The surveillance state goes global

You may remember Benjamin Netanyahu saying a while ago that when it comes to surveillance Israel came second only to the United States and not very far behind even the United States. 

We learn now from Reuters that an Israeli spyware company Discover-Tech has been targeting Starlink users in order to infect their devices with spyware.

There have been so many stories like this involving various Israeli companies that it's hard to keep track. Here are some I found by doing some research. You can google them. 

Citizen Lab and numerous journalists have repeatedly shown that Israel spyware companies effectively serve as a private-sector extension of Israeli intelligence. 

NSO Group is the most notorious example. It makes Pegasus, a zero-click trojan horse capable of completely infiltrating mobile telephones without user interaction. In 2021 a leak exposed that Pegasus had been used by regimes around the world to track over 50,000 people.

Google Candiru, which was blacklisted by the U.S. Commerce Department in 2021 for supplying malware used to target victims globally, Quadream, Toka, Paragon Solutions, and Psy-Group. 

Investigative journalist Whitney Webb's reporting and her book "One Nation Under Blackmail" discuss this phenomenon. She says that companies like Toka and Discover-Tech map entire populations. 

She also says that an early version of the Blackberry mobile telephone had a trap door in it, which enabled Israeli intelligence to read all communications anywhere in the world using that telephone for years at a time when the Blackberry was the fashionable mobile telephone. Imagine the power it gave the people reading the communications to blackmail. 

The methods used by Epstein, according to Whitney Web, are now out of date as mobile telephone surveillance and data have taken his place. 

"One Nation Under Blackmail" is a two-volume book that I cannot recommend highly enough, which traces the connections between the Mossad, the CIA, MI6, and organised crime and how they have manipulated world events since the CIA-mafia alliance was formed in 1943 before the invasion of Sicily, and in the case of the Israelis since the founding of the state of Israel. 

All Romanians know that the real world of geopolitics and Romanian domestic politics are dominated by intelligence services. The real history of the events of our age is unknown to readers of the newspapers but is largely known to Israeli, American and Russian intelligence, which is why ex-CIA podcasters are so useful.  

This is not conspiracy theorising, though it sounds like it, but has been tracked by Whitney Webb and other researchers. Miss Webb's book exclusively uses, as evidence, facts publically available from the internet. 

Max Blumenthal has written very illuminatingly about the deep CIA involvement in the international drug trade and Israeli intelligence services' operations in Latin America and Africa. I recommend him too.