has no good effects whatsoever and a huge series of bad ones. This, in no way, removes from the damage resulting from *saturated* fats, which are directly connected with atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, and which increases the levels of LDL cholesterol in the body and decreases the level of HDL cholesterol. For all intents and purposes, LDL is "bad" cholesterol, while HDL is "good" cholesterol. The former is what you are familiar with as the generally-accepted label "cholesterol". And saturated fat, Rivkah, while more useful to the human body than the totally dangerous trans fat, still remains the prime factor for generating cholesterol in the body - and is far more common in food than actual cholesterol! There's a reason why there's a special listing of saturated fats in product details worldwide. Their health hazard. And coconut oil is 90% saturated fat! http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/34/8/1552?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&volume=34&firstpage=1552&resourcetype=HWCIT Was the result of the above experiment also twisted by the so-called "Canola Cartel"? How long will it take you to realize that it only exists in your mind? And as for isothiocyanate, it does not blister lungs. It was not used in producing mustard gas, which is a chemical so far removed from this organic liquid that you simply couldn't be more wrong. Mustard gas is a type of sulfur mustard. Mustard gas (1,5-dichloro-3-thiapentane) in its impure form has a brown-yellow color and an odor resembling that of mustard plants - hence being called mustard gas. The original method for its produce was first developed and recorded by M. Depretz in 1822. He synthesized it by treating sulfur dichloride with ethylene. This compound was still far less effective than the mustard gas used in WWI, which was vastly improved upon by Viktor Meyer in late 19th century, further innovated upon by the English chemist Hans Clarke. The basic Meyer method first produced thiodiglycol from chloroethanol and potassium sulfide, and then chlorinated it with phosphrous trichloride. Clarke replaced the phosphrous trichloride with concentrated hydrochloric acid - and was subsequently hospitalized for months after a small sample bottle shattered in his hand. This was the formula the Germans used in WWI, and it had nothing to do with canola oil. Or rather, rapeseed oil, as canola oil didn't even exist back then. I dare you to find any of the above-mentioned chemical compounds in rapeseed oil.
48. #46 Rivkah, alternative medicine has its uses, but it's
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.12.09)
Whitaker's forays into proper medicine that are problematic. Dr. Whitaker claims credentials he does not actually hold - "board certified" in "Anti-Aging Medicine" from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. the A4M is not a medical certification board. And "Anti-Aging" is not a medical specialty. Dr. Whitaker's approach to psychiatry is also an issue of some concern - he takes the view popularized by the cult of Scientology, offering pseudo-science and conspiracy theories as his explanation for this stance. And his dangerous therapies involving growth hormones and megavitamins are unethical. As for brain-wasting disease - prions aren't a virus. Nor is the form of their spread all that certain. The so-called "cannibalist tribe" is a myth - not only that, it's sole basis is an episode on X-Files!
49. 48 Roman: Prions are proteins but have viral infectious
Rivkah   (03.13.09)
qualities and may qualify as both. A protein by itself is not infectious and contagious. If prions were merely a foreign protein, then they would cause an antigen-antibody reaction instead of remaining dormant for up to twenty years without an immune response to them. I do not agree with everything Dr. Whitaker says and does, but he is way ahead of most other physicians in his integrative medicine techniques. You talk like a well person who has not known the hopelessness of being diseased and at the end of resources from conventional medicine. Dr. Robert Martin of Pasadena, California, who invented the gravity boots to hang quadraplegics and paraplegics upside down to help the spinal cord knit back together so they could walk again, howbeit awkwardly, was ridiculed in public by colleagues who sent their hopeless patients to him in private. You talk like you are in brain-lock, so there is no point in discussing things you are not open to research on.
50. #49 Rivkah, prions are no more viral than cancer.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.13.09)
They cause mutations in other proteins that replicate into their malformed state. And I'd say Dr. Whitaker causes more harm than good, by a long shot, with his "anti-Aging" treatments. That's where his profit margin lies, after all - in conning the vain and the elderly.
51. 50 Roman: You speak with words without knowledge on Dr.
Rivkah   (03.13.09)
Whitaker and his Wellness Center. Cancer IS caused by a virus and other factors such as a depressed immune system, liver and intestinal flukes (parasite), toxic heavy metals, low lypmphatic tissue oxygen levels, etc. Cancer virus is in most people, but it takes triggers for it to take hold and cause tumors. People have seen the cancer virus through electron microscopes. You have not done your homework.
52. #51 Rivkah, cancer is not a virus.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.13.09)
You seem to be entirely ignorant of what cancer *is* at all. Cancer is caused by abnormalities in the genetic material of cells, which in turn begin to grow uncontrollably, resulting in tumors. The genetic abnormality can be caused by carcinogenic materials, and the genome of the patient. It is *not* a virus, Rivkah. A virus is a sub-microscopic infectious agent that reproduces inside host cells, and cancer doesn't fall under that category - cancer is a disease category in and by itself. So whoever tells you he's seen the "cancer virus" is either lying, or never studied proper medicine in the first place.
53. 52 Roman: You need to read some more. Cancer is a virus
Rivkah   (03.14.09)
that can be seen with an electron microscope. Most people have cancer virus in their bodies, but the terrain of the cells and the body determine if it takes hold or not. Factors such as depression, a suppressed immune system, toxic heavy metals and radio active isotopes, liver and intestinal flukes, cellular malnutrition, etc. determine if the cancer virus causes cancer in the body.
54. #52 Rivkah, again, read up on what cancer is.
Roman ,   Lod, Israel   (03.14.09)
In the case of certain cancers, such as HPV or Hepatitis B, the cancerous cell mutation is due to DNA viruses. In these cases, it is thought that the virus inserts part of its own DNA into the cell and thus causes cell division. But cancer in and by itself is not uniformly caused by viruses. In humans, viral infections account for about 15% of cancers. And it isn't, at all, the same virus, or a virus that is "always in the body". Carcinogenesis is a process of *mutation* in the DNA of the affected cells, which does not require any virus whatsoever.
55. kfc israel
jimmy ,   Ramallah   (08.20.10)
news that kfc is coming to Ramallah is it true
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