The emergence of nanobot society
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So, they injected it into the military, police, emergency services.... Now everyone is injected with a device with a "real IP ADDRESS"....






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Thank you very much. So one word of notice before we begin,

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all the technologies that you are going to see here now are real.

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And with that said

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I'd like to first tell you the story about

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this uh... little girl named Dana

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she's very special for me because she's my daugther

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and Dana was born with a leg condition requiring frequent surgeries like this one

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uh... she had when we were in Boston

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and um... I remember taking her to that particular surgery

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and uh...

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I rembember her being admitted and she was excited at first

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and then just before they got into her the OR

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I looked at her and she was... afraid, she was little worried and

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who wouldn't be? Because surgeries today are complicated

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and they're often very risky.

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Now let's imagine a few years into the future, into the near future hopefully,

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Dana will arrive to hospital for her ??? surgery

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and instead of being prepped for anesthesia for the OR

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the surgeon will just take a syringe and inside the syringe

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there are millions of tiny robots, of tiny machines

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that will be injected into Dana's bloodstream.

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They will autonomously locate the place they need to be in,

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they will excite out the injured tissue,

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then will remove dead cells,

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then they will...

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stimulate and guide the regrowth of healthy cells across those tissue gaps,

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they will release drugs that relief pain and reduce inflammation

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and all the while Dana will be sitting on the chair

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eating a sandwich, reading a book, might be the next

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twilight saga book which she'll be able to read because she will be 16 by then

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And...(giggles)

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uh... when these robots

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have completed their job they'll simply disintegrate

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and disappear from her bloodstream the next day.

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So these nanobots have been envisioned in the past 30 years

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by people like Eric Drexler, Robert Freitas and Ray Kuzweil.

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Today I'm going to show you that these robots exist

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here in Israel.

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I'll show you this syringe

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which I've brought from my lab.

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So this syringe has inside it a thousand billion robots.

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So these robots are each fifty nanometers

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long as you can see in this slide under the microscope.

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Fifty nanometers is about 2000 times thinner than the thickness of your hair

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OK? And... umm... These robots were born actually 3 years ago

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in a research I did with Shawn Douglas, now a UCSF Professor.

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But over the past year and a half

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in my group at Bar-Ilan University

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We've been developing and testing robots for a variety of

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medical and therapeutic tasks.

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We've invented ways of making them safe for use

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and non-inmunogenic

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and we learned how to tune their stability in our bloodstream

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to fit either short-term or long-term

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even days long medical procedures.

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So to carry out medical and therapeutic procedures in our body

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with the upmost precision,

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we need to be able to control molecules

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Controlling molecules is a very simple challenge

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in modern scientific knowledge.

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OK? Let's speak for example about the class of molecules we know as drugs

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So despite...

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amazing progress made in the past four decades

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the way we think about drugs and we the way we use drugs

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has been essentially unchanged

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and it's similar as two hundred years ago

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right? You hear about about big pharmaceutical companies

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spending huge amounts of money

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searching for better, safer drugs.

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Attempts that usually fail.

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OK? but,

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searching for let's say a safer cancer drug,

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half it is a concept that has a flaw in it.

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Because searching for a safer cancer drug

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is basically like searching for a gun that kills only bad people

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We don't search for such guns,

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what we do is training soldiers to use that gun properly

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Of course in drugs we can't do this because it seems very hard

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But there are things we can do with drugs

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for example, we can put the drugs

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in particles from which they difuse slowly.

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We can attach a drug to a carrier

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which takes someplace but, this is not real control.

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When we were thinking about control we're thinking about

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processes is the real world around us

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and what happens when we want to control a process

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that's beyond our capabilities as humans

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we just connect this process to a computer

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and let the computer control this process for us.

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OK? So that's what we do.

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But obviously this cannot be done with drugs because

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the drugs are so much smaller than the computers as we know them

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The computer is in fact so much bigger

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it's about a hundred million times bigger that any drug molecule.

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Our nanobots which were in the syringe

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solve this problem because they are in fact

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computers the size of molecules.

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and they can interact with molecules

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and they can control molecules directly,

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so just think about all those

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drugs that have been withdrawn from the market

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for excessive toxicity

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right?

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It doesn't mean that they are not effective,

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they were amazingly effective,

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they were just guns shooting in all directions

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but in the hands of a well-trained soldier

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or a well-programed nanobot

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using all the existing drugs

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we could hypothetically kill almost any disease.

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So we might not need even new drugs.

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We have amazing drugs already,

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we just don't know how to control them, this is the problem

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and our nanobots...

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hopefully solve this problem and I'll show you how.

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So there is an interesting question "how do we build

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a robot or a machine the size of a molecule?"

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so the simple answer would be: we can use molecules

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to build this machine.

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So we're using molecules, but we're not using just any molecule.

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We're using the perfect, most beautiful molecule on earth, at least in my opinion,

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which is DNA.

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And in fact every part of the robot,

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every part of out nanorobots:

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Moving parts, axis, locks, chasis, software,

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everything is made from DNA molecules.

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And the techonology that enables us to do this

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originated thirty years ago when the pioneering works of Nadrian Seeman,

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culminating 7 years ago in the works of Paul Rothemund from Caltech,

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which was also featured in TED,

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and it's called DNA origami.

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Now in DNA origami we do not use a piece of paper,

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we use a single long strand of DNA

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and we fold it into virtually any shape we want.

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For example these shapes, so these are actual microscopic images

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of shapes the size of molecules that were folded from DNA.

