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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPrivate Mossad for Hire - Inside an effort to influence American elections
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/02/18/private-mossad-for-hire?fbclid=IwAR1K_zQULdnjCOXxbaju76yuZBcG_yMJs9kMsjy6RsQuW6EzUO3xGwWXQFMDetails organizations spun out of national intelligence and military alumni, who manipulate social media for the benefit of wealthy clients. The story weaves around a hospital board election in Tulare California, where local activitsts attempted to vote out a corrupt board funneling millions of dollars to a consultant:
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he recall was a clear threat to Benzeevis hospital-management business, and he consulted a law firm in Washington, D.C., about mounting a campaign to save Kumars seat. An adviser there referred him to Psy-Group, an Israeli private intelligence company. Psy-Groups slogan was Shape Reality, and its techniques included the use of elaborate false identities to manipulate its targets. Psy-Group was part of a new wave of private intelligence firms that recruited from the ranks of Israels secret servicesself-described private Mossads. The most aggressive of these firms seemed willing to do just about anything for their clients.
Psy-Group stood out from many of its rivals because it didnt just gather intelligence; it specialized in covertly spreading messages to influence what people believed and how they behaved. Its operatives took advantage of technological innovations and lax governmental oversight. Social media allows you to reach virtually anyone and to play with their minds, Uzi Shaya, a former senior Israeli intelligence officer, said. You can do whatever you want. You can be whoever you want. Its a place where wars are fought, elections are won, and terror is promoted. There are no regulations. It is a no mans land.
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(35,454 posts)Without Them Picking Our Pockets For More? I find it ironic that they have universal health care and we do not.
The U.S. Just Agreed to Give Israel $38 Billion in Military Aid
http://fortune.com/2016/09/13/us-israel-military-aid/
the total amount of aid given to Israel since 1949 $133.132 billion
https://www.wrmea.org/congress-u.s.-aid-to-israel/u.s.-financial-aid-to-israel-figures-facts-and-impact.html
Israel - like every other industrialized country - offers every citizen "universal health coverage (UHC)".
America, it turns out, is the only industrialized country that doesn't have UHC - and instead is based on a system of "selective health coverage (SHC)."
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Israel-offer-universal-health-care-to-its-citizens-while-the-United-States-does-not
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Not the Israeli government.
But I take note that it's very Mossad in background.