Israeli Intelligence-Linked Firm Using AI To Profile Americans And Guide US Lockdown Policy

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July 10, 2020

An Israeli government contractor founded by a former Israeli spy has partnered with one U.S. state and is set to announce a series of new partnerships with other states and U.S. healthcare providers to monitor civilian health and use an IDF-designed AI system to profile Americans likely to contract coronavirus and to inform U.S. government lockdown policy.

A company tied to Israel’s military signal intelligence unit, Unit 8200, has recently partnered with the state of Rhode Island to use an artificial intelligence-based system developed in tandem with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to profile Americans potentially infected and/or “at risk” of being infected with coronavirus, then informing government authorities of their “risk profile.” Once flagged, state health officials can target those individuals as well as their communities for mandatory testing, treatment and/or more restrictive lockdown measures.

The firm, Israel-based Diagnostic Robotics, is poised to announce a series of new such partnerships with several other U.S. states as well as major U.S. hospital systems and healthcare providers in the coming weeks, according to a company spokesperson. The first of these announcements came on June 30 regarding the firm’s new partnership with Mayo Clinic, which will soon implement the Diagnostic Robotics’ “artificial intelligence platform that predicts patients’ hospitalization risk.” They have also been in discussions with Vice President Mike Pence about the platform’s implementation nationwide since April.

Their creeping expansion into the U.S.’ state coronavirus response and that of other countries has been directly facilitated by the organization Start-Up Nation Central, funded by controversial hedge fund manager Paul Singer and directly partnered with an Israeli government-backed intelligence initiative aimed at making the United States dependent on technology developed by the Israeli military or intelligence community as a means of preventing the adoption of policies that support the non-violent Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement at the state and local levels. This initiative also serves the dual purpose of ensuring Israel’s political influence and positioning as the global “cyber power,” an oft-repeated policy goal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Since March, Diagnostic Robotics’ AI-based “risk profiling” software for coronavirus has been utilized by the Israeli state in the form of the National Israeli COVID-19 Monitoring System, a key component of its increasingly Orwellian national health surveillance system. That system, which also initially partnered with Clalit — Israel’s largest health services provider, now involves the “daily nation-wide monitoring of coronavirus-related symptoms of the population.” Of course, these “coronavirus-related symptoms” include common symptoms such as headaches, coughing, abdominal pain and confusion, which can indicate any number of minor illnesses, allergic reactions or other conditions entirely unrelated to coronavirus.

The Diagnostic Robotics platform specifically acquires information from individuals via an online questionnaire, but also has access to national and private health databases by virtue of its partnerships with Clalit as well as all four of Israel’s health management organizations (HMOs), all of the country’s domestic healthcare providers and Israel’s Health Ministry. That data is then pooled and analyzed to assess a given individual’s “probability of infection” that is then cross checked with the information of “millions of others,” according to the company’s co-founder and Unit 8200 alumnus Kira Radinsky.

After that mass of data is pooled and analyzed by the platform’s AI-powered algorithm, the company’s platform, as used in Israel and now elsewhere, creates a “personalized, AI-based risk profile for Covid-19” for individuals and delivers that individual’s information and any “red flags” to health authorities, providing the Health Ministry with a map of corona “hot spots” that the government then uses to identify which communities to target with testing and more restrictive lockdown measures. Forbes noted that Israel’s use of Diagnostic Robotics’ platform has allowed it to “quickly close contaminated areas…as fast as a single day from the identification of symptomatic patients.” An internal study conducted by the company itself claims that the platform has a predictive accuracy of 73%, but their study has not been audited by independent scientists.

Israel’s health ministry, led by Yuli Edelstein, recently announced that Diagnostic Robotics “predictive” platform would be used more intensively to inform government decision-making as he, Netanyahu and other Israeli ministers have recently asserted that Israel is beginning to experience a “second wave” of coronavirus and must implement more restrictive measures and augment the use of existing and new “digital solutions”. Former Israeli health officials and other critics have asserted, however, that there is no “second wave” given that the test used by the government does not distinguish between active and inactive coronavirus cases. Others still have argued that the proposed measures are grossly unnecessary, given that there are less than 40 serious cases of coronavirus in the entire country and only 22 coronavirus patients are on ventilators.