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so the smiley you see here in the center of the screen for example

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are a hundred nanometers in size

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and we make billions of them in few... in a single reaction.

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Now since 2006 several researchers, really talented ones,

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have been expanding the limits of the technically feasible in DNA origami

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and now we have an astonishig array of shapes and objects which we can build

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using this technique.

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And these researchers also gave us computer-aided design tools

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that enable everyone

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very very simply to design objects from DNA

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So these CAD tools amazingly

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enable us to focus o n the shape we want

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forgetting the fact that these structures are in fact assemblies of molecules.

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so this is for example a shape the computer can actually turn into DNA molecules.

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and the output of this CAD software, as you can see,

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is a spreadsheet with fragments of DNA

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which you can attach to a message and send to a company

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one of two dozen companies that make DNA by order and you'll get those DNA's

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several days later to your doorstep

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and when you get them all you need to do is just mix them in a certain way

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and these molecular bricks will self-assemble into

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millions of copies of the very structure that you designed using that CAD software

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which is free by the way, you can download it for free.

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So, let's have a look at our nanorobots.

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So, this is how the nanorobots look like, it's built from DNA as you can see

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And it resembles a clam shell in which you can put cargo

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You can load anything you want starting from small molecules, drugs,

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proteines, enzymes, even nano-particles. Virtually any function

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that molecules can carry out, can be loaded into the nanobot

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and the nanobot can be programmed to turn on and off

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these functions at certain places and at certain times

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this is how we control those molecules

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and so this particular nanorobot is in an off state, it's closed,it's securely

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sequestres anything, any payload you put inside

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so it's not accessible to the outside of the robot,

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for example, it cannot engage target cells or target tissues

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But we can program the nanobot to switch to an on state

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based on molecular cues it finds from the environment

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so programming the robot is virtually like assemblying a combination lock

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using disks that recognize digits,

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but of course instead of digits we are assemblying disks that recognize molecules.

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So these robots can turn from off to on and when they do

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any cargo inside is now accessible,

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it can attack target cells or target tissues

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or other robots which you'll see later on.

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And so we have robots that can switch from off to on

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and off again, we can control their kinetics of transition.

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We can control which payload becomes accessible at which time point

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Let's see an example how these robots for example control a cancer drug

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So what you can do is you can take nanobots,

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you can put the nastiest cancer drug you may find

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into the robots, even a cancer drug

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that's been withdrawn because of excessive toxicity

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Ok? When the robot is locked

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and you put them in your mixture of healthy cells and tumor cells

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nothing happens, no cell is affected, because the robot

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safely sequesters those drugs inside.

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When we unlock the robots

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all cells die because the cargo inside the [robot] attacks anything on sight.

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So all cells eventually die. In this case this is a fluorescent molecule

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to help us see better the output.

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But when we program the nanobots to search for tumor cells particulary,

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so only the tumor cells

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uh... only the tumor cells die because

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the robot doesn't care about the bystander cells, about the healthy cells.

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So it does not harm them at all.

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And we have nanorobots in our lab that can target

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about ten types of cancer already and other cell targets

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and my team keeps expanding this range monthly.

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So these are nanorobots and to another topic

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organisms in nature, like bacteria and animals

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have learned very early in evolution that working in a coordinated group

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conveys advantage

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and capabilities beyond those of the individual

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and since we are interested in

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very complex medical procedures, very complex therapeutic settings,

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we're wondering what we could do

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if we could engineer artificial swarm behaviors

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into our nanobots as well so we could have extraordinarily large groups of nanobots

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Can we teach them to behave like animals, like insects

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and how do you do this? So the question is interesting.

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So you could think one way to do it would be

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to look at a natural swarm like this one of fish

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and simulate the dynamics of the entire swarm and then try to write the codes

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in molecules of course

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that mimic the same behaviour

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this is virtually impossible, it's impractical

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what we do is we take the single fish or a single nanobot in our case

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and you design a very basic set of interaction rules

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and then you take this one, this nanobot, you make a billion copies of it

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and you let the behaviours emerge from that group

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let me show you some examples of the things we can already do

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for example, just as ants

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can shake hands and form physical bridges between two trees

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or two remote parts of the same tree,

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we already have nanorobots that can reach out for each other

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touch each other and shake hands in such a way

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they form physical bridges.

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Then you can imagine these robots

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extending, making bridges extending from one-half

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to the other half of an injured tissue,

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an injured spinal cord for example

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or an injured leg in the case of Dana, my daughter

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and once they stretched over that tissue gap

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they can apply growth factors, as payloads, and those growth factors

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stimulate the re-growth and guide re-growth of cells across the gap.

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So we already did that and...

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we have robots that can cross regulate each other just like animals do in groups

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and this is amazing because as you can see here

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you can have two types of robots, Type-A and Type-B

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they can cross regulate each other, such that "A" is active

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while "B" is not and viceversa.

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So this is good for combination therapy

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with combination therapy we take multiple drugs, right?

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and sometimes two or more of these drugs

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can collide and generate side effects,

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but here you can put one drug here, one drug here

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and the robots will time the activities so that

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one drug is active, the other is not and then they can switch

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and so two or more drugs can operate at the same time without actually colliding.

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Another example that we did is the quorum sensing.

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Now quorum sensing is great, it's a bacterial inspired behaviour

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It means nanorobots can count themselves

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and they can switch to "on" only when reaching a certain population size

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this is a mechanism invented by bacteria in evolution

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and they regulate amazing behaviours based on just their population density

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for example, bioluminescence, this one of the well-studied examples

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so our robots can count themselves and switch to on

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only when reaching a certain population size which we can program.

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This is great because this is a mechanism of programming a drug

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to become active only when reaching a certain dose

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around the target, regardless of its inherent dose-response curve.

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One last I'm gonna show to you is computing,

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so this nanobots can do computing.

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How's so? If you think about your computer at home,

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the processor of the computer is in fact a gigantic swarm of transistors

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In an i7 core for example you have 800 million transistors approximately

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and they're set to interact in certain ways to produce logic gates

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and these logic gates are set to interact to produce computations

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so we can also produce computation by setting interactions between nanorobots

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to emulate logic gates like you see here

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and they form chains and they form pairs

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and my team in Bar-Ilan University [has] already developed several architectures

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of computing based on interacting nanorobots

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and to prototype these

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we are using animals, very interesting animals

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these are cockroaches,

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they are very easy to work with, the're very sweet,

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they're actually from South America

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and I'm a Soutamerican myself so I fell kinda related

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[Laughter]

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And hum... so what we do is we inject those robots into the cockroach

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and to do that we of course had to put the cockroaches to sleep

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have you ever tried putting cockroach to sleep?

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We put in the freezer for seven minutes

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in they fall asleep

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and we can inject these nanorobots inside

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and after 20 minutes they start running around, they're happy.

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And those robots

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while they're doing this, the robots read molecules

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from the cockroaches' inputs

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and they write their outputs in the form of drugs

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activated on those cockroaches' cells

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so we can do, we can see that and we already have, as you can see,

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architectures of interecting nanorobots that can emulate logical operators

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and you can use these as modular parts to build any type universal computer you want

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[....]

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that can control multiple drugs simultaneously

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as a result of biocomputing, this is real universal computing in a living animal.

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Now we already have systems that have [the] computing capacity

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of an 8-bit computer like Commodore 64.

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To make sure we don't lose control over the nanobots after they're injected

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my team [has] developed nanorobots that carry antennae

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these antennae are made from metal nano-particles.

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Now, the antennae enable the nanobots

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to respond to externally applied electromagnetic fields

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so these nanorobots, this version of nanobots

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can actually be activated with a press of a button on a joystick

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or for example using a controller

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such as the Xbox or Wii if you ever had the chance of playing with those

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and you can see one of my students in the lab configuring an Xbox app

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to control nanobots.

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For example you can imagine nanorobots being injected

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to Dana, my daughter for example,

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and the doctor can guide those robots

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into the site, into the leg and just activate them with a hand gesture.

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And you can already see an example where we actually took

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cancer cells and loaded robots with cancer drugs

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and activated the drug by a hand gesture.

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and we can actually kill cancer cells just by doing this,

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as you can see here.

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And the interesting thing is that

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because the controller like the Xbox is connected to the internet,

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the controller actually links those nanobots to the network

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so they have an actual IP address

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and they can be accessed from a remote device sitting on the same network,

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for example, my doctor's smartphone

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So, OK?, just like controlling a controller, this can be done.

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The last thing I'm gonna show is, if you look at our body

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you'll see that every cell type, every organ, every tissue

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has their own unique molecular signature

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and this is equivalent to a physical IP address made of molecules

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and if you know these molecules

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you can use those nanobots to browse the Organism Wide Web, as we call it

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and you can program them to look for bits,

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this could be for example signally molecules between cells,

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and either fetch them for diagnostics

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or carry them to different addresses.

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And we already have robots that can hijack

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signals between cells

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and manipulate an entire network of communications between cells

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and this is great for controlling very complex diseases in which many cell types

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communicate and orchestrate to perpetuate a disease.

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So before I finish I'd just like to thank

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my amazing team at Bar-Ilan University

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and all the colleagues that took part in this extraordinary journey,

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starting from the George Chuch's Lab in Harvard

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and ending today in Bar-Ilan University in the new Faculty of Life Sciences,

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and I really hope that

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anywhere between a year and five years from now

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we'll be able to use this in humans

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and finally witness the emergence of nanobot society.

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Thank you very much.


https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/nanobots-live-cockroach-thought-control/





https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/nanobots-live-cockroach-thought-control/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-scientists-use-nanobots-and-thoughts-to-administer-drugs/


Israeli scientists say they have come up with a way for brain power to control when drugs are released into the body, by using tiny robots made out of DNA to deliver the medication internally.

Researchers at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan have built the nanobots to which medication is attached and then are injected into the body. The nanobots have a “gate” that opens or closes — thereby controlling drug release — depending on brain activity.

In order to achieve this, the New Scientist magazine said, the researchers developed a computer algorithm that could tell whether a person’s brain was resting or carrying out some form of mental activity, such as math problems. A fluorescent-tinted drug was then added to the nanobots, which were injected into a cockroach placed inside an electromagnetic coil.

Israeli scientists say they have come up with a way for brain power to control when drugs are released into the body, by using tiny robots made out of DNA to deliver the medication internally.

This coil was then connected to an EEG cap worn by a person asked to perform mental calculations. The computer recognized increased brain activity by the cap wearer, which triggered the “gate” on the nanobots inside the cockroach, releasing the fluorescent drug that was visible as it spread through the insect’s body.

The idea is to use the delivery system for people with mental health issues, which are sometimes triggered before sufferers are aware they need medication.