Notably, the timing of this renewed push for more restrictive lockdowns and an expansion of its AI-driven Orwellian “health” surveillance coincides directly with the imminent initiation of Israel’s government plans to annex large swaths of Palestine’s West Bank, an act that is expected to generate unrest, not only in occupied Palestine, but also parts of Israel and internationally due to its flagrant illegality and far-reaching implications.


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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/07/...ckdown-policy/

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[Sammy]

Time to break up the good relations with Israel.

[Snowball]

well, yeah, just like Trump has "Black Cube" running election hacking.

Can you say "Project Zyphr" ?

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To give credit where due , MAGA administration has acted with lightening fast speeds to cut red tape and grant approvals in the war against 'invisible enemy' aka 'plague' formerly also known as a 'hoax':

With FDA approval in hand and Covid-19 as a test case, Israel’s Clew is ready for its money time

“This is a product we have been working on for years and from that perspective, Covid-19 showcased everything we have been saying,” says CEO Gal Salomon

23.06.20

There is a moment in the life of every successful company when everything finally falls into place. It is still too early to label Clew Medical Ltd. as a fully-fledged success, but there is little doubt that should the Israeli startup realize its wildest dreams, it will look back at the past six months as the turning point that launched it on the road to entrepreneurial glory.

The company received the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), which is being issued by the FDA to help battle the pandemic, for its ICU (Intensive Care Unit) solution which uses predictive screening information to help identify patients with common complications associated with coronavirus.

But Clew has been around long before anyone even heard of Covid-19. That is only one particular use-case for its AI (Artificial Intelligence) and machine learning technology, with the company beginning the research and development of its current products back in 2015.

"Covid-19 took everything that the company has been talking about for years and proved it in practice. We couldn't have expected anything better," Clew CEO Gal Salomon told CTech earlier this week. "For example, one of the problems with coronavirus patients is that they are very infectious. It became clear that you can't just send unprotected medical staff to treat them. So hospitals created command and control centers in which the doctors sit and make decisions according to all the analyzed information they receive and relay instructions to the protected medical staff treating the patients.
This is a product we have been working on for years and from that perspective, Covid-19 showcased everything we have been saying."

Clew's models were developed based on information from hundreds of thousands of patients treated in a large number of hospitals in the U.S., the company's target market. "We have been working on this data for several years to determine what were the reasons that caused a certain patient to reach a certain condition," said Salomon. "In order to receive approval from the FDA you have to conduct a vast number of experiments and explain how you built your models and how you tested them. You need to show that your results are applicable to the entire population and that your product worked in several hospitals."

[Anti Globalist]

Time to break up the good relations with Israel.

Nothing but a pipe dream at this point.

[ammodotcom]

Foreign technology, no matter how useful, should generally be avoided.
We have enough issues with our own government.

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Bump for @nikcers

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Bump for @nikcers

Defense against Chinese biowarfare... Israel has a huge interest in our country because we are their biggest ally. They do a lot of military and international intelligence for us. They invest heavily in technologies that we share with them. Stuff that we keep on the shelf and only build out for specific specialized operations. They can do stuff with less criticism that we cant do publicly because if you criticize them you get labeled racist.

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Defense against Chinese biowarfare... Israel has a huge interest in our country because we are their biggest ally. They do a lot of military and international intelligence for us. They invest heavily in technologies that we share with them. Stuff that we keep on the shelf and only build out for specific specialized operations.

No wonder they are called our 'closest ally in the world' by so many well-funded Congressional electables.


Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China

Secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China recently by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S. and causing a senior Israeli defense official to resign.
The head of defense exports for the Israeli Defense Ministry resigned after a U.S. investigation concluded that technology, including a miniature refrigeration system manufactured by Ricor and used for missiles and in electro-optic equipment, was sent to China, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

Israel has a long record of getting U.S. military technology to China.
In the early 1990s then-CIA Director James Woolsey told a Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel had been selling U.S. secrets to China for about a decade. More than 12 years ago the U.S. demanded Israel cancel a contract to supply China with Python III missiles, which included technology developed by the U.S. for its Sidewinder missiles, The Associated Press reported in 2002.
military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china

Yes, however Israel thinks it's just fine to spy on the U.S.



There are 2 more in this series, if you are interested.

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were Israeli spies who used underage sex to blackmail politicians, ‘ex-handler’ claims
https://www.the-sun.com/news/116819/...andler-claims/

Time to break up the good relations with Israel.

To be devil's advocate, won't that lead to loss of many divine blessings that that partnership brings for US taxpayers?


The Immorality of Leaving Iraq and Afghanistan
By Dennis Prager
https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/...dennis-prager/

[nikcers]

No wonder they are called our 'closest ally in the world' by so many well-funded Congressional electables.


Report: Israel Passes U.S. Military Technology to China

Secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China recently by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S. and causing a senior Israeli defense official to resign.
The head of defense exports for the Israeli Defense Ministry resigned after a U.S. investigation concluded that technology, including a miniature refrigeration system manufactured by Ricor and used for missiles and in electro-optic equipment, was sent to China, according to the Israeli newspaper Maariv.

Israel has a long record of getting U.S. military technology to China.
In the early 1990s then-CIA Director James Woolsey told a Senate Government Affairs Committee that Israel had been selling U.S. secrets to China for about a decade. More than 12 years ago the U.S. demanded Israel cancel a contract to supply China with Python III missiles, which included technology developed by the U.S. for its Sidewinder missiles, The Associated Press reported in 2002.
military.com/defensetech/2013/12/24/report-israel-passes-u-s-military-technology-to-china









Un-Related

Missles that we can shoot down. They are putting these up in India.

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Missles that we can shoot down. They are putting these up in India.

If you're suggesting that Israel passing secret US military tech to China was a "good" thing, then using same logic Israel passing secret US militray intelliegence stolen by its spies in the US to Russians should be also a "good thing"?
Interesting logic though.


MSM avoids central Pollard question: Did Israel trade secrets to Soviets for emigres?

By James North and Philip Weiss July 30, 2015

Jonathan Pollard
A year back we called for Jonathan Pollard’s release on humanitarian grounds– the guy’s been in prison 30 years. But we’re both a little irritated by the media’s coverage of his crimes. The media aren’t talking about an issue at the center of the case: how much of Pollard’s disclosures were turned over to the Soviet Union, and put others’ lives at risk.
Typical is a New York Times piece on Pollard by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli, saying that the reason Pollard spent so much time in prison was the “nationalistic campaign” mounted by Israelis and his wife, which evidently irked US authorities.

...

Some U.S. intelligence analysts believe that documents stolen by Pollard were handed over to Moscow by Soviet moles within the Israeli intelligence service. Neil Livingstone of Georgetown University argued, “There’s no question that Mossad [Israel’s intelligence agency] is penetrated. A lot of what Pollard stole wasn’t related to Israeli security. Israel is a great trader in intelligence. To get an advantage someplace, they get something someone else wants and they create an indebtedness.”

A number of officials strongly suspect that the Israelis repackaged much of Pollard’s material and provided it to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel. Other officials go further, and say there was reason to believe that secret information was exchanged for Jews working in highly sensitive positions in the Soviet Union.

https://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/polla...stion-soviets/


Then there was this recent report:

Israel Spied On White House, But Trump Did Nothing To Respond: Report

September 12, 2019 By Marcy Oster (JTA) — Cell-phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, D.C. likely were planted by Israel, Politico reported.