By monitoring brain activity, the nanobots could deliver the required preventative drugs automatically,

for example before a violent episode of schizophrenia.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2102463-mind-controlled-nanobots-could-release-drugs-inside-your-brain/


The group has built nanorobots out of DNA, forming shell-like shapes that drugs can be tethered to. The bots also have a gate, which has a lock made from iron oxide nanoparticles. The lock opens when heated using electromagnetic energy, exposing the drug to the environment. Because the drug remains tethered to the DNA parcel, a body’s exposure to the drug can be controlled by closing and opening the gate.

By examining when fluorescence appeared inside different cockroaches, the team confirmed that this worked.

The idea would be to automatically trigger the release of a drug when it is needed. For example, some people don’t always know when they need medication – before a violent episode of schizophrenia, for instance. If an EEG could detect it was coming, it could stimulate the release of a preventative drug.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxJPceCV51g Nanobots Successfully Used on Living Animal for the First Time - IGN News

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to treat human ailments or weaponized

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hijacked by a snake themed terrorist

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organization and then used to destroy

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Paris but I suppose it's only a matter

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of time


“This syringe has inside it a thousand billion robots.”

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The power of silence
Validation. Empty space. Selkie, creator of Forest of the Fallen, flew up from Tasmania to tell the ASF Conference how it has grown to 131 powerful displays nation-wide

Alison Bevege
The stories sway in the wind, each one a person killed or injured by the covid gene-vaccines.

The Forest of the Fallen is the exact opposite of a protest.

When Tasmanian mother-of-three Selkie started the Forest in 2021, she didn’t anticipate the surprising power of acknowledgement.


Loraine from Adelaide with Selkie (right) who started the displays, at the ASF conference in November. Pic: Alison Bevege
“A co-ordinator from Tin Can Bay in Queensland is a narrative therapist and we spoke of the healing impacts the Forest was having on so many lives,” she said.

For people who were injured, or lost their jobs, or lost a loved one, or suffered division in their families, this simple acknowledgement can bring a tremendous sense of relief just by recognising the suffering.


“Having a sense of their story being validated by a tactile, optical display - this alone is so healing for them as many have had no recognition at all,” she said.

“Some are completely left alone.”

It’s a silent vigil open to any passer-by to wander in and quietly find out what has happened.

“There are some out there who’ve experienced the loss of a loved one or are injured by the vaccines. They also set up the forests now and this gives them a sense of purpose, knowing that they are far from alone and can at least help to stop the perpetuation of deaths and injuries.”

Speaking at the Australians for Science and Freedom conference at University of NSW on November 18, Selkie explained the magic of Forest of the Fallen which has now grown to 131 pop-up displays across Australia with more than 550 stories.

It’s the magic of an empty space.

Holding a space for sometimes angry people and a confused country that is still in denial

Selkie said she found that taking herself out of the memorial was the most effective way to allow people to discover for themselves, quietly, what happened, and to process it.

“All along I’ve stressed the importance on making sure the display is not affiliated with any other group, movement, religion or political party, keeping it open to all sets of eyes with no exclusion and no bias,” she said.


This beautiful soul bought us chocolates and helped. Pic: Alison Bevege
It’s free from politics, it doesn’t try to change people’s minds. It only has one message: stop looking away.

“By taking away the mutual judgements and not disturbing the onlooker’s process, it’s allowing them the time to grasp what it is they are standing right in front of.

“Taking away all other propaganda and signage was important as I saw this, too, deterred onlookers from reading the stories.”


FoTF, High Cross Park, Randwick, November 18. Pic: Alison Bevege
Selkie said when she first started Forest of the Fallen in 2021, about 95 percent of onlookers were disapproving and outright rude.

“Today the tables have completely turned and now 95 percent of onlookers are supportive,” Selkie said, and even police have become helpful, sometimes stepping in to protect displays from the rare “angry noodles”.

“I’m now writing a memoir as it has been a truly profound, incredible journey for me.”

Selkie, who compiles the PDF master list to print, and coaches all the volunteer co-ordinators, found herself working seven days a week to make the Forests run smoothly, while homeschooling her youngest child.

The stories used in Forest of the Fallen have been widely reported in corporate media or documented and checked by Jab Injuries Australia, and are willingly shared.

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Letters From Australia helped set up a Forest of the Fallen, and I witnessed the relief: it’s like rain in the desert.

On November 18 at High Cross Park, Randwick, we set up a forest with the help of Phil Schultz whose brother Barry died 18 days after the Pfizer shot, Bridget from Coogee Stand in the Park, and Loraine from Adelaide.

Many passers-by had stories of their own.

A bright young Russian with sparkling blue eyes told of how his wife died not long after the gene-vaccine, but he was sure it was not related. Then he ran to the shops and bought us chocolates, and promised to help us next time.

A man on a bike immediately started helping put up the stakes. He refused the jab after the first injected man at his office ended up in ICU. He wasn’t getting it after that, but saw his colleagues lining up. They were afraid for their jobs.


“Bike man” had his own story to tell. Picture: Alison Bevege
Two Texan tourists said nobody dares tread on their freedom, yet when the gene-vaccines came out people just rolled over.

“I couldn’t undestand it,” said one.

Phil himself had a chance to meet Loraine, with whom he is unexpectedly connected by his late brother Barry.

When Adelaide doctor Barry Schultz’s story went into Forest of the Fallen for the first time, his widow Diane went to see the display, which Loraine was setting up.


(left) Diane with Barry’s story in Adelaide. Pic: Loraine. (right) Barry’s brother Phil with Loraine in Sydney. Pic: Bevege
Loraine told the volunteers that Barry was a new addition, and that he had delivered about 1500 babies in his career before he took the Pfizer shot which killed him 18 days later.

Just as Loraine was explaining, Diane came up behind her - “That’s my husband,” she said.

It was a wonderful moment for both of them. A lovely acknowledgement.

This is the healing that Australia needs.

Don’t look away.

Thanks to Kevin Nguyen, the talented filmmaker who compiled a magnificent video of the Randwick FoTF above.

You can do this, too

REPORT your gene-vaccine injury to the TGA here.

TELL your story to Jab Injuries Australia here.

VISIT the Forest of the Fallen here.

CONTACT Forest of the Fallen here: You can do this, too.

SEE the Forest on Instagram here.

WATCH the Forest of the Fallen videos on Odysee here.

JOIN the class action for vaccine injured and bereaved here.

CONNECT with jab injured resources at Coverse here.

Updates: 27 November, added Diane’s pic from Loraine in Adelaide, corrected spelling. 28 November: more spelling corrections plus Barry delivered about 1500 babies, more than 1000.


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The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse. Chris Hedges
Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.


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Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash of civilizations between the enlightened West and a barbaric Middle East. They believe that violence can bend Palestinians and other Arabs to their will. They champion the overwhelming firepower of the U.S. and Israeli military as the key to regional stability — an illusion that fuels the flames of regional war and perpetuates the genocide in Gaza.

In short, these four men are grossly incompetent. They join the club of other clueless leaders, such as those who waltzed into the suicidal slaughter of World War One, waded into the quagmire of Vietnam or who orchestrated the series of recent military debacles in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. They are endowed with the presumptive power vested in the Executive Branch to bypass Congress, to provide weapons to Israel and carry out military strikes in Yemen and Iraq. This inner circle of true believers dismiss the more nuanced and informed counsels in the State Department and the intelligence communities, who view the refusal of the Biden administration to pressure Israel to halt the ongoing genocide as ill-advised and dangerous.

Biden has always been an ardent militarist — he was calling for war with Iraq five years before the U.S. invaded. He built his political career by catering to the distaste of the white middle class for the popular movements, including the anti-war and civil rights movements, that convulsed the country in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. He joined Southern segregationists to oppose bringing Black students into Whites-only schools. He opposed federal funding for abortions and supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to restrict abortions. He attacked President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft in the “war on drugs.” He was one of the architects of the 1994 crime bill and a raft of other draconian laws that more than doubled the U.S. prison population, militarized the police and pushed through drug laws that saw people incarcerated for life without parole. He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. He has always been a strident defender of Israel, bragging that he did more fundraisers for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than any other Senator.

“As many of you heard me say before, were there no Israel, America would have to invent one. We’d have to invent one because… you protect our interests like we protect yours,” Biden said in 2015, to an audience that included the Israeli ambassador, at the 67th Annual Israeli Independence Day Celebration in Washington D.C. During the same speech he said, “The truth of the matter is we need you. The world needs you. Imagine what it would say about humanity and the future of the 21st century if Israel were not sustained, vibrant and free.”

The year before Biden gave a gushing eulogy for Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister and general who was implicated in massacres of Palestinians, Lebanese and others in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon — as well as Egyptian prisoners of war — going back to the 1950s. He described Sharon as “part of one of the most remarkable founding generations in the history not of this nation, but of any nation.”

While repudiating Donald Trump and his administration, Biden has not reversed Trump’s abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama, or Trump’s sanctions against Iran. He has embraced Trump’s close ties with Saudi Arabia, including the rehabilitation of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, following the assassination of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017 in the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. He has not intervened to curb Israeli attacks on Palestinians and settlement expansion in the West Bank. He did not reverse Trump’s moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, although the embassy includes land Israel illegally colonized after invading the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.

As a seven-term senator of Delaware, Biden received more financial support from pro-Israel donors than any other senator, since 1990. Biden retains this record despite the fact that his senatorial career ended in 2009, when he became Obama’s vice president. Biden explains his commitment to Israel as “personal” and “political.”

He has parroted back Israeli propaganda — including fabrications about beheaded babies and widespread rape of Israeli women by Hamas fighters — and asked Congress to provide $14 billion in additional aid to Israel since the Oct. 7 attack. He has twice bypassed Congress to supply Israel with thousands of bombs and munitions, including at least 100 2,000-pound bombs, used in the scorched earth campaign in Gaza.

Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 90,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants. It has destroyed or damaged over 60 percent of the housing. The “safe areas,” to which some 2 million Gazans were instructed to flee in southern Gaza, have been bombed, with thousands of casualties. Palestinians in Gaza now make up 80 percent of all the people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide, according to the U.N. Every person in Gaza is hungry. A quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water. Famine is imminent. The 335,000 children under the age of five are at high risk of malnutrition. Some 50,000 pregnant women lack healthcare and adequate nutrition.

And it could all end if the U.S. chose to intervene.

“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S.,” retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick told the Jewish News Syndicate. “The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability… Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”

Blinken was Biden’s principal foreign policy adviser when Biden was the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. He, along with Biden, lobbied for the invasion of Iraq. When he was Obama’s deputy national security advisor, he advocated the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. He opposed withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria. He worked on the disastrous Biden Plan to partition Iraq along ethnic lines.

“Within the Obama White House, Blinken played an influential role in the imposition of sanctions against Russia over the 2014 invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, and subsequently led ultimately unsuccessful calls for the U.S. to arm Ukraine,” according to the Atlantic Council, NATO’s unofficial think tank.