The article published online on Thursday, cited three unnamed former senior officials that Politico said have “knowledge of the matter.”
Unlike other times when flagrant incidents of foreign spying have been discovered on American soil, the Trump administration did not rebuke the Israeli government, and there were no consequences for Israel’s behavior, one of the former officials told Politico.
The devices, which fool cell phones into providing locations and identity information, as well as the content of calls, likely were intended to spy on President Donald Trump and his top aides, one of the officials said.
Trump has often used an insufficiently secured cell phone to communicate with friends and confidants, Politico noted.
“It was pretty clear that the Israelis were responsible,” a former senior intelligence official told Politico. The sources said the FBI based its accusation of Israel on a detailed forensic analysis, involving other security agencies.
Israeli Embassy spokesperson Elad Strohmayer denied that Israel placed the devices. “These allegations are absolute nonsense. Israel doesn’t conduct espionage operations in the United States, period.”

forward.com/fast-forward/431286/israel-spy-white-house-trump-netanyahu/

[nikcers]

If you're suggesting that Israel passing secret US military tech to China was a "good" thing, then using same logic Israel passing secret US militray intelliegence stolen by its spies in the US to Russians should be also a "good thing"?
Interesting logic though.


MSM avoids central Pollard question: Did Israel trade secrets to Soviets for emigres?

By James North and Philip Weiss July 30, 2015

Jonathan Pollard
A year back we called for Jonathan Pollard’s release on humanitarian grounds– the guy’s been in prison 30 years. But we’re both a little irritated by the media’s coverage of his crimes. The media aren’t talking about an issue at the center of the case: how much of Pollard’s disclosures were turned over to the Soviet Union, and put others’ lives at risk.
Typical is a New York Times piece on Pollard by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli, saying that the reason Pollard spent so much time in prison was the “nationalistic campaign” mounted by Israelis and his wife, which evidently irked US authorities.

...

Some U.S. intelligence analysts believe that documents stolen by Pollard were handed over to Moscow by Soviet moles within the Israeli intelligence service. Neil Livingstone of Georgetown University argued, “There’s no question that Mossad [Israel’s intelligence agency] is penetrated. A lot of what Pollard stole wasn’t related to Israeli security. Israel is a great trader in intelligence. To get an advantage someplace, they get something someone else wants and they create an indebtedness.”

A number of officials strongly suspect that the Israelis repackaged much of Pollard’s material and provided it to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel. Other officials go further, and say there was reason to believe that secret information was exchanged for Jews working in highly sensitive positions in the Soviet Union.

https://mondoweiss.net/2015/07/polla...stion-soviets/


Then there was this recent report:



forward.com/fast-forward/431286/israel-spy-white-house-trump-netanyahu/

If you think getting China to invest in military technology that we can defeat and pay the United States or our ally to do it is bad strategy than i dont want you to be a general in my Army protecting my homeland.

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How Moderna executives are cashing in on COVID-19 vaccine stock speculation

Tom Bergin, Robin Respaut
(Reuters) - Biotech firm Moderna Inc could reap tens of billions of dollars in sales and stock appreciation if it wins the race for a COVID-19 vaccine. If it loses, the early-stage company’s value could crash.

In the meantime, the firm’s chief executive is pocketing millions of dollars every month by selling shares that have tripled in price on news of Moderna’s development progress, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows. The sales - by CEO Stéphane Bancel, his childrens’ trust and companies he owns - amount to about $21 million between January 1 and June 26, including $6 million in May.
The company’s chief medical officer, Tal Zaks, has cashed out the majority of his available stock and options, netting over $35 million since January, the filings show.
The lucrative liquidations highlight the unusually powerful incentives for biotech executives to highlight development milestones for drugs that often never get approved or sold, according to interviews with seven executive-compensation experts. Optimistic corporate statements on coronavirus vaccines, they said, could cause investors to overpay for company shares or create false hope among the public and health officials seeking new weapons to fight the pandemic.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-h...-idUSKBN2433AH

Moderna unveiled encouraging coronavirus vaccine results. Then top execs dumped nearly $30 million of stock
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/inves...les/index.html

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There are claims being made that new MAGA SCOTUS pick supported lockdowns.

[unknown]

No way.

Israelis, champions of freedom and individual liberties are helping to violate our rights here at home, I dont believe it. /s