Image: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Oct. 12, 2023. – Secretary Antony Blinken on X



When Blinken landed in Israel following the attacks by Hamas and other resistance groups on Oct. 7, he announced at a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

“I come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.”

He attempted, on Israel’s behalf, to lobby Arab leaders to accept the 2.3 million Palestinian refugees Israel intends to ethnically cleanse from Gaza, a request that evoked outrage among Arab leaders.

Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, and McGurk, are consummate opportunists, Machiavellian bureaucrats who cater to the reigning centers of power, including the Israel lobby.

Sullivan was the chief architect of Hillary Clinton’s Asia pivot. He backed the corporate and investor rights Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which was sold as helping the U.S. contain China. Trump ultimately killed the trade agreement in the face of mass opposition from the U.S. public. His focus is thwarting a rising China, including through the expansion of the U.S. military.

While not focused on the Middle East, Sullivan is a foreign policy hawk who has a knee jerk embrace of force to shape the world to U.S. demands. He embraces military Keynesianism, arguing that massive government spending on the weapons industry benefits the domestic economy.

In a 7,000-word essay for Foreign Affairs magazine published five days before the Oct. 7 attacks, which left some 1,200 Israelis dead, Sullivan exposed his lack of understanding of the dynamics of the Middle East.



Screenshot from The New York Times

“Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges,” he writes in the original version of the essay, “the region is quieter than it has been for decades,” adding that in the face of “serious” frictions, “we have de-escalated crises in Gaza.”

Sullivan ignores Palestinian aspirations and Washington’s rhetorical backing for a two-state solution in the article, hastily rewritten in the online version after the Oct. 7 attacks. He writes in his original piece:

At a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last year, the president set forth his policy for the Middle East in an address to the leaders of members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. His approach returns discipline to US policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region through joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships, including between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

McGurk, the deputy assistant to President Biden and the coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa at the White House National Security Council, was a chief architect of Bush’s “surge” in Iraq, which accelerated the bloodletting. He worked as a legal advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad. He then became Trump’s anti-ISIS czar.

He does not speak Arabic — none of the four men does — and came to Iraq with no knowledge of its history, peoples or culture. Nevertheless, he helped draft Iraq’s interim constitution and oversaw the legal transition from the Coalition Provisional Authority to an Interim Iraqi Government led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. McGurk was an early backer of Nouri al-Maliki, who was Iraq’s prime minister between 2006 and 2014. Al-Maliki built a Shi’ite-controlled sectarian state that deeply alienated Sunni Arabs and Kurds. In 2005, McGurk transferred to the National Security Council (NSC), where he served as director for Iraq, and later as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iraq and Afghanistan. He served on the NSC staff from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, he was appointed as Obama’s Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He was retained by Trump until his resignation in Dec. 2018.

An article in April 2021 titled “Brett McGurk: A Hero of Our Times,” in New Lines Magazine by former BBC foreign correspondent Paul Wood, paints a scathing portrait of McGurk. Wood writes:

A senior Western diplomat who served in Baghdad told me that McGurk had been an absolute disaster for Iraq. “He is a consummate operator in Washington, but I saw no sign that he was interested in Iraqis or Iraq as a place full of real people. It was simply a bureaucratic and political challenge for him.” One critic who was in Baghdad with McGurk called him Machiavelli reincarnated. “It’s intellect plus ambition plus the utter ruthlessness to rise no matter the cost.”

[….]

A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”

Even those who didn’t like McGurk had to admit that he had a formidable intellect — and was a hard worker. He was also a gifted writer, no surprise as he had clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. His rise mirrored that of an Iraqi politician named Nouri al-Maliki, one careerist helping the other. That is McGurk’s tragedy — and Iraq’s.

[….]

McGurk’s critics say his lack of Arabic meant he missed the vicious, sectarian undertones of what al-Maliki was saying in meetings right from the start. Translators censored or failed to keep up. Like many Americans in Iraq, McGurk was deaf to what was happening around him.

Al-Maliki was the consequence of two mistakes by the U.S. How much McGurk had to do with them remains in dispute. The first mistake was the “80 Percent Solution” for ruling Iraq. The Sunni Arabs were mounting a bloody insurgency, but they were just 20% of the population. The theory was that you could run Iraq with the Kurds and the Shiites. The second error was to identify the Shiites with hardline, religious parties backed by Iran. Al-Maliki, a member of the religious Da’wa Party, was the beneficiary of this.

In a piece in HuffPost in May 2022 by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, titled “Biden’s Top Middle East Advisor ‘Torched the House and Showed Up With a Firehose,’” McGurk is described by a colleague, who asked not to be named, as “the most talented bureaucrat they’ve ever seen, with the worst foreign policy judgment they’ve ever seen.”

McGurk, like others in the Biden administration, is bizarrely focused on what comes after Israel’s genocidal campaign, rather than trying to halt it. McGurk proposed denying humanitarian aid and refusing to implement a pause in the fighting in Gaza until all the Israeli hostages were freed. Biden and his three closest policy advisors have called for the Palestinian Authority — an Israeli puppet regime that is reviled by most Palestinians — to take control of Gaza once Israel finishes leveling it. They have called on Israel — since Oct. 7 — to take steps towards a two-state solution, a plan rejected in an humiliating public rebuke to the the Biden White House by Netanyahu.

The Biden White House spends more time talking to the Israelis and Saudis, who are being lobbied to normalize relations with Israel and help rebuild Gaza, than the Palestinians, who are at best, an afterthought. It believes the key to ending Palestinian resistance is found in Riyadh, summed up in a top-secret document peddled by McGurk called the “Jerusalem-Jeddah Pact,” the HuffPost reported. It is unable or unwilling to curb Israel’s bloodlust, which included missile strikes in a residential neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday that killed five military advisors from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and a drone attack in South Lebanon on Sunday, which killed two senior members of Hezbollah. These Israeli provocations will not go unanswered, evidenced by the ballistic missiles and rockets launched on Sunday by militants in western Iraq that targeted U.S. personnel stationed at the al-Assad Airbase.

The Alice-in-Wonderland idea that once the slaughter in Gaza ends a diplomatic pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia will be the key to regional stability is stupefying. Israel’s genocide, and Washington’s complicity, is shredding U.S. credibility and influence, especially in the Global South and the Muslim world. It ensures another generation of enraged Palestinians — whose families have been obliterated and whose homes have been destroyed — seeking vengeance.

The policies embraced by the Biden administration not only blithely ignore the realities in the Arab world, but the realities of an extremist Israeli state that, with Congress bought and paid for by the Israel lobby, couldn’t care less what the Biden White House dreams up. Israel has no intention of creating a viable Palestinian state. Its goal is the ethnic cleansing of the 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and the annexation of Gaza by Israel. And when Israel is done with Gaza, it will turn on the West Bank, where Israeli raids now occur on an almost nightly basis and where thousands have been arrested and detained without charge since Oct. 7.

Those running the show in the Biden White House are chasing after rainbows. The march of folly led by these four blind mice perpetuates the cataclysmic suffering of the Palestinians, stokes a regional war and presages another tragic and self-defeating chapter in the two decades of U.S. military fiascos in the Middle East.

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The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) is a professional kabaddi league in India, featuring franchise-based teams representing various cities. It was founded in 2014 and has gained significant popularity, becoming one of the most-watched sports leagues in India.

Key features of the Pro Kabaddi League:

Franchise Teams: The league consists of teams owned by different individuals and organizations, each representing a city. These teams compete against each other in a round-robin format.

Season Format: The league typically follows a season format where teams play against each other in a series of matches. The top-performing teams advance to the playoffs, and the eventual winners are determined in the final.

Players: The league features top kabaddi players from India as well as international players. The teams go through an auction process to acquire players for each season.

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Televised Coverage: Matches of the Pro Kabaddi League are widely televised, contributing to the league's popularity. The coverage includes pre-match analysis, live broadcasts, and post-match discussions.

Seasons and Champions: As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, multiple seasons of the Pro Kabaddi League had taken place, and different teams had emerged as champions in different seasons.

The league has played a crucial role in popularizing kabaddi as a mainstream sport in India, and it has contributed to the growth of the sport's fan base. Please note that there may have been developments or changes since my last update in January 2022, and I recommend checking the latest sources for the most current information about the Pro Kabaddi League.

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BDS is the most effective way to put our solidarity into action – here’s how to win
Olivia KatbiNovember 13, 2023
(Image: Palestinian BDS National Committee)
(Image: Palestinian BDS National Committee)
As Israel continues to escalate its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, a new wave of solidarity with Palestine is emerging. Many people are learning for the first time about the Palestinian call to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) Israel until it complies with international law. As a coordinator for the BDS Movement in North America for several years, I have worked on a number of BDS campaigns, and would like to lay out the basics, best practices, and some helpful tips and ideas for BDS campaigning.

BDS 101

First, some quick background: The BDS movement was founded by Palestinian civil society in 2005 as a way to exert pressure on Israel to comply with international law until it meets three key demands:

1. An end to Israel’s occupation of all Arab lands and dismantling the illegal apartheid Wall;

2. Full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel; and

3. The right of return for Palestinian refugees.

You can learn more about the history of the BDS Movement, the organizations that make up the Palestinian BDS National Committee, and past and current campaigns at the BDS Movement website.

BDS is the most effective way for us to put our solidarity with Palestinian liberation into action as residents of the United States, which gives Israel an annual $3.8 billion in military funding, shields Israel from international accountability, and has countless corporations and institutions that maintain some level of complicity in Israel’s violence. BDS is inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, during which international boycotts and sanctions played a major role in bringing about the eventual fall of apartheid, and the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its inspiring boycotts, including the Rosa Parks-led Montgomery bus boycott.

A movement for collective action

Many people are personally boycotting brands that have stated support for Israel, and that’s great – but I want to stress that consumer boycotts are most effective when taken as a collective action, and BDS isn’t just about consumer boycotts. More important than our own personal investments and purchases, which are symbolic gestures but not impactful alone, is working within an organization, union, or coalition to organize effective, strategic campaigns and build power globally to support the Palestinian struggle. So when you see massive lists of dozens and dozens of companies to boycott going around on social media – please keep in mind that the goal isn’t to boycott as many companies as possible, as very few people can feasibly sustain such extensive boycotts. The goal is to strategically pick a few targets and exert enough collective pressure to win a campaign – meaning, a specific company stops doing business with Israel, a specific institution divests its investments from complicit Israeli or international companies, or a specific city ends its relationship with the Israeli government or adopts a human rights procurement and investment policy.

There are many different kinds of BDS campaigns to choose from, and you can choose the most strategic and achievable targets in your own local context. Consider these examples:

Municipal boycott: a city ends contracts with HP or Caterpillar.

Academic boycott: a university (or department) or academic association ends institutional collaboration with Israeli academic institutions.

Sports boycott: US teams refuse to play against official Israeli teams, or Israel gets suspended from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

Consumer boycott: a co-op grocery store stops selling Sabra hummus.

Cultural boycott: a celebrity cancels a performance in Israel, or a US event by Israeli cultural ambassadors or sponsored by Israel (or anti-Palestinian lobby groups) is canceled.

Divestment: A city, university, church, trade union, or pension fund withdraws its investments in corporations and banks complicit in Israeli apartheid.

As the BDS movement continues to grow at a fast pace, many activists around the world, including in Palestine, often wonder what institution or corporation to most effectively target and how. Given our limited human capacity, we want to be strategic with the targets we select. The BDS movement does not actually launch a boycott campaign against every boycottable event, product or institution, because that would make it pretty impossible to achieve concrete results. To be strategic, we carefully select our targets and how we intervene in each case. To read about current BDS targets and strategic campaigning, including why some targets are “pressure” targets instead of full-on boycott targets, please take a look at this recent statement from the BDS Movement.

When selecting a BDS target we generally recommend considering the following four criteria:


1. The level of complicity involved: The deeper the complicity, the easier it is to mobilize support for BDS action against any given target. There are hundreds of international companies and banks that are in some way complicit. Rather than targeting any international athletic footwear company that sells athletic shoes and apparel in Israel, for example, we recommend joining the campaign against PUMA, which sponsors the Israel Football Association. The IFA governs teams in Israel’s illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

2. The potential for forming a broad, cross-movement coalition against the target: A divestment campaign targeting Chevron, for example, makes much more sense than a divestment campaign targeting a company that only infringes on Palestinian rights, because Chevron is a target of climate activists worldwide. Intersectional coalitions are especially crucial to maximize the potential of winning against large, nasty complicit corporations.

3. Media appeal: If two companies are equally complicit, and we must choose, it is more effective to go after the more publicly recognized brand, as that usually attracts more media attention and allows us to educate and reach out to a much larger audience.

4. Possibility of success: Even if the above three conditions are met, we don’t launch a campaign against a target unless we have a reasonable chance of success. And success can sometimes just mean reaching a wide mainstream audience and winning their support, rather than actually succeeding in canceling an event, or canceling a contract, but symbolic victories alone are not sufficient. We do BDS because we want to win, build power to affect policy change, and to achieve Palestinian rights ultimately, and not to merely score points and feel good about symbolic gestures. Only through sustained, cumulative, growing and mainstreaming successes can BDS achieve its objectives— which are freedom, justice and equality.

Campaigning to win

Once you and your group or organization (because you absolutely should not be doing this alone!) have carefully researched and chosen a target that makes strategic sense for your local context, don’t just jump out with a public campaign right away. Starting with a soft ask (due diligence) is an often overlooked step that can sometimes deliver us a win right away – and the goal is winning! For example, meeting with your union’s investment committee to see if they are willing to implement a human rights investment screening policy; privately writing a letter to your school’s procurement manager to see if there is another supplier of computers they could go with rather than HP; or getting grocery store workers to collectively request that the store no longer shelve an Israeli product. You might be surprised by how far good faith engagement, based on sharing accurate information and compelling moral appeals, can in some cases take you, particularly in smaller communities, before escalating to a larger public pressure campaign.

In most cases, however, strategic pressure is the only effective way. For example, when we ran a campaign in Portland asking the Portland Trail Blazers to end their sponsorship with IDF sniper scope supplier Leupold and Stevens, we first sent private letters to the Blazers organization explaining our concerns and requesting a meeting to talk further about the partnership. This tactic did not work, and we then escalated to a public, year-long pressure campaign, which we won! But we had to make sure to do our due diligence first, as that in itself shows good faith and win over many bystanders.

You should also begin reaching out to other organizations for endorsement and support. Coalition building is a must in most BDS work. Organizations in your area might be interested in campaigning together on the issue, and organizations in the U.S. can offer support for your campaign. For example, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has talented researchers with years of BDS campaigning under their belts and a great database which can help you find reliable information on companies and investment funds. Palestine Legal can help you ensure that your campaign is as legally sound as possible and may be able to help you face legal challenges that you may run into regardless. IMEU can provide resources on connecting with the media and tips on how best to integrate communications into your campaign strategy, not as an afterthought.

Power mapping is an important part of your campaign as well – who are the decision makers, who is best placed to pressure them, and how can we most effectively do so? Do you have any allies on the inside? What kind of opposition do you think you’ll be up against, and how can you prepare for that ahead of time? Other important parts of campaigning include creating a media strategy, a public education strategy (for example, hosting informational events like teach-ins), a timeline for escalation of your campaign, and picking strategic dates for certain actions – such as delivering a petition during a board meeting of the company you’re targeting. Is peacefully disruptive direct action (sit-in, peaceful occupation, flashmob, collective supermarket action, etc.) a useful tactic to consider, at the right time, in your strategy?

Historically, some of the biggest and most successful BDS campaigns have taken years of strategic planning, organizing, and network building to pull off – so don’t be discouraged if it doesn’t happen for you right away. It’s worth it to be intentional in your planning and outreach. But at this unprecedented time of crisis with genocide unfolding before our eyes, there’s also no reason why a BDS campaign needs to take years. There is great urgency in the work we’re doing right now, and there’s no reason why a city council or your union leadership can’t make a decision to end its complicity right now if the political will exists. If not now, when?

The South African anti-apartheid movement organized for decades to gain broad international support leading up to the fall of apartheid; and apartheid did fall. Freedom is inevitable. The time is now to take action to join the movement for freedom, justice, and equality in Palestine.

